视频里这个巡演的名字叫 Tour of the Mongoose，《live & off the record》是发行的专辑名，错把专辑标成巡演看到短评才误打误撞打开了巡演视频。 是为了宣传首张英文专辑 《laundry service》也是 shakira 职业生涯真正意义上第一场世界巡演（美洲 欧洲）。 之所以是这个名字，shakira 说她发现猫鼬是世界上为数不多能一口把蛇咬死的动物，这种战胜/打败概念我不太喜欢不翻了，wiki上看来她原话如下 “I was really impressed by it because it is an animal that can defeat the snake with just a bite. It's like a living miracle, this animal, to me, because if there's an animal on earth that can defeat the snake—a venomous viper—with a bite, I think that there's got to be some way for us to defeat, or to bite the neck of hatred in this world, no? ” 这才联系上前面看她在 hot ones 吃鸡翅说生涯记忆最深的巡演是这场，因为为了整个秀好看（她给这场巡演的定位是「entertaining rock show」，确实相当“摇滚”虽然这个词现在听上去很老人）定制了一只放在舞台上的巨型蛇（这场录影开场能看到）因为这头巨蛇（制作 运输成本）巡演虽然接近场场售罄，最后账是亏的。 但无论是不是有蛇，姐这场巡演，确实是拼尽全力，录影是在阿姆斯特丹，还有别的场次的footage。22年后的一个周日下午看到鸡皮疙瘩一层一层掉。立刻转发给朋友：周一需要上班的朋友们来打打气（咱现在干啥都是主打一个实用主义）。 当然这场巡演最被人津津乐道也是引起最多争议之一的是第47分钟开始的反战演绎《Octavo Día》——第八天，上帝花6天创造了世界、第7天休息、第8天世界进入新的混乱，这首歌收录在她第二张录音室专辑《Dónde Están los Ladrones?》，20岁年纪写的歌——舞台上乐手们戴着领导人丑面具演奏，舞台背后放着不具象 world leader 跟死神（grim reaper）下棋（立刻想到 M 23/24展品 老人院（2007））。
现场她说我们今天不讲政治也不讲政客我们要讲大过所有的东西——爱——你爱你旁边的人吗，你的左手边右手边，舞台上的我，我们？好幼稚啊，但这么动人。 “lI think that we see war as a virtual thing and we even get to believe that bombs fall on top of cardboard cutouts and stuff like that, they don't. They kill real people, real children, real mothers and millions of innocent people. I come from Colombia, which is a country that has been under the whip of violence for more than four decades, so I've seen the consequences of war and I've seen the psychological damage that it does in a society. And I think that we're never ready for war. I just feel that there are always pacifist solutions, and I think that the leaders know the exit to the conflict, it's just that sometimes they don't want to use them, they just want to continue playing their little game of power. And I feel that us people have the responsibility and also the obligation to demand to our leaders to give us the pacifist solutions. To give us a world in peace.” 以上是她就巡演接受采访的原话。但这些同样的话她从一出道就在跟世界传递的“我来自哥伦比亚、我知道真实的战乱是什么、战争和混乱杀死和伤及的永远是孩子、母亲和真实无辜的人”。 尽管反战（或者在本地更像是关注外面世界正在发生的和自己小日子无关的事）在当下语境里显得也有些“老人味儿”，毕竟普通人的普通生活已经应接不暇，但最近听她的专辑、看她现场，还是被打到鸡血了。 姐太有劲儿了
