 Throughout the performance Shakira appeared on the video screen on stage.While reviewing Beyoncé's performance at the Madison Square Garden in Manhattan, on August 5, 2007, Jon Pareles of "The New York Times" wrote, "Beyoncé needs no distractions from her singing, which can be airy or brassy, tearful or vicious, rapid-fire with staccato syllables or sustained in curlicued melismas.But she was in constant motion, strutting in costumes."