The theory involves Selena Quintanilla but also Selena biopic starring Jennifer Lopez and the ensuing Latin Explosion. But I realized how much I did it at the cost of not confronting pain, and drowning myself in work to sort of not confront these very personal, emotional battles that were going on inside of me. It has the rigorous journalism and the cultural analysis of Dolly Parton's America, with what I hope is the intimacy, and the heart, and the personal journey and personal connection to a place or people, that California Love has. So I knew that I wanted it to be rooted in the personal, that the only way I could tell the story authentically is if I told it from my lens in the world. But as an adult, I've come to realize these traumas, or these wounds, that forced assimilation creates in you, they don't just dissipate. Her bio pick. And Selena helped change that. Have you ever been so deeply affected by another person that their story literally gives your life context and meaning and even a sense of belonging? And so coming back to this project has been like a personal reckoning for me, to think about my own place in the world, and to think about my own identity. And then in ninety ninety five, the precedent of her fan club. It's just our time, women with the big booty. You know like regionally known when she was twelve or thirteen. Logo and branding by Leo G. Thanks to the team at LAist Studios, including Kristen Hayford, Taylor Coffman, Kristen Muller, and Leo G. Servant of Pod is a production of LAist Studios. You know, a process- has to be rigorous and sound, and you have to be able, editors, who really held my story with a lot of compassion and love, too much in the story to the point where wasn't relevant what, me down and say we don't really need that or what. Kim Kardashian alborot internet con su trasero y Jen Selter, una mujer blanca y juda de Long Island, se ha autoproclamado la belfie queen (una combinacin de las palabras butt, que es trasero en ingls, y selfie) en Instagram. Thank you so much for taking time talk to me. You know what I mean? her work together and reflect back here. You know- and I say this in the park ass, its other stuff found a nature like such, We need to start off with that. In this episode, Maria explores how the internet has become a place where fans celebrate and remember Selena, as well as grapple with the void she left behind. Esta exploracin nos lleva a un lugar inesperado. Selena devotees of all ages have turned to Instagram, TikTok and Youtube to restore and remix Selena's memory. We miss you here. This is every kid while, an idea is fit in your leg. I really love how I can get such a broad spectrum of nutrition all at once, and also. Original music from the podcast is available now on SoundCloud. The Mel Robbins Podcast: Every episode of The Mel Robbins Podcast is filled with the motivation and tactics you need plus deeply personal stories, relatable topics and tactical, research-backed advice to help you create a better life. She also explores the indelible mark she left on Latino identity and belonging, whether it's fatherhood, big-butt politics, and the fraught relationship with whiteness and language. he felt and how it was really moving. And it may sound trivial, but what that episode showed me is that butt politics, body politics, is ultimately a story of fetishizing Black features, obsessing over Black features, while dehumanizing Black people. Even The New York Times called it the fastest-growing Latino genre in the country. It was. It's this beautiful plant in my eyes, it's beautiful this beautiful, assertive brush that grows in the desert. But then, something changed her life. En este episodio, Maria explora por qu el spanglish de Selena pareca tan revolucionario para su poca y, a la misma vez, tan familiar para sus fans, quienes tambin padecan con el idioma de sus padres o antepasados. These old wounds opened up, and the reason that we hung that episode on that confrontation is because, to me, that was so illustrative of all of the tensions in the 90s that I was just talking about. And I don't think her legacy has been done justice. in that people in fact needs of people to get invited in and and share in this story. Hosted on Acast. Mexican-American music icon Selena Quintanilla has been gone for 26 years, but she's living life to the fullest online. The good life project is supported by cabinets to go so whether you're, a big clerk or not. In this episode, Maria analyzes why Selena's brownness is an essential part of her legacy and reflects on how the exploration of Selena's race led Maria to revelations about her own identity. Hace casi 30 aos, el irreverente y obsceno sencillo Baby Got Back (I Like Big Butts) de Sir Mix-A-Lot debut en la radio para deleite y espanto de los oyentes. Sort of standard american education in the states, but in mexico. And it's more complicated than that. And then when she died, that was amplified astronomically. She's been this touchstone in my life that I come back to when I need to feel grounded. If you LOVED this episode youll also love the conversations we had with Samin Nosrat about food, belonging, culture and connection. imagining the series. But then, something changed her life. You feel like you're accepted by wherever you are for you. I didn't even quite have the understanding, but I I recognise now. time on Jonathan fields, signing off for good life project. I want there to be a record that really really solidified her leg, see and told us how she changed culture, how she changed music, and I wanted to use my craft ass, story? En este episodio, Maria analiza por qu la tez morena de Selena es parte crucial del legado de la reina del tex-mex y reflexiona sobre cmo su exploracin de la raza de Selena la condujo a revelaciones acerca de su propia identidad. You speaking to my soul Maria/Mary (therapeutic too)!!! You know, I grew up, consuming every selina story out there, so you. I mean, she commanded an audience. You emotionally and part of part of the color in the text. I have this theory that people who are affected that way. This is an unofficial transcript meant for reference. Episode 5. public radio station that both its journalism, We're making this story like these decisions, possibly say, first, I'm gonna share that like this is my lads and its informed by all this, but but also in doing so. You know that I could build a career out of that and look growing up in a border city, and just being like a casual consumer, both mexican news and american use, I knew that the border was deeply misrepresented and bad it, eyes portrayed as just the sort of like dangerous law, less place that had been extra, did of culture that it was sort of like narco land, and I grew up here, I know that there is way more to this community than the blue, to show like the full spectrum of humanity from this like vibrant place that I'm from my wanted to show that it was more than, really good. major cities in the u ass, including new york, shiva performed in. Growing up along the US-Mexico border, Maria Garcia felt torn between her two identities as Mexican and American. But then, something changed her life. You can try, Anything For Selena | Episodio 1: Selena Y Yo (Espaol). Selena Quintanilla may have built her career singing Spanish songs, but she didnt grow up speaking Spanish at home. and here is so special to me and the lamb connected to the land is through my five senses, and one of the most powerful one of those is my son. She had the charisma that really only very, very, very few of us have. the attention and the praise that jailer dead, and I wanted to investigate why and- and I really. A 2016 video that Tesla used to promote its self-driving technology was staged to show capabilities like stopping at a red light and accelerating at a green light that the system did not . a beautiful island cap to the way that you share the entire story on that? She learned Spanish in the public eye, and her mistakes became some of her most famous and endearing moments. Maria knows that to truly understand Selena as a person and not just an icon, she needs to go to Corpus Christi. in a very lucky, no community, but this was in the nine days when assimilation was very, very, very praised, so, even though it was largely let tee no community, the assimilated, kids and the white kids were sort of at the top of the school hierarchy and there was a sort of shame in being exe. Well, I hope you get to go to Joshua Tree and cry a lot on the way. En este episodio, Maria explora por qu el spanglish de Selena pareca tan revolucionario para su poca y, a la misma vez, tan familiar para sus fans, quienes tambin padecan con el idioma de sus padres o antepasados. U sausage, loving genius, for without you. I feelings around that had really about you, know, taken some time to think about journalism without practising it. But this is a story that has been told so many times, so I wanted to do sort of an anthology. I didn't expect to be. You neeeeddddd to listen. She became a role model for how Latinos could achieve the American dream and find acceptance. And it's about my theory that there's a direct historical lineage from Selena to the big butt culture of today, 25 years later, and it's a deep look at how we went, as a country, in a quarter-century, from aversion to big butts to obsession with big butts. He attends Baruch College where he is working towards a journalism degree. I couldn't separate myself as a person, from my role as a journalist here and I had to sort of clean with the listeners, and I think that, parts of myself that are scary for me to show you. In the past, she was a producer on Latino USA,where she focused on stories about media including the scandal around the bookAmerican Dirt, how Dora the Explorer became the most recognized Latina icon in the world, and the stereotype that the Latinx community cries more. [Laughter], Alright, well, let's try to bottle it in a five-minute answer. Think about the OJ Simpson trial, this was sort of the beginning of the precursors of reality TV in the 90s. Maria has a theory about how big butts went from taboo to obsession--and it involves Selena and Jennifer Lopez. without us, even realising a causing a certain amount of stifling or harm yeah, absolutely I mean it stayed with me for many many years I I could switch, all my life. En este episodio, Maria analiza por qu la tez morena de Selena es parte crucial del legado de la reina del tex-mex y reflexiona sobre cmo su exploracin de la raza de Selena la condujo a revelaciones acerca de su propia identidad. and experiences that led her into telling stories shining lights in championing ideas and ideals that matter to her and her community maria opens up about all of the above, as well as the intimate process of the unique story telling that took place in the creation of this pot guessers and takes me through the before and aftermath of, creating and launching anything for selina assessing the ways at it really transformed her and hopefully, whoever is turning it so excited to share this conversation with you, I'm gonna. The show is produced by Andrea Asuaje, James Trout, and John Perotti at Rococo Punch. Maria Garcia is the senior arts and culture editor at the public radio station WBUR in Boston. There were palpable, and very obvious, anxieties around immigrants, and specifically Mexican immigrants. This is a collective experience. They that to the listeners that, like this journey, was Selena that were about to go on it comes from a very specific place. Pero algo cambi su vida. Al crecer a lo largo de la frontera entre Estados Unidos y Mxico, Mara Garca se sinti dividida entre sus dos identidades como mexicana y sstadounidense. Maria Garcia was 9 years old and living on the U.S.-Mexico border when Selena was murdered. That's different and fuller, like prison their mind. . It's interesting also right because you knew your incredible, cancer is virtual dive into anything. She became a role model for how Latinos could achieve the American dream and find acceptance. But also, do you think that relationship between white and non-white culture has changed at all since that moment in the 90s? So what I'm hearing is that she's sort of this symbol of that bridge that many non-white Americans have in this country, of being of the two worlds and not being part of either. He is a multimedia producer and journalist based in New York. InAnything For Selena, Maria goes on an intimate, revelatory quest to understand how Selena has become a potent symbol for tensions around race, class and body politics in the United States. American networks and Mexican programming aired the same top story. I am, you know. Copyright 2022 Apple Inc. All rights reserved. body- and she was talking a lot about her by and. You know lake marie, with my audience from the beginning and let them know like the person who is telling you this story, This is somebody who's coming from a very personal place, that's why I started the podcast with the creosote bush. So these are really sensitive, emotional topics that you're tackling here. But that was a moment. Let's dance and forget the people starving to death. Mara confronta el legado complicado de Abraham y reflexiona sobre la paternidad en las culturas Latinx. half of them are in EL paso, heavily of their markets, that what is my family was like that? She uncovers that booty politics is ultimately about race and brings us to a long overdue conversation about anti-blackness within the Latinx community. So, Anything for Selena, how I like to describe it to folks, it's like if Dolly Parton's America and California Love had a baby. I said, I'm really drawn to this place because of. You can find more of Juan Diegos work onL.A. TacoandLatino Rebels. Esta exploracin nos lleva a un lugar inesperado. local news all the time and it's what I knew and it's what was familiar to me and and it's what I thought, could really make a difference in telling the true story of the border, but, and I realize that I wanted to go deeper, and I wanted you know. When he was granted DACA, he was able to intern for Oregon Public Broadcasting as a production assistant for OPBsState of Wonderand OPBsWeekend Edition. perfection, don't stop yourself from doing something, because it's not gonna be perfect, embrace the wrinkled. She also explores the indelible mark she left on Latino identity and belonging, whether it's fatherhood, big-butt politics, and the fraught relationship with . Such a beautiful podcast. So I thought and they were alike. And it's a sort of that friction that has stuck with me the most, that sequence where Howard Stern is glibly responding to Selena's death, right? We shall television where it's like it falls pray, citizens, you know, especially because it so like you said constrained by like the form and, the time limits. [Laughter] I've been wanting to go to Joshua Tree--Selena recorded one of her last videos there, "Amor Prohibido"--and I think I'm just gonna disconnect a little bit, and look inward, and take a rest. These two lies that he used the phrase I guess translate roughly into english, neither from here, nor there then sandwich. The podcast examines the Tejano Queen's impact on race, politics and the cultures she inhabited. La bsqueda de Mara la lleva a Abraham Quintanilla, el padre de Selena Quintanilla. This is such a safe place in part because, the place of immigrants. Turn on Live Caption for free the fields- and this is good life project, I brought it is supported by amazon's it's hard to believe, but the hits efficiently getting closer to that time of year, where we can say that the holidays are just around the corner, which means the whirlwind of getting your holiday shopping done on time is probably starting to grow, especially if you really want to show you love with genuinely thoughtful a not last minute gifts. I think it's super cool, how their mission is to bring together the world's best superfoods, into a single ready to go meal to help busy people stay healthy. 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You know who is this, he's been painted a lot different ways in a very public lion and describing it, Your ability to actually have a sit down with him when he basically said no area, body for years and years and years in and how that led to a conversation that really do so.