anything for selena podcast transcript

In the 25 years since her murder, Selenas image has taken on new meaning. You know, but really that was sort of the spark that led to this, wider change in the mainstream culture and. where'd it to me to stay with the land and connect with that. Maria Garcia Twitter Managing EditorMaria Garcia was WBUR's Managing Editor and the creator of "Anything for Selena. I like it and sometimes challenging lake experienced trying to figure out. You know, things like that. I was still very much holding on to my parents, culture. sound, didn't you read the narrations end it. You do you, stories woven into this, but it's also there, are exploring along the way, almost like using, her story in your story, as these launching points are not the least of which is, media after her death, even really teat up the question of like, be harmed or raised or not recognise along the way, important conversations that you t up in a very, like that just mention those on the side, but you like now, but actually dedicate a substantial amount of conversation to these. Marias quest takes her to Abraham Quintanilla, Selena Quintanillas notoriously guarded father. Listen to the trailer for "Anything For Selena,"a new podcast from WBUR and Futuro Studios coming in January 2021. Okay, Maria, how would you describe Anything for Selena? So like. This person who was like, you don't really have to compromise that much. 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. 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. And then I knew that I wanted it to be meaty. But when Selena died, Tejano went from boom to bust. So I think journalists are really like their tart, ring positions and tat, sort of stay in the middle and waited. It just became like this default behavior, often wonder for folks. In the premiere episode of "Anything for Selena," host Maria Garcia explores how Selena helped Maria find her own place in the world. ", It's Boston local news in one concise, fun and informative email. Mexican-American music icon Selena Quintanilla has been gone for 26 years, but she's living life to the fullest online. bottom," you just have a bottom that's in proportion. I think that's where this conversation really comes in because, I am one of those millions of people who see her as us like a sacred symbol. The theory involves Selena Quintanilla but also Selena biopic starring Jennifer Lopez and the ensuing Latin Explosion. Yeah, and so I don't want to give it all away, but [Laughter] In the podcast, we argue that Selena--her image, her likeness--has become this shorthand for an entire American experience, for Latino identity. NPR and Futuro Studios present The Last Cup, a limited series about soccer and the immigrant experience. Can we shorten this down? You know- and I was, really passionate about that, and that's why I stayed you, practicing journalism fur for over ten years here, because I was so passionate about, the stories of my community and I felt this huge responsibility, and I thought, really passion about telling the stories of the border, but I felt this, happened, is you know I started off in commercial television. But then, also, I think it's also because there was a hunger at the time, and there still is. 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. The Latino population grew by 60% between 1990 and 2000, so '95 was right in the middle of it. perfection, don't stop yourself from doing something, because it's not gonna be perfect, embrace the wrinkled. That's why, 25 years later, we are still so attached to her, because there is a hunger to see Latino joy, Latino effervescence--and in her case, brown pride, brown joy--there is a hunger to see that because there's not enough of it. When you step into this, and your sir rising in your career at this point, the established you ve got a lot of chopped and you ve got a history and the body of work behind you and, large onto this story, and you say, like it's been, twenty five years, so many people have told, this story and their millions of people who are holding onto their own way of telling the story and they keep it alive, and you think yourself, like, withdrawing away. [Laughter], I mean, I grew up in a whole other country. This week: Maria Garcia's radically personal podcast, Anything for Selena, a love letter to la reina--the queen--Selena Quintanilla. Maria reflects on what her year-long examination into Selenas legacy reveals about the singer's humanity. Sus seguidores de todas las edades han recurrido a Instagram, TikTok y YouTube para restaurar y presentar de nuevas formas la memoria de Selena. how did he was a kid and ensure that you have a bit of a different ones like, rather than not, really feelingly. If she could ask that question and when it aired, community. We were unable to subscribe you to WBUR Today. Selena Quintanilla may have built her career singing Spanish songs, but she didnt grow up speaking Spanish at home. Tras el debut de la serieSelenaen Netflix, algunos fans sealaron que la cantante haba sido blanqueada en ese show. From LAist Studios, this is Servant of Pod. I get this sort of lake anger, deep, the sight of me, you know when I dislike wanna, take off my hopes. I want you to know where I'm coming from Sweden, framing these things are why I'm asking these questions, but, It was also used you effectively say like I'm a character in this story, and, That was the original intention, not that's what. 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. Servant of Pod is written and hosted by me, Nick Quah. then they went into music full time and from the young age of like eight or nine years old selina bears a singer became the breadwinner for her family. And then, at such a formidable age, when I was sort of discovering my identity, I discovered Selena. or walking around in a man's just knowing that I'm sort of being held close by, and yes, there's something kind of powerful and magical about that. In the premiere episode of Anything for Selena, host Maria Garcia explores how Selena helped Maria find her own place in the world. I I dunno if everyone's affected that way, but I know I certainly am it sounds like you are as well. I think that it's the collective brain trust that often makes the project, am. She's been this touchstone in my life that I come back to when I need to feel grounded. Selena was the "Queen of Tejano music." Wait like I love that the core of what I'm doing, but I can't do it in the, I knew that I wanted to keep telling stories. As an undocumented immigrant for over 20 years, Juan Diego decided to focus his works on communities that reflect him. 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. Copyright 2022 Apple Inc. All rights reserved. . I kind of figured that that's what you were going to say. Well, maybe I could do it and I, the story for a couple of years before the folks at, you are were finally like. This is an unofficial transcript meant for reference. En este episodio Maria le sigue la pista a las razones por las cuales Selena se convirti en smbolo de solidaridad y resistencia mientras conversa con Curly Velasquez de Pero Like. I was writing the episode. And it's like all of these feelings among Mexican immigrants, and Mexican-Americans, and the white mainstream, can pretty much be be unpacked in that conversation. Think about where we were as a country in 1995. I was 9 years old, the the daughter of Mexican immigrants, and so Howard Stern was not in my world. Just see us. These two lies that he used the phrase I guess translate roughly into english, neither from here, nor there then sandwich. We're here. move the story, and you cover some different topics in such a beautiful, powerful story, driven way. "It has this unforgettable smell when it rains," the voice says. Yeah, I have a large rear, I guess, for the norm, but for me, it's normal, 'cause I grew up. Try it yourself, cadaver, is offering ten percent off for the listeners of our podcast, go to catch up, dot com, slash good life to get ten percent off your order. And Selena! It's this beautiful plant in my eyes, it's beautiful this beautiful, assertive brush that grows in the desert. Even The New York Times called it the fastest-growing Latino genre in the country. dignan annette, like it attached. If I offer up the phrase to live a good life, what comes up to live a good life embrace imperfection embrace? But there were moments, for example, that were, there were some some folks who thought we, too much time on the clear. The lyrics playfully poked fun at white beauty standards, including a skit at the top of the song in which a seemingly white woman famously says, Oh, my, God Becky, look at her butt. In this episode, Maria traces how Selena became a symbol for solidarity and resistance. Shipping is free when your order includes at least twenty five dollars of eligible items, so get a head start on your holiday shopping. I can't tell this story honestly without telling you that. En el transcurso de su vida, Selena se convirti en un smbolo de esperanza. Editors Notes: Mexican-American recording artist Selena Quintanilla not only popularized Tejano music to mainstream American audiences, but also helped put Latinos on the map and broke barriers of all kinds before her untimely passing in 1995. I said, I'm really drawn to this place because of. And Latin women are the same way! For many people, the kitchen is the heart of the home and it's essential to have a space that really inspires good, cooking and memories in the making. So I thought and they were alike. Poverty is often disguised. Este viaje a la poltica de los traseros en Estados Unidos es a fin de cuentas una exploracin de la raza, y nos conduce a una conversacin largamente postergada sobre la anti negritud dentro de la cultura latina. This episode was recorded live during a virtual event with WBUR Cityspace. On the contrary, she sort of highlighted them. Online, Selena's image and music have taken on new life on social media and platforms that weren't even imaginable when she was still alive. You can check out more episodes at laist.com/servantofpod. of the conversation really walks. In this episode, Maria explores why Selenas Spanglish seemed so revolutionary for its time, and yet so familiar to many fans who also struggled with the language of their heritage. But a forgotten culture war following her death painted a different picture. Sus seguidores de todas las edades han recurrido a Instagram, TikTok y YouTube para restaurar y presentar de nuevas formas la memoria de Selena. I really appreciate it. listen lee mexican, and I remember internalizing this shame. you had that realisation said the little we need to shift to differ. Sometimes a couple times a week. March 13, 2021 En el final de la serie Anything for Selena, Maria reflexiona sobre lo que su ao de anlisis del legado de Selena revela sobre la humanidad de La Reina. Yet conversations where we can go wherever feels right to go and really explore, is, I think, often we don't really think about the limitations of the channel itself, and how that matches or doesn't match with, the way they were personally wire till it, with the work that we're here to do. On the other hand, it has its limitations, and it excludes people. On March 31, 1995, nine-year-old Maria Garcia came home to find her mother glued to the TV, tears rolling down her rosy cheeks. Plus,. in that people in fact needs of people to get invited in and and share in this story. 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. Maria became the driving creative force and on-air host of the stunning podcast series, Anything for Selena, which was named Apple Podcast's Show of the Year of 2021, and produced with Futuro Studios and NPR member station WBUR. I love that you know because, of the story that you can see from the position in the, of that. After the premiere ofSelena: The Serieson Netflix, some fans claimed Selena had been whitewashed in the show. I think a lot of people saw their own story in mine. Everybody always says, "She has a big. At Marketplace Ben also conceptualized and launched APMs premier digital-first podcast,Codebreaker, in partnership with Business Insider. That, it turns out, is the power of authenticity, agency, and legacy. Her story has been told on large screen small screens, countless interviews and continues to make an imprint on media and culture, music, that transcends generations and nationality and still maria new. And, not because Maria or, for that matter, any of those millions, knew Selena, personally, but because what she embodied profoundly affected and informed the way Maria, and those millions, saw themselves, their sense of wholeness, heritage, community, and the call to celebrate uniqueness, and embrace life through a lens of possibility and joy. Un cuarto de siglo despus de su muerte, Selena est arrasando en internet. And it's the other side saying--to me, at least, what I hear when I hear that tape--is them saying, "But you're not human." It is so big shes just so, Black! Fast forward to today, the obsession with large rear ends in hip-hop culture is still strong with idols like Cardi B and Beyonce, but it has also permeated white culture. Lately I've been drinking catch up to fuel my day and had been really impressed with the flavour and the texture catch up, It's most nutrient dense meal imaginable it's made with over seventy super foods and nutrients, including things like mockery of chia seeds, such a n g, comer, comer, mucky, berry, I say and coconut. I am, you know. She discovered Selena the Mexican-American pop icon who proved she didnt have to choose. I think I already am. It's terrifying. Pero algo cambi su vida. And I don't think I'm alone. Because suddenly--and think about, at the time, where we were in terms of media, right? En el episodio de estreno de Anything for Selena, la conductora Mara Garca explora cmo Selena ayud a Mara a encontrar su propio lugar en el mundo. And what does she mean to you? Her research and reporting explores how politics, history and identity coalesce to create subcultures, folk heroes and pop culture icons. you know and she celebrated her curls as she own them, and she didn't try to hide them. Nearly thirty years ago, Sir-Mix-A-Lots raunchy and irreverent single Baby Got Back (I Like Big Butts) hit the airwaves to the delight and shock of listeners. But also, do you think that relationship between white and non-white culture has changed at all since that moment in the 90s? That's what drove me into journalism. After a decade reporting on music for various outlets, he served as Senior Editor on the public radio program Latino USA. Shes also a queer chola who listens to Selena when she needs some motivation. He co-produces and co-hostsRacist Sandwich, a James Beard Foundation nominated podcast on food, class, race, and gender across the globe. 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. And I want to get to the bottom of why--why she's so resonant now, as resonant as she was a quarter-century ago. You know. what led to that end, the lake late fierce resistance from her dad the illegal tell really powerfully in the pond cas but her huh, during this whole winter time, and you knew, when and found him and were able to arrange a sit down with them, and this was in the middle of the endemic at this point. And so Anything for Selena is a culmination of, truly, my lifelong quest to understand why Selena, why this working-class woman, has meant so much to me all of my life. there too. La letra se burlaba juguetonamente de los estndares de belleza blanca, incluyendo una stira al inicio de la cancin en la que una mujer aparentemente blanca le dice a su amiga: Dios mo, Becky, mira su trasero! [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. I have moments where I'm like, why do I do this? With your own father and then you walk through you like this. Online, Selenas image and music have taken on new life on social media and platforms that werent even imaginable when she was still alive. This is something which is which, So pervasive and culture, and then you saying as a journalist, dive into this. So when I discovered Selena, this was in the mid-90s, and I like to call it sort of "the age of assimilation," at least in in my lifetime, and I went to a predominantly Latino school--again, I grew up on the U.S.-Mexico border--but there was a hierarchy that rewarded only the most assimilated of kids. ethically and me now, I'm not sure, but I know there's something deep, therefore assure them. What's there, standard and do I trust that that standard represent, The way that I want to bring myself forward and the way that, like I want this story to be brought forward, there's a lot of what years there and theirs, what of trust their summer. They have the narrative it had to have been, such an interesting moment for you to figure out like, can we do this in a way which is truly different and at the same time, honoured not only her legacy her family, but also, Stepping into this thing, I've got something that I, add to the conversation. 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. You can try, Anything For Selena | Episodio 1: Selena Y Yo (Espaol). So like, totally fair. I spent my early life in Mexico on the weekends and in the States during the week, and so I really came into consciousness very aware--hyper-aware--of the duality within me. It's my heart, in a podcast. You know, identity. not a ninety. Showing people like this, nay begins in a place in a place that really shaped me, It brought you in to your senses, also, which I thought was really fallen a, it because it ground you in a different way. [Laughter]. there's thousands of people who cross the border every single day there. time on Jonathan fields, signing off for good life project. But this is a story that has been told so many times, so I wanted to do sort of an anthology. Thank you! Confronted the woman and a few weeks later, and it was a huge huge news. 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 . Selena es usualmente descrita como la reina de la msica tejana. En la dcada de 1990, fue ella quien elev este gnero del pueblo a niveles internacionales. En el final de la serie Anything for Selena, Maria reflexiona sobre lo que su ao de anlisis del legado de Selena revela sobre la humanidad de La Reina. Aprendi castellano a la vista del pblico, y los errores que cometi se convirtieron en algunos de sus momentos ms famosos y entraables. In the premiere episode of "Anything for Selena," host Maria Garcia explores how Selena helped Maria find her own place in the world. She was a broadcast journalist along the U.S.-Mexico border for more than a decade. Maria knows that to truly understand Selena as a person and not just an icon, she needs to go to Corpus Christi. ===Excerpt: Anything for Selena, Episode 2: Selena and Abraham"===. body- and she was talking a lot about her by and. I could see her, watching the teleprompter just waiting for me to stop talking ass. Such a beautiful podcast. that the story was just about, like oh mainstream b, The ideals changed because Selina had a big, bad and jailer played her, then, J low ushered in this revolution of big buds and that's the story. Twenty is. I feel so honored to be, like, your Selena doula! was desirable in the main stream and then, of course, her spend this huge evolution since then. Think about the OJ Simpson trial, this was sort of the beginning of the precursors of reality TV in the 90s. March 23, 2021 In this intimate Q&A, host Maria Garcia and producers Antonia Cereijido and Kristin Torres take listeners behind the scenes for a look at the making of Anything for Selena. Maria descubre que es una historia de inmigracin, de dinero y de cmo dos grupos usualmente ignorados fueron enfrentados entre s. If someone is life and her powerful decision to centre the universality of struggle and joy expression and the complexity of love, relationships and power in the conversation I. so deeply john and a move by this body of work and was so excited to dive into maria's life, the story. So you you make this moved up to public radio and one of the most iconic public radio stations had been around for a long time where. There were palpable, and very obvious, anxieties around immigrants, and specifically Mexican immigrants. And so we argue that Selena has come to represent Latinidad: what it looks like, what it sounds like to be Latino, and that's great. You develop that as a, but also sometimes keeps part of your identity from showing up. the foundation for that really starts with the place that I was raised and which is on the? Original music from the podcast is available now on SoundCloud. So, building on that, what did she mean to the culture? She discovered Selena Quintanilla the Mexican-American pop icon who proved she didnt have to choose. Its not a biography podcast. This is every kid while, an idea is fit in your leg. I am not saying that selina wizard of this bastion of body positivity big, hers. Growing up along the US-Mexico border, Maria Garcia felt torn between her two identities as Mexican and American. You know this is a really nice in true, but I think people are gonna start wondering like where's, the spartacus going. She learned Spanish in the public eye, and her mistakes became some of her most famous and endearing moments. That's the gift of creative work, and I'm so thankful for it. how little maria that was deep inside of me, ok like it's ok to be yourself. Through the lens of the life of iconic performer, Selena Quintanilla, and the impact she had not just on Marias life, but on tens of millions around the world, even decades after her tragic passing at a young age. In my regular job, I always tell young reporters: do not abandon the lens from which you're looking at the world. She was on the cusp of mainstream success, ass. She wants a grammy for best mexican american art is she was traveling internationally filling stadiums and latin america, and. Maria Garcia was 9 years old and living on the U.S.-Mexico border when Selena was murdered. There was more to be told she wanted to go deeper, to ask questions, explore issues and talk to people that had remained in the shadows for decades, then tell their fuller story: the real story, in a way that allowed all of us to step into it and learn from it and in no small way reconnect to ourselves and those around us summary. Twenty five years later, Maria is on a quest to understand what it means to love, mourn and remember Selena. The exploration takes us to an unexpected place. Maria Garcia is the senior arts and culture editor at the public radio station WBUR in Boston. Her family, owned a restaurant in corpus, christie, taxes where her father would make her seeing there-, Family soon went bankrupt and lost the restaurant. Hear our news on-air at our partner site: Selena Quintanilla is a cultural icon for many, but for Maria Garcia, she's much more than that. Instead, we tried to make meaning of Selena's life and legacy, she says. In the end. The good life project is supported by cabinets to go so whether you're, a big clerk or not. when it was time to pick a career, I thought of, the vision journalism because it's the form. The story of Tejano's decline isn't so simple, though. For Selina, it starts out not with this story like, a person by the start out with a moment that really taps into the land it, yeah, you know when I was thinking how do I start this journey, discovery because to learn about Selina way as to learn about myself, because I, Let me now and young women in this country do and that. A couple months later, it sounds like certainly back and saying you know, it was actually married and the story of like. immediate family and fans, it's also it's your personal style. Tejano award shows were glitzy affairs and Tejano radio DJs were like rock stars in Texas and the Southwest. they can show up as authentically myself and more spaces. Maria explores why Selenas Spanglish seemed so revolutionary for its time, and yet so familiar to many fans. Have you have to follow your gut, you know, and there were moments when definitely dead, follow my guide and not take.

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