anything for selena podcast transcript

Maria has a theory about how big butts went from taboo to obsession -- and it involves Selena and Jennifer Lopez. Yeah. Episode 5. They that to the listeners that, like this journey, was Selena that were about to go on it comes from a very specific place. [Laughter]. That leads to that. It's terrifying. She had the charisma that really only very, very, very few of us have. And this project forced me to do that. The creators of Anything for Selena take listeners behind the scenes for a look at the making of the podcast. I couldn't help, but think of me, and when I was talking to her husband about relationships. [Laughter]. And when I was reporting it, I couldn't not think about my own father, who died in a tragic accident a year before I started this project, and I had just sort of drowned myself in work after his passing. Anything For Selena Skip to main content Support WBUR. 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. So before she even died, whether she wanted to be or not, the world immediately appropriated her as a symbol for an ascending Latino identity, for saying, look, Latinos can do this, Latinos can be themselves, Latinos can be joyful, Latinos can succeed in the United States. Mara sabe que para entender verdaderamente a Selena como persona y no solo como un cono, necesita ir a Corpus Christi. I am not saying that selina wizard of this bastion of body positivity big, hers. After a decade reporting on music for various outlets, he served as Senior Editor on the public radio program Latino USA. We think that your perspective, Lee enhances the storytelling here or really, sharpness, who are able to bring you back, edit you I'll when necessary, always in service of the story, those who are able to hold your story with gentleness and love, but still, when you are necessary in the story and when you are not to have that team to have people with that perspective in that. That's been around for, releases these chemicals. She was finally ready to do, when english album, and so she was like on the cost of mainstream success. But there was at least one TV personality who wasn't that impressed. I think that's what I'm going to do. 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. But also, do you think that relationship between white and non-white culture has changed at all since that moment in the 90s? She goes, "Well, honey, tell her that if she wants to see a bottom, I'll show her my, bottom." happening. And how do you work through stuff like that? You know I did it and jobs, I did it, when I went to my fancy grad school, and it was, I would say my late twenties early thirties that I, to realize. So many people wrote to me telling me the storytelling in the podcast made them feel seen. I think I already am. She was on the cusp of mainstream success, ass. It was the early 1990s and she was 7, watching the Tejano star perform on television. How much. She discovered Selena the Mexican-American pop icon who proved she didnt have to choose. When I was in graduate school and I needed some motivation, I would listen to Selena, and I realized that there were all these milestones in my life where she was there. And, in todays conversation with award-winning journalist, writer, and producer, Maria Garcia, we dive deep into these topics in a very cool and unusual way. The Latino population grew by 60% between 1990 and 2000, so '95 was right in the middle of it. Was that always the plan? U permanent residents of the snake table for without you. The layers that make up her legacy is the foundation for a new podcast " Anything for Selena " coming Jan. 2021 and hosted by journalist and self-proclaimed "Queer Chola Fronteriza" Maria Garcia. [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. 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. You know and you're their reading it, I remember there- were there were moments where I believe, in journalism like. Here, it's not even the city, it's not necessarily even 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. roots music, mexican american roots, music from texas, from when she was eight years old. I love the synergy that happens in a group added. She learned Spanish in the public eye, and her mistakes became some of her most famous and endearing moments. [Laughter] "Now that's a bottom." time on Jonathan fields, signing off for good life project. I feelings around that had really about you, know, taken some time to think about journalism without practising it. The series weaves Marias personal story as a queer, first-generation Mexican immigrant with cultural analysis, history and politics to explore how, 25 years after her death, Selena remains an unparalleled vessel for understanding Latino identity and American belonging. I, like you, just described that that second, that the said where you're talking about, the role of her dad. Maria discovers that the story of Tejano's decline isn't so simple. I was in kind of a haze when I wrote that. You neeeeddddd to listen. 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. I think that it's the collective brain trust that often makes the project, am. I was 9 when she died, 11 when the movie came out, and throughout all of my life, and these different milestones, I've come to realize now, as a 35-year-old, that Selena has been there all along, whether it was the last time I danced with my father, it was to a Selena song, before he died. imagining the series. Un cuarto de siglo despus de su muerte, Selena est arrasando en internet. En este episodio, Maria explora cmo internet se ha convertido en un lugar en el que los fans honran y recuerdan a Selena, y sobrellevan juntos el vaco que dej. She discovered Selena Quintanilla the Mexican-American pop icon who proved she didnt have to choose. Maria Garcia is the senior arts and culture editor at the public radio station WBUR in Boston. Selena Quintanilla may have built her career singing Spanish songs, but she didnt grow up speaking Spanish at home. You know I had to. That's what drove me into journalism. what I realized that investigating this episode is. All around text says, he started when she was a. and who are we leaving behind or who are erasing or like is the harm being caused by this beyond. how telling you the lands that I'm looking at it through, and that is completely shaped by growing up in this. From here or there you ve come to a place where it sounds like you feel, like you have a sense of, dual belonging almost like, but it does sound like as a kid like and look. 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. This is a collective experience. The phone kept ringing. beyond you know the man made border and what our past. Antonia Cereijido is an Award-winning Senior Producer at Futuro Studios, working on developing new narrative podcasts. [Laughter] Because I'm sure there will still be some residual feelings. have been a feeling that it has to have been passed down. of the conversation really walks. 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. From you know that I loved certainly now that this was not an unbiased account of her legacy. Maria knows that to truly understand Selena as a person and not just an icon, she needs to go to Corpus Christi. A couple months later, it sounds like certainly back and saying you know, it was actually married and the story of like. Um, I think I'm going to go like, hide somewhere. So these are really sensitive, emotional topics that you're tackling here. And saying alone, we all get through moments and, only through one right now and it's actually ok to not just keep it to yourself, till I be without the beings and people as you walk that path? I smell creosote bush, which is one of the oldest living organisms on the planet. Yeah. 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. The story shook the country and changed Marias life. Whatever side of the border I was on, it felt like the other half of me was missing. And then when she died, that was amplified astronomically. 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. Accuracy is not guaranteed. 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. But then, something changed her life. It was kind of, the kennedy assassination for lahti knows it was a massive news, a banned it was, very first time in my life tat, I saw the same news, headline in like an english national network and, mexico national network. Lionel Messi is known as the best soccer player of his generation, but there's one dream he's never achieved: winning a World Cup for Argentina, the country he left decades ago. no jailer was in the first person, of course, to have this body types. Thank you so much. ===Excerpt: Anything for Selena, Episode 4: Big Butt Politics===, Jennifer Lopez turned the fashion world on its ear with a bottom that shot her straight to, She came with two limos: one for her, one for her ass. and I was really powerful invulnerable that you kind of like said, were putting mister. So you be, the character and the story, and I'm so curious about this, because the coming, really drummed ensuing journalism like you are my story like the your job is to be as currently unbiased down the middle as you possibly can be, and then you're working in a very well established. I'm cure, was on one side, but it was almost like a like you're living. With your own father and then you walk through you like this. As a person moving through the world and experiencing culture, I only have sort of a very mild understanding of Selena--as an icon, as a creator, as an artist, as a celebrity--and so, when I listened to the early episodes, in many ways that was my first introduction to Selena the figure--the historical figure, almost. La teora, por supuesto, tiene que ver con Selena Quintanilla, pero tambin con la pelcula Selena, protagonizada por Jennifer Lopez, y la subsiguiente explosin latina. She also explores the indelible mark she left on Latino identity and belonging, whether its fatherhood, big-butt politics, and the fraught relationship with whiteness and language. A lot of people have told it the way that they wanted it taught. Marias quest takes her to Abraham Quintanilla, Selena Quintanillas notoriously guarded father. but were celebrated and an coveted and everybody wanted one like with my white friends, big buds, sort of derided and like their moms would exercise to get rid of their boats and like it was. In the 25 years since her murder, Selenas image has taken on new meaning. On the podcast Anything for Selena, Apple Podcasts' Show of the Year of 2021, Maria Garca combines rigorous reporting with impassioned storytelling to honor Selena's legacy. And then, now, as an arts and culture editor and critic, putting on my journalism hat and thinking about Selena not just from my heart, but as a journalist, and thinking, I'm not alone. sixteen seventeen. 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