anything for selena podcast transcript

I mean both the colorado after spending a wife and a different type of mountains. 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. In the series finale of Anything for Selena, Maria reflects on what her year-long examination into Selenas legacy reveals about La Reinas humanity. It was really. because what I felt like you are also doing was inviting people in. This is something which is which, So pervasive and culture, and then you saying as a journalist, dive into this. And I talk about this in the episode, this was particularly difficult for me because it made me think so much of the women in Jurez, being from the border, the women in Ciudad Jurez in Mexico, who disappeared, many of them who worked for American corporations, in factories of American corporations across the border in Mexico, and how the world just did not seem to care about their deaths. It has also permeated white culture, with Kim Kardashian breaking the internet and butt selfie queen Jen Selter. About The Show: 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. and who are we leaving behind or who are erasing or like is the harm being caused by this beyond. ", "Let's burn our [indecipherable] with these peppers.". The story shook the country and changed Marias life. He co-produces and co-hostsRacist Sandwich, a James Beard Foundation nominated podcast on food, class, race, and gender across the globe. And what if theyd been gone from the planet for 25 years, but still it was like they were present in your life, guiding and inspiring you every day? 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. I had to imagine like there, There are certain like I need to. You know, I think, that's when, of a journalist and how much a journalist you know instead, themselves in a story in an authentic way, in a way, that's necessary to the story. Okay, so Maria, can you tell me a little bit more about how Selena went from being a celebrity into becoming an icon? In this episode, Maria traces how Selena became a symbol for solidarity and resistance. Growing up along the US-Mexico border, Maria Garcia felt torn between her two identities as Mexican and American. 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. You know I think this is part of. I have cousins and ants in mexico and, of course, my parents living. Today, the obsession with big butts is still strong with idols like Cardi B and Beyonce. Selena is often called the "Queen of Tejano music." In the 1990s, she brought this underdog genre to international heights. Selena is often called the "Queen of Tejano music." it turns out, is the power of authenticity and agency and legacy, and in today's conversation with award winning journalist and writer and producer maria garcia, we die. Right? Es tan grande Es que ella es tan negra! Tres dcadas despus, la obsesin con los traseros grandes en la cultura del hip-hop se mantiene slida gracias a dolos como Cardi B y Beyonc, pero tambin se ha impregnado en la cultura blanca. how did he was a kid and ensure that you have a bit of a different ones like, rather than not, really feelingly. Because again, my heart could not not be here. On the one hand, you do you describe how that. In my regular job, I always tell young reporters: do not abandon the lens from which you're looking at the world. You know my biases, like wit, silly taken about, and so I knew ethically I had to disclose that and that that had, be part of the narrative? [Laughter] Because I'm sure there will still be some residual feelings. Sus seguidores de todas las edades han recurrido a Instagram, TikTok y YouTube para restaurar y presentar de nuevas formas la memoria de Selena. The story shook the country and changed Marias life. How much. Everybody looks at the story they're working on from the place in the world that they occupy. And so suddenly, her death was a top story in English networks and in Spanish networks--incredibly anomalous for the time. You know like one. Online, Selenas image and music have taken on new life on social media and platforms that werent even imaginable when she was still alive. But for the last year, she's taken on a different role and challenge: podcast host--and yes, my Selena doula. She discovered Selena the Mexican-American pop icon who proved she didnt have to choose. 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. 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. Codebreakerwas hailed as the first completely bingeable podcast, pushing the envelope of the medium with embedded secret codes in each episode, requiring the listener to unlock subsequent episodes by cracking codes. imagining the series. Maria discovers that its a story of immigration, money and how two often-ignored groups were pitted against each other. 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. 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! In this episode, Maria analyzes why Selenas brownness is an essential part of her legacy and reflects on how the exploration of Selenas race led Maria to revelations about her own identity. 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. You know this is a really nice in true, but I think people are gonna start wondering like where's, the spartacus going. She was a broadcast journalist along the U.S.-Mexico border for more than a decade. You know, I think, people who see her as a sacred, simple and who love her were able to, dead afire with my own story- and I think bout-, from me to the audience there was powerful because. They would say you know what we really. Now, what it that other person was someone you never actually met? Listen to the trailer for "Anything For Selena,"a new podcast from WBUR and Futuro Studios coming in January 2021. 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. 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. I'm curious as to why you decided to attend to that moment, Howard Stern as the avatar of that kind of friction in that episode. She was somebody who I think, the, first form of authentic representation. I said we have to do in a sword about, a that she celebrated her body and what that did for, culture because I saw it in my lifetime lake ice, having parties with my big mexican family in mexico and, with my american friends in the states during the week, In the way voluptuous bodies were treated in different contexts. After the premiere ofSelena: The Serieson Netflix, some fans claimed Selena had been whitewashed in the show. It's interesting also right because you knew your incredible, cancer is virtual dive into anything. 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. [Laughter], I mean, I grew up in a whole other country. when it was time to pick a career, I thought of, the vision journalism because it's the form. That that's what was going on is that from very early on five six, seven, eight years old, I was learning to be married in the states and. The new podcast Anything for Selena, from NPR member station WBUR, doesn't begin with the late singer's biography or her most popular songs. I feelings around that had really about you, know, taken some time to think about journalism without practising it. I've never seen anything like that. no, I'm all is curious. Incluso el New York Times lo catalog el gnero latino de ms rpido crecimiento del pas. Louis Virtel and Ira Madison III, co-hosts of Keep It chat with Sam about who's being selected and who's being overlooked, and whether the pandemic further exposes awards' irrelevance or not. The story of Tejanos decline isnt so simple, though. And so this is my attempt at that. In my whole life, and ever since her death, or left. Selena Quintanilla was known as the "Queen Of Tejano Music," a major Latin star who was crossing over into the mainstream U.S. pop world when she was shot and killed in 1995. There, we've just been really interesting are learning the skill of coal, switching, even if you didn't have the language or even the awareness that you are doing. I wanted to get into like the nitty gritty of staff, and so I, out of the television medium and that's why, I mean it such an interesting shift to me, years ago. 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. That's been around for, releases these chemicals. what I realized that investigating this episode is. how telling you the lands that I'm looking at it through, and that is completely shaped by growing up in this. to write a love letter to her through serialized storytelling, So have you ever been so deeply affected by another person that their story literally gives your life context and meaning, and even a cent, the person was someone you never actually met and what, if they ve been gone from the planet for more than two, five years, but still it was like they were present in your life, guiding and inspiring you every day, while the. 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. 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? [Laughter], Alright, well, let's try to bottle it in a five-minute answer. Donate Anything For Selena. immediate family and fans, it's also it's your personal style. I chose that moment because if you hear it, you're like, "Oh, this sounds like a conversation that that can happen today.". 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. 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. 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. 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. So it's so interesting to me that. How would we know that a fun is merely a vessel for delivering equity, smoked sausage to your mouth and that there is no shame in being the first to get seconds, good life project is supported by the chamber, so good nutrition. I mean, I don't mean to exclude you, Nick. Take me there, you know it had been my dream to do a podcast about selina for years. Las ceremonias de premiacin de la msica tejana eran eventos glamorosos y los DJ de estaciones de radio dedicadas al gnero eran vistos como estrellas de rock en Texas y el resto del sudoeste de Estados Unidos. public radio has its reputation of life. Such a beautiful podcast. sixteen seventeen. Pero algo cambi su vida. I have to know that this is like a poetic, get into a story and that they're gonna write this red with us and. She had the charisma that really only very, very, very few of us have. She was that talented, ass, a little girl and she was-, the time from the time she was twelve years old. 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. I love that you know because, of the story that you can see from the position in the, of that. Web design by Andy Cheatwood and the digital and marketing teams at Southern California Public Radio. For I key of family members, you can create a home, you love and save so whether you're looking for new faulty core ord entire bedroom set make sure you receive all the savings you can buy. Originally from Fresno, California, Kristin is an NPRNext Generation Radioalum who cut her teeth on the NPR Arts Desk, KQED, St. Louis Public Radio, and as an arts journalist in Russia. that resonates powerfully with me as well. 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. because they matter- and this is sort of like It- was interesting to see it was almost like. holding me and protecting me in some way and justice feeling that I have, and I think it has to. regularly every week in every week and moving back and forth between areas and EL paso and curious about that. You develop that as a, but also sometimes keeps part of your identity from showing up. I like it and sometimes challenging lake experienced trying to figure out. I wanted. You know how much of themselves do they bring? I couldn't help, but think of me, and when I was talking to her husband about relationships. Maria Garcia is the Senior Editor of Arts and Culture at WBUR, where she leads The ARTery, overseeing a team of arts writers, reporters and cultural critics. Tejano award shows were glitzy affairs and Tejano radio DJs were like rock stars in Texas and the Southwest. Selena Quintanilla, the Grammy-winning ascending Mexican American popstar had been killed swiftly, violently by the president of her fan club. Oh, my goodness. in that people in fact needs of people to get invited in and and share in this story. Ben also co-hosts the podcastEndless Thread, has served as a tech correspondent forHere and Now, and has been a guest host for WBUR programs includingOn Point. 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. 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. What does home mean when you are so far away, for so long? because I imagine that why was moving all over the place all the time, absolutely. of separate what was going on in my life and yeah, Think that comes through in the episode. "This journey begins at the border, a place in the in-between where, for a long time, I felt divided in two. So I know we're talking to a podcast audience, so let me [Laughter] Let me put it in terms of let me put it in podcast language. In the 1990s, she brought this underdog genre to international heights. [Laughter], ===Excerpt: 2014 Associated Press Interview===. That is expense. In the 25 years since her murder, Selenas image has taken on new meaning. 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? It's terrifying. 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. I love the synergy that happens in a group added. In this episode, Maria traces how Selena became a symbol for solidarity and resistance. I want to ask about a specific scene in the third episode. You know, as a white male perspective or a prospect, That's that often comes from the position of being white and mail in this country, and I, do want to say in this conversation that its very important to point out that, lead, reporting like there is something about about like the objectivity of your process. The show is produced by Andrea Asuaje, James Trout, and John Perotti at Rococo Punch. on the go so go. Yeah. She was like a star in the south west of the united states. 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