anything for selena podcast transcript

Well. 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. Many people are making a shift toward more meaningful work that is aligned with their values and that's often an uncomfortable and messy process. In this intimate journey, Maria explores what Selena's legacy shows us about belonging in America. 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. She graduated from Northwesterns Medill School of Journalism. I think I already am. I think I think you have to share this. on the cusp of major major start up. Anything For Selena on Apple Podcasts 23 episodes 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. That I saw somebody like that ascend in American society, and ascend in a way that was still connected to her roots, ascend without compromise, and that was incredibly moving for me, and it stayed with me. Maria Garcia was 9 years old and living on the U.S.-Mexico border when Selena was murdered. Teller, to pay homage to this woman who left such a tremendous impact on my life? 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. Tejano award shows were glitzy affairs and Tejano radio DJs were like rock stars in Texas and the Southwest. no jailer was in the first person, of course, to have this body types. the fuller narrative of this entire series becomes it's like it's not just the story of this. 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. 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. Why did I choose this? 00:40:44 - NPR and Futuro Studios present The Last Cup, a limited series about soccer and the immigrant experience. Can we shorten this down? Find out more about Anything for Selena here and follow us on Twitter and Instagram. That, it turns out, is the power of authenticity, agency, and legacy. 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. You know like regionally known when she was twelve or thirteen. her work together and reflect back here. Maria discovers that the story of Tejano's decline isn't so simple. 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. She uncovers that booty politics is ultimately about race and brings us to a long overdue conversation about anti-blackness within the Latinx community. Ok, let's dive into this conversation, you know-. It's interesting also right because you knew your incredible, cancer is virtual dive into anything. "This journey begins at the border, a place in the in-between where, for a long time, I felt divided in two. life through a lens, a possibility and joy. Lionel Messi is known as the best soccer Your new and improved kitchen can be completed in weeks, not months. Previously Ben was the host of the national daily programMarketplace Techfrom American Public Media and Marketplace, reaching two million listeners around the country. Anything for Selena is a 10-episode podcast produced in partnership with WBUR. And what does she mean to you? From you know that I loved certainly now that this was not an unbiased account of her legacy. ", It's Boston local news in one concise, fun and informative email. the attention and the praise that jailer dead, and I wanted to investigate why and- and I really. Selena is often called the "Queen of Tejano music." In the 1990s, she brought this underdog genre to international heights. But then, something changed her life. Today, he heads up the editorial podcast team at Futuro Studios, the original programming division of Futuro Media Group. See acast.com/privacy for more information. 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. Kim Kardashian broke the internet with her butt and Jen Selter, a white Jewish woman from Long Island is the self-proclaimed belfie queen (butt selfie) of Instagram. I think that it's the collective brain trust that often makes the project, am. 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 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. Not even. every year on the anniversary of her death and on the anniversary of the day she was born, there's a floor. what I realized that investigating this episode is. ===Excerpt: Anything for Selena, Episode 2: Selena and Abraham"===. 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. And so I grew up thinking that it was imperative for me to assimilate, frankly, to just get through life. The story shook the country and changed Marias life. here's, the! 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? The link in the show notes to start with a free sixty day trial, it's time to recognise you. Relatives in Mexico and the States wanted to know if Marias family was watching, too. 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. No, when we started conceptualizing the series. Sort of standard american education in the states, but in mexico. 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. After her death, Tejano went from boom to bust. 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. I wanted. 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. I want to unpack that personal side a little more. You wont regret it. 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. and who are we leaving behind or who are erasing or like is the harm being caused by this beyond. Have you have to follow your gut, you know, and there were moments when definitely dead, follow my guide and not take. "She had this . When he was granted DACA, he was able to intern for Oregon Public Broadcasting as a production assistant for OPBsState of Wonderand OPBsWeekend Edition. Yeah, but see, I was always correcting her, don't do that. We're talking about 1994, 1995, right before she died, when she was essentially ascending to Latino royalty. I chose that moment because if you hear it, you're like, "Oh, this sounds like a conversation that that can happen today.". think that comes out in in the episode a bad, the idea. 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. Selena Gomez seemingly clapped back at trolls criticizing her body after the 2023 Golden Globes. I think a lot of people saw their own story in mine. Pero la manifestacin de una guerra cultural oculta luego de su muerte nos revela otra historia. I mean, I don't mean to exclude you, Nick. Or at least, "You don't deserve the right to mourn," the right to be, as humans do. 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. ", "Let's burn our [indecipherable] with these peppers.". I really appreciate it. listen lee mexican, and I remember internalizing this shame. Twenty is. ===Excerpt: The Howard Stern Show, April 3rd, 1995===, "Let's dance to happy Madonna-like music. And episode 2, for example, is about meeting Selena's father and really going deep into their relationship, and their dynamic, and, you know, he's been portrayed as a sort of exacting, controlling, demanding, short-fuse machista guy, and her as a playful, but nonetheless docile, daughter. Twenty five years later, Maria is on a quest to understand what it means to love, mourn and remember Selena. 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. In fact, it's sort of disk up. Such a beautiful podcast. You can walk the bordering and be in downtown see that what is and be in mexico in a major mexican city. feeling around how much a journalist inserts themselves are not had a really evolved from coming from you know. Episode 5. Is it short forum its? Confronted the woman and a few weeks later, and it was a huge huge news. You emotionally and part of part of the color in the text. This is a collective experience. 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. On the 26th anniversary of Selena's tragic death, Maria heads to Joshua Tree, California for an intimate interview with Selena's widower, Chris Perez. So what are the pieces of the story, wanna tell and then what a larger social issues that we really need to dive into the tank, So why are they like? connection with the land. 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. public radio has its reputation of life. 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. Sort of like a shared experience between the Latino community and the broader white American communities, basically. Instead, we tried to make meaning of Selena's life and legacy, she says. The exploration takes us to an unexpected place. When the beginning, that was a moment where that there were four, of these moments. Maria Garcia Twitter Managing EditorMaria Garcia was WBUR's Managing Editor and the creator of "Anything for Selena. Servant of Pod is written and hosted by me, Nick Quah. 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 I don't think we've changed all that much. I was blown away by all the different cabinet options they have and how easy it is to get your free design for your space at home to visit cabinets, to go dot com today and see why no one beach their prices or their transferable limited lifetime. a beautiful island cap to the way that you share the entire story on that? You know like one. In the premiere episode of Anything for Selena, host Maria Garcia explores how Selena helped Maria find her own place in the world. And I feel like in that sequence, in that moment, in that interaction, the entirety of white/non-white relations in America was sort of bottled into that, which is that the fight is just like, understand where we're coming from. 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. In the end, its really a story about belonging, which we all need more of. You speaking to my soul Maria/Mary (therapeutic too)!!! Esta exploracin nos lleva a un lugar inesperado. Our deep live on really china understand, what's happening here, like what changed, and why and. in our conversation, which I've enjoyed so much so in this container of the good life project. This has a deep, deep history of, that, though the relationship and has with blackness, yeah I mean it was interesting to see basely dedicate an entire episode to this conversation cause I was, I was imagining a fairly, limited run of episodes and when you're trying to figure out who. That's different and fuller, like prison their mind. Ultimately, this journey into U.S. booty politics is about race and brings us to a conversation thats long been overdue about anti-blackness within the Latinx community. Society & Culture Anything for Selena From WBUR Maria Garcia was 9 years old and living on the U.S.-Mexico border when Selena was murdered. "So the podcast really examines Selena's legacy," Garcia says. It was the early 1990s and she was 7, watching the Tejano star perform on television. 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. There are so many lessons to be learned from leaving a job, no matter what happens after soon learn more about Keith balkans journey exclusively on script, get inspired by, he's broken with quitting today, with a free sixty day trial at try, dot, script, dot, com, slashed g, LP, that's try, dot s e r, I b D, dotcom, slash de LP or just click. of the conversation really walks. And that episode is about the fraught relationship between Latinidad and Blackness, through the lens of Selena. holding me and protecting me in some way and justice feeling that I have, and I think it has to. 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. 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. time on Jonathan fields, signing off for good life project. sent one him over, but also how it brought it brings up you're really. After the premiere ofSelena: The Serieson Netflix, some fans claimed Selena had been whitewashed in the show. I want to tell the story of my community. I can't tell this story honestly without telling you that. Today, the obsession with big butts is still strong with idols like Cardi B and Beyonce. 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. And so, yeah, I think I'll do a lot of gratitude crying. I tall buildings in new york city, there's something so powerful that draws me in to just, even if I'm not out. She's been this touchstone in my life that I come back to when I need to feel grounded. The story of Tejano's decline isn't so simple, though. how she changed culture, how she changed music, what her role was in the world and, I was just really hungry for that to exist and, I thought. Sometimes a couple times a week. For a lot of. So like, totally fair. Thank you so much for having me. [Laughter] Because I'm sure there will still be some residual feelings. And there's this sort of moment where he's being an asshole about it. The theory involves Selena Quintanilla but also Selena biopic starring Jennifer Lopez and the ensuing Latin Explosion. Subscribe now so you don't miss it! 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. 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. This season and shop legendary deals at amazon. because I imagine that why was moving all over the place all the time, absolutely. This is what I mean when I say my body recognises this place. It comes down to. heard in the kind of feedback I received. 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. Think about the OJ Simpson trial, this was sort of the beginning of the precursors of reality TV in the 90s. That's what drove me into journalism. About The Show: Take me there, you know it had been my dream to do a podcast about selina for years. But a forgotten culture war following her death painted a different picture. It was like a scale that I kind of had to unlearn. I was growing up on the U.S.-Mexico border. 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. She was somebody who I think, the, first form of authentic representation. Today, we present episode one of Anything for Selena, a new podcast from WBUR and Futuro Studios. Would you do me a personal favor, a seven second favorite and share it, maybe on social or by text or by email, just with one person just copy the link from the app you're using and tell those you know those you love those you want to help navigate this thing called life a little better, so we can all do it better together with more ease and more joy. the day before you leave, if you love this episode, safe bet, you will also love the conversation we had with Samir nasri about food and belonging culture and connection you'll find a link to simeon's episode in the show notes, and of course, if you haven't already done so, please go ahead and follow good life project in your favorite listening app, and if you found this conversation interesting or inspiring or valuable and chances are you did since you're still listening here. 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. In this episode, Maria traces how Selena became a symbol for solidarity and resistance. 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 a little bit big right now because I enjoyed . I need to trust and rely on and open to, like the point of view of other people and. to downtown paso. happening. But I got, show them to you, because you gotta know where I'm coming from, for you to understand how much I love Selina and why I love selena, then you kind of, gotta understand me a little bed and I think a lot of people. In this intimate journey, Maria explores what Selena's legacy shows us about belonging in America. 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