WEBVTT - Becky G: Star Power 0:00:00.360 --> 0:00:03.040 There comes a point where I feel like we have 0:00:03.080 --> 0:00:05.800 to be responsible for ourselves and our decisions. And it's 0:00:05.840 --> 0:00:08.720 not it's not about what someone else should have done 0:00:08.840 --> 0:00:11.400 or could have done. I'm here now and I and 0:00:11.440 --> 0:00:13.160 I know this, and I can't unknow this. 0:00:13.600 --> 0:00:14.600 I hope I can sing. 0:00:14.440 --> 0:00:17.200 That ha, you know, like, oh, that pocket's really cool 0:00:17.239 --> 0:00:18.720 and they're like no, no, no, it's on the one and 0:00:18.760 --> 0:00:20.960 I'm like, so the two. 0:00:21.760 --> 0:00:23.160 What is this ship? 0:00:23.760 --> 0:00:26.840 Let me show you, like at the core of it all. 0:00:26.960 --> 0:00:30.760 Let me like share my roots. It's about connection and 0:00:30.960 --> 0:00:33.920 we limit ourselves in our artistry if we don't open 0:00:33.960 --> 0:00:35.000 ourselves to connection. 0:00:35.520 --> 0:00:36.800 Oh dead, you would have a baby. 0:00:36.840 --> 0:00:39.600 Just d. 0:00:41.960 --> 0:00:43.240 Okay, guys, I'm gonna go. 0:00:43.159 --> 0:00:49.160 Now that's not written in the contract. 0:00:49.240 --> 0:00:51.320 Like that's complicated, you know what I mean? 0:00:51.360 --> 0:01:00.000 Like purpose, let me speak for you. 0:01:08.120 --> 0:01:12.680 Launch Ladies, Germs, Domains, Earthworms, earth Walms, and earth wings. 0:01:12.760 --> 0:01:17.559 Today's guest is an unstoppable force. She's a multi platinum 0:01:17.600 --> 0:01:23.280 global powerhouse and international recording artist, songwriter, actress, entrepreneur, activist, 0:01:23.400 --> 0:01:26.880 and recently launched her own radio show with Apple Musika, 0:01:27.040 --> 0:01:31.760 who leading the pack with ten nominations at this year's 0:01:31.760 --> 0:01:36.679 Premio nuetro, including Album of the Year and Song of 0:01:36.720 --> 0:01:39.959 the Year. She solidified her place more than solidified her 0:01:40.000 --> 0:01:43.080 place at the forefront of Latin music. She's a two 0:01:43.160 --> 0:01:46.480 time American Music Award winner and a six time Latin 0:01:46.520 --> 0:01:47.440 Grammy nominee. 0:01:47.600 --> 0:01:51.440 But beyond the accolades, she is so much more. She 0:01:51.560 --> 0:01:55.520 is intelligent, kind, thoughtful, always using her voice to uplift others. 0:01:55.840 --> 0:01:59.560 She's a storyteller and advocate and quite possibly the world's best. 0:01:59.320 --> 0:02:04.080 Big sister after me of course and true pissy and fashion. 0:02:04.120 --> 0:02:07.360 She's my soul sister and even cries during the commercials department. 0:02:07.840 --> 0:02:10.080 She also might be the world's leading consumer of the 0:02:10.080 --> 0:02:12.720 flaming hot Cheetos, a title that we fully support. 0:02:12.400 --> 0:02:16.120 Absolutely and fun fact, she's actually the only other person 0:02:16.120 --> 0:02:20.120 in this room shorter than me, making her the perfect 0:02:20.160 --> 0:02:22.480 stowaway for going to outer space. 0:02:23.360 --> 0:02:25.760 She is the sweetheart of the Latin music world, a 0:02:25.880 --> 0:02:28.880 chart topping history making legend, and today she's here with us. 0:02:29.000 --> 0:02:34.280 Give it up for the one and only baggage. What 0:02:34.680 --> 0:02:38.240 in the world? 0:02:37.520 --> 0:02:42.880 Okay, obviously, guys, I think this is like the first 0:02:42.919 --> 0:02:46.639 time I've been like in a professional study with you. 0:02:47.720 --> 0:02:48.239 That's not true. 0:02:48.280 --> 0:02:49.520 Well, Okay, that's not true. 0:02:49.520 --> 0:02:51.880 That's how we met technically, but it was never professional, 0:02:51.960 --> 0:02:53.720 lets be honest. So right now, it's like cringing in 0:02:53.800 --> 0:02:56.200 my seat, and I was like, they're just like basically 0:02:56.200 --> 0:02:59.919 reading my resume and that's like so embarrassing, like my friend, 0:03:00.080 --> 0:03:02.560 and it feels weird, weird, weird. 0:03:02.840 --> 0:03:04.960 I just wanted to call that out. But wow, what 0:03:05.000 --> 0:03:05.519 an intro. 0:03:05.840 --> 0:03:06.200 Thank you. 0:03:06.320 --> 0:03:08.880 I should just like be like and top that everybody. 0:03:09.120 --> 0:03:10.359 And that has been the interview. 0:03:12.240 --> 0:03:14.640 Wow, thanks guys. I'm so happy to be here. 0:03:14.840 --> 0:03:15.520 To us too. 0:03:15.520 --> 0:03:17.800 We're super happy to hear you said the perfect thing. 0:03:18.080 --> 0:03:20.160 Because I thought it would be really cool if we 0:03:20.200 --> 0:03:21.960 told people about how we first met. 0:03:22.160 --> 0:03:25.880 Yeah, but before we before we tell you what we think, 0:03:26.000 --> 0:03:29.240 we wanted to know what was your first impressions of us. 0:03:29.480 --> 0:03:33.280 Oh well, I think you guys know this. But when 0:03:33.280 --> 0:03:37.800 we shared dressing rooms, which I did not know, and 0:03:37.840 --> 0:03:38.200 it was. 0:03:38.320 --> 0:03:39.560 Such a joy. Thank god. 0:03:39.720 --> 0:03:42.520 You guys are like easy, easy like me, like we're 0:03:42.560 --> 0:03:44.960 not like crazy writer and like don't look at me 0:03:44.960 --> 0:03:47.160 in the eyes kind of people, you know, so like 0:03:47.240 --> 0:03:49.480 thank god, and it really like eased my nerves because 0:03:49.480 --> 0:03:52.600 I was so nervous because we were honoring. 0:03:53.120 --> 0:03:55.720 They wanted only Glorious, which is her mom. 0:03:56.520 --> 0:03:58.160 So I don't know her, no. 0:03:58.920 --> 0:04:03.040 We well, I definitely had never actually spent time with 0:04:03.080 --> 0:04:04.800 your mom. And then here I am to be a 0:04:04.840 --> 0:04:07.880 part of this honorary moment in her career. 0:04:07.640 --> 0:04:08.760 This really huge moment. 0:04:09.240 --> 0:04:13.160 And I'm cringing because my stylist bless her. 0:04:13.240 --> 0:04:14.160 I love her so much. 0:04:14.280 --> 0:04:15.880 But she's a little green guy, you know what I mean, 0:04:15.920 --> 0:04:18.520 Like she's like Lettina outfit got you. And so I 0:04:18.600 --> 0:04:21.560 basically was wearing a Selena replica boustie. 0:04:21.760 --> 0:04:22.839 You look good, though, thank you. 0:04:23.600 --> 0:04:25.520 But I was freaking out and I was like, oh 0:04:25.560 --> 0:04:28.039 my god. And then I remember having this very honest 0:04:28.080 --> 0:04:30.080 conversation was like, do you think your mom's gonna care? 0:04:30.200 --> 0:04:32.400 Like I just it is my only outfit. I did 0:04:32.400 --> 0:04:34.080 my own hair, makeup like it was. I was a 0:04:34.080 --> 0:04:38.560 one woman show basically, and I was so nervous. 0:04:38.680 --> 0:04:43.680 And you guys literally like ease the tension all of 0:04:43.720 --> 0:04:46.240 the nerves that I had. I think you, I don't 0:04:46.279 --> 0:04:47.840 mean to put you on blast anything, not that at 0:04:47.839 --> 0:04:49.480 this point you put yourself on blast. 0:04:50.080 --> 0:04:51.400 There's a place to do it. It's here. 0:04:52.640 --> 0:04:56.720 I remember I'm saying, oh, it's totally fine. Like, if 0:04:56.720 --> 0:04:58.320 you don't feel like you're gonna shit your pants before 0:04:58.320 --> 0:04:59.440 you walk on stage, it's. 0:04:59.279 --> 0:05:00.960 Not really like a real performance. 0:05:00.960 --> 0:05:03.160 It's like that means you're a real performer that you 0:05:03.240 --> 0:05:04.919 like care this much. And I was like, Okay, well 0:05:04.960 --> 0:05:07.880 I think I'm gonna shit my pants and then yeah. 0:05:08.200 --> 0:05:10.200 And we shot together in a bowl and that was it. 0:05:10.320 --> 0:05:14.240 Yeah. Friends forever, And by the. 0:05:14.120 --> 0:05:16.960 Way, another perfect liaison because I'm gonna be completely honest 0:05:16.960 --> 0:05:20.000 with you right now. You opened a door for me 0:05:20.520 --> 0:05:23.920 that I had closed my entire life, and I'm gonna 0:05:23.960 --> 0:05:29.880 be real with you. I'm a music purist. I'm you know, baby, 0:05:29.960 --> 0:05:32.000 let's be real. I haven't been working since I'm nine 0:05:32.080 --> 0:05:34.120 years old, like this girl. I've you know, had my 0:05:34.160 --> 0:05:37.479 parents do that for me. Thanks mom and dad. But 0:05:37.720 --> 0:05:40.400 in the sense of that, I grew up playing music 0:05:40.400 --> 0:05:41.880 here in music and all this stuff, and I was 0:05:41.880 --> 0:05:46.040 always like, oh my god, and like this certain genre 0:05:46.040 --> 0:05:48.440 and like whatever, I would have this aversion to that 0:05:48.600 --> 0:05:51.640 side of music. And you were the first person that 0:05:51.720 --> 0:05:54.600 I met that actually made me open my mind and 0:05:54.760 --> 0:05:59.719 change my mind about Wow, they're amazing musicians in this 0:06:00.680 --> 0:06:05.039 really caring, really songwriting, really like you. You were the 0:06:05.080 --> 0:06:07.039 one that did that for me. And ever since that 0:06:07.120 --> 0:06:09.479 happened and we met that day, I've played with other 0:06:09.520 --> 0:06:13.640 Regatong artists. I've produced Regatong stuff like thanks to you, 0:06:13.800 --> 0:06:16.000 Thanks to you opening that door for me and really 0:06:16.040 --> 0:06:18.400 changing my mind, which you can ask Jim even she 0:06:18.480 --> 0:06:21.680 can't do that, so that's not true now, but it's true. 0:06:21.680 --> 0:06:23.320 I remember we sat behind stage and we were just 0:06:23.360 --> 0:06:26.279 talking so much about like musicianship and live band, and 0:06:26.320 --> 0:06:27.840 I thought it was so cool. 0:06:27.720 --> 0:06:28.880 That you had your cousin with you. 0:06:29.080 --> 0:06:31.160 Oh yeah, I was like, I want to do that. 0:06:31.320 --> 0:06:33.720 I want to bring my family around with me, Like 0:06:33.760 --> 0:06:34.400 that was amazing. 0:06:34.440 --> 0:06:35.279 She's amazing too. 0:06:35.839 --> 0:06:37.400 It was a really fun time. It was a really fun. 0:06:38.680 --> 0:06:39.880 Oh my god, are you kidding me. 0:06:39.960 --> 0:06:43.760 I think that there's like, well, I think really at 0:06:43.760 --> 0:06:45.520 the core of it all as artists, because we're all 0:06:45.600 --> 0:06:47.520 artists in our own right, right, whether you are playing 0:06:47.560 --> 0:06:51.440 the instrument, singing the song, you know, orchestrating the whole 0:06:51.440 --> 0:06:53.520 thing from top to bottom. 0:06:53.880 --> 0:06:54.760 It's about connection. 0:06:55.560 --> 0:06:58.640 And we limit ourselves in our artistry if we don't 0:06:58.680 --> 0:07:03.040 open ourselves to connection, right. So to be a bridge 0:07:03.160 --> 0:07:05.039 in that sense to something that you felt a lot 0:07:05.040 --> 0:07:08.920 of resistance towards is like, that's pretty freaking cool. 0:07:09.000 --> 0:07:09.760 I feel honored. 0:07:09.920 --> 0:07:12.559 Well, it speaks a lot to the pretty freaking cool 0:07:12.600 --> 0:07:16.240 that you are because even in the way that you 0:07:16.720 --> 0:07:21.480 connect your life experience to your music, it's so evident 0:07:21.600 --> 0:07:24.440 in everything you do, every way you speak, every project 0:07:24.440 --> 0:07:27.360 you do, everything you touch has so much intention and 0:07:27.400 --> 0:07:29.600 so much love. And that's what I think for me, 0:07:29.800 --> 0:07:33.520 was like, Wow, I f with this, yea with this BG, 0:07:34.000 --> 0:07:34.400 Becky G. 0:07:35.000 --> 0:07:36.800 I've told you before, and I'm really happy to say 0:07:36.800 --> 0:07:39.560 this in a public setting. I fell in love with 0:07:39.840 --> 0:07:42.800 you as a human long before I knew anything about 0:07:42.840 --> 0:07:45.360 your career, and I think that speaks volumes to the 0:07:45.400 --> 0:07:47.040 kind of person that you are and your character. 0:07:47.360 --> 0:07:52.000 Honestly, it's so interesting because I feel like this is 0:07:52.040 --> 0:07:54.520 me more being vulnerable about like the self doubt that 0:07:54.600 --> 0:07:57.200 you have, not having grown up with like the resources 0:07:57.240 --> 0:07:59.280 or like around musicians like you, Like you said, you 0:07:59.280 --> 0:08:02.960 were really born into the system. 0:08:02.680 --> 0:08:05.760 Of you know, here's a drum, try it, Yeah, here's 0:08:05.760 --> 0:08:07.600 a guitar, See what it feels like, you know, or 0:08:07.680 --> 0:08:10.119 like studying it, going to school for it. These weren't 0:08:10.120 --> 0:08:12.880 things that were like around me and accessible to me. 0:08:13.040 --> 0:08:15.480 My mom just loved music and my family was like 0:08:15.520 --> 0:08:18.600 tequila and karaoke, you know, like that was about it, 0:08:18.640 --> 0:08:21.040 and we were fans of music, but music theory was 0:08:21.160 --> 0:08:25.760 not something that like I studied my parents, right, But 0:08:25.840 --> 0:08:28.840 this is this thing where I'm just like, it can't 0:08:28.880 --> 0:08:32.680 be taught necessarily, like how to emote as an artist, 0:08:33.240 --> 0:08:36.640 and that comes in different ways and we obviously everybody's 0:08:36.640 --> 0:08:38.680 had their own journey to get to this point. But 0:08:38.720 --> 0:08:41.079 the doubt in myself that I would feel being around 0:08:41.080 --> 0:08:42.840 other musicians who are like, oh, what key is a 0:08:42.840 --> 0:08:44.480 song in? And then you guys are speaking this lingo 0:08:44.520 --> 0:08:46.840 and I'm like, I hope I can sing that hat, 0:08:47.559 --> 0:08:49.480 you know, like oh, that pocket's really cool, and they're 0:08:49.480 --> 0:08:51.080 like no, no, no, it's on the one and I'm like 0:08:51.120 --> 0:08:55.200 so good too, like what is this shit? 0:08:55.520 --> 0:08:55.720 You know? 0:08:56.080 --> 0:08:59.959 And so being around people who make it so sick 0:09:00.400 --> 0:09:03.520 that way, I think for me has allowed me to 0:09:03.559 --> 0:09:05.840 expand as an artist as well, because I used to 0:09:05.840 --> 0:09:09.240 have a lot of limiting thoughts about myself and to 0:09:09.280 --> 0:09:11.480 be loved as a human, I think is all that 0:09:11.520 --> 0:09:13.640 we want, right even before our artistry, is like to 0:09:13.679 --> 0:09:17.040 allow ourselves to be like actually seen and to do 0:09:17.080 --> 0:09:19.560 what I do and have started as young as I did, 0:09:19.600 --> 0:09:20.960 I think is no coincidence. 0:09:21.360 --> 0:09:23.160 You know, a part of me did want to hide, 0:09:23.200 --> 0:09:25.280 although part of me was like see me, see me, 0:09:25.920 --> 0:09:27.400 Like I created. 0:09:27.120 --> 0:09:30.280 A whole other like version of myself to be seen 0:09:30.640 --> 0:09:32.960 because of a part of me that probably didn't feel 0:09:32.960 --> 0:09:33.240 like she. 0:09:33.360 --> 0:09:35.440 Was enough or good enough or whatever. 0:09:35.960 --> 0:09:39.240 And so I'm in a place now And honestly, since 0:09:39.280 --> 0:09:42.160 I met you guys, it's been this like more conscious 0:09:42.760 --> 0:09:46.360 effort of fusing those two parts of me, the part 0:09:46.400 --> 0:09:50.040 of me that became this like you know, Becky g 0:09:50.280 --> 0:09:54.520 performer character, Yeah, the character, but also like who Rebecca 0:09:54.720 --> 0:09:58.600 is in those shoes, you know. And so it's it's 0:09:58.679 --> 0:10:03.760 been cool to like continue like blending all the worlds. 0:10:03.840 --> 0:10:04.880 We're like mixologist. 0:10:04.920 --> 0:10:06.920 We're so cool, okay, blending worlds. 0:10:06.920 --> 0:10:09.360 Are you ready? 0:10:09.400 --> 0:10:12.280 Are we going to get a jazz song from. 0:10:14.000 --> 0:10:14.400 R and me? 0:10:14.520 --> 0:10:16.480 Are you are you thinking about maybe. 0:10:16.320 --> 0:10:19.120 She's a true music appreciated I'm going to say. 0:10:19.800 --> 0:10:22.320 Maybe perhaps, Thank you please. 0:10:25.040 --> 0:10:27.560 I joke about it all the time. I have so 0:10:27.600 --> 0:10:31.959 many random nicknames that we throw around are and Becky 0:10:32.080 --> 0:10:37.280 is one of them. Yeah, And and I think it's 0:10:38.080 --> 0:10:41.520 I think it's more again going back from versus being 0:10:41.559 --> 0:10:45.160 the artist, being a fan first of music is really 0:10:45.240 --> 0:10:48.360 leads me in my artistry. And I was a fan 0:10:48.400 --> 0:10:51.440 of so much music and it didn't matter the language. 0:10:51.679 --> 0:10:53.800 I mean, I was like my mom was recalling this 0:10:53.840 --> 0:10:57.400 other day. So a part of my brain and the 0:10:57.440 --> 0:10:59.800 way it functions, like especially in school, was like I 0:11:00.040 --> 0:11:02.440 I was not like a do one thing at one time, 0:11:02.559 --> 0:11:04.440 like at a time person. It was like lots of 0:11:04.440 --> 0:11:07.400 tabs were open, and I would randomly like listen to 0:11:07.480 --> 0:11:10.720 like worldly music, like other music and other languages that 0:11:10.720 --> 0:11:12.400 I did not understand so that I can study and 0:11:12.440 --> 0:11:14.600 focus because I couldn't hear words at the same time 0:11:14.640 --> 0:11:16.760 that I Then it would kind of like do this, 0:11:17.080 --> 0:11:18.559 and I was like, remember me, how when you just 0:11:18.640 --> 0:11:21.320 like listen to like like Bollywood music and like and 0:11:21.360 --> 0:11:24.720 it's so true, like this is I just love music. 0:11:24.720 --> 0:11:26.320 I love the way it made me feel, or like 0:11:26.400 --> 0:11:29.240 being like super young, you know, like eight nine years 0:11:29.280 --> 0:11:32.200 old and crying over you know. 0:11:32.520 --> 0:11:36.960 Amy Winehouse and like what did I know about waking 0:11:37.040 --> 0:11:37.520 up alone? 0:11:38.240 --> 0:11:38.680 Nothing? 0:11:39.360 --> 0:11:41.840 You know, but there was a feeling, there was an 0:11:42.000 --> 0:11:43.960 essence there or you felt. 0:11:43.640 --> 0:11:46.160 What she transmitted into the music, Yeah. 0:11:46.040 --> 0:11:48.240 Got to me well one hundred percent. 0:11:48.280 --> 0:11:50.000 And it wasn't that I had lived any of these 0:11:50.000 --> 0:11:52.760 life experiences, but it's like a it's a soul connection. 0:11:52.840 --> 0:11:55.600 Your soul has a reaction to that. 0:11:55.720 --> 0:11:58.120 And so I feel like whether it was you know, 0:11:58.200 --> 0:12:00.800 regional Mexican music, which I event actually did get to 0:12:01.280 --> 0:12:05.200 and recently create, it tapped into this other part of 0:12:05.240 --> 0:12:07.160 me as an artist that I'm like, wow, there really 0:12:07.200 --> 0:12:11.000 are no ends to this. So that's like, yeah, it's 0:12:11.080 --> 0:12:12.559 kind of where I've been where I'm like yeah, R 0:12:12.600 --> 0:12:14.280 and be sounds like we could let's go there? 0:12:14.400 --> 0:12:14.720 Why not? 0:12:15.960 --> 0:12:16.840 I am ready for that? 0:12:17.040 --> 0:12:19.320 Okay, you know where I can I don't know if 0:12:19.320 --> 0:12:20.160 I could go there. 0:12:20.120 --> 0:12:23.720 Where no, no, no, I can hear it. 0:12:23.960 --> 0:12:27.480 Where I wasn't like a And I remember this because 0:12:27.520 --> 0:12:29.520 when I came over the first time and. 0:12:31.240 --> 0:12:33.720 You know, these two is it's. 0:12:33.600 --> 0:12:35.920 Just hilarious because you're like her greatest cheerleader and then 0:12:35.920 --> 0:12:39.000 she'll go on like a full rant of random things 0:12:39.080 --> 0:12:40.280 and knowledge. 0:12:39.880 --> 0:12:41.600 That she's never done that never. 0:12:42.760 --> 0:12:44.720 But we went into like a full like musical theater 0:12:45.000 --> 0:12:48.679 like Spiral, and I've never been like a musical theater kid, 0:12:48.760 --> 0:12:51.360 So like I feel like, that's probably somewhere that I 0:12:51.360 --> 0:12:55.000 should find courage to go wow. But like that's not 0:12:55.080 --> 0:12:57.200 like I wasn't like doing plays in school, or like 0:12:57.240 --> 0:12:59.199 I didn't like travel to New York as a kid 0:12:59.240 --> 0:13:01.160 to like watch you know, a play. 0:13:01.440 --> 0:13:02.439 You are a triple threat. 0:13:02.520 --> 0:13:10.000 She does like, okay, well we're working on a Broadway play. 0:13:10.040 --> 0:13:11.960 But because it's about kids. 0:13:12.320 --> 0:13:13.280 Oh that's cute. 0:13:13.320 --> 0:13:14.199 She looks young. 0:13:14.320 --> 0:13:15.440 She could do it. 0:13:16.760 --> 0:13:20.640 Now my videos of me shaking my ass on you know, like, 0:13:20.760 --> 0:13:21.240 I don't know. 0:13:24.679 --> 0:13:29.160 Wow, I can't. I would do anything to see you. Yeah, 0:13:29.520 --> 0:13:34.000 there about your life? That will be pretty kind of cool. 0:13:46.320 --> 0:13:48.200 You're talking about music and the projects that you have 0:13:48.240 --> 0:13:49.920 been doing. This is one question that I've been waiting 0:13:49.920 --> 0:13:51.520 to ask you ever since I realized that there's a 0:13:51.559 --> 0:13:54.680 little bit of a trend in the things that you released. 0:13:55.440 --> 0:13:57.680 And I want to hear the intention, but I think 0:13:57.720 --> 0:14:00.160 that I know the real intention. All right, So we 0:14:00.200 --> 0:14:05.439 have SMUs Eskinas and kuentros. 0:14:04.160 --> 0:14:05.200 E e E. 0:14:06.200 --> 0:14:08.520 Is your next album gonna be called Emily? And what's 0:14:08.559 --> 0:14:08.760 with that? 0:14:10.559 --> 0:14:12.640 Imagine that actually be amazing? 0:14:13.760 --> 0:14:16.120 The trend Well, honestly, it was just something for me 0:14:16.240 --> 0:14:18.880 where I wanted to challenge myself and my artistry. 0:14:19.280 --> 0:14:22.800 I am a bit of in my own mind. 0:14:22.800 --> 0:14:24.960 Like I said, lots of tabs are open, and I 0:14:25.000 --> 0:14:27.080 think what got me here was being a little bit 0:14:27.080 --> 0:14:29.560 of that Swiss army knife where you do you can. 0:14:29.440 --> 0:14:30.840 Do a lot of things. 0:14:31.160 --> 0:14:33.960 But I think as an artist to having been a 0:14:34.000 --> 0:14:36.560 fan when I can go somewhere with an artist and 0:14:36.640 --> 0:14:40.400 follow them through a journey versus like we started here, 0:14:40.440 --> 0:14:42.000 but then we hopped over here and then it's like 0:14:42.040 --> 0:14:44.560 it felt a little scattered for me as an artist 0:14:45.520 --> 0:14:47.920 for the first years of my career, and it was 0:14:47.960 --> 0:14:49.640 because I did have to be a lot of things. 0:14:49.720 --> 0:14:51.240 And I think I was also so young and I 0:14:51.280 --> 0:14:54.600 wanted to please so many people. Yeah, and I was 0:14:54.640 --> 0:14:55.960 good at it, like I was. 0:14:56.040 --> 0:14:59.000 It wasn't like I didn't feel confident in certain things. 0:14:59.000 --> 0:15:00.880 Like I look at Shower back and I'm like wow, 0:15:01.000 --> 0:15:04.160 like she really was that little pop girl, like awesome. 0:15:04.720 --> 0:15:07.520 But was that the vision that I had for myself 0:15:07.520 --> 0:15:11.000 as an artist, not necessarily Like you compare Shower to 0:15:11.160 --> 0:15:13.360 like my rap videos that I was doing when I 0:15:13.400 --> 0:15:16.200 got signed, They're like very different, you know. And so 0:15:17.240 --> 0:15:19.720 I wanted to start creating projects where I can be 0:15:21.560 --> 0:15:26.200 have this versatility in my sound, but the brand and 0:15:26.240 --> 0:15:30.280 the essence of this be something that you can visually 0:15:30.400 --> 0:15:33.400 understand and go on that journey with. And it started 0:15:33.440 --> 0:15:36.080 with the Scammas because I was sas it was a 0:15:36.200 --> 0:15:40.400 genre list album with a bunch of different sounds, and 0:15:40.680 --> 0:15:44.200 if you look at you know, even the concept of 0:15:44.520 --> 0:15:47.080 the from the photoshoots that we did and the videos 0:15:47.080 --> 0:15:48.800 that we there is a lot of projection. And so 0:15:48.840 --> 0:15:50.960 it was like, I'm this blank canvas and I'm projecting 0:15:51.000 --> 0:15:53.160 these things onto me, which is cool. 0:15:53.240 --> 0:15:54.000 I'm a blank. 0:15:53.800 --> 0:15:55.800 Canvas as an artist and I make regaeton and I 0:15:56.240 --> 0:15:59.040 can do you know of R and B Spanish and 0:15:59.080 --> 0:16:00.000 I can do this and I can do that. 0:16:00.640 --> 0:16:02.960 But then after Scammas. 0:16:02.800 --> 0:16:04.840 There's this theme that I'm noticing with a lot of 0:16:04.920 --> 0:16:08.040 us artists. Benito just did it, which is like going 0:16:08.080 --> 0:16:11.320 back to our roots. Yes, and like this journey of 0:16:11.960 --> 0:16:14.840 doing everything and figuring out everything that we're not to 0:16:14.920 --> 0:16:18.000 become who we've always been on the inside. And I 0:16:18.000 --> 0:16:21.880 feel like yeah, and I feel like after Scammas and 0:16:21.960 --> 0:16:24.200 showing my versatility and all the things that I can do, 0:16:24.520 --> 0:16:27.720 it was like, but let me show you, like at 0:16:27.760 --> 0:16:29.400 the core of it all let me like share my 0:16:29.560 --> 0:16:32.240 roots with people, and I think that that was something 0:16:32.280 --> 0:16:35.960 that is what got me discovered as an artist. Was 0:16:35.720 --> 0:16:39.080 I was this proud, two hundred percenter, this Mexican American 0:16:39.120 --> 0:16:43.400 girl rappin' writing songs on her guitar, recording them on 0:16:43.440 --> 0:16:47.200 garage band, you know, in the garage that she was 0:16:47.240 --> 0:16:51.000 living in, and like there was roots there, and that's 0:16:51.000 --> 0:16:54.000 what got me discovered, Like why why would I abandon that? 0:16:54.160 --> 0:16:56.960 Like I should probably go back to that, And that 0:16:57.160 --> 0:17:00.520 is so different today as a young woman then as 0:17:00.520 --> 0:17:04.080 a child. And so this like concept of the crossroads 0:17:04.119 --> 0:17:06.280 that we're always at, like the cross streets, you know, 0:17:06.440 --> 0:17:10.600 the two flags, the two languages, younger self versus you know, 0:17:10.840 --> 0:17:15.080 higher self coming together, and Esquinas was like it did 0:17:15.160 --> 0:17:15.800 so much for me. 0:17:16.119 --> 0:17:18.680 It did so much for me, you exactly. 0:17:18.720 --> 0:17:20.560 And then I didn't want to stop, and they were like, 0:17:20.560 --> 0:17:21.840 we got to turn in the album and I was like, 0:17:21.840 --> 0:17:23.840 but I don't want to stop. You were in it, 0:17:24.119 --> 0:17:26.000 and so I was like, well, then let's put it out, 0:17:26.000 --> 0:17:28.520 but we're going to keep creating. And so while we 0:17:28.920 --> 0:17:32.240 did the whole entire rollout of Isquinas, we continue to 0:17:32.320 --> 0:17:35.560 create music and that's why in Guentros is like this 0:17:35.680 --> 0:17:39.679 part two to that, and so Isquinas is like the 0:17:39.720 --> 0:17:42.960 revisiting of the roots, and then Incuentros is the parts 0:17:42.960 --> 0:17:45.880 of myself that I found again in that process. 0:17:46.119 --> 0:17:46.600 I love that. 0:17:46.800 --> 0:17:49.760 Yeah, And I feel like so many of us, especially 0:17:49.840 --> 0:17:52.240 around our age group, can really relate to that, because 0:17:52.240 --> 0:17:53.879 when I talk to people have young I have a 0:17:53.880 --> 0:17:54.400 younger sib. 0:17:55.040 --> 0:17:56.200 Also like my best friend. 0:17:56.359 --> 0:17:59.080 Yes, you know we're four years apart, but a lot 0:17:59.080 --> 0:18:01.960 can happen in four years. And I recently turned thirty. 0:18:01.880 --> 0:18:03.600 Last year, weren't Why is that side? 0:18:03.680 --> 0:18:04.040 I don't know. 0:18:04.080 --> 0:18:05.880 I can't wait to be thirty. I turned eight. 0:18:07.720 --> 0:18:10.760 Yeah, I feel yeah, two more years and I really 0:18:10.760 --> 0:18:12.840 feel like that was what my twenties were. I feel 0:18:12.880 --> 0:18:15.119 like my twenties I was experimenting with a lot of 0:18:15.160 --> 0:18:19.000 things that really weren't me, and towards the end of it, 0:18:19.080 --> 0:18:22.840 I've been coming back to myself. It's not even about 0:18:22.920 --> 0:18:25.120 creating anything. It's it's really just about. 0:18:24.920 --> 0:18:27.680 Coming back to you. Yeah, coming home, coming home. 0:18:27.440 --> 0:18:29.280 That's beautiful. I wanted to ask you a little bit 0:18:29.280 --> 0:18:32.160 about the cover art the Braid. I found so much 0:18:32.160 --> 0:18:33.920 symbolism in that, but I really want to hear you. 0:18:33.960 --> 0:18:35.240 There's so much. There's so much. 0:18:35.280 --> 0:18:37.879 Okay, so Esquinas and guentros, you put them next to 0:18:37.920 --> 0:18:41.600 each other. Esquina's is literally I think it was my 0:18:41.680 --> 0:18:44.960 second birthday and my mom took me to like a 0:18:44.960 --> 0:18:49.480 one hour photo stylized the entire thing, epic, got a 0:18:49.520 --> 0:18:51.959 wig like I was wearing weaves before I was going 0:18:52.040 --> 0:18:56.360 to say, I look like I even knew it. Well, girl, myer, please, 0:18:56.400 --> 0:18:58.920 I looked like a little boy until I was like four. 0:19:00.040 --> 0:19:05.200