1 00:00:03,400 --> 00:00:08,000 Speaker 1: La Rena's Nona Senrina ceaenrinas de los golf la de 2 00:00:08,119 --> 00:00:16,920 Speaker 1: las alverercida is the las cosasos de molane so la 3 00:00:16,960 --> 00:00:21,560 Speaker 1: grimace demiel Like, Yes, it's been tough, it's been an 4 00:00:21,640 --> 00:00:24,000 Speaker 1: uphill battle, but it's been worth it. And that's basically 5 00:00:24,040 --> 00:00:26,840 Speaker 1: for me, what this album represents. 6 00:00:28,760 --> 00:00:31,000 Speaker 2: No one knows this. That's this is actually exclusive for 7 00:00:31,160 --> 00:00:31,840 Speaker 2: Chickens and Chill. 8 00:00:32,600 --> 00:00:35,239 Speaker 1: But I had them send me separate voice notes and 9 00:00:35,320 --> 00:00:38,080 Speaker 1: then I had my engineer put them all together. So 10 00:00:38,120 --> 00:00:40,000 Speaker 1: it sounds like we're all together in the intro of 11 00:00:40,000 --> 00:00:40,839 Speaker 1: the song, but we're not. 12 00:00:45,040 --> 00:00:45,760 Speaker 2: What up, guys. 13 00:00:45,880 --> 00:00:49,239 Speaker 1: Welcome to this week's episode of Cheeky's and Chill. I'm 14 00:00:49,240 --> 00:00:52,920 Speaker 1: your host, Cheeky's. My new album, Aveja Rena launched last 15 00:00:52,960 --> 00:00:54,959 Speaker 1: week and I'm so excited to share with you all. 16 00:00:55,240 --> 00:00:57,400 Speaker 1: I've been on tour sharing my music with you all ive, 17 00:00:57,560 --> 00:00:59,760 Speaker 1: but now the album is finally here. 18 00:00:59,840 --> 00:01:01,320 Speaker 2: It is out. Guys. 19 00:01:01,320 --> 00:01:03,200 Speaker 1: When I say a lot of work went into creating it, 20 00:01:03,280 --> 00:01:05,800 Speaker 1: I mean a lot of work went into creating it, 21 00:01:05,840 --> 00:01:07,480 Speaker 1: but it's not worth it. And that's what we're going 22 00:01:07,520 --> 00:01:09,160 Speaker 1: to be talking about in this episode. 23 00:01:09,400 --> 00:01:09,959 Speaker 2: My album. 24 00:01:10,280 --> 00:01:12,319 Speaker 1: I'm going to take you through the process from start 25 00:01:12,319 --> 00:01:15,800 Speaker 1: to finish. So let's do this. This is Cheeky's and chill. 26 00:01:20,360 --> 00:01:20,920 Speaker 2: All right, guys. 27 00:01:20,920 --> 00:01:23,959 Speaker 1: So Avechrena dropped just a few days ago on May twelfth. 28 00:01:24,000 --> 00:01:26,840 Speaker 1: This is my fourth album, and I have to say 29 00:01:26,880 --> 00:01:30,280 Speaker 1: it's my best album yet. I love all my albums, 30 00:01:30,360 --> 00:01:33,759 Speaker 1: Aura and Ya's playlist, which is, you know, a Latin 31 00:01:33,800 --> 00:01:39,679 Speaker 1: Grammy winning album, and Avechrena is my favorite. It's weird 32 00:01:39,680 --> 00:01:41,679 Speaker 1: to say that because I feel like Aouda is my favorite. 33 00:01:41,680 --> 00:01:44,080 Speaker 1: You know, it's my very first album and all of 34 00:01:44,080 --> 00:01:46,920 Speaker 1: them are very special to me. But I feel like 35 00:01:46,959 --> 00:01:50,040 Speaker 1: ave Rena comes with a different type of energy and 36 00:01:50,080 --> 00:01:52,440 Speaker 1: I've been feeling it now that I've been on tour, 37 00:01:53,440 --> 00:01:55,840 Speaker 1: and I just feel different on stage. I don't know 38 00:01:55,880 --> 00:01:58,680 Speaker 1: if it's the name. I've been waiting to launch this 39 00:01:58,720 --> 00:02:00,480 Speaker 1: album for a long time. I've had it, this idea 40 00:02:00,560 --> 00:02:03,800 Speaker 1: of abe he Rena for a very, very, very long time. 41 00:02:03,960 --> 00:02:07,639 Speaker 1: I just wanted to feel ready, and when I say ready, 42 00:02:08,440 --> 00:02:13,480 Speaker 1: I mean mentally emotionally. I wanted to make sure came 43 00:02:14,680 --> 00:02:19,600 Speaker 1: Missynthia Djokomuna, as you guys know, I have Bospian Nation. 44 00:02:19,840 --> 00:02:23,079 Speaker 1: I love bees, I love the story of bees, and 45 00:02:23,440 --> 00:02:27,200 Speaker 1: I've always used queen Bee and some of my favorite artists, 46 00:02:27,680 --> 00:02:30,240 Speaker 1: like Little Kim, I think she was the very first one. 47 00:02:30,280 --> 00:02:32,640 Speaker 1: She was like the queen Bee, and then Beyonce came 48 00:02:32,639 --> 00:02:35,400 Speaker 1: and she was a queen Bee, and I just took 49 00:02:35,440 --> 00:02:37,919 Speaker 1: another spin on it. And so I've been using that 50 00:02:38,000 --> 00:02:41,400 Speaker 1: whole thing for a long time, and well, I just 51 00:02:41,480 --> 00:02:44,720 Speaker 1: translated it. Queen bee means abbe rena or Rena bejra, 52 00:02:44,919 --> 00:02:46,760 Speaker 1: however you want to say it. 53 00:02:47,080 --> 00:02:48,000 Speaker 2: But it took a long. 54 00:02:47,880 --> 00:02:49,280 Speaker 1: Time, and I say this in my intro in the 55 00:02:49,280 --> 00:02:53,000 Speaker 1: album that it took a while for me to finish 56 00:02:53,000 --> 00:02:56,000 Speaker 1: the album, about two years, almost two years from start 57 00:02:56,040 --> 00:02:59,320 Speaker 1: to finish. But it took me a lifetime to really 58 00:02:59,400 --> 00:03:03,400 Speaker 1: really believe and own that I am a queen. No 59 00:03:03,440 --> 00:03:07,040 Speaker 1: matter what anyone has said, no matter what I've gone through, 60 00:03:07,720 --> 00:03:10,480 Speaker 1: no matter what mistakes I've made in the past, all 61 00:03:10,520 --> 00:03:13,440 Speaker 1: of those things have made me the woman I am today. 62 00:03:13,880 --> 00:03:16,000 Speaker 1: And that's why it was important for me to have 63 00:03:16,040 --> 00:03:18,840 Speaker 1: an intro and outro interludes to explain the story, to 64 00:03:18,919 --> 00:03:22,399 Speaker 1: explain how to become or how I became an Avefarena. 65 00:03:22,440 --> 00:03:25,440 Speaker 1: I wasn't born in Avearena. I wasn't born a queen. 66 00:03:25,960 --> 00:03:28,480 Speaker 1: In my world, in my experience, in the women that 67 00:03:28,760 --> 00:03:32,920 Speaker 1: I look up to, like my mother, Jenny Rivera, like Selena, 68 00:03:33,720 --> 00:03:37,360 Speaker 1: like Oprah Winfrey, like Michelle Obama, like these women that 69 00:03:38,240 --> 00:03:42,040 Speaker 1: have come from the bottom and have worked their way up, 70 00:03:43,040 --> 00:03:45,360 Speaker 1: like j Loo, like these are women that I admire. 71 00:03:45,840 --> 00:03:49,160 Speaker 1: So in my experience and the world that I come from, 72 00:03:50,280 --> 00:03:53,840 Speaker 1: La renas Nona Senrina Ceas and renas de los Golpez, 73 00:03:53,920 --> 00:03:58,280 Speaker 1: la vida de las Albersidad is the las cosas capasamos 74 00:03:58,320 --> 00:04:05,120 Speaker 1: de Molayan, and I feel it. I don't know if 75 00:04:05,120 --> 00:04:06,680 Speaker 1: I've ever told you guys the story, but when I 76 00:04:06,800 --> 00:04:10,520 Speaker 1: won the Latin Grammy, which was November nineteenth, twenty twenty, 77 00:04:10,560 --> 00:04:13,080 Speaker 1: we were all in the pandemic. I had already known 78 00:04:13,120 --> 00:04:15,320 Speaker 1: I was nominated, obviously, so I woke up that morning 79 00:04:15,320 --> 00:04:18,200 Speaker 1: out of nowhere. I didn't have an alarm, and I 80 00:04:18,240 --> 00:04:20,599 Speaker 1: remember waking up and I said, okay, today i'll know 81 00:04:20,600 --> 00:04:22,800 Speaker 1: if I won the Latin Grammy. I got on my 82 00:04:22,880 --> 00:04:25,200 Speaker 1: knees and I wrote my acceptance speech. 83 00:04:25,839 --> 00:04:26,320 Speaker 2: I wrote it. 84 00:04:26,360 --> 00:04:29,560 Speaker 1: I said, well, I got to visualize myself winning that Grammy, 85 00:04:30,360 --> 00:04:33,240 Speaker 1: and I started working out. As I was working out. 86 00:04:33,320 --> 00:04:36,479 Speaker 1: I was visualizing myself accepting my Latin Grammy, which is 87 00:04:36,480 --> 00:04:38,880 Speaker 1: everything was virtual, you know, but still I was like 88 00:04:39,080 --> 00:04:42,200 Speaker 1: visualizing it and I'll never forget it was four four four, 89 00:04:42,240 --> 00:04:44,760 Speaker 1: and I said, oh my goodness, this number is significant. 90 00:04:44,800 --> 00:04:47,120 Speaker 1: There's a reason why, you know, the clock is four 91 00:04:47,200 --> 00:04:49,240 Speaker 1: forty four in the morning. This is my fourth album. 92 00:04:49,960 --> 00:04:51,640 Speaker 1: So I don't know if it was just kind of 93 00:04:51,640 --> 00:04:54,680 Speaker 1: like preparing what's to come. Like some people would think, 94 00:04:54,680 --> 00:04:56,280 Speaker 1: oh my gosh, she he's made it, write it, you know, 95 00:04:56,360 --> 00:04:58,160 Speaker 1: she won the Latin Grammy, but I didn't see it 96 00:04:58,200 --> 00:05:01,760 Speaker 1: that way. I felt like it was that extra push 97 00:05:01,839 --> 00:05:07,479 Speaker 1: and confidence that I needed to really believe I have 98 00:05:07,560 --> 00:05:11,159 Speaker 1: what it takes. Whether people want to talk shit or not. Now, 99 00:05:11,560 --> 00:05:13,240 Speaker 1: I honestly don't care, and I say that in the 100 00:05:13,279 --> 00:05:15,479 Speaker 1: intro as well, and I don't give a fuck what 101 00:05:15,600 --> 00:05:19,360 Speaker 1: anyone has to say, what anyone thinks. I truly believe 102 00:05:19,400 --> 00:05:21,200 Speaker 1: I am meant to be here. It's my fourth album. 103 00:05:21,480 --> 00:05:24,599 Speaker 1: I'm on stage and I feel like that badass bitch, 104 00:05:25,040 --> 00:05:27,120 Speaker 1: and not that I didn't before, but now it's like 105 00:05:27,240 --> 00:05:30,400 Speaker 1: I get there and I'm present. I'm not worried about, 106 00:05:30,440 --> 00:05:32,200 Speaker 1: oh my gosh, how do I look, do I look big? 107 00:05:32,360 --> 00:05:33,960 Speaker 1: What are they gonna say, am I singing? Well, like, 108 00:05:34,000 --> 00:05:36,680 Speaker 1: I'm just enjoying the moment, and it just feels different. 109 00:05:36,800 --> 00:05:39,400 Speaker 1: It really does anyway. So let me tell you guys 110 00:05:39,520 --> 00:05:42,120 Speaker 1: about the date why I wanted to launch it May twelve. 111 00:05:43,040 --> 00:05:45,680 Speaker 1: Three is a huge number as well. 112 00:05:45,720 --> 00:05:45,960 Speaker 2: For me. 113 00:05:46,720 --> 00:05:49,200 Speaker 1: I'm not religious, as you guys know, but the number 114 00:05:49,240 --> 00:05:53,400 Speaker 1: three is important, okay. The Father, the Son, and the 115 00:05:53,400 --> 00:05:56,600 Speaker 1: Holy Spirit, the Holy Trinity. Okay, So that's why in 116 00:05:56,760 --> 00:05:59,600 Speaker 1: the spiritual world number three number seven because it took 117 00:05:59,600 --> 00:06:03,719 Speaker 1: God's said days to create and finish the world that 118 00:06:03,760 --> 00:06:05,840 Speaker 1: we now live in. Okay, these are my beliefs, So 119 00:06:06,080 --> 00:06:09,400 Speaker 1: these numbers are important to me. So as we were 120 00:06:09,400 --> 00:06:10,960 Speaker 1: looking at dates, and I knew I wanted it to 121 00:06:10,960 --> 00:06:12,240 Speaker 1: come out in May. I wanted it to come out 122 00:06:12,279 --> 00:06:16,599 Speaker 1: early May. I had number eight or twelve, but eight 123 00:06:16,720 --> 00:06:19,040 Speaker 1: was too soon. And eight is my number, that's my 124 00:06:19,080 --> 00:06:21,600 Speaker 1: life path number, okay, because my birthday's on the twenty 125 00:06:21,640 --> 00:06:24,280 Speaker 1: six So two plus six is eight, so that means infinity, 126 00:06:24,320 --> 00:06:27,200 Speaker 1: that means everlasting. That's just a great number. But three, 127 00:06:27,320 --> 00:06:31,080 Speaker 1: I said, it goes best because also the cover. If 128 00:06:31,120 --> 00:06:33,400 Speaker 1: you guys haven't seen the cover, yet go check it out. 129 00:06:33,920 --> 00:06:37,839 Speaker 1: It's me covered in honey. And a lot of people 130 00:06:38,000 --> 00:06:43,520 Speaker 1: may wonder why why honey, Well, because queenbi'snas That's what 131 00:06:43,560 --> 00:06:48,320 Speaker 1: they work for, honey mainly right. So I have a 132 00:06:48,360 --> 00:06:54,159 Speaker 1: crown on and my inspiration were two things. Notorious Big 133 00:06:54,720 --> 00:06:58,159 Speaker 1: that iconic picture of him wearing a crown. Love that 134 00:06:58,200 --> 00:07:02,200 Speaker 1: picture of him. Huge fan of Biggie of Tupac. And 135 00:07:02,320 --> 00:07:04,120 Speaker 1: of course I was born in Long Beach. I'm from 136 00:07:04,240 --> 00:07:06,880 Speaker 1: LA but I'm also one hundred percent of Mehicana. I 137 00:07:06,920 --> 00:07:11,640 Speaker 1: wasn't born in Mexico, Beatros Muruosa, Mexicana. So I wanted 138 00:07:11,680 --> 00:07:13,480 Speaker 1: to put a little bit of Jane in this album 139 00:07:14,320 --> 00:07:17,600 Speaker 1: Janay behind Cheeky's because Cheeks is the artist. But I 140 00:07:17,640 --> 00:07:20,480 Speaker 1: put a lot of my personality Jane like the Hood 141 00:07:20,560 --> 00:07:22,560 Speaker 1: that side in this album. And you guys will be 142 00:07:22,600 --> 00:07:24,160 Speaker 1: able to hear that in the songs that I selected, 143 00:07:24,200 --> 00:07:26,880 Speaker 1: in the songs that I wrote. So that's one notorious 144 00:07:26,920 --> 00:07:29,520 Speaker 1: Big for many reasons. My mom and I would listen 145 00:07:29,520 --> 00:07:33,240 Speaker 1: to his music. I love that picture. His music makes 146 00:07:33,280 --> 00:07:35,760 Speaker 1: me happy like the Hood comes at in me. Okay, 147 00:07:35,960 --> 00:07:39,320 Speaker 1: then where is this gonna sound? The story of Jesus Christ. 148 00:07:39,840 --> 00:07:44,240 Speaker 1: Why because Jesus Christ went through a lot he was 149 00:07:45,200 --> 00:07:48,640 Speaker 1: accused of things that were not true. Obviously, we all 150 00:07:48,680 --> 00:07:50,520 Speaker 1: know the story of Jesus Christ. If you haven't watched 151 00:07:50,520 --> 00:07:53,400 Speaker 1: Oppression of the Christ, go watch it. And I'm not 152 00:07:53,440 --> 00:07:55,280 Speaker 1: trying to compare myself to Jesus Christ, you guys, but 153 00:07:55,880 --> 00:07:57,760 Speaker 1: they do say when I went to church when I 154 00:07:57,800 --> 00:08:01,200 Speaker 1: was religious, to try to live your life as Jesus 155 00:08:01,280 --> 00:08:04,440 Speaker 1: Christ right, because what he did and how he shared 156 00:08:04,720 --> 00:08:07,920 Speaker 1: his testimony and his love for God, et cetera, et cetera. 157 00:08:08,520 --> 00:08:10,880 Speaker 1: But of course, you guys know, I've been accused of 158 00:08:10,920 --> 00:08:13,480 Speaker 1: a lot of shit, and in some ways you could 159 00:08:13,480 --> 00:08:17,640 Speaker 1: say that I have been thrown rocks plenty of times 160 00:08:17,680 --> 00:08:22,640 Speaker 1: in my life, and I don't know. I've always just 161 00:08:23,640 --> 00:08:27,720 Speaker 1: felt connected to, as you guys know, my spiritual side. 162 00:08:27,840 --> 00:08:29,880 Speaker 1: So I wanted to kind of implement that and the 163 00:08:29,880 --> 00:08:32,880 Speaker 1: honey because life has been bittersweet. Life is bittersweet, not 164 00:08:32,920 --> 00:08:34,959 Speaker 1: just for me but for everyone. You know, we all 165 00:08:35,000 --> 00:08:37,560 Speaker 1: go through things, we all go through tough times, we 166 00:08:37,600 --> 00:08:41,280 Speaker 1: face adversities, we face obstacles in our life. And I 167 00:08:41,880 --> 00:08:46,240 Speaker 1: have learned to turn those negative and bitter moments into 168 00:08:46,280 --> 00:08:50,480 Speaker 1: something sweet, bringing the positive out of a sour situation, 169 00:08:51,200 --> 00:08:57,360 Speaker 1: and yes, La Grimace Demiel, like, yes, it's been tough. 170 00:08:57,440 --> 00:08:59,240 Speaker 1: It's been an uphill battle, but it's been worth it. 171 00:08:59,280 --> 00:09:03,559 Speaker 1: And that's basically for me what this album represents. All 172 00:09:03,559 --> 00:09:06,000 Speaker 1: the naysayers, all the haters, all the toxic people that 173 00:09:06,040 --> 00:09:10,160 Speaker 1: talk shit that weren't believers. For a long time, I 174 00:09:10,200 --> 00:09:12,160 Speaker 1: thought I didn't care, but there were times when I did, 175 00:09:12,520 --> 00:09:14,280 Speaker 1: And now it's gotten to the point where it's like, 176 00:09:14,320 --> 00:09:15,839 Speaker 1: I don't care what you say. Even if you come 177 00:09:15,880 --> 00:09:17,240 Speaker 1: to me now and you tell me, oh my gosh, 178 00:09:17,400 --> 00:09:19,599 Speaker 1: kis you don't know how to sing, I'm be like, 179 00:09:19,760 --> 00:09:21,280 Speaker 1: that's your opinion, but I do know how to sing, 180 00:09:21,280 --> 00:09:23,200 Speaker 1: and I'm gonna tell you go listen to my music, 181 00:09:23,280 --> 00:09:27,280 Speaker 1: go watch me perform. I know about music, and I'm 182 00:09:27,280 --> 00:09:30,319 Speaker 1: proud of myself and I'm I'm owning it now more 183 00:09:30,360 --> 00:09:32,880 Speaker 1: than ever. Like I knew that this moment was gonna come, 184 00:09:33,920 --> 00:09:37,480 Speaker 1: and that's why I waited for so long. But that's why. 185 00:09:37,720 --> 00:09:40,840 Speaker 1: That's why May twelfth, because one plus two is three. 186 00:09:42,400 --> 00:09:44,560 Speaker 1: That's why the cover, that's why the Honey, the Crown, 187 00:09:45,480 --> 00:09:50,520 Speaker 1: everything think we're all queens, men and women can be queens, okay, 188 00:09:50,640 --> 00:09:55,760 Speaker 1: and it's just basically okay. Sometimes at Laer your crown 189 00:09:55,800 --> 00:09:57,120 Speaker 1: is gonna go to the side a little bit. 190 00:09:57,160 --> 00:09:57,760 Speaker 2: You just fix it. 191 00:09:58,800 --> 00:10:00,679 Speaker 1: That's why in the picture as well, I'm looking up, 192 00:10:00,720 --> 00:10:02,840 Speaker 1: I'm looking up at God. I'm looking up with my 193 00:10:03,000 --> 00:10:05,280 Speaker 1: head held high. No matter what I've been through, I 194 00:10:05,280 --> 00:10:07,120 Speaker 1: wanted the picture to be clean. I didn't want it 195 00:10:07,160 --> 00:10:08,520 Speaker 1: to say Cheeky's didn't want it to say I've a 196 00:10:08,559 --> 00:10:13,200 Speaker 1: Herona on it. All I wanted was the advisory little 197 00:10:13,520 --> 00:10:17,040 Speaker 1: symbol there or little stamp, because I do cuss in 198 00:10:17,120 --> 00:10:20,480 Speaker 1: this album in my intro in some of the songs, 199 00:10:20,679 --> 00:10:22,440 Speaker 1: and I know a lot of kids follow me, and 200 00:10:22,520 --> 00:10:25,000 Speaker 1: I just wanted to be respectful and let the parents 201 00:10:25,040 --> 00:10:34,600 Speaker 1: know that there's a different Cheeks on this album. 202 00:10:34,640 --> 00:10:35,120 Speaker 2: AnyWho. 203 00:10:35,840 --> 00:10:40,160 Speaker 1: On the album, there are eighteen tracks, you guys, eighteen tracks, 204 00:10:40,280 --> 00:10:47,360 Speaker 1: eleven songs. So in Tresa, can I interlude okay, the 205 00:10:47,559 --> 00:10:51,320 Speaker 1: voyes plicando where I'm explaining and telling you the story 206 00:10:51,320 --> 00:10:53,480 Speaker 1: of at Herena and the things that I've gone through 207 00:10:54,120 --> 00:10:57,240 Speaker 1: and what I've learned from every experience. I have an 208 00:10:57,240 --> 00:10:59,760 Speaker 1: intro and I have an outro. I wanted this album 209 00:10:59,800 --> 00:11:01,880 Speaker 1: to be very artistic. I wanted it to be different 210 00:11:01,920 --> 00:11:04,200 Speaker 1: from everything that I've done. I wanted it to be 211 00:11:04,240 --> 00:11:06,800 Speaker 1: different from what anyone else in my genre is doing. 212 00:11:07,440 --> 00:11:12,680 Speaker 1: I had a physical album made because I love physical books. 213 00:11:12,760 --> 00:11:15,400 Speaker 1: I love albums. I'm very I like things that are tangible, 214 00:11:15,679 --> 00:11:17,880 Speaker 1: and for me, it was important to have this album 215 00:11:17,920 --> 00:11:20,720 Speaker 1: in my hands because it feels different, because I need 216 00:11:20,760 --> 00:11:23,960 Speaker 1: to feel the energy in it, and I'm hoping that 217 00:11:24,000 --> 00:11:26,400 Speaker 1: you guys will be able to have some in your hands. 218 00:11:26,520 --> 00:11:28,720 Speaker 1: My label just surprised me with saying that we're going 219 00:11:28,760 --> 00:11:30,720 Speaker 1: to release some physical albums in Mexico, so I might 220 00:11:30,720 --> 00:11:32,320 Speaker 1: bring some here to the state. So I'm super excited 221 00:11:32,320 --> 00:11:35,360 Speaker 1: about that, even some vinyls. So I don't know. I'm 222 00:11:35,480 --> 00:11:39,120 Speaker 1: very like traditional in that aspect. I love to finish things. Yes, 223 00:11:39,240 --> 00:11:41,480 Speaker 1: dropping singles or cool and everything, but I want to 224 00:11:41,520 --> 00:11:44,280 Speaker 1: finalize something. I want to feel accomplished, and I definitely 225 00:11:44,280 --> 00:11:46,839 Speaker 1: feel accomplished with this album on so many different levels. 226 00:11:46,880 --> 00:11:48,800 Speaker 2: You guys, so let me tell you. 227 00:11:49,440 --> 00:11:51,880 Speaker 1: They're, like I said, eighteen tracks, so you're going to 228 00:11:51,920 --> 00:11:53,720 Speaker 1: be able to hear my voice, things that I wrote 229 00:11:54,000 --> 00:11:58,640 Speaker 1: myself on the fly at the studio. Things I knew 230 00:11:58,640 --> 00:11:59,959 Speaker 1: that I wanted to say that we're in my heart 231 00:12:00,080 --> 00:12:02,000 Speaker 1: and in my mind, and I just wrote them there 232 00:12:02,160 --> 00:12:04,120 Speaker 1: right then and there. And as I wrote them, I 233 00:12:04,200 --> 00:12:06,760 Speaker 1: went to the studio and I spoke them. I had 234 00:12:06,800 --> 00:12:10,439 Speaker 1: no music. The music was done around my vocals, around 235 00:12:10,440 --> 00:12:12,079 Speaker 1: what I was saying. I just wanted to go in 236 00:12:12,120 --> 00:12:13,960 Speaker 1: there and set the tone and set the energy, and 237 00:12:14,000 --> 00:12:16,520 Speaker 1: then everything else to be built around what I was saying. 238 00:12:17,559 --> 00:12:19,199 Speaker 2: Yes, it was hard. 239 00:12:19,880 --> 00:12:24,040 Speaker 1: I want the fans, the OG fans, my fans that 240 00:12:24,080 --> 00:12:27,120 Speaker 1: have been with me since the very beginning when I 241 00:12:27,240 --> 00:12:32,560 Speaker 1: was still you know, growing and learning and maturing, for 242 00:12:32,640 --> 00:12:35,280 Speaker 1: them to be proud. Those are the people that I 243 00:12:35,320 --> 00:12:40,560 Speaker 1: am focused on right now. And there's always for me. 244 00:12:40,640 --> 00:12:42,920 Speaker 1: It is important to always implement God and what He 245 00:12:42,960 --> 00:12:46,079 Speaker 1: has done in my life, and my music is no different. 246 00:12:46,520 --> 00:12:49,480 Speaker 1: If anything, I feel like I need God more when 247 00:12:49,520 --> 00:12:53,320 Speaker 1: it comes to music, because this industry can be sometimes 248 00:12:53,360 --> 00:12:55,240 Speaker 1: a very dark place, and it can take you into 249 00:12:55,280 --> 00:12:57,600 Speaker 1: a dark place if you allow it to. And I 250 00:12:57,640 --> 00:13:00,560 Speaker 1: know that I have the responsibility of being light in 251 00:13:00,559 --> 00:13:03,559 Speaker 1: the midst of the darkness and spreading light as much 252 00:13:03,600 --> 00:13:05,640 Speaker 1: as I possibly can, and this is my way of 253 00:13:05,679 --> 00:13:08,840 Speaker 1: doing that. And yes, like I always say, spiritual gangster. 254 00:13:08,920 --> 00:13:12,280 Speaker 1: Because yes, some religious people may say, how can you 255 00:13:12,320 --> 00:13:15,480 Speaker 1: talk about God and cuss in the same phrase, Because 256 00:13:15,480 --> 00:13:17,920 Speaker 1: that's that's who I am, and God loves me the 257 00:13:17,920 --> 00:13:19,160 Speaker 1: way that I am. He's not gonna love me any 258 00:13:19,200 --> 00:13:20,160 Speaker 1: less because I say fuck. 259 00:13:20,800 --> 00:13:21,520 Speaker 2: You know what I mean? 260 00:13:21,559 --> 00:13:23,480 Speaker 1: He loves me as long as my heart is in 261 00:13:23,520 --> 00:13:25,559 Speaker 1: the right place and I'm living my life with good intentions, 262 00:13:25,679 --> 00:13:27,440 Speaker 1: that's all he cares about. And as long as I'm 263 00:13:27,440 --> 00:13:29,960 Speaker 1: spreading his glory, his love and what he has done, 264 00:13:30,000 --> 00:13:33,520 Speaker 1: that's my testimony. So anyways, that's the intro. Then number 265 00:13:33,520 --> 00:13:37,840 Speaker 1: two on the album is Abfarina, which is the gorrido 266 00:13:37,920 --> 00:13:41,880 Speaker 1: the soundtrack of my life and a song that means 267 00:13:41,920 --> 00:13:43,719 Speaker 1: so much to me. I co wrote that song with 268 00:13:43,760 --> 00:13:46,080 Speaker 1: a friend of mine, I call him Homie. His name 269 00:13:46,160 --> 00:13:51,640 Speaker 1: is Bobby Castrom, and I sing that song Gornosos because 270 00:13:51,760 --> 00:13:52,240 Speaker 1: I feel it. 271 00:13:52,480 --> 00:13:53,360 Speaker 2: I feel it so much. 272 00:13:53,679 --> 00:13:55,839 Speaker 1: Then we go on to me Prolema, which was a single, 273 00:13:55,880 --> 00:13:58,120 Speaker 1: my first single of this album. As you guys know, 274 00:13:58,160 --> 00:14:00,920 Speaker 1: it's a cover from Maricella. And then we go in 275 00:14:00,960 --> 00:14:04,280 Speaker 1: with a song called Liex that I also co wrote 276 00:14:04,840 --> 00:14:08,360 Speaker 1: with Edie Gaynder and a guy named Motif. Edika Linder 277 00:14:08,559 --> 00:14:12,840 Speaker 1: is the writer of Espasito Lespasito, so I wrote with 278 00:14:12,960 --> 00:14:15,000 Speaker 1: her lax, you guys have to hear the song. This 279 00:14:15,160 --> 00:14:19,160 Speaker 1: song is I'm rapping a little bit in it. There's 280 00:14:19,480 --> 00:14:21,440 Speaker 1: a little bit of Urbano, it's a little bit of 281 00:14:21,480 --> 00:14:24,720 Speaker 1: Gumbiam definitely showing a little side of Jane. So got 282 00:14:24,760 --> 00:14:27,320 Speaker 1: to listen to that one lix and then we have 283 00:14:27,560 --> 00:14:33,000 Speaker 1: another interlude, which is interlude number one. The next song. 284 00:14:33,240 --> 00:14:37,440 Speaker 1: I also co wrote. It's song track number six. It's 285 00:14:37,480 --> 00:14:43,240 Speaker 1: called Alomenzo. I wrote it, started it during the pandemic. 286 00:14:43,320 --> 00:14:46,120 Speaker 1: I was going through a really tough time and I 287 00:14:46,160 --> 00:14:51,280 Speaker 1: felt deceived. I felt it was just sad. We've talked 288 00:14:51,280 --> 00:14:53,360 Speaker 1: about it here on my podcast before why I don't 289 00:14:53,360 --> 00:14:56,640 Speaker 1: want to get into it too much, but I just 290 00:14:56,680 --> 00:14:58,760 Speaker 1: felt the need to let that out and it really 291 00:14:58,760 --> 00:15:02,080 Speaker 1: did help heal because sometimes we're so hard on ourselves, 292 00:15:02,080 --> 00:15:05,080 Speaker 1: like how how could I have fallen for this person? 293 00:15:05,640 --> 00:15:09,120 Speaker 1: And yes, I have also ignored a lot of red 294 00:15:09,120 --> 00:15:11,480 Speaker 1: flags and a lot of indicators that have said this person, 295 00:15:11,520 --> 00:15:13,440 Speaker 1: it's not for you, this situation is not for you. 296 00:15:13,520 --> 00:15:17,800 Speaker 1: But love can be blind and I learned that, but 297 00:15:17,880 --> 00:15:20,440 Speaker 1: I don't regret it. So that's what that song is about. 298 00:15:20,640 --> 00:15:22,800 Speaker 1: Then we go with track number seven, which I. 299 00:15:22,760 --> 00:15:23,680 Speaker 2: Also co wrote. 300 00:15:23,720 --> 00:15:28,920 Speaker 1: Okays, that song is as soon as you hear the 301 00:15:29,440 --> 00:15:31,640 Speaker 1: For me, it was so important to have my regulos 302 00:15:31,720 --> 00:15:37,200 Speaker 1: made in Massa plan Lacuna, the lamanda where Banda was born, 303 00:15:38,080 --> 00:15:41,680 Speaker 1: and Martin Castillo, he's the one that made these aglos 304 00:15:41,720 --> 00:15:43,680 Speaker 1: for me. It's a badass song. As soon as you 305 00:15:43,760 --> 00:15:47,360 Speaker 1: hear it. It's the chian la la lavanda, which is 306 00:15:47,440 --> 00:15:49,560 Speaker 1: what I wanted. I didn't even have to sing anything. 307 00:15:49,560 --> 00:15:51,680 Speaker 1: And you know, ooh shit, let me get my tequila 308 00:15:51,720 --> 00:15:54,560 Speaker 1: because I'm about to get drunk. So that's that type 309 00:15:54,600 --> 00:15:57,440 Speaker 1: of song. And then we go in with number eight 310 00:15:57,800 --> 00:16:00,680 Speaker 1: while Kira that's already a singer. Oh you guys saw 311 00:16:00,720 --> 00:16:02,560 Speaker 1: that one. That's the one that Immedia did the video 312 00:16:02,640 --> 00:16:04,400 Speaker 1: for and we had a lot of fun with that. 313 00:16:04,400 --> 00:16:08,120 Speaker 1: That's the first koombiam on the album. Then we go 314 00:16:08,160 --> 00:16:11,680 Speaker 1: with Interdewe number two, and then it goes into this song, 315 00:16:11,720 --> 00:16:14,480 Speaker 1: you guys, track number ten. 316 00:16:15,400 --> 00:16:17,280 Speaker 2: It's like quando mamran. 317 00:16:17,480 --> 00:16:22,880 Speaker 1: It is officially the first translation into Spanish. I don't 318 00:16:22,880 --> 00:16:24,400 Speaker 1: know if you guys have heard the song before. When 319 00:16:24,440 --> 00:16:26,840 Speaker 1: will I be loved I put a little bit of 320 00:16:26,880 --> 00:16:31,080 Speaker 1: gospel in that song. I wanted to show my connection 321 00:16:31,160 --> 00:16:33,880 Speaker 1: that I have with God and my spirituality and stuff. 322 00:16:33,920 --> 00:16:36,160 Speaker 1: And I've had those moments when i have fallen into 323 00:16:36,200 --> 00:16:38,360 Speaker 1: my knees and I'm like, when is this going to stop? 324 00:16:38,440 --> 00:16:41,520 Speaker 1: And not just in a relationship, but people around you, friends, 325 00:16:41,520 --> 00:16:43,640 Speaker 1: family members, where you're just like, dude, when is this 326 00:16:43,720 --> 00:16:44,360 Speaker 1: going to stop? 327 00:16:44,440 --> 00:16:45,520 Speaker 2: Like you question God? 328 00:16:45,560 --> 00:16:47,160 Speaker 1: And I've had those moments when I have fallen into 329 00:16:47,160 --> 00:16:49,080 Speaker 1: my knees and I'm just like, oh, when am I 330 00:16:49,120 --> 00:16:51,080 Speaker 1: going to find people that are not going to betray me, 331 00:16:51,120 --> 00:16:53,880 Speaker 1: that are not going to hurt me? And those are 332 00:16:53,880 --> 00:16:56,160 Speaker 1: the moments when I'm like, I feel the most connected. 333 00:16:56,560 --> 00:16:59,760 Speaker 1: In those moments of pain, I feel like I learned 334 00:16:59,760 --> 00:17:01,840 Speaker 1: so much about myself and I'm able to just silence 335 00:17:01,840 --> 00:17:05,399 Speaker 1: everything else out and listen to God's voice and I'm 336 00:17:05,440 --> 00:17:07,400 Speaker 1: just crying to God, Wandran when. 337 00:17:07,320 --> 00:17:08,680 Speaker 2: Will they love me the way that I love? 338 00:17:15,840 --> 00:17:18,879 Speaker 1: Then we go to a track number eleven, which is 339 00:17:18,920 --> 00:17:24,320 Speaker 1: interlude three, and that takes you into Kim. Then we 340 00:17:24,359 --> 00:17:28,000 Speaker 1: have Eleanor, which is also a single. You ever, you 341 00:17:28,040 --> 00:17:30,720 Speaker 1: guys have already heard Eleanor as well has been a single. 342 00:17:31,080 --> 00:17:33,480 Speaker 1: Then we go into track number fourteen with it, which 343 00:17:33,520 --> 00:17:36,800 Speaker 1: is interlude number four, and that takes you into a 344 00:17:36,840 --> 00:17:44,199 Speaker 1: song called La. That song is un Peris. That's what 345 00:17:44,280 --> 00:17:47,080 Speaker 1: I call my Peris song, where it's like I am 346 00:17:47,119 --> 00:17:51,959 Speaker 1: being conceited, I am just holding my own. People can 347 00:17:51,960 --> 00:17:54,760 Speaker 1: take it wrong, which obviously I don't care, but it 348 00:17:54,840 --> 00:17:58,480 Speaker 1: was important what I want you guys to feel when 349 00:17:58,480 --> 00:17:59,400 Speaker 1: listening to the song. 350 00:18:01,080 --> 00:18:03,560 Speaker 2: So basically you have to listen to that song like. 351 00:18:05,200 --> 00:18:08,200 Speaker 1: Because then you'll understand and once you hear the interlude, 352 00:18:08,240 --> 00:18:10,840 Speaker 1: it just all comes together very beautifully. Then we have 353 00:18:11,040 --> 00:18:15,119 Speaker 1: number sixteen, which is interlude number five, and that takes 354 00:18:15,119 --> 00:18:20,320 Speaker 1: you into track seventeen, which is the Contraando. The Contralando 355 00:18:20,400 --> 00:18:22,359 Speaker 1: is a cover I wanted to do a little bit 356 00:18:22,359 --> 00:18:25,080 Speaker 1: of like R and B Phil with Goombia little nineties, 357 00:18:25,160 --> 00:18:28,280 Speaker 1: kind of like Louis Miguel sound. I love this song 358 00:18:28,400 --> 00:18:30,159 Speaker 1: the way my mom's saying it, She's the one that 359 00:18:30,240 --> 00:18:31,760 Speaker 1: saying it's a Joan Sebastian song. 360 00:18:32,320 --> 00:18:33,000 Speaker 2: It was perfect. 361 00:18:33,000 --> 00:18:34,919 Speaker 1: I love my mom's version, but I just wanted to 362 00:18:34,920 --> 00:18:37,679 Speaker 1: bring something different to it, something fresh, something just different, 363 00:18:37,840 --> 00:18:39,840 Speaker 1: very cheeky's and that's what I did with that song 364 00:18:40,280 --> 00:18:42,359 Speaker 1: and then we have the outro. It's important to me 365 00:18:42,400 --> 00:18:44,080 Speaker 1: and everything that I do to be a grateful person, 366 00:18:44,119 --> 00:18:46,679 Speaker 1: attitude of gratitude. You guys know that I'm all about that. 367 00:18:46,840 --> 00:18:49,960 Speaker 1: So I wanted to say thank you to all my 368 00:18:50,880 --> 00:18:54,719 Speaker 1: new and old boss bees that have been there with 369 00:18:54,760 --> 00:18:57,800 Speaker 1: me and that are now continuing this journey with me. 370 00:18:58,520 --> 00:19:02,800 Speaker 1: So that's how I end the album and hopefully inspiring 371 00:19:02,840 --> 00:19:06,600 Speaker 1: everyone through the album and through every song and through 372 00:19:06,640 --> 00:19:10,159 Speaker 1: every interlude what I've gone through, what I've learned, and 373 00:19:10,240 --> 00:19:13,879 Speaker 1: how I have become the woman I am today. Going 374 00:19:13,920 --> 00:19:16,480 Speaker 1: back to the songs, I think the hardest song for 375 00:19:16,640 --> 00:19:20,280 Speaker 1: me to write was Alemento because first of all, I 376 00:19:20,280 --> 00:19:22,560 Speaker 1: did it with Luciano Alona. He was in Mexico. It 377 00:19:22,600 --> 00:19:25,480 Speaker 1: was the pandemic. We couldn't really travel during that time. 378 00:19:25,800 --> 00:19:28,040 Speaker 1: So I told him I have this idea. I want 379 00:19:28,040 --> 00:19:29,399 Speaker 1: to write the song with you. I told him the 380 00:19:29,440 --> 00:19:33,000 Speaker 1: name I had the name first Elemento, and then we 381 00:19:33,040 --> 00:19:36,280 Speaker 1: started writing it through WhatsApp. You guys, we never spoke 382 00:19:36,320 --> 00:19:39,680 Speaker 1: on the phone once. We just sent each other voice notes. 383 00:19:39,920 --> 00:19:41,719 Speaker 1: I would write something, he would write something, and then 384 00:19:41,760 --> 00:19:43,679 Speaker 1: the song just came together. He even sent me a 385 00:19:43,760 --> 00:19:45,720 Speaker 1: video of him playing the guitar and saying, this is 386 00:19:45,760 --> 00:19:48,520 Speaker 1: kind of like the melody I'm thinking, and I said, yes, 387 00:19:48,720 --> 00:19:50,720 Speaker 1: I love that, but let's do this. So we did 388 00:19:50,800 --> 00:19:53,480 Speaker 1: everything through WhatsApp. I think that was the hardest and 389 00:19:53,520 --> 00:19:55,080 Speaker 1: maybe the longest. I think it took us a good 390 00:19:55,119 --> 00:19:57,520 Speaker 1: two weeks to finish that song. Usually it takes like, 391 00:19:57,640 --> 00:20:00,320 Speaker 1: I don't know, three four hours, six hours sometimes to 392 00:20:00,359 --> 00:20:02,399 Speaker 1: finish a song, but this took two weeks because we 393 00:20:02,400 --> 00:20:04,040 Speaker 1: were going back and forth. So I think that was 394 00:20:04,080 --> 00:20:08,680 Speaker 1: like maybe the hardest song. My favorite song on the album, Wow, 395 00:20:10,840 --> 00:20:13,199 Speaker 1: I don't know, I don't know. I don't know if 396 00:20:13,200 --> 00:20:14,840 Speaker 1: I have a favorite. I think, you know what, maybe 397 00:20:14,840 --> 00:20:18,360 Speaker 1: Inre because it was the last song that I recorded 398 00:20:18,640 --> 00:20:20,239 Speaker 1: and I wasn't sure if it was gonna make it, 399 00:20:20,280 --> 00:20:22,000 Speaker 1: and I was really sad about it because I feel 400 00:20:22,040 --> 00:20:25,960 Speaker 1: like this song is so fucking badass and I'm so 401 00:20:26,080 --> 00:20:29,920 Speaker 1: proud of it, and I wanted a song that had 402 00:20:30,440 --> 00:20:33,720 Speaker 1: a break, kind of like no Yoga, and I wanted 403 00:20:33,720 --> 00:20:35,040 Speaker 1: a song like that, and I feel like I got 404 00:20:35,040 --> 00:20:38,800 Speaker 1: it finally, I have it, So that's I think my favorite. 405 00:20:38,840 --> 00:20:41,800 Speaker 1: And I had some of my friends do voice notes. 406 00:20:42,000 --> 00:20:44,360 Speaker 1: They live in Miami, Okay, one lives here in La 407 00:20:44,760 --> 00:20:46,399 Speaker 1: two of them live in Miami, and I was like, girls, 408 00:20:46,440 --> 00:20:48,680 Speaker 1: do this for me, just say something on a voice note. 409 00:20:48,720 --> 00:20:51,080 Speaker 2: No, no one knows this that this is actually exclusive 410 00:20:51,119 --> 00:20:52,000 Speaker 2: for chickens and chill. 411 00:20:52,760 --> 00:20:55,399 Speaker 1: But I had them send me separate voice notes and 412 00:20:55,440 --> 00:20:58,239 Speaker 1: then I had my engineer put them all together, so 413 00:20:58,280 --> 00:21:00,119 Speaker 1: it sounds like we're all together in the intro of 414 00:21:00,160 --> 00:21:03,200 Speaker 1: the song, but we're not, which is so funny. All 415 00:21:03,240 --> 00:21:06,480 Speaker 1: my friends were in different places and they just set 416 00:21:06,560 --> 00:21:08,960 Speaker 1: me voiceoes. I told them say this, say that, and 417 00:21:09,000 --> 00:21:11,119 Speaker 1: then we just put it all together. So yeah, that's 418 00:21:11,119 --> 00:21:14,359 Speaker 1: why it's one of my favorite songs. The song that 419 00:21:14,400 --> 00:21:16,240 Speaker 1: was the hardest to record, I want to say that 420 00:21:16,440 --> 00:21:19,800 Speaker 1: it was the Contralando because it's it's difficult to sing 421 00:21:19,840 --> 00:21:22,439 Speaker 1: a cover and I have a few here. I have 422 00:21:22,480 --> 00:21:29,120 Speaker 1: Gira Mancando, and the women that sing me songs are amazing. 423 00:21:29,240 --> 00:21:32,800 Speaker 1: I admire them obviously, and it's difficult. And I think 424 00:21:32,840 --> 00:21:34,760 Speaker 1: the contra Lando was so difficult because my mom sing 425 00:21:34,800 --> 00:21:37,600 Speaker 1: that song and she did so well, and it was 426 00:21:37,680 --> 00:21:39,879 Speaker 1: one of her biggest songs. I think, one of the 427 00:21:39,920 --> 00:21:42,639 Speaker 1: songs that made her huge in Mexico. So that's a 428 00:21:42,680 --> 00:21:44,840 Speaker 1: huge responsibility, a lot of pressure, but I like pressure. 429 00:21:44,920 --> 00:21:46,760 Speaker 1: I like fucking challenges. So I was like, you know what, 430 00:21:47,840 --> 00:21:50,040 Speaker 1: I want to try this. So when you listen to 431 00:21:50,080 --> 00:21:52,040 Speaker 1: the entire album and you see there's certain songs where 432 00:21:52,040 --> 00:21:56,480 Speaker 1: I have to belt like inz likeconal, and you have 433 00:21:56,560 --> 00:21:58,960 Speaker 1: to use your full voice. On the contralando, I was 434 00:21:59,040 --> 00:22:01,440 Speaker 1: using my head voice, which is all falsetto, and that's 435 00:22:01,440 --> 00:22:04,720 Speaker 1: difficult because I'm used to belting all the time because 436 00:22:04,720 --> 00:22:07,800 Speaker 1: of band that I'm you know, competing vocally with sixteen 437 00:22:07,840 --> 00:22:10,800 Speaker 1: other instruments. So my voice is an instrument and you 438 00:22:10,920 --> 00:22:13,320 Speaker 1: have to have some balls to sing by them. So 439 00:22:13,440 --> 00:22:17,159 Speaker 1: with the contrabandom that song, you have to just be 440 00:22:17,320 --> 00:22:19,760 Speaker 1: very sensual and sexy and use your head voice the 441 00:22:19,920 --> 00:22:22,040 Speaker 1: entire song. So I think that one was for me 442 00:22:22,080 --> 00:22:23,680 Speaker 1: the most difficult. And then I had that in the 443 00:22:23,720 --> 00:22:25,199 Speaker 1: back of my head of like, my mom did this 444 00:22:25,240 --> 00:22:28,560 Speaker 1: so great, I better freaking do it just as good, 445 00:22:29,080 --> 00:22:31,080 Speaker 1: you know. So I think for me that was the 446 00:22:31,119 --> 00:22:35,320 Speaker 1: most difficult one, and it was hard to find every single. 447 00:22:35,359 --> 00:22:36,680 Speaker 1: I was going to be a part of this album 448 00:22:37,240 --> 00:22:40,840 Speaker 1: because I want an album that you guys can listen 449 00:22:40,880 --> 00:22:44,080 Speaker 1: to from number one to eighteen, and for it to 450 00:22:44,119 --> 00:22:48,719 Speaker 1: take you on just a journey, my journey, your own journey, 451 00:22:49,200 --> 00:22:51,679 Speaker 1: something that you can relate to, something that will make 452 00:22:51,720 --> 00:22:53,200 Speaker 1: you happy and then bring you down and then take 453 00:22:53,200 --> 00:22:55,240 Speaker 1: you back up again. That's how I like my shows 454 00:22:55,240 --> 00:22:57,159 Speaker 1: to be. That's how I like my track lists to be. 455 00:22:57,720 --> 00:23:01,320 Speaker 1: That's so huge for me one eighteen. Where are they going? 456 00:23:01,359 --> 00:23:02,920 Speaker 1: How are they going? Where am I going to do 457 00:23:02,960 --> 00:23:05,200 Speaker 1: an interlude? That was I think the most difficult part 458 00:23:05,200 --> 00:23:07,520 Speaker 1: about all of it, because I'm so anal about that 459 00:23:07,640 --> 00:23:10,000 Speaker 1: those things. These are things that people don't know about me, 460 00:23:10,160 --> 00:23:13,080 Speaker 1: like how involved I am in the studio, how involved 461 00:23:13,119 --> 00:23:15,679 Speaker 1: I am and even making the arrangements of my music, 462 00:23:15,880 --> 00:23:18,920 Speaker 1: the set list of pictures. I'm involved in every single thing, 463 00:23:19,000 --> 00:23:21,600 Speaker 1: And I think that's what makes the biggest difference, when 464 00:23:21,600 --> 00:23:23,720 Speaker 1: you're in love with your project and you have your 465 00:23:23,760 --> 00:23:26,760 Speaker 1: hands in every single piece of it. Of course, I 466 00:23:26,760 --> 00:23:29,080 Speaker 1: have a great team. My manager, mister Bull. He's amazing. 467 00:23:29,640 --> 00:23:31,600 Speaker 1: He has a lot of great ideas and I'm so 468 00:23:31,680 --> 00:23:34,919 Speaker 1: grateful for him. And he also allows me to be 469 00:23:35,040 --> 00:23:37,840 Speaker 1: involved and he wants me involved, and it's awesome because 470 00:23:37,880 --> 00:23:39,000 Speaker 1: we were just a great team. 471 00:23:39,440 --> 00:23:41,280 Speaker 2: I just thought it was it was important. It was 472 00:23:41,320 --> 00:23:41,880 Speaker 2: important to. 473 00:23:41,800 --> 00:23:43,680 Speaker 1: Share this with you guys so that you guys get 474 00:23:43,720 --> 00:23:45,880 Speaker 1: to know me on a different level, the artist behind, 475 00:23:46,080 --> 00:23:49,359 Speaker 1: the woman behind Cheeky's and now in this album, I 476 00:23:49,359 --> 00:23:51,920 Speaker 1: think for the first time really really because I think 477 00:23:51,920 --> 00:23:53,600 Speaker 1: in playlist there was a little bit of Jenney in there, 478 00:23:53,640 --> 00:23:56,560 Speaker 1: but there's a lot of Jinney in this album. Because 479 00:23:56,920 --> 00:24:00,000 Speaker 1: I'm kind of setting the tone and giving you guy 480 00:24:00,040 --> 00:24:02,960 Speaker 1: as a hint with this album and with some of 481 00:24:03,000 --> 00:24:05,480 Speaker 1: the songs as to what's to come in my fifth album, 482 00:24:06,119 --> 00:24:08,000 Speaker 1: It's going to be very different. You guys are gonna 483 00:24:08,040 --> 00:24:10,919 Speaker 1: see a completely different side of me. There's gonna be 484 00:24:10,920 --> 00:24:13,160 Speaker 1: a lot more Janet than Cheeky's on the next album, 485 00:24:13,200 --> 00:24:19,000 Speaker 1: for sure. I know that everyone's process, every artist is 486 00:24:19,400 --> 00:24:23,960 Speaker 1: different when they are creating their music, when they are 487 00:24:24,000 --> 00:24:26,080 Speaker 1: putting their album together. There are artists out there that 488 00:24:26,240 --> 00:24:28,720 Speaker 1: set two weeks aside from their entire year and they 489 00:24:28,760 --> 00:24:33,320 Speaker 1: go in every single day and they write, and they 490 00:24:33,560 --> 00:24:35,920 Speaker 1: go into the studio and they finish their album. I'm 491 00:24:35,960 --> 00:24:38,880 Speaker 1: not that artist, and I'm so grateful that my team 492 00:24:38,960 --> 00:24:43,560 Speaker 1: understands that and they allow me to do my process differently. 493 00:24:44,280 --> 00:24:46,520 Speaker 1: I don't know if anyone else is like that. That's 494 00:24:46,560 --> 00:24:48,960 Speaker 1: why it took me almost two years to finish this album, 495 00:24:49,040 --> 00:24:51,800 Speaker 1: because I write a song and I kind of have 496 00:24:51,880 --> 00:24:55,000 Speaker 1: an idea, and for me, it's easier to write heartbreak 497 00:24:55,040 --> 00:24:58,160 Speaker 1: songs and when I'm feeling heartache than it is when 498 00:24:58,200 --> 00:25:00,320 Speaker 1: I'm in love and everything's like glitz and glamor, you know. 499 00:25:01,119 --> 00:25:05,280 Speaker 1: So what I've done is I write songs, I put 500 00:25:05,280 --> 00:25:07,320 Speaker 1: them to the side, and I know that I'm going 501 00:25:07,359 --> 00:25:11,000 Speaker 1: to record them one day, and then I know this 502 00:25:11,040 --> 00:25:12,800 Speaker 1: is the perfect moment for those songs. And then there 503 00:25:12,800 --> 00:25:15,199 Speaker 1: are other times when I'm like, okay, like Alomentzo, this 504 00:25:15,320 --> 00:25:17,159 Speaker 1: song I wanted to come on this album. I know 505 00:25:17,240 --> 00:25:19,080 Speaker 1: this is what I want it just the process is 506 00:25:19,080 --> 00:25:21,560 Speaker 1: so different. But for me, I need to feel it 507 00:25:22,200 --> 00:25:24,280 Speaker 1: when I go into the into the studio. I need 508 00:25:24,320 --> 00:25:26,359 Speaker 1: to be in that headspace. I I already know what 509 00:25:26,400 --> 00:25:28,199 Speaker 1: song I'm going to go in there and record. I 510 00:25:28,280 --> 00:25:31,920 Speaker 1: do one or two songs matts a night in the studio. 511 00:25:32,640 --> 00:25:35,000 Speaker 1: I like the ambiance depending on what kind of song 512 00:25:35,040 --> 00:25:38,280 Speaker 1: it is. Like. For I had Takila, I was like chillin, 513 00:25:38,320 --> 00:25:40,040 Speaker 1: I'm partying, you know, because it's a more of like 514 00:25:40,280 --> 00:25:42,800 Speaker 1: that type of song, and then for the contralando, I 515 00:25:42,840 --> 00:25:45,000 Speaker 1: had all the lights dimmed and I had a little 516 00:25:45,080 --> 00:25:47,119 Speaker 1: candle and there were there were led lights. It was 517 00:25:47,160 --> 00:25:49,560 Speaker 1: more of like a sexy type of feel like for me, 518 00:25:50,080 --> 00:25:52,840 Speaker 1: that stuff is super important. I need to feel it. 519 00:25:52,920 --> 00:25:54,760 Speaker 1: I need to be in the moment. I feel like 520 00:25:54,800 --> 00:25:59,880 Speaker 1: anything that you do rushed or forced doesn't come out right. 521 00:26:00,680 --> 00:26:05,240 Speaker 1: So I'm lucky and blessed to know that my management, 522 00:26:06,359 --> 00:26:10,760 Speaker 1: my producers, my engineers, my label, they'll understand that. And 523 00:26:10,800 --> 00:26:13,520 Speaker 1: I tell them, look, give me the time that I need, 524 00:26:13,560 --> 00:26:14,920 Speaker 1: give me the space that I need, and I will 525 00:26:14,960 --> 00:26:17,520 Speaker 1: give you something good. I'm just like that, like I 526 00:26:17,560 --> 00:26:20,000 Speaker 1: need to have the concept and then the songs and 527 00:26:20,040 --> 00:26:22,119 Speaker 1: what song is missing? Like what kind of song is missing? 528 00:26:22,119 --> 00:26:24,520 Speaker 1: And I either find it from another writer or I 529 00:26:24,520 --> 00:26:27,719 Speaker 1: write it myself. But I feel like this album just 530 00:26:27,760 --> 00:26:30,840 Speaker 1: came together so beautifully and I didn't force it. That's 531 00:26:30,880 --> 00:26:35,240 Speaker 1: one thing I was like, nopin. 532 00:26:35,400 --> 00:26:36,240 Speaker 2: Is de forsar. 533 00:26:36,920 --> 00:26:39,760 Speaker 1: Don't pressure me, because when I feel pressured, you guys, 534 00:26:40,240 --> 00:26:42,720 Speaker 1: I fight back, like you corner me and I'm just 535 00:26:42,760 --> 00:26:44,679 Speaker 1: like pushing you back, like I'm like, let me be. 536 00:26:45,280 --> 00:26:49,000 Speaker 1: With that being said, I can tell you wholeheartedly and 537 00:26:49,000 --> 00:26:55,320 Speaker 1: confidently that this album is one hundred percent complete. Like 538 00:26:55,480 --> 00:26:59,080 Speaker 1: I feel so accomplished with this album. I don't feel 539 00:26:59,280 --> 00:27:02,919 Speaker 1: that there's anything missing. I feel like it's perfect just 540 00:27:02,960 --> 00:27:05,600 Speaker 1: the way that it is, with the amount of songs, 541 00:27:06,200 --> 00:27:09,880 Speaker 1: with the rollercoaster of emotion that it's going to take 542 00:27:09,880 --> 00:27:13,840 Speaker 1: you through, I think it's perfect. I wouldn't change absolutely anything. 543 00:27:13,840 --> 00:27:15,320 Speaker 1: There's not a song that I feel like, damn, it 544 00:27:15,359 --> 00:27:17,680 Speaker 1: didn't make it. No, That's why I kept pushing it back. 545 00:27:17,720 --> 00:27:20,000 Speaker 1: I was like, no, wait a second, Like, if these 546 00:27:20,040 --> 00:27:22,680 Speaker 1: songs that I want cannot make it on the album, 547 00:27:22,800 --> 00:27:25,040 Speaker 1: then we have to wait. We have to wait, nimolo, 548 00:27:25,280 --> 00:27:28,320 Speaker 1: and we did so. We had like I think three 549 00:27:28,400 --> 00:27:31,080 Speaker 1: different dates for it to launch until it just became 550 00:27:31,560 --> 00:27:35,159 Speaker 1: May twelve. So anyways, that's it, you guys. This is 551 00:27:35,600 --> 00:27:40,240 Speaker 1: Ave he Rena behind the album, my heart, soul, spirit, 552 00:27:40,320 --> 00:27:43,199 Speaker 1: a little bit of everything in this fourth chapter of 553 00:27:43,240 --> 00:27:45,480 Speaker 1: my life. As you guys heard in the intro. That's 554 00:27:45,560 --> 00:27:47,800 Speaker 1: all I have to say about my new album, ab Herena, 555 00:27:47,880 --> 00:27:49,840 Speaker 1: And don't forget to catch me on tour. You know, 556 00:27:49,920 --> 00:27:51,480 Speaker 1: my tour runs through the end of the year, and 557 00:27:51,520 --> 00:27:53,320 Speaker 1: I can't wait to see some of you there. I 558 00:27:53,359 --> 00:27:55,480 Speaker 1: always do meet in greets after my shows, and that's 559 00:27:55,480 --> 00:27:58,080 Speaker 1: honestly one of my favorite things about being a performer. 560 00:27:58,119 --> 00:27:59,760 Speaker 1: I love hearing from you guys, giving you hugs and 561 00:27:59,800 --> 00:28:03,520 Speaker 1: kiss and one last thing before we go. Today's motivational 562 00:28:03,600 --> 00:28:08,200 Speaker 1: quote is celebrate what you've accomplished, but raise the bar 563 00:28:08,359 --> 00:28:11,679 Speaker 1: a little higher each time you succeed. That's what this 564 00:28:11,760 --> 00:28:14,480 Speaker 1: album is all about. Thank you guys for listening to 565 00:28:14,520 --> 00:28:16,919 Speaker 1: this podcast. I hope you check out my music and 566 00:28:16,960 --> 00:28:18,880 Speaker 1: my new album and that you love it. And I'll 567 00:28:18,880 --> 00:28:28,320 Speaker 1: see you guys next week. 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