You know. Maria has a theory about how big butts went from taboo to obsession -- and it involves Selena and Jennifer Lopez. Get the New Yorker. Let's dance and forget the people starving to death. That leads to that. I have. Subscribe now so you don't miss it! In this episode, Maria shares her theory about how large butts went from a white girl taboo into a mainstream obsession. only twenty years. You know in a more, maybe it's just like an appreciation that is somehow abidjan. It was so him. Pero la manifestacin de una guerra cultural oculta luego de su muerte nos revela otra historia. When the beginning, that was a moment where that there were four, of these moments. I kind of figured that that's what you were going to say. Do you feel anxious about any of it? As a person moving through the world and experiencing culture, I only have sort of a very mild understanding of Selena--as an icon, as a creator, as an artist, as a celebrity--and so, when I listened to the early episodes, in many ways that was my first introduction to Selena the figure--the historical figure, almost. Ben Brock Johnsonis Executive Producer of podcasts for WBUR, where he directs strategic and editorial initiatives involving podcasts and on demand audio. And then, at such a formidable age, when I was sort of discovering my identity, I discovered Selena. as a journalist I had to disclose where I was coming. Turn on Live Caption for free 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. an incredibly vulnerable position to be in that when you have a group of people, you know work shopping, your work in real time. selena, laughter, latino, episode, life, story, border, mexican immigrants, world, identity, latinos, grew, died, culture, moment, personal, ascend, bottom, nick, talk, Jennifer Lopez, Abraham Quintanilla, Unknown, Howard Stern, Maria Garcia, Oprah Winfrey, Robin Quivers, Nick Quah, Jennifer Lopez, Chris Rock, Fred Norris. Sort of standard american education in the states, but in mexico. What's what, at things been, wait for him and also what was his lands on, what life is like, He becomes really vulnerable and open in a way that sounds like you. It's been two years since, like I feel so saddle, in the direction of my life, and I I have done some of that rebuilding, just like when I met her father. And Latin women are the same way! Kristin Torres Twitter Associate ProducerKristin Torres is an associate producer in WBURs podcast unit. out outdoor sit down at happens with you and him and charge tree, Where are you really, sir, like dive into his life and like? [Laughter] Because I'm sure there will still be some residual feelings. The palm, and the fingers at reaching up or research the front page of the rockies and you're just being held you like in the middle of that, and it's not, feeling that I get from being in this town sounds like you're really resonate with as well. Online, Selenas image and music have taken on new life on social media and platforms that werent even imaginable when she was still alive. In it, so powerful and you're. Growing up along the US-Mexico border, Maria Garcia felt torn between her two identities as Mexican and American. In fact, it's sort of disk up. The theory involves Selena Quintanilla but also Selena biopic starring Jennifer Lopez and the ensuing Latin Explosion. In the premiere episode of Anything for Selena, host Maria Garcia explores how Selena helped Maria find her own place in the world. Yeah. Hosted on Acast. You do you, stories woven into this, but it's also there, are exploring along the way, almost like using, her story in your story, as these launching points are not the least of which is, media after her death, even really teat up the question of like, be harmed or raised or not recognise along the way, important conversations that you t up in a very, like that just mention those on the side, but you like now, but actually dedicate a substantial amount of conversation to these. even though that's my passion, that's like the one thing that I know I'm really good at that I know I love, I turned on like my senior year in high school, and I was like I could, stories for a living- and I could tell stories about like my community that, blew my mind. Lately I've been drinking catch up to fuel my day and had been really impressed with the flavour and the texture catch up, It's most nutrient dense meal imaginable it's made with over seventy super foods and nutrients, including things like mockery of chia seeds, such a n g, comer, comer, mucky, berry, I say and coconut. here's, the! All the time like I'm going to have to share him. She was the queen of the hand of music of this roots genre in texas. The story of Tejanos decline isnt so simple, though. We were unable to subscribe you to WBUR Today. I feel so honored to be, like, your Selena doula! Accuracy is not guaranteed. She became a part of this story, because as you learn, she realized she couldn't not. 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 we do that by using the tools of our craft as journalists, like rigorous journalism, cultural analysis, but then also, very intimate, vulnerable storytelling. And so I grew up thinking that it was imperative for me to assimilate, frankly, to just get through life. This is something which is which, So pervasive and culture, and then you saying as a journalist, dive into this. Your new and improved kitchen can be completed in weeks, not months. It's such a part of my life, I'm always trying different recipes and supplements. it turns out, is the power of authenticity and agency and legacy, and in today's conversation with award winning journalist and writer and producer maria garcia, we die. I feelings around that had really about you, know, taken some time to think about journalism without practising it. I mean both the colorado after spending a wife and a different type of mountains. of the conversation really walks. Tras el debut de la serieSelenaen Netflix, algunos fans sealaron que la cantante haba sido blanqueada en ese show. on the go so go. I really love how I can get such a broad spectrum of nutrition all at once, and also. We're talking about 1994, 1995, right before she died, when she was essentially ascending to Latino royalty. If I offer up the phrase to live a good life, what comes up to live a good life embrace imperfection embrace? She graduated from Northwesterns Medill School of Journalism. it's really a story about belonging, which we all need Maura. In "Anything For Selena," host Maria Garcia goes on an intimate, revelatory quest to understand how Selena has become a potent symbol for tensions around race, class and body politics in the United States. and I was listening to colombia s- and I was you know, just absorbing my culture. holding me and protecting me in some way and justice feeling that I have, and I think it has to. history and the states and pop music and sort of getting everything. I couldnt articulate this when I was younger, but I felt ita profound sense that she mattered, not just because of her music but because of her expansive cultural impact, Garca tells Apple Podcasts. I'm sure you know this with, So you know- You'Ll- have a group of people who come together and you re you'll have essentially a table read of the script where you play the. Even the New York Times called it the fastest-growing Latino genre in the country. It has the rigorous journalism and the cultural analysis of Dolly Parton's America, with what I hope is the intimacy, and the heart, and the personal journey and personal connection to a place or people, that California Love has. or walking around in a man's just knowing that I'm sort of being held close by, and yes, there's something kind of powerful and magical about that. Maria Garcia has a distinct memory of when her connection to Selena Quintanilla-Prez began. About his own marriage to Selina and relationships and love and heartbreak, You know what to. On the other hand, it has its limitations, and it excludes people. ===Excerpt: Anything for Selena, Episode 2: Selena and Abraham"===. In the premiere episode of Anything for Selena, host Maria Garcia explores how Selena helped Maria find her own place in the world. 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 became a role model for how Latinos could achieve the American dream and find acceptance. [Laughter] That's what it is, Nick! Whatever side of the border I was on, it felt like the other half of me was missing. We're here. I love that you know because, of the story that you can see from the position in the, of that. Why do you think that Selena broke through the way that she did? And I don't think her legacy has been done justice. Shipping is free when your order includes at least twenty five dollars of eligible items, so get a head start on your holiday shopping. He is a multimedia producer and journalist based in New York. Nearly thirty years ago, Sir-Mix-A-Lots raunchy and irreverent single Baby Got Back (I Like Big Butts) hit the airwaves to the delight and shock of listeners. Este viaje a la poltica de los traseros en Estados Unidos es a fin de cuentas una exploracin de la raza, y nos conduce a una conversacin largamente postergada sobre la anti negritud dentro de la cultura latina. Just oh there's like this evolution of. Esta exploracin nos lleva a un lugar inesperado. She uncovers that booty politics is ultimately about race and brings us to a long overdue conversation about anti-blackness within the Latinx community. I want to unpack that personal side a little more. down a pine seen as not desirable, and I saw this shift. It's terrifying. In the end, its really a story about belonging, which we all need more of. But for the last year, she's taken on a different role and challenge: podcast host--and yes, my Selena doula. Now, it's completely save to be mexican now in certain in all settings that you want to be in you don't have to, camouflage yourself anymore, to stay, save and its. And so I knew that I had to bring the personal, the authentic--and I don't take over the story, but I'm definitely with you on this journey, or you're with me on this journey. Maria has a theory about how big butts went from taboo to obsession--and it involves Selena and Jennifer Lopez. Episodio 1: Selena y Yo (Espaol) 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. The show is produced by Andrea Asuaje, James Trout, and John Perotti at Rococo Punch. heard in the kind of feedback I received. Um, I think I'm going to go like, hide somewhere. Add a podcast transcript Use Google Chrome? And it's like all of these feelings among Mexican immigrants, and Mexican-Americans, and the white mainstream, can pretty much be be unpacked in that conversation. So incredibly, in the twenty seven years since salinas death, her legend, only grown. En el episodio de estreno de Anything for Selena, la conductora Mara Garca explora cmo Selena ayud a Mara a encontrar su propio lugar en el mundo. You know how much of themselves do they bring? You are giving people, a different entry point into an important issue, seeing it up in a way which was potentially inviting more people into it and inviting them into looking at a different. I was still very much holding on to my parents, culture. You know, a process- has to be rigorous and sound, and you have to be able, editors, who really held my story with a lot of compassion and love, too much in the story to the point where wasn't relevant what, me down and say we don't really need that or what. She was that talented, ass, a little girl and she was-, the time from the time she was twelve years old. Of the way that we see beauty based on celebrity culture, which is certainly a part of that story, so hours, curious about me like what was happening behind that, to say. was constantly crossing the border? Well, I hope you get to go to Joshua Tree and cry a lot on the way. That's different and fuller, like prison their mind. Descubri a Selena Quintanilla, la cono que demostr que Mara no tena que elegir. A 2016 video that Tesla used to promote its self-driving technology was staged to show capabilities like stopping at a red light and accelerating at a green light that the system did not . are you by the way? It was really. Instead, we tried to make meaning of Selena's life and legacy, she says. We're gonna try. You can find Maria at: Instagram | Websites. Abraham admits he was a stringent, calculating father to his big-hearted daughter. You know, switching at a very young age at and have the vocabulary to know that that's what. Keith boykin shares how leaving his job open the door to his personal freedom and success. Maria confronts his complicated legacy and reflects on fatherhood in Latinx cultures. immediate family and fans, it's also it's your personal style. local news all the time and it's what I knew and it's what was familiar to me and and it's what I thought, could really make a difference in telling the true story of the border, but, and I realize that I wanted to go deeper, and I wanted you know. The exploration takes us to an unexpected place. And this project forced me to do that. and here was this american pop star, whose unequivocally said they're beautiful. March 2, 2021 In the series finale of Anything for Selena, Maria reflects on what her year-long examination into Selena's legacy reveals about La Reina's humanity. 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. Maria reflexiona sobre lo que su ao de anlisis del legado de Selena revela sobre la humanidad de La Reina. So many people wrote to me telling me the storytelling in the podcast made them feel seen. And so coming back to this project has been like a personal reckoning for me, to think about my own place in the world, and to think about my own identity. I want you to know where I'm coming from Sweden, framing these things are why I'm asking these questions, but, It was also used you effectively say like I'm a character in this story, and, That was the original intention, not that's what. but not in a way that I feel like it needs to be told that could be told. So I knew that I wanted it to be rooted in the personal, that the only way I could tell the story authentically is if I told it from my lens in the world. It has also permeated white culture, with Kim Kardashian breaking the internet and butt selfie queen Jen Selter. 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. Hace casi 30 aos, el irreverente y obsceno sencillo Baby Got Back (I Like Big Butts) de Sir Mix-A-Lot debut en la radio para deleite y espanto de los oyentes. was desirable in the main stream and then, of course, her spend this huge evolution since then. That's right. What does home mean when you are so far away, for so long? And so honestly, Nick, it's been kind of excruciating, because all of my life, I realized just how much I compartmentalized my work from my internal life--and all of us do that to an extent, right? Tejano award shows were glitzy affairs and Tejano radio DJs were like rock stars in Texas and the Southwest. the fuller narrative of this entire series becomes it's like it's not just the story of this. She started getting a little thing. Maria descubre que es una historia de inmigracin, de dinero y de cmo dos grupos usualmente ignorados fueron enfrentados entre s. This is a collective experience. Maria heads to Joshua Tree, California for an intimate interview with Selenas widower, Chris Perez. She has become one of the most potent symbols of belonging in this country. Maria Garcia is the Senior Editor of Arts and Culture at WBUR, where she leads The ARTery, overseeing a team of arts writers, reporters and cultural critics. In the 25 years since her murder, Selenas image has taken on new meaning. you know and she celebrated her curls as she own them, and she didn't try to hide them. Donate $12/month and we'll send you a year's subscription to The New Yorker Magazine. And probably cry a lot. Ok, I think you ready for this, but I want, Through cereal eyes, storytelling for those who don't know who we're talking about when I, much of the world when you literally just use that first aim selina knows, but for those who don't, Maybe a little bit more about this person was, Eight, the handle singer from corpus christie, taxes the hanno is like. Not even. She discovered Selena the Mexican-American pop icon who proved she didnt have to choose. In this episode, Maria explores why Selenas Spanglish seemed so revolutionary for its time, and yet so familiar to many fans who also struggled with the language of their heritage. And this podcast has given me the gift--the gift--of navigating my own pain, navigating these very scary questions about my own identity, and yeah, no, it's horrifying. Selena is often called the "Queen of Tejano music." In the 1990s, she brought this underdog genre to international heights. And Selena! In the premiere episode of "Anything for Selena," host Maria Garcia explores how Selena helped Maria find her own place in the world. In this episode, Maria traces how Selena became a symbol for solidarity and resistance. And if I could just say, I don't think we talk enough about gratitude, and I just want to say, I will be so grateful. I love hearing perspectives that I didn't consider. It's this beautiful plant in my eyes, it's beautiful this beautiful, assertive brush that grows in the desert. So I think journalists are really like their tart, ring positions and tat, sort of stay in the middle and waited. 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. Plus,. It was the early 1990s and she was 7, watching the Tejano star perform on television. She was on the cusp of mainstream success, ass. and here is so special to me and the lamb connected to the land is through my five senses, and one of the most powerful one of those is my son. Selena was on the other side of the border, Selena had been afforded a whole new life, but at the end of the day, there was this disregard--the same disregard--for her life, too. I want there to be a record that really really solidified her leg, see and told us how she changed culture, how she changed music, and I wanted to use my craft ass, story? Boulders surly, its nestled right in the front rank the rockies and often describe it as if he turned your problem, upwards and then you took your fingers and you reach them up. "This journey begins at the border, a place in the in-between where, for a long time, I felt divided in two. Transcript NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Maria Garcia, host of "Anything For Selena." The podcast tells the story of Selena Quintanilla's life and Garcia's childhood spent on both sides of. Our deep live on really china understand, what's happening here, like what changed, and why and. Okay, Maria, how would you describe Anything for Selena? How much. 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. I knew right away this as this was one of the episodes that I immediately neo. a beautiful island cap to the way that you share the entire story on that? Mara sabe que para entender verdaderamente a Selena como persona y no solo como un cono, necesita ir a Corpus Christi. [Laughter] "Now that's a bottom." I tall buildings in new york city, there's something so powerful that draws me in to just, even if I'm not out. This week: Maria Garcia's radically personal podcast, Anything for Selena, a love letter to la reina--the queen--Selena Quintanilla. The series weaves Marias personal story as a queer, first-generation Mexican immigrant with cultural analysis, history and politics to explore how, 25 years after her death, Selena remains an unparalleled vessel for understanding Latino identity and American belonging. She was born in Ciudad Jurez and was raised there and in El Paso, Texas, where her family immigrated to when she was 3 years old. regularly every week in every week and moving back and forth between areas and EL paso and curious about that. You know when it's this debate over objectivity. Or at least, "You don't deserve the right to mourn," the right to be, as humans do. Kristin Torrescomes toAnything for Selenaafter a decade split between radio and academia. 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