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Capítulo 109: Behind The Music with Chrisol · Locatora Radio [A Radiophonic Novela]

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Speaker 1: I'm what is We are in for a super sweet
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Speaker 1: to talk to us about all things grisol music, being
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Speaker 1: a battye, studying for the Graham and everything else that
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Speaker 1: she's up to. Crisol, Welcome to look at Thought our radio.
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Speaker 1: Can you please say hello to our listeners? Hello, Hello,
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Speaker 1: thank you for having me locomotives. I am a long
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Speaker 1: time how's a singular? I feel like I'm part of
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Speaker 1: the collective. Um. Yes, I'm a I'm a fan and friend,
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Speaker 1: friend and fan, truly local more in Italy only that's
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Speaker 1: when that applied. Well, I love that, and you go
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Speaker 1: to Italy. We all do. I think that we've all
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Speaker 1: been having some like Lizzie McGuire Italian like romance nostalgia.
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Speaker 1: It's been all over the timeline. I mean, just funny
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Speaker 1: that it should come up. The algorithm has been working
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Speaker 1: over time with the with the two thousands nostalgia. Honestly,
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Speaker 1: I feel true the I don't know if it's a
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Speaker 1: pandemic hangover for the now that that's really like like
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Speaker 1: catapulted that. But like the way I crave many of
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Speaker 1: the early two thousands, specifically Disney Channel movies the way
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Speaker 1: I need them back into my life and I've worked
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Speaker 1: them back into rotations or just like pivotal life changing movies.
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Speaker 1: Be also, I have noticing on your I D like
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Speaker 1: like the stuff that like what was your what was
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Speaker 1: your bisexual awakening? You know, and like those films that
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Speaker 1: I'm just like, yeah, like all the same ones, and
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Speaker 1: I'm just like, yes, I love it. There's so many honestly,
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Speaker 1: and like you realize it later, like as an adult,
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Speaker 1: you don't like maybe recognize it. You see there's like
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Speaker 1: this like inkling. There's this like curiosity when you're a
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Speaker 1: kid because you're still a kid or you're a teenager.
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Speaker 1: But then when you can like process it later as
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Speaker 1: an adult, like wait a damn minute, I was attracted
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Speaker 1: to this character. It wasn't just that I would like
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Speaker 1: love this character. There was like, oh I saw myself
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Speaker 1: and this character right all of that. Yes, I'm like
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Speaker 1: both like living for the early two thousands like coming
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Speaker 1: back and also hating it. I'm like in that weird
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Speaker 1: like please leave the fashion there. But yes, bring back
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Speaker 1: the pulp culture movies, the stars, give me all of it,
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Speaker 1: give me benefit, give me that yes, like I like
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Speaker 1: yes to the Manny Santos song. No to Gaucho pants, No,
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Speaker 1: thank you forever to Gauchos. I I felt for them.
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Speaker 1: I was into them. I I did it, and and
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Speaker 1: the layered the V neck with the tank top underneath
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Speaker 1: also did it. I'm sorry, I don't know. This is
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Speaker 1: my public apology, um, but yeah that uh thinking back,
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Speaker 1: like I guess, like retroactively, like no pun intended there,
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Speaker 1: but retroactively, like really reviewing all of these moments that
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Speaker 1: I that I witnessed like in movies and TV and
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Speaker 1: now being an adult and being like, oh my god,
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Speaker 1: like there was something going on in my brain and
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Speaker 1: now I'm smart enough to process it and looky, I
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Speaker 1: kind of want to give myself Like I don't know
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Speaker 1: if you guys get this way where you'll remember something
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Speaker 1: and the way you your brain was dancing around it,
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Speaker 1: and now being an adult, you're almost like a little
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Speaker 1: proud of like, man, I wish I could like high
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Speaker 1: five little Cristal because she was really onto something and
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Speaker 1: at the time she didn't know how to voice it,
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Speaker 1: and maybe, you know, maybe she could have been like
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Speaker 1: the next Greta on the stage talking about like the
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Speaker 1: significance of coyote ugly and yes for the bisexuals of
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Speaker 1: our generation. You know, Um, you know what did America's
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Speaker 1: next top models? Due to my development and you know,
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Speaker 1: being able to process judgment like I I uh, it's
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Speaker 1: it was, It's significant. Sorry, hello, Hi, I'm a sagittarius,
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Speaker 1: so I'm like about many things today. There we it's
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Speaker 1: like hard to even figure out where to begin, because
8:42
Speaker 1: we could start with speaking of retroactive. You have new
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Speaker 1: music coming out, we could start there. We can start
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Speaker 1: with like how we met and how we got to
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Speaker 1: this point. I mean there's so many entry ways. Um,
8:56
Speaker 1: let's start with how we met. I feel like that's good.
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Speaker 1: I think a fun place to start because it's one
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Speaker 1: of my favorite stories. Yes, and I'll let you tell it. Yes,
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Speaker 1: Diosa was there. We were together and it was all Grito.
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Speaker 1: I forget the year. It was several years ago now, yes,
9:19
Speaker 1: for there we were just two faces in the crowd,
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Speaker 1: two indie podcasters in a sea of gritones for al Grito. Right,
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Speaker 1: So we're there and on the steps of city Hall,
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Speaker 1: I see a vision in black leather pants and I said, Yosa,
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Speaker 1: who the fuck is that queen? She sings, she dances,
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Speaker 1: she serves face. Who is she? Tell them? Did I not?
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Speaker 1: Was I not? Just like overwhelmed by Cristol's talent. Mala
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Speaker 1: was so overwhelmed that I had been put onto you
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Speaker 1: because a friend of mine had booked you for like
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Speaker 1: a community event. And so my friend says Sad, was like,
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Speaker 1: you need to check her, and so I started following you.
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Speaker 1: And so then when we saw you at Agrito, I
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Speaker 1: was like, Mama, I know who this is. I don't
10:15
Speaker 1: know her, know her, but yes, like you need to
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Speaker 1: go follow her. And I dot like, I don't know
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Speaker 1: everything about you sold you to us, but especially the
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Speaker 1: way you you mixed. I think it was a lemonade
10:28
Speaker 1: song like from Fyancee album. You mixed it with Selena.
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Speaker 1: We were like mind blown. We were losing it. We
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Speaker 1: were screaming, we were dancing, we were crying, we were drinking.
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Speaker 1: It was amazing. We made that medley for the batties
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Speaker 1: and it rarely goes fully acknowledged. So I'm happy that
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Speaker 1: after all these years. I'm happy that that really stuck
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Speaker 1: with you because to Queens from Houston hold up is
10:59
Speaker 1: in the same in same cord relatively chord progression as
11:03
Speaker 1: bbbb bom bum. So we just do this little breakdown
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Speaker 1: and that like you have to. I'll try to record it,
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Speaker 1: and the samas is back right now, so maybe we'll
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Speaker 1: do some actually film my performances. But yeah, okay, guess
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Speaker 1: I'm really happy you guys remember that. Um yeah, that's well,
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Speaker 1: that's what a lovely memory. Yeah, So from my end,
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Speaker 1: I mean, I just remember, they'll be pure madness because
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Speaker 1: you know, of course this dukan is right and like
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Speaker 1: this like God bless the city of l A. But
11:29
Speaker 1: they did not prepare to have I don't think they
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Speaker 1: anticipated thukana Is to have such a high level or
11:33
Speaker 1: an elite um set up, which I'm just like, well,
11:36
Speaker 1: how embarrassing for you guys to not know that, And
11:41
Speaker 1: because the city and I will, I will because that
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Speaker 1: day I was sick, I was not feeling well. I
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Speaker 1: was running around screaming um. Our set got cut by
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Speaker 1: like twenty minutes because they let everybody else run over
11:53
Speaker 1: and Bukanas were like, I don't care, We're going on
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Speaker 1: at what time we're going on. But more the thing
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Speaker 1: that kills me is that, like I've always been the
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Speaker 1: type a musician to show up on time and it's rare,
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Speaker 1: like it's it's really not like the thing that it's
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Speaker 1: a lot um. And so we showed up on time,
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Speaker 1: but dugans, we're running late and mom, but I'm like
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Speaker 1: they've earned it. But of course when the time they
12:12
Speaker 1: showed up, they're like, we have our own entire sound rig.
12:15
Speaker 1: We don't need anything you provided, so are set up.
12:18
Speaker 1: Not only did it get delayed four hours, but they
12:20
Speaker 1: basically built an entire other rig next to the thousands
12:24
Speaker 1: of dollars of equipment the city of l A rented
12:26
Speaker 1: to try to accommodate them. Because they weren't they didn't communicate,
12:28
Speaker 1: so then like it was just a mess. So I'm
12:31
Speaker 1: glad the show went well because on my end, I
12:32
Speaker 1: was like, up until that very moment, I was like
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Speaker 1: sweating and I'm like, all right, showtime. It's kind of
12:37
Speaker 1: put it away. But like it was a lot um.
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Speaker 1: So that was your guys first time seeing me. My
12:44
Speaker 1: first time seeing you guys was I think, look, I
12:47
Speaker 1: that our radio had already been around for about because
12:49
Speaker 1: I went to your second anniversary. Correct, I believe that
12:54
Speaker 1: that's what it was at the Civic Center. Yeah, was
12:57
Speaker 1: it was it number two? Was it was thinking it
13:00
Speaker 1: was number two. It was number two because I had
13:03
Speaker 1: seen you guys voting about on my this podcast is
13:04
Speaker 1: really dope. You guys are super cute. Wow. And then
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Speaker 1: they also followed me, and I was like, oh my god,
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Speaker 1: and like at that point I was I'm still I
13:12
Speaker 1: was still very green to the scene, so like getting
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Speaker 1: in with like a lot of this community. When people
13:16
Speaker 1: would follow me or follow me first, especially, I'm like, oh,
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Speaker 1: I'm like the type of person like like refreshing all
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Speaker 1: the time, just to follow people back and get on that.
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Speaker 1: So it's very excited to get connected with you guys.
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Speaker 1: And then you guys had DM me to invite me
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Speaker 1: to the second year anniversary thing, and I was like,
13:31
Speaker 1: holy smack, this feels very cool. I don't feel cool
13:34
Speaker 1: enough to be invited to such a cool thing. I
13:36
Speaker 1: don't know. It was very like imposter syndrome for a
13:38
Speaker 1: little bit when I got When I finally got there,
13:40
Speaker 1: you guys were so nice, so so nice. And then
13:44
Speaker 1: I met a lot of great people at night, you know,
13:46
Speaker 1: Brenda Gerani. We we also like became fast friends that
13:49
Speaker 1: evening as well. And then I was just like, you
13:51
Speaker 1: guys are the sickest and it was a cool It's
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Speaker 1: like it was everything I wanted to start to start
13:56
Speaker 1: doing already at that moment, Like you guys put together
13:58
Speaker 1: this entire event, you great guests, Like you guys were
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Speaker 1: really funny on stage. I was like equally as blown
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Speaker 1: away watching this like little universe you guys had like built.
14:07
Speaker 1: And it was only the second year. Like in my mind,
14:09
Speaker 1: you guys are already like I'm like these your lips
14:11
Speaker 1: is great, you know. And then like and and and
14:13
Speaker 1: so being in that uh just felt very cool to
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Speaker 1: like rub elbows and be around everybody. So that was
14:18
Speaker 1: my first experience. But then later we did the what's
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Speaker 1: it called it? That little Oh my God, the short
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Speaker 1: film Look Yeah. Lokith is anonymous anonymous yes yeah very cool.
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Speaker 1: Has been involved now in several of our projects, starting
14:35
Speaker 1: with Lokith as anonymous. Um Chris oldis some acting. She's
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Speaker 1: looking gorgeous. She's part of the you know um Bitt
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Speaker 1: two was her code name. Yes, part of the Lokith
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Speaker 1: as Anonymous universe. If you have not seen Lokith as
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Speaker 1: Anonymous and did not know that we also right and
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Speaker 1: produce an act in short films, you can go to
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Speaker 1: YouTube to our YouTube channel and watch LOOKI as Anonymous.
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Speaker 1: It's an eight minute short. Thank you say that? Sorry,
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Speaker 1: just to go back a little bit, like thank you
15:08
Speaker 1: for acknowledging that was year two, because you're right, that
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Speaker 1: was year too, be like Okaya blown away? Like you
15:17
Speaker 1: and you guys should applaud yourself for that more often,
15:19
Speaker 1: because I've been there having to produce shows by myself
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Speaker 1: and like get all these people to come in and
15:25
Speaker 1: like you're you feel like you feel like you're asking
15:28
Speaker 1: for the moon. But then when you actually get the
15:29
Speaker 1: genuine support that you need, like you really make something
15:32
Speaker 1: amazing happens. But it starts with you, guys being authentic
15:34
Speaker 1: and amazing, you know what I mean? And like that
15:37
Speaker 1: was year two and it's only gotten bigger and better
15:39
Speaker 1: since then, And like look does Anonymous was year three?
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Speaker 1: Like that's wild to me. That's like that that that
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Speaker 1: little eight minutes like and then and the film was great,
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Speaker 1: Like I really hope I actually was really hoping for
15:50
Speaker 1: like like a comic book or like you know what
15:53
Speaker 1: I mean, Like, I'm just I'm hoping all this stuff
15:54
Speaker 1: so maybe and maybe I don't want to spoil things,
15:56
Speaker 1: but I'm hoping all this stuff still happens, because it's
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Speaker 1: just such a leave that plant that there, leave that there.
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Speaker 1: We will revisit in the future shortly. Yes, anyway, thank
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Speaker 1: you so much, but please, please, please enough about us.
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Speaker 1: You must be stopped. Sorry. I love it. I love
16:21
Speaker 1: I love the way you love your friends and your
16:23
Speaker 1: community members out loud. You're very supportive. You're very supportive artists. Yes,
16:28
Speaker 1: both like literally right now and literally right at this
16:32
Speaker 1: exact moment, and also in the digital space. So thank
16:35
Speaker 1: you so much. But you know, we invited you because
16:38
Speaker 1: we want to hear about you and your work and
16:41
Speaker 1: your upcoming work. All right, let me get vain for
16:44
Speaker 1: a second, but yes, like the upcoming the new stuff.
16:49
Speaker 1: Let's take it back a little bit and let's just
16:51
Speaker 1: do a quick check in. Right, was a garbage fire
16:56
Speaker 1: of a year. It was a health gape. We're still
16:59
Speaker 1: recovering ing. It's not technically over. It feels like it's over,
17:02
Speaker 1: but it's not. So like checking how are you doing?
17:05
Speaker 1: You're like California has now reopened at full capacity. You're
17:10
Speaker 1: getting booked, Like talk to us, take us and take
17:14
Speaker 1: us back to like when the Pandemics started, because I
17:16
Speaker 1: remember we were talking about it and like the bookings,
17:19
Speaker 1: the shows, the income, like the work, just everything. Take
17:23
Speaker 1: us back to then and then bring us to now. Yeah,
17:27
Speaker 1: it's it feels like, you know, like in a roller
17:31
Speaker 1: coaster when you go up in a loop and you
17:32
Speaker 1: just meet at the same point at the bottom and
17:34
Speaker 1: you keep going on the roller coaster. That's exactly what
17:37
Speaker 1: feels like. And I just got stuck upside down in
17:40
Speaker 1: that loop, Like that's what that That's the only way
17:42
Speaker 1: I can physically describe how the feeling felt being an
17:45
Speaker 1: independent fully supporting myself on music. Um, I was working
17:50
Speaker 1: at East Side Love just before the pandemic. I've been
17:52
Speaker 1: doing that on and off for like a couple of years.
17:54
Speaker 1: But like that really wasn't like paying my rent. You know,
17:58
Speaker 1: most of my my my my in come was from music.
18:01
Speaker 1: And the pandemics started kind of like you know, being
18:05
Speaker 1: being people like places with large crowd like, you know,
18:07
Speaker 1: being an industry with like large crowds. Pandemic was really
18:10
Speaker 1: like surfacing in those areas, like around February, you know,
18:14
Speaker 1: right right right that late January February, people like, oh,
18:16
Speaker 1: have you heard about this COVID thing? You know about
18:18
Speaker 1: this uhan virus, you know, all these things they wanted
18:20
Speaker 1: to call it, and um and I just remember like
18:24
Speaker 1: people be like, Okay, maybe we won't do this thing
18:26
Speaker 1: in March. We'll see what happens, you know, And it
18:29
Speaker 1: was like things that were in the work suddenly got canceled.
18:31
Speaker 1: And then I get to the end of February and
18:33
Speaker 1: I lost one festival. Just was like, you know, we're
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Speaker 1: just not We're not going after it, and then I'll
18:39
Speaker 1: never forget it. It was like February, I'm in the
18:41
Speaker 1: studio and one thing about what I do or what
18:44
Speaker 1: I did pre pandemic. I employ anywhere from like five
18:48
Speaker 1: to eight musicians at one time. I I I do
18:51
Speaker 1: music directing, a banned direct and I'm no, am I
18:54
Speaker 1: there only source of income. No, But I do pay
18:57
Speaker 1: my musicians, and I pay I'd like to say I
19:00
Speaker 1: pay them pretty well. And we digged a lot. Twenty
19:02
Speaker 1: nineteen were very busy, and we were gonna be even
19:04
Speaker 1: busier getting into so I we had pretty much stuff
19:09
Speaker 1: locked in all the way up until September, and I
19:12
Speaker 1: just remember this. One day, I'm in the studio recording
19:14
Speaker 1: for my EP Lovely that I dropped in September, and um,
19:18
Speaker 1: that was actually slated to come out in the beginning
19:20
Speaker 1: of summer to you know, not the fall, you know,
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Speaker 1: And so I'm in there doing some tracks, and within
19:26
Speaker 1: ten minutes, I get five phone calls. Um, just individually myself,
19:31
Speaker 1: I lost about five to six thousand dollars of income
19:35
Speaker 1: within those ten you know what I mean, Like that
19:38
Speaker 1: was how much like I had writing and then like
19:41
Speaker 1: you know, it's equivalent like that's I pay my guy.
19:44
Speaker 1: So like they're losing thousands of dollars over a couple
19:46
Speaker 1: of months of income for themselves, and it's like, geez,
19:50
Speaker 1: what the heck is happening? And this happened within ten minutes.
19:53
Speaker 1: And then we go a little more further into March,
19:56
Speaker 1: and then it's just like everything shut down. You can't gather,
19:59
Speaker 1: you can't see people like we are collaborators, they're my friends,
20:03
Speaker 1: you know, and you just don't know. And everybody's going
20:06
Speaker 1: through such a weird hard time losing their livelihoods that
20:09
Speaker 1: you don't even know how to at a You didn't
20:12
Speaker 1: even know how to reach out to somebody say are
20:13
Speaker 1: you okay, because you're not okay either. So it was
20:16
Speaker 1: really professionally and very personally, very difficult. I feel for
20:21
Speaker 1: a lot of not just musicians, but most artists are
20:23
Speaker 1: most people that rely on public and open spaces to
20:26
Speaker 1: make their income. Um. I know a lot of bartenders
20:28
Speaker 1: that were struggling. And um it's also crazy too because
20:32
Speaker 1: um as the pandemic raged on, you know, you get
20:35
Speaker 1: all this you're inundated with information. You see like a
20:39
Speaker 1: lot of people are getting their stride, they're doing really well.
20:42
Speaker 1: They're either going you know, they're going on TikTok or
20:44
Speaker 1: a lot of people are hiding. And then you get
20:46
Speaker 1: this social justice movement that's happening. A lot of us
20:48
Speaker 1: are artists who feel empathy, and then you just get
20:51
Speaker 1: this weight of heavy like what do I do? I
20:53
Speaker 1: wasn't even doing enough before the pandemic, Like what am
20:55
Speaker 1: I supposed to do now? And then top it off,
20:59
Speaker 1: being a creator who has a family, who's mostly in
21:04
Speaker 1: like a normal professional working space. So yeah, they all
21:07
Speaker 1: had to work from home for a little while, but
21:09
Speaker 1: like nobody in my family really missed a beat, and
21:11
Speaker 1: no one missed checks, no one missed you know. Actually,
21:15
Speaker 1: if anything, my brother had like two of my brothers
21:17
Speaker 1: had kids and like moved on with their lives and
21:18
Speaker 1: like had wives and women and and and you know,
21:21
Speaker 1: and a lot of blessings happened in my family. So
21:25
Speaker 1: I'm internally also not able to voice how hard it
21:29
Speaker 1: was on me up until up until I really did.
21:32
Speaker 1: You know, I'm sure I'm not. I'm just being very
21:34
Speaker 1: transparent about like the mental whole it took because like
21:37
Speaker 1: I also try not to be a burden to those
21:39
Speaker 1: that I loved, because they're all experienced such happiness in
21:43
Speaker 1: this weird time. So it's like you're resentful, but you're
21:46
Speaker 1: also happy, and it's like it was weird and you
21:49
Speaker 1: want to write about it, but you're also like, I
21:50
Speaker 1: don't want to like exploit my own bandit, you know,
21:53
Speaker 1: my trauma for my vanity or it's weird. It was
21:56
Speaker 1: really weird. And then around September, you know, to to
22:02
Speaker 1: shy a, you know, for some positivity. I was happy
22:04
Speaker 1: to do, like I really did, like I got back
22:06
Speaker 1: into cooking, and you know, you just did all the
22:08
Speaker 1: all the like that part of the pandemic that was
22:10
Speaker 1: a vibe. Started roller skating, you know, connected with Mala
22:13
Speaker 1: and a few other friends people and you Theosa too,
22:15
Speaker 1: like friends that I really don't think I would have
22:18
Speaker 1: had the time to interact with because I would have
22:21
Speaker 1: been so much busier in I my my circle completely
22:26
Speaker 1: changed because I started connecting with people because we're a
22:29
Speaker 1: having a shared experience. But now we have time to
22:32
Speaker 1: talk and it's not networking, and like, hey, nobody's working,
22:35
Speaker 1: so I if I'm reaching out to you, it's genuinely
22:37
Speaker 1: because like I have the mental energy to and I
22:39
Speaker 1: find you interesting and there's a lot more I don't know,
22:42
Speaker 1: just so like that was also a very interesting dynamic.
22:46
Speaker 1: And the friends that I feel like I solidified over
22:49
Speaker 1: the pandemic, we're just like it just felt really rewarding.
22:52
Speaker 1: And then getting into September, it's it's been a dream
22:54
Speaker 1: of mine since I was a kid to also act,
22:55
Speaker 1: but um, yeah, you know, and I never really had
22:59
Speaker 1: the confidence to pursue the way that I did music.
23:02
Speaker 1: But the one thing, one thing I can finally sum
23:04
Speaker 1: this up to of that I learned throughout the pandemic
23:07
Speaker 1: is that if the world told me you will never
23:10
Speaker 1: be able to sing on a public stage ever. Again,
23:14
Speaker 1: what are you gonna do? I'm still gonna find myself
23:17
Speaker 1: in a quiet room by myself, banging on a piano.
23:20
Speaker 1: You know. I'm still gonna try to sing. I'm still
23:22
Speaker 1: gonna try to create and perform. And it's literally the
23:25
Speaker 1: only thing I thought of, obviously other than my family
23:28
Speaker 1: and loved ones and all that stuff, but it's the
23:30
Speaker 1: only thing I thought of for the entire pandemic, was
23:32
Speaker 1: how to continue to be the artist that I want
23:35
Speaker 1: to be without any monetary like incentive. So it really
23:41
Speaker 1: solidified that, like, if you have this dream and you're
23:44
Speaker 1: and you were able to like sit with it in
23:46
Speaker 1: the trenches with it and still have it and still
23:48
Speaker 1: hold onto it and have hope, it's what you want
23:50
Speaker 1: to do and it's your purpose on the planet. So
23:52
Speaker 1: I let go of this, Like, Okay, I can't act
23:57
Speaker 1: because I need to focus on music. I don't want
23:58
Speaker 1: people to think it's not part of my brand. And
24:00
Speaker 1: I'm like, what, like, I want to add because I
24:01
Speaker 1: want to act, or I wanna you know, I want
24:04
Speaker 1: to produce because I want to produce, or I want
24:06
Speaker 1: to learn people, I want to get better at piano
24:07
Speaker 1: because it's part of what I do, you know, and
24:09
Speaker 1: not having these like these doubts of um like that
24:13
Speaker 1: again that imposter syndrome, or that you're not good enough
24:15
Speaker 1: to do certain things. Like I'm like, look like it
24:17
Speaker 1: could all go away tomorrow and you're still gonna want it.
24:19
Speaker 1: Just do it absolutely like adapting, adapting to the world
24:25
Speaker 1: and too circumstances, but still doing the things that we love.
24:30
Speaker 1: And I just kind of want to piggyback on on
24:33
Speaker 1: also just continuing and going and doing it even when
24:40
Speaker 1: literally the world is shutting down. Um, everything seems to
24:43
Speaker 1: be against you. There's no money, there seems like there's
24:47
Speaker 1: sometimes like the momentum feels like it's slowing down, like
24:51
Speaker 1: but just persisting and continuing to put out work. I
24:55
Speaker 1: are you. Probably if you listen to this podcast, you've
24:57
Speaker 1: probably seen me ranting and raving on Twitter about about
25:01
Speaker 1: how Crystal should have been cast as Selena and Selena
25:04
Speaker 1: the series because I stand by that ship and because
25:07
Speaker 1: I believe it, and because there's so much talent out here,
25:10
Speaker 1: and I think of I think of Christol obviously, I
25:12
Speaker 1: think of us in our own way. There are so
25:15
Speaker 1: many others in our little l a Latin X creative
25:18
Speaker 1: community that are hyper talented, that are really funding, self funding,
25:24
Speaker 1: self producing really impressive bodies of work. I mean the
25:27
Speaker 1: Lovely EP I'm obsessed with. It's so good, Ghost Dream Lovely.
25:32
Speaker 1: Let it be Lovely, bitch Like, it's amazing. The disco
25:35
Speaker 1: fields are everything. If you like to skate, this is
25:38
Speaker 1: definitely the EP for you. But you know, it's like,
25:41
Speaker 1: we know talent when we see it, and you don't
25:44
Speaker 1: have to be someone raking in millions of dollars in
25:47
Speaker 1: order for us to acknowledge that you're talented, you know
25:50
Speaker 1: what I mean, Like one doesn't need a record deal
25:52
Speaker 1: in order for us to acknowledge the talent that is
25:55
Speaker 1: just there. And um, we wanted also to have Christal
25:58
Speaker 1: in the podcast because we've believe that we are catching
26:01
Speaker 1: tomorrow's like superstars right like while they're still accessible to us,
26:06
Speaker 1: while we can still get to them. And Chris Paul
26:09
Speaker 1: is one of those people, So go follow her, go
26:13
Speaker 1: stream her music. You have a new body of work
26:16
Speaker 1: coming out called Retroactive that I would love for us
26:19
Speaker 1: to start talking about to get the people pumped because
26:22
Speaker 1: it's coming soon. Yes, Um, yes, yes, yes, yes yes,
26:25
Speaker 1: So um, at least one of you throughout during the pandemic,
26:28
Speaker 1: like in September or whatever, things started opening up. And
26:31
Speaker 1: then I looked back at my catalog and I'm like,
26:35
Speaker 1: well again, part of this whole addressing fear, addressing not
26:38
Speaker 1: self doubt, not being good enough confidence. And I look
26:41
Speaker 1: back at my catalog and I was like, there's some
26:43
Speaker 1: good ship here that I talked myself out of releasing
26:46
Speaker 1: for a number of reasons. So I kind of went
26:49
Speaker 1: in and I'm grateful that I weeded because now I'm
26:51
Speaker 1: a much better, more sound musician and I'm able to
26:55
Speaker 1: ask specifically for what I want. So um, I wrote
26:58
Speaker 1: one brand new track and then there's four there's three
27:00
Speaker 1: songs that are I wrote them funny. They were both
27:04
Speaker 1: written and all of them each were probably done and
27:06
Speaker 1: about under an hour, but they were done and under
27:08
Speaker 1: an hour like six years ago. And then uh, they
27:11
Speaker 1: just sat there in the desk of demos, as they do.
27:14
Speaker 1: And so I kind of made this ton of like retroact,
27:18
Speaker 1: like retroactively releasing music that was written from the past,
27:21
Speaker 1: but you know, it's it's current now and and and
27:23
Speaker 1: it's still of me and Uh, yeah, so I have
27:26
Speaker 1: I put them all together, and now I have another
27:29
Speaker 1: record that I'm very excited about that a year ago
27:32
Speaker 1: I probably would have a year ago, I did talk
27:34
Speaker 1: myself out of putting this music out because I don't
27:37
Speaker 1: know why. I really don't. I'm like, sometimes I want
27:39
Speaker 1: to shake her, you know. Um, But it's the VPS
27:43
Speaker 1: title that it's called Retroactive. There's four songs. Um. I
27:47
Speaker 1: have a single. The lead single off the of the
27:49
Speaker 1: EP is called Juliet. It's gonna drop on July two.
27:53
Speaker 1: And then uh, I'm just trying to figure out the
27:55
Speaker 1: time I win this will air, but like it'll drop
27:57
Speaker 1: on July two. The entire EP is gonna be out
27:59
Speaker 1: July twenty heard. Um, I'm very very proud of this
28:03
Speaker 1: little body of work. Like I said, it is, it's
28:06
Speaker 1: a mix of like me being confident enough to release
28:08
Speaker 1: stuff that I had in the vault, but also one
28:10
Speaker 1: of those tracks is as a song that I like,
28:13
Speaker 1: like I had a huge hand in producing. So I'm
28:15
Speaker 1: very very proud of it. Um. And yeah, you know
28:18
Speaker 1: it's with my usual collaborators, Demons. He worked with me
28:21
Speaker 1: on my first EP. Also brought in someone news names
28:23
Speaker 1: Rich Gonzalez. He's a person I wrote that song Adams
28:26
Speaker 1: with UM, but he produced two as the tracks on
28:28
Speaker 1: this UM trying to make sure I don't forget anybody
28:32
Speaker 1: else that's involved. But oh so I worked with some
28:34
Speaker 1: vocal work with Brian Gazzo, who plays drums in my band,
28:37
Speaker 1: and uh yeah, it's just I'm very, very excited to
28:40
Speaker 1: be putting out new music and this is gonna slap like.
28:42
Speaker 1: I'm literally listening to it so much that's I'm starting
28:45
Speaker 1: to hate myself a little bit. But I'm very excited
28:48
Speaker 1: about it. And I'm sure the second is out in
28:50
Speaker 1: the world and be like, I don't want to hear
28:51
Speaker 1: it ever again, but right now because it's mine and
28:53
Speaker 1: I'm kind of just like hugging it before I release
28:55
Speaker 1: it to you all, I literally can't listen to anything else.
28:58
Speaker 1: And I'm hoping once I give it out to the world,
29:01
Speaker 1: you guys will all have the same experience with that
29:03
Speaker 1: I did, because it it's great, it's fun. The banger,
29:07
Speaker 1: Juliet is a banger. Sure, I'm sure we will all
29:11
Speaker 1: love it. Thank you so much for adding or sharing
29:16
Speaker 1: that you went into your vault and like pulled some
29:21
Speaker 1: songs out right, you revisited past work because I think
29:24
Speaker 1: like as artists were so pressure to like create new
29:27
Speaker 1: stuff constantly, but sometimes we're like sitting on work that
29:31
Speaker 1: like we haven't visited in a long time, and it
29:33
Speaker 1: just takes revisiting and like revamping and editing and then
29:38
Speaker 1: putting that out into the world in whatever way that
29:41
Speaker 1: looks for like each person. Um. And so I love
29:44
Speaker 1: that you shared that because a lot of the times
29:46
Speaker 1: we've got to step away and then we come back
29:48
Speaker 1: and we stay with a fresh set of honestly. And
29:50
Speaker 1: then I also think that too, there should be no
29:52
Speaker 1: shame in putting something out in a few years, looking
29:54
Speaker 1: at it and be like, I'm gonna rework this. It's yours,
29:57
Speaker 1: you know, it's yours. You put it out there and
29:59
Speaker 1: it becomes somebody else's and maybe you revamp it and
30:02
Speaker 1: you think it's better, but someone's like I really like
30:04
Speaker 1: the old version, you know. Um. But I I read somewhere,
30:08
Speaker 1: um there somewhere just on the Internet, and it just said,
30:11
Speaker 1: how like the the moment you release a song is
30:14
Speaker 1: the most it's the most like infancy stage of the song,
30:17
Speaker 1: because once it's out, that's like there you know, it's
30:21
Speaker 1: the newest, it's the earliest, it's it's it's it's it's beginning,
30:23
Speaker 1: and you just perform it and you work it, and
30:25
Speaker 1: it just by the time you get to the end
30:27
Speaker 1: of your life or you get to the next album,
30:30
Speaker 1: that song has changed so much. And like so really
30:33
Speaker 1: the song, the songs that you put out, or the
30:35
Speaker 1: body of work or the writings or whatever, as you grow,
30:38
Speaker 1: even if you go back and change it, you know
30:39
Speaker 1: what I mean, or like the way you deliver a poem,
30:40
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, It's gonna change as you change.
30:43
Speaker 1: But that doesn't mean in the beginning of it was
30:45
Speaker 1: any less valid or bad. It's just what you could
30:47
Speaker 1: do at the time. And you kind of like it's
30:49
Speaker 1: like I said, it's all that self doubt and that fear.
30:52
Speaker 1: You know, it's not gonna go away. But you have
30:53
Speaker 1: to learn either EBB and flow with it or sometimes yeah,
30:56
Speaker 1: just like like shut up, I have to do this
30:58
Speaker 1: against your perfectionist sensibilities and really just let let it out,
31:02
Speaker 1: you know, and divine timing, giving giving it a little
31:07
Speaker 1: bit of divine timing really helps because like had I
31:09
Speaker 1: dropped these songs six years ago when I wrote them
31:12
Speaker 1: and the like ten minutes after I finished them. I
31:15
Speaker 1: don't even know where I would be, who i'd be around,
31:17
Speaker 1: and if they'd be as good. Honestly, they probably wouldn't. Yeah,
31:21
Speaker 1: I echoed thesa sentiment to about needing to put out
31:26
Speaker 1: new work. Also with social media and TikTok and the
31:30
Speaker 1: algorithm putting out new work every day, multiple times a day,
31:34
Speaker 1: just constantly churning out work. We we've never really been
31:39
Speaker 1: about that. We can't. It's too much and is the
31:43
Speaker 1: stuff good? Is? Does it stand? Does it? What's it for?
31:47
Speaker 1: You know? So relieved honestly to like have this conversation
31:52
Speaker 1: about like taking a breath and like letting the work
31:55
Speaker 1: breathe and grow the way that it should because it's
31:57
Speaker 1: a living thing, right rush something It's gonna feel and
32:01
Speaker 1: look and sound rashed exactly, And like to be honest,
32:05
Speaker 1: like I hate churning out mediocrity for the sake of volume.
32:10
Speaker 1: That to me like it because because we're not doing
32:13
Speaker 1: like it's one thing to do like story posts or
32:15
Speaker 1: like something, you know what I mean? Like you know
32:16
Speaker 1: you you do things daily that are like loudest crazy
32:20
Speaker 1: commitment posting a selfie is nothing not the same as
32:23
Speaker 1: you posting a body of work a music video or
32:26
Speaker 1: you know, like, uh, it's not it's not the same.
32:29
Speaker 1: I mean, put yourselfies are both of yourselfies are works
32:31
Speaker 1: of art. I'm not saying that it's more just like
32:33
Speaker 1: but you know what I mean, but think type of
32:36
Speaker 1: but it's a different type of like content than you know,
32:39
Speaker 1: when you you are creating something else of you, you know,
32:42
Speaker 1: and that has to take patients and like my my
32:45
Speaker 1: big gripe and I'm gonna get I'm gonna talk my
32:47
Speaker 1: ship a little bit because being a proud Latina, you know,
32:51
Speaker 1: you know, Latina part of Latin community, I want to
32:55
Speaker 1: make sure that I'm a part of this community that's
32:57
Speaker 1: turning out quality content. And I'm a firm believer that
33:00
Speaker 1: the friends have surrounded myself with our able to deliver
33:05
Speaker 1: that quality content. And if we all like make sure
33:07
Speaker 1: that we're holding each other accountable to that quality and
33:10
Speaker 1: supportive but also being you know, really honest, like you know, like,
33:13
Speaker 1: because all it's gonna do is uplift and and create
33:17
Speaker 1: you know, set standard, and it's gonna you know, turn
33:20
Speaker 1: more eyeballs towards us, Like we really have to be
33:22
Speaker 1: adamant about demanding quality of ourselves and our friends. And
33:25
Speaker 1: you know, you just need the ship on everybody's work either,
33:28
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, Like like but like really
33:30
Speaker 1: just like yes, like you see someone shining and it's like, yes,
33:33
Speaker 1: let's amplify this because I mean really, like we call
33:37
Speaker 1: it the movie scene or whatever, or the film industry
33:39
Speaker 1: or the music industry, but really it's all like the
33:41
Speaker 1: it's you know, it's it's the it's the gatekeepers, it's
33:44
Speaker 1: you know, call it the you know, the white man
33:46
Speaker 1: or whatever. It is, like like like Ebern and Groper,
33:52
Speaker 1: like they rip each other, you know, like the people
33:54
Speaker 1: bring each other apart. You know, they're very critical of
33:57
Speaker 1: people that look the same as they do, you know
33:59
Speaker 1: what I mean. And like I'm not saying ship on everything,
34:01
Speaker 1: but we really need to just be like, hey, let's
34:05
Speaker 1: let's amplify the quality and not let things fail upwards, right,
34:10
Speaker 1: you know it's true it's social because sorry, so I
34:16
Speaker 1: don't need to cut you off, but I did want
34:19
Speaker 1: to say, like, we notice that when we put something out,
34:25
Speaker 1: there are certain people that will engage, and there are
34:28
Speaker 1: certain people that you expect to engage in support and
34:32
Speaker 1: share an uplift that don't And so just like a
34:35
Speaker 1: reminder when your folks, even if they're not your folks,
34:38
Speaker 1: right there just someone that you appreciate there are and
34:41
Speaker 1: even if there maybe they you don't exactly funk with
34:43
Speaker 1: them either, but you do support what they do, like
34:45
Speaker 1: that kind of sharing, and especially now with the algorithm,
34:49
Speaker 1: Like I think a lot of us are being very
34:51
Speaker 1: like conscientious of like, yeah, we're gonna share this and
34:54
Speaker 1: we're gonna comment because like we know that the indie
34:56
Speaker 1: creators like need that extra boost because if not, it
34:59
Speaker 1: will flop. And it doesn't mean that it's a flap,
35:01
Speaker 1: but sometimes social media makes you think feel like it
35:03
Speaker 1: is a flap. Yeah, it's like a weird dance that
35:05
Speaker 1: you have to do where it's like, all right, well, indy,
35:07
Speaker 1: we have to band together. But then it's also like
35:10
Speaker 1: we also don't want to throw a like or a
35:12
Speaker 1: share of follow behind something that we don't truly believe in.
35:15
Speaker 1: But then how can you deny when your entire circle
35:18
Speaker 1: is incredibly talented, you know what I mean? And that
35:20
Speaker 1: that's where I'm more just like looking at your peers
35:23
Speaker 1: and being like, hey, we're all like being very cognizant
35:25
Speaker 1: of each other's strength, encouraging things, being like, um, hey,
35:30
Speaker 1: you know what man like this is like I don't know.
35:33
Speaker 1: Like again, people, you don't need my opinions. I'm like,
35:35
Speaker 1: it's not I'm not saying your art isn't valid, but
35:37
Speaker 1: it's like if we're if we're contributing as part of
35:39
Speaker 1: as part of a Latino scene, I'm just like, we
35:42
Speaker 1: have to be unafraid to like really deliver honest opinions,
35:45
Speaker 1: really give genuine support. It's another thing. If you're not
35:48
Speaker 1: getting genuine support, it's just as bad as beiving a
35:51
Speaker 1: bad critique because then you're getting you know what I
35:54
Speaker 1: mean that you're you're I don't know, it's it's it's
35:56
Speaker 1: a weird dance to do because it's like it's, yeah,
35:58
Speaker 1: it is your friends were all independent. But I'm like
36:00
Speaker 1: I'd much rather have people tell me, like christ All,
36:02
Speaker 1: this is like not that good. You know what I mean,
36:05
Speaker 1: that's that's not why. Yeah we're like hey, Christal, like
36:08
Speaker 1: this is like you know someone who's you know, who's
36:12
Speaker 1: willing to mentor me be like hey, by the way,
36:13
Speaker 1: I see the potential in this. You miss the mark
36:15
Speaker 1: by this much. I've had people straight up tell me
36:17
Speaker 1: that in a very nice way, like you're so almost there,
36:20
Speaker 1: it's crazy, And I'm like, thank you. Cool. That doesn't
36:23
Speaker 1: really know, at the very least, I'm looking in the
36:24
Speaker 1: right direction, you know what I mean? That doesn't feel
36:26
Speaker 1: like like trash. Um. Yeah, I think I think for
36:29
Speaker 1: us a lot of what it is is like, um,
36:33
Speaker 1: almost when you see that somebody near you or around
36:37
Speaker 1: you is putting together something like truly excellent and amazing,
36:41
Speaker 1: Like when we're impressed by the people around us, it
36:45
Speaker 1: really makes us Okay, well, how do we how do
36:48
Speaker 1: we do something like that? How do we do something similar?
36:50
Speaker 1: How do we do something completely different than that? That's
36:54
Speaker 1: our own? But you know, it is kind of like
36:57
Speaker 1: giving us that same inspiration. Like if the artists and
37:01
Speaker 1: the work that you're surrounded by is you know, garbage,
37:05
Speaker 1: then maybe you're not as compelled. I don't know. I
37:09
Speaker 1: think to each their own, it's different. One thing that
37:12
Speaker 1: we do notice is, like you know, on on the internet,
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Speaker 1: and we talk about the Internet so much just because like, um,
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Speaker 1: it's free PR and that's everything, and we don't have
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Speaker 1: PR people and all your favorite artists, everybody who's like
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Speaker 1: selling millions and making millions and stadiums. They have pr
37:29
Speaker 1: people pushing their ship constantly, like they have teams armies
37:34
Speaker 1: of people pushing their stuff to out to you so
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Speaker 1: that you know who they are. We don't have any
37:39
Speaker 1: of that, right we have to We have to push
37:41
Speaker 1: it out ourselves with our itty bitty fingers on our phones. Literally,
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Speaker 1: it's just phones on fingers pushing our shipped out to
37:50
Speaker 1: you guys. Um. And that's why we talk about it
37:52
Speaker 1: so much, because it really does matter. And what we
37:55
Speaker 1: see a lot of is some of the biggest accounts
37:58
Speaker 1: with the most followers and the most interaction, in the
38:01
Speaker 1: most engagement in the Latin X space. Mind. You know,
38:05
Speaker 1: there there meme accounts, their meme accounts, their meme accounts,
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Speaker 1: and a lot of it is sucking trash as memes,
38:11
Speaker 1: I'm gonna say it, trash trash, ask memes, accounts that
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Speaker 1: are highly homophobic, that are highly xenophobic, that displante blackness,
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Speaker 1: that are really sucking, corny and trashy like in in
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Speaker 1: ungod ways, in ways we don't like, you know, but
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Speaker 1: they get the most, they get the most engagement and
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Speaker 1: the most followers and the most, you know, and so
38:31
Speaker 1: it's just a little frustrating because then we try and
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Speaker 1: sort of okay, well, this is how the algorithm is working.
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Speaker 1: Let's throw a meme on our page that ship gets
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Speaker 1: the most likes, in the most engagement, and the most interaction.
38:43
Speaker 1: I think. I think one of my highest performing clost
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Speaker 1: one time was like a little meme format that I did,
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Speaker 1: which is hilarious. But um yeah, you know, I just
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Speaker 1: I'm very uncomfortable with the idea of essentializing what it
38:54
Speaker 1: means to be Latino, essentializing what it means to be
38:56
Speaker 1: a Latin X artist, or especially a female Latino artists.
38:59
Speaker 1: You know, I must look or perform a certain way
39:02
Speaker 1: like I'm you know, I you know I I want
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Speaker 1: to be able to and then you know, even with
39:08
Speaker 1: this music, you know what I mean, Like this music
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Speaker 1: that i've you know, just hie back to that like
39:11
Speaker 1: that I'm putting out. I'm in love with it. I'm
39:14
Speaker 1: excited mostly, and I'm also highly terrified because genre wise,
39:19
Speaker 1: I don't know, like, if it's what people are gonna
39:22
Speaker 1: expect of me, it's definitely a step of where I'm going,
39:26
Speaker 1: you know, because even the next album is going to
39:27
Speaker 1: be different because I'm growing, you know what I mean,
39:29
Speaker 1: And like I keep thinking, well should and people will
39:32
Speaker 1: call me straight up like you should do this. Have
39:33
Speaker 1: you heard of this artist? You should be like her
39:35
Speaker 1: blah blah blahahm, Like but I'm not her. If you
39:37
Speaker 1: want her and go hire her, you know, or you
39:40
Speaker 1: know what I mean, and and I'm but I'm also
39:41
Speaker 1: like I I I it is set essentialization, you know
39:45
Speaker 1: what I mean. Like I've had people tell me multiple
39:46
Speaker 1: times like, oh, you should be doing low rider Olie stuff,
39:49
Speaker 1: and I'm like, you know, I'm like, and I'm like no,
39:54
Speaker 1: and and like or like oh, or tell me like
39:56
Speaker 1: why don't you do why don't you do Manatti? Why
39:58
Speaker 1: don't you do like super pop or whatever or like
40:01
Speaker 1: or you know, and then they'll ask me to do
40:03
Speaker 1: typical or like that get going, you know what I mean.
40:04
Speaker 1: I'm like, I love and appreciate I'm not I don't
40:06
Speaker 1: doubt I won't ever write those kinds of songs even
40:08
Speaker 1: you know, but like to have that imposed on me
40:11
Speaker 1: because it's more comfortable for you to see me as
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Speaker 1: a Latino artist in a space that you've essentralized me
40:15
Speaker 1: in is something that I'm just trying to like I'm not.
40:18
Speaker 1: It's it's like I'm almost like passively or subconsciously breaking
40:22
Speaker 1: away from it by like just writing and looking and
40:24
Speaker 1: doing whatever I want, you know what I mean. Like
40:26
Speaker 1: I like that I'm a little bit of a tomboy
40:27
Speaker 1: but can also go very fat. I like that I
40:29
Speaker 1: do disco but can also do a ballot you know
40:31
Speaker 1: what I mean. I I and if that makes it
40:34
Speaker 1: so that I can't go mainstream successful, fine, But I
40:37
Speaker 1: also think there's a lot more kids because I'm first generation,
40:39
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. Like, I think there's a
40:40
Speaker 1: lot more people that grew up like me that are
40:42
Speaker 1: just starting to wake up and now they're my age,
40:45
Speaker 1: and they have disposable income, you know what I mean.
40:46
Speaker 1: They're throwing their their their likes and their money behind
40:49
Speaker 1: things that they see that they that resonate with them,
40:51
Speaker 1: kind of like you know how you're talking about the earlier,
40:53
Speaker 1: Like we look back and we see the things that
40:55
Speaker 1: would like really stuck with us when we were younger,
40:57
Speaker 1: and now that we're older, we're like, oh, I like
40:59
Speaker 1: this the changed me. I had a thought about it.
41:02
Speaker 1: I'm older and understand it. Now. Let me now put
41:04
Speaker 1: my money behind things that continue to make me feel
41:06
Speaker 1: that way because I'm proud of that feeling. I'm proud
41:08
Speaker 1: of of of thinking differently and that I was always
41:11
Speaker 1: on this path and now I'm old enough to actually
41:14
Speaker 1: speak on it. Yes, yes, queen, yes, yes, Well, well,
41:22
Speaker 1: my friends, it has a glorious a glorious interview. You
41:27
Speaker 1: have not heard the last of Criso. Cres is actually
41:30
Speaker 1: music supervisor on our upcoming show marijuan Eda Web series
41:36
Speaker 1: about wet a podcast her Potheads. You're gonna hear Crisol
41:39
Speaker 1: sing and you're gonna see her dancing and acting and
41:41
Speaker 1: all these gorgeous things in marijuan Eda. Not only that,
41:44
Speaker 1: but Crisol does have new music coming out with Retroactive
41:49
Speaker 1: and her new EP Juliette coming out. Criso, where can
41:52
Speaker 1: people follow you? Where can they find find you? And
41:54
Speaker 1: where can they listen to your music? Yes? So right
41:57
Speaker 1: now I have I currently have EPs titled Lee. There's
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Speaker 1: four tracks on there you can check out, and also
42:02
Speaker 1: two other singles on Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon, anywhere you stream. Um.
42:06
Speaker 1: A new a new EP titled Retroactive is gonna be
42:08
Speaker 1: available July. Um do you have a single Juliet's gonna
42:12
Speaker 1: be dropping just before that. You can check that out
42:14
Speaker 1: that will be available July two. Can follow me on Instagram,
42:18
Speaker 1: follow me on TikTok. I promise I'm gonna wake up
42:20
Speaker 1: on there at some point. I'm more of a stalker
42:22
Speaker 1: right now, little scrolling everybody's content. But you can follow
42:25
Speaker 1: me on TikTok as well. I also do have a
42:27
Speaker 1: Patreon um that you know, has a few tiers for
42:31
Speaker 1: like different types of access. I do exclusive performances for
42:33
Speaker 1: Patreon UM. You know, a bunch of cool little stuff
42:36
Speaker 1: in studio. That studio they have to record UM, as
42:39
Speaker 1: well as a great many other goodies like early access
42:42
Speaker 1: to tickets for shows and yeah, YadA, YadA YadA. So
42:45
Speaker 1: you can check me out there and yeah, and then
42:47
Speaker 1: you can also find me stalking Mona's I g so
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Speaker 1: find me in her comments. Same thing for those guys, beautiful. Well,
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