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Girl Ultra: On Mexico City's 'haunted' energy and why she secretly loves sad songs

Alt.Latino

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4.5673 Ratings

🗓️ 12 April 2023

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Across her evolving discography, which includes everything from R&B ballads to danceable electronic beats, Girl Ultra has solidified her approach to deep, dark songs of love and heartbreak. In this episode, Anamaria Sayre sits down with the up-and-coming Mexico City singer to talk lost loves, why the city is "haunted" and how she copes with a nostalgic heart.

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available wherever you get your podcasts. From NPR music, I'm Felix Contreras. I'm Anna Maria Sayer.

0:29.0

Let the Chisemay begin. Okay, Anna, you're still in Mexico City. I have to say I'm a little

0:36.3

jealous. I mean, that is why you keep me around feeling so that you can live vicariously.

0:45.1

That is for sure.

0:46.9

Live the joys of my youthful life.

0:49.1

Although I will say, I think you have a more active social life than I do.

0:53.5

I don't know about that, man.

1:00.0

I mean, there's just such an incredible diversity to the sounds here.

1:06.8

I mean, you can literally find anything, jazz clubs, DJ sets, like, whatever you want.

1:12.6

And R&B, Mexico City, who do we immediately think of?

1:18.9

But alt Latino phase.

1:21.1

Girl Ultra.

1:22.4

Who I got to sit down with.

1:24.1

She is one of my favorite people.

1:27.3

She is so funny, Felix. Like, you get how she's a

1:31.8

creative in her expression because she's an R&B artist, but also R&B is just scratching the

1:37.1

surface for her. She's really done all kinds of experimentation with all kinds of sounds,

1:42.7

which is really, really exciting to see the ways that she's continuing to do that.

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