In conversation: Why Mexican pop icon Julieta Venegas doesn't call herself a pioneer
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🗓️ 15 March 2023
⏱️ 28 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | For me, pure music, this is Latino and Felix Contreras. |
| 0:03.0 | And I'm on a Maria's side, let the cheese faint, we get. |
| 0:06.5 | I'm going to take care of my house, I'm going to clean it all. |
| 0:13.0 | I'm going to change the focus, to see it in another way. |
| 0:19.0 | I'm going to love myself so much now that I know it. |
| 0:25.5 | This week's guest is someone I've always wanted to talk to. |
| 0:34.0 | So I'm really glad that you brought Juliette of a Negus and to have conversation. |
| 0:37.5 | Oh my God, Felix, it was such a dream talking to her. |
| 0:41.0 | You know, it's hard to believe that her first album came out in 1997. |
| 0:45.0 | I can't even fathom that. |
| 0:47.0 | Yeah. |
| 0:48.0 | That first album basically puts her in the context of the earliest days of Latin alternative music |
| 0:53.0 | when it was transitioning from what used to be known as rock in the Spaniard |
| 0:57.0 | and began incorporating more elements of pop, which she does really well. |
| 1:02.0 | Oh, that's what I love about her because she's pop, but she has that rocker as soul. |
| 1:24.0 | That's why I'm not mad that you went out and did this interview with, |
| 1:30.0 | with who I'm glad because you know, I was like asked for forgiveness. |
| 1:36.0 | Right. |
| 1:49.0 | Okay, let's dig into this wide-ranging, great conversation with Juliette of a Negus |
| 1:54.0 | and which she talks about her inspirations, her latest album to a story about that word pioneer. |
| 2:01.0 | I wouldn't call myself a pioneer. |
| 2:04.0 | And I guess in a way all women have to be pioneers in one sense or another because, |
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