Presenting 'Alt.Latino': Elvis Costello, reimagined en español

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🗓️ 14 December 2021

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

In this special episode from our friends at Alt. Latino, host Felix Contreras talks to Elvis Costello and Grammy-winning producer Sebastian Krys about Costello's classic 1978 album, This Year's Model. It was reimagined as Spanish Model this year by a score of Latin artists. And unlike its predecessor, all the songs are in Spanish.

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0:00.0	Hey y'all, you're listening to It's Been a Minute from NPR.
0:02.8	I'm Sam Sanders, and today we're gonna share an episode
0:06.3	from our friends at another NPR show, Alts Latino.
0:10.7	For this one, we're gonna go all the way back
0:12.4	to the year 1978.
0:14.9	Jimmy Carter was president.
0:16.5	The United States of America and the people
0:18.3	to the Republic of China have agreed to recognize each other
0:22.4	and to establish diplomatic relations.
0:25.2	As of January, the movie Greece had just hit theaters.
0:28.9	Sandy!
0:31.9	Tell me about it, Steph.
0:34.5	And across the pond, the first baby conceived via IVF was born.
0:40.8	All right.
0:41.8	You know what I'm sure you have plenty of them.
0:44.5	1978 was also the year Elvis Costello and the attractions
0:49.2	released an album called This Year's Model.
0:52.5	I want nobody else.
0:59.1	Now more than four decades later, Elvis Costello and the Grammy
1:02.3	one introducer, Sebastian Chris, have revisited that iconic album.
1:07.1	And they've breathed new life into it with the help of Latin artists.
1:11.1	The result is called Spanish Model.
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