Selena Gomez's tears, Jessie Reyez's gratitude and what it means to be 'xolo'

Alt.Latino

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🗓️ 5 February 2025

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Our digital mailboxes continue to overflow with new music. This week, we hear from a Colombian-Venezuelan super group, a new Afro-Brazilian band, and Ana gets another jazz lesson from a Latin jazz orchestra.

Songs featured in this episode:

• XIXA, "Xolo de Galáxia"

• Meme del Real, "Princesa"

• Jessie Reyes, "GOLIATH"

• Arturo O'Farrill & the Afro-Latin Jazz Orchestra, "Dia de los Muertos III Mambo Cadaverous"

• Trinka, "Grego"

• Astropical, "Me Pasa (Piscis)"

Audio for this episode of Alt.Latino was edited and mixed by Simon Rentner. Our project manager is Grace Chung. NPR Music's executive producer is Suraya Mohamed. Our VP of Music and Visuals is Keith Jenkins. Special gracias to Hazel Cills: Thanks for everything!!

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0:00.0	Support for NPR, and the following message come from Yarl and Pamela Mone,
0:04.4	thanking the people who make public radio great every day and also those who listen.
0:13.6	From NPR music, this is Alt Latino. I'm Felix Contreras.
0:17.3	And I'm Anna Maria Sayer. Let the Chismay begin.
0:20.7	And Felix... Oh, my God. Here we go. there has been a lot of chispe this week.
0:24.6	Have you been seeing the conversation around Selena Gomez?
0:28.6	Like third hand.
0:30.6	Selena Gomez shared a video on Instagram of her crying, talking about deportationsations and basically saying that her people are
0:40.2	being attacked.
0:41.4	This has been a huge conversation, I think, within the Latino media space.
0:46.9	But not for the reasons you expect.
0:48.5	A lot of what I've been seeing is people voicing concerns about it being insensitive,
0:53.6	her speaking from a position as a third generation Mexican-American,
0:57.2	saying this isn't the issue for her to be talking on,
1:00.4	that she needs to sit back for this one
1:02.0	and let people who have lived experiences being fearful of deportation
1:06.4	or have had family members who have been fearful of that.
1:09.2	So that's kind of been the online discourse.
1:11.5	I don't have a problem with whether or not she is a recent immigrant or a third generation.
1:17.2	The experiences of the recently arrived can be felt by people even outside of the community.
1:23.2	Both good things and bad.
1:25.0	Okay?
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