EPISODE 43 - Yadee Araniva of Ratas En Zelo
SHOW NOTES:
Shawna chats with Yadee Araniva, the singer for Ratas En Zelo, about the hypocrisy of religion, fearing the devil, fearing ICE, but also the balance of all things, feeling joy, and embracing cringe. Listen in and get to know this cool NYC band!
SHOW LINKS:
https://www.instagram.com/ratasenzelo/
https://linktr.ee/ratasenzelo
Know your rights when it comes to ICE:
https://immigrantjustice.org/for-immigrants/know-your-rights/ice-encounter/
https://www.immigrantdefenseproject.org/wp-content/uploads/Home-Raid-booklet-ENG.pdf
Honorable mentions:
Cake Like
Downtown Boys
La Neve
2 Minutos
piperrak
Non servium
SHAWNA’S LINKS:
shawnapotter.com
Making Spaces Safer: https://www.akpress.org/making-spaces-safer-book.html
https://www.youtube.com/@shawnapotter
https://www.cameo.com/shawnapotterwow
EURO TOUR INFO: destiny-tourbooking.com
SHOW SCRIPT:
Welcome to But Her Lyrics...the show where we delve into the political lyrics of songs I like, songs I wrote, or topics that I think should be a song. I’m Shawna Potter, singer and lyricist for War On Women - and your host. Earlier this summer WOW played a show on an actual boat in the New York City Harbor with our old tourmates Subhumans. So cool to hang with those guys again, it’s one of the things I love about playing shows, randomly reconnecting with people, sharing some moments, and then never knowing if you’ll see them again. Something about it works for me. Opening the show was this really fun band called Ratas En Zelo which means Rats in Heat. They were cool people and the crowd loved them so I wanted to have them on the show. This is one of those times where I HOPE I’m showing you a new band that you fall in love with.
So coming up, I chat with Yadee, the singer, to discuss their song “Cheesus” about the hypocrisy of religion, specifically, Christianity and Catholicism. We start from the beginning, how they got started, the song, and we also get into the current kidnappings of brown people under the guise of immigration policy and how that is affecting her. And we end on the idea that being pro-woman does not equate to anti-man. Speaking of men I don’t hate!
PATREON:
Shout out to all my patrons for their support of my non-lucrative work! After multiple years now working as an Intimacy Coordinator I finally feel comfortable enough to call it my job, right in time for the film industry’s huge slump! Despite all my work, the math ain’t mathing, but your support on Patreon is so vital to me being able to keep working, keep racking up experience and credits while we wait for things to change. So truly, thank you. Please patrons let me know if you need anything from me, have suggestions, ideas, questions, and of course, if you need a guest list spot.
Got a couple questions from Patreon,
Daniel W asks: 1.) Within the context of your podcast, who would you love to interview? (That is to say, regarding the theme/focus of "But Her Lyrics", who would you love to interview?) Big/small, local/national/global... be realistic or dream big... who?
Kathleen Hannah, Mary Timony, Slant 6, Stevie Nicks, Heart, FKA Twigs - those are the first names off the top of my head
Stephan asks: what are you looking forward to the most when touring Europe? And what‘s the main difference to touring the US?
Bread, beer, wine, chilling, being away from the US. The main difference is Europe understands that a touring band will need to eat and sleep. Often there are snacks waiting for us when we arrive at a club, and they’ll often have like bunk beds on the top floor. A festival will provide a hotel or hostel as part of their offer. The US is like - good fucking luck, you’re on your own, not my problem. I don’t know if it’s a lack of resources or infrastructure or funding for the arts to make it easier. And I am someone that gets hangry and loves to sleep. When I don’t sleep enough, I get sick, which if I was just playing guitar that wouldn’t matter so much, but since I just sing and dance, it’s harder to push through when I’m feeling shitty. Luckily we have all day in the van to find a hotel or place to stay so I know the schedule by the time we get to a club, which helps, mentally. But food on the road is the bane of my existence! It’s about eating vegan, having the time to stop, if I try to save money and time with meal shakes, then I need to stop for a bathroom every 2 seconds. It's about having enough food to perform but not too much or I’ll hurl; too little and I’ll wanna pass out. And then by the time you’re done, everything is closed, so you need someone else to get you food while you set up merch before the show starts even…. Suffice to say, meal and food planning takes up a huge amount of brain space for me on tour, and it’s so boring and it’s something I’m still to this day trying to perfect. So I am REALLY looking forward to Europe.
If you want to ask me random questions on the show, sign up for my patreon right fucking now! patreon.com/shawnapotter. And if you know anyone in Europe, tell them to see WOW play July 26 to Aug 8th! We’re playing some cool festivals, some cool clubs, and some new songs! It’s gonna be a good time. And the award for smoothest transition of all time goes to me, because speaking of a good time, here is my interview with Yadee, the singer of Ratas En Zelo.
[INTERVIEW TIME:]
Yi Araniva, welcome to But her lyrics. Please introduce yourself to everyone.
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Hello, my name is Jadi Araniva and I am very happy to be here. Yay. Sh.
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Well, now I'm happy too. Um, no, I was already happy. Uh, thank you so much for being on the show. I I in the intro, you
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know, I say something about um playing a show with y'all on a boat. Um, not really knowing you before then. Um, and
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so, you know, I kind of feel like I want to get to know Rata's story in addition
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to talking about the song Jesus, which is why we're here. So, how did this band get together? What is your origin story?
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What does the name mean? How did this begin?
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Oh, so basically me, my sister, the accordionist, and Maria, the drummer,
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they they were friends. They they had just met. And soon after that they started talking about oh I play the drums I'm learning accordium. So they
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got together for a few practices like maybe three or four practices and then my sister tells me about it and you know
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I was doing um vocals for another band all male band um and um I was like hey I'm I'm I'm I'm
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intrigued. I'm I'm excited. This sounds really good. So they invited me to a few practices and then uh we have chemistry
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so we just started making songs. We didn't know anything about music about singing or anything. So we just started
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something that probably if we knew it would not have been as I call it original as original or different uh
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different kind of sound but because we were learning music with each other we came up with this whatever it is. And the name is funny because I I like to
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joke with them a lot. So I used to come at practice and be like, "Oh, we are cats, but like female cats, gatas, which
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is gatas. We are gatas and cello, which means cats in heat. We are gatas and cello." And uh we were just I was just saying that as a joke, but one time one
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of our friends said um he forgot the how I was saying it. He said uh the the rats the ratas. And my sister was oh that sounds better. that sound more punkish,
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sounds more um like you know like what cost more essence. So we Yeah, why not?
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We just kept the ratas. Like it was pretty easy name pickic.
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I It's very New York too, which is where y'all and very Baltimore, which is where I'm from. A lot of rats in Baltimore, too. I
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feel a kinship with y'all. Um what?
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So I love I I some of my favorite bands are bands that learn to play music together um and do really cool [ __ ]
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like cake like is is a favorite of mine from back in the day. Um, but it is very unique to not have a guitar player but have an accordion player,
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right?
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So, I get where that came from because it was your sister playing accordion that was like, let let's write some music. But,
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um, did the conversation ever happen of like, should we add a guitar?
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Well, yeah. Um it was it was mainly like okay you play she was playing the accordion and um it was almost like very
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natural to be like hey why don't we let the accordion be the the lead um the lead instrument and we get a bass it was
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really never a discussion we're like yeah would you get a guitar yes it was very natural and I'm now that you're asking me I'm like yes that's that was a
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very natural a common sense for us to be like you know what let's just leave the accordion as the lead song as the lead uh melo melody. Um, and I guess because
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you know the rule is punk, you need a guitar. So, in our little rebellion minds, we were like, you know what? No,
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we don't have to have a guitar because it's fun. We can just leave the accordion as as the lead instrument. Yeah. And it was not a big discussion at all.
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It was like just almost like second nature to just like, duh, of course.
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Yes. But we always wanted a bass. We just didn't have a bass player um just yet.
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Yeah. and is, you know, I'm from Texas and and I think the style of music is called Tahhano music, right? Where there is a lot of accordion um and very busy bass.
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Um is that something that is influential? Is it just like a natural part of you know?
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Well, we're we're definitely not we're definitely not aiming to Tano or to Kumbia or SCA. We are aiming to punk.
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Yeah. Yeah, like like you know if you notice the guitar is playing punk. The the bass is not playing the
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none of the instruments doing any oria style. We were trying to make punk like fast and and energetic punk.
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And is that what you all listen to? Uh is that what influences you or you kind of pull from a lot of different styles of music?
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I would say we all love punk that the three of us love punk. We of course love me uh sky. We love Pumbia. We love all these other styles, but what we were aiming here were punk. Now,
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unconsciously, we do always have influences. Like my sister and I were very influenced by Ben from Spain. Um,
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even in some of the the ways that I sing, I notice, hey, I didn't try to do like this, but I'm influenced by like Nerbion, Piper, you know, um, bands from Spain. And Maria, she loves the Ramones.
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Um, she loves those minutos. She loves other styles of bands, but you know, then we just compliment each other.
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Like I said, I feel a kinship with y'all a little bit. Like not just like there's a bunch of rats in Baltimore, but um also because of our band names and and I'll tell you why. Uh-huh.
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I believe that when we put parameters on ourselves within which to work, it
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actually makes it easier to be creative versus just like do whatever you want.
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Okay, what do I do? What do I do? Um, so choosing the band name War on Women, that gave us kind of a thesis is like,
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okay, well, everything should sort of come back to feminism in some way. So,
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this rat theme, you know, you're kind of you're wearing little ears and everything is sort of um uh you know,
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lyrics are adjusted to to to bring in that theme. Um are you finding I don't know how long you've been doing this.
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Are you finding that that theme is still working for you or is it getting harder and harder to to keep bringing rats and cheese into the whole into everything?
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Do you know what I mean?
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Absolutely. If anything, we'll try not to make it too ratty like too rat rat because I would I can say I and rats forever because I love that. Um but we
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definitely like we have a few songs where we say I or ratas and stuff like that but most of the songs are not about
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uh the rat theme. they it's also the the rats style that we have adopted as our own which is like very
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I guess energetic fast punky kind of punk. Um but no I I if anything in the
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next album I want to add another one or two. We'll try not to overdo it because you know it's it's a lot of broad like you said the ears the cheese the even
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the sign that we have is ick. So we'll try to not overdo it but you can't help it. Sometimes you have to have a one or two songs per album about rats.
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That makes sense. Yeah. Like you're not a joke band. Like you're a real punk band that just has this kind of like wash of little bit of rat stuff, you
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know, like fun customly. Yeah. Yeah. But it's it's not a joke.
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It's serious. And so like like little hints and little bits to keep it going, but it's just fun. It's just fun, you know?
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Yes. Got to be embrace cringiness, too.
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Like Yes. thing like people who's too scared to be cringey and they might not get out of the box, you know? You have to be out there, too.
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Totally. Totally. Like it prevents us from enjoying life if we're that worried about what other people think. Definitely.
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Oh, I love that. And I could tell I could see that when you guys were playing on this boat, you know. Um it's the first time I saw you, so I was just
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being hit with the overall image and the theme and I was like, whoa. And everyone in the audience was having so much fun
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dancing to your music and they they were not worried about like, oh, should I like this band and oh, is it okay to dance? Like, everyone was just having a
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great time and it was a really beautiful night. Do you agree?
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It was absolutely awesome. I've been and even like me um seeing you guys and I
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love your stage presence. I I'm have no idea how you do all these movements and don't lose your air. So I was like also watching you like him.
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I don't know either because the head and and you do a lot of really cool [ __ ] and I'm like how does she know loses her air? I feel like if I move too much I'm like you know
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I'm going to the gym after this interview. I gota I got to keep up the cardio. Okay,
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right. I think that's what it is. But um but yeah, the crowd was amazing. I think for all bands it was really they were there to dance and have fun and that's the best kind of crowd.
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Absolutely. But yeah, we encounter encountered that a lot.
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Yeah. Good. Um, all right. Let's get into the song. So, it's called Jesus, a play on Jesus. Uh, my interpretation is
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that it's a satirical song about religion in general and maybe the hypocrisy that one finds in very devout people or just religion um itself. Now,
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you grew up religious.
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What was that like? And did you find yourself rebelling against it at an early age or did it take a while?
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Well, I we grew up religious but in in the aspect where like it wasn't like I was in peace with God and very connected. It was more like hey, if you
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don't do this, you're going to go to hell. God is going to punish you. We went from Catholic to Christian. Very very extreme um
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uh parenting. I grew up with my grandma and my daddy and my grandpa. Very very strict. So it was I I never remember
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having peace in all these religious traumas. I always remember being scared of God, being watched, being terrified of the devil. I was terrified of the
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devil and um the darkness because be being dark and and and and
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all these images, they're no good for you. They're they're the devil, you know. Everything is the devil. So And the devil to you was like real like Yes.
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Or that's what they were telling you. Like it was a very real thing.
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Yes. They brainwash you since you're very very little. So you grew up with all this belief that everything is bad. If it's not white, it's bad. It's bad.
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So um I will say the this rebellion started when I guess every teenagers
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it gets to be like they want to be their own person and that's what everything kind of started because even though you have all these fears, you still want to
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be yourself. And I remember um being influenced by my sister. She was like,
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she's a year older than me and she started like listening to punk and dressing in a different way and I was down for I was like this fits right in
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for me and I was like maybe 12, 13 when we started listening to punk and kind of
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like not really being so much part of whatever they were trying to guide us to. But that's when things became worse
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because now reading the Bible was oblig I saying this right? Obligatory.
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Obligatory. Yeah. obligatory every night going to church every Sunday and throughout the weekdays. My aunts is a
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pastor. They had two churches in my family. So that was a lot. And my grandma used to throw away our clothes,
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our boots, our music. It was like part of the reason why we ended up in this country, but that's a different story.
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And it ended up being very frustrating.
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A lot of crying, a lot of like feeling repressed. and and I we ended up hating
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religion, you know, we were forced to get baptized or or she will kick us out of the house. That was the the agreement. If you don't get baptized, we
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were like maybe 15 and 16. You you get out of the house and that's how we got baptized. And we have pictures of this [ __ ] So, it's crazy, you know,
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all the worst all the worst aspects of religion in your house and the fear and repression. Ridiculous. Yes.
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Wow. So lyric reference I love this line in in the song
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religions they cannot explain the divinity within ourselves right cuz just because I don't like
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religion doesn't mean I know that I'm more than this human and I know that divinity and spirituality is it's it's
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to me it's all there is it can you cannot exclude anything even the darkness it's it's part of ourselves and when we embrace that we become like
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whole instead of separating oh that's good that's bad you know and judging yourself so yes I do I do believe that
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in that divinity that we are know as humans being as flesh but damn what we are inside you know what we we dream we we have thoughts and feelings and
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emotions and and art we create music so we are definitely divine not in this square religion box you know what I mean yes yes I really love that um So,
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there's the sermon part at the end,
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right? Um, and one thing you say in that is, uh, for only $49.99, all your sins can be forgiven. Um, so funny, so great.
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Um, and it's in English. And I was curious, you know, a lot of bands, a lot of people, uh, who live in other
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countries or, you know, decide to to to forego their native tongue and and write in English. Um, but I think most of your
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songs are in in Spanish. And so when do you decide to sing in English? And was
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it ever a conscious choice to avoid it or not avoid, you know, like how did that how did that come about?
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Well, so to me is the easiest I think in Spanish, right? So it's to be no problem. I can, you know, improvisation.
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We improvise and I always sing in Spanish. But consciously we make a choice. Okay, we have to have songs in English. You have to have at least one or two here or maybe one that has a little bit of English in the middle.
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Cons, we consciously make that and you know to to make it happen. Like we have one in the old album in English, one whole song in English. And in this one
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we have one and a half which is a part of Jesus and one whole song which is I'm right, you're wrong. So, it's a
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conscious decision to make at least one song in English because yeah, for me it's easier not to do it because I feel like my pronunciation or the way I try
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to deliver the song might be a little more, you know, have to think a little more. But yes, this is how we decide.
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We're like, yeah, we have to have a song in English at least one or two.
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I feel like I would be remiss if I didn't bring up all the [ __ ] crazy
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ICE kidnapping [ __ ] going on with Trump's terrible uh immigration
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policy. Um, is that something that has been affecting you or your family or or or I I don't you know if you'd like to
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talk about that at all, I'd be happy to hear it or you know even just tell listeners what they can do to help or just just want to give you that
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opportunity. I want to give you the floor basically.
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Right. So well personally no in like personally in every aspect no family no friends that I know like immediate
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friends immediate friends and definitely not personally it had affected us all in the emotional aspect in the fact that we
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feel so what is this word like input in like not having the power to do anything sometimes or feel like powerless I guess
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is the word powerless it's like disempowered yeah disempowered so because of these
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cases of these people that's been arrested illegally. A lot of these people being citizens or or or green car card holders and there is no warrants.
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There is nothing. They're just straight up breaking the law in in front of our eyes. So, in the aspect that it has affected me and this is of course my
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lawyer's um advice is like because I'm I've been in the process for 20 years.
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Oh my gosh. Are you serious? Yes. 20 years. And it has costed me so much money. Like I'm not even going to say how much, but how much?
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You don't have to say. It's okay. It's okay. But a lot. A lot.
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A lot of money. A lot of stress. A lot of [ __ ] going on. And finally, finally, I got my green card.
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Congratulations.
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Which is amazing. And then it makes me feel like, damn, I just got my green card. Now I feel like doesn't matter,
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right? Because you know how people is just being grabbed with citizenship with green cards just because they profile them as like brown workers.
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That's a wide net of people.
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Yeah, exactly. They're going to very specific areas like work uh like construction zones and like uh garden
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work you know type of work and so again directly no I think globally it has
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affected everybody who has common sense and humanity in themselves um
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and right now for these times I mean even I'm like believe it or not even I'm like trying to figure out what
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really is the way to Yeah. Don't open the door. Don't don't talk to to the police. Don't talk to to the agents that
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you don't have to respond anything. But they're grabbing you without right all these things. So this is where I'm like, okay, so what are we supposed to do?
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Yeah.
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Like what is there to do? You know what I mean? So it is a very difficult situation.
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But again, I do feel and I was telling my drummer the other day, I do feel like even when there's a lot of darkness and and bad things going on, they always
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comes back to a balance. Like nothing can be so not even in nature, things are always so completely out of balance.
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Eventually, it comes back to to its balance. We just have to hold on,
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protect each other, be aware of our surroundings and you know and and and I know I hate this phrase sometimes because sometimes I'm very negative but
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yes stay stay positive because I do believe that energy is something that you attract in the day you know your thoughts and beliefs and feelings. So
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there is and there is a little bit of like it's obviously everything that this administration is doing is terrible.
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it's going to be terrible whether I'm miserable all day long or if I can stay positive and try to find the good and keep working towards something better,
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keep protesting, keep contacting representative, keep in touch with my community, you know, like they're going to do their thing whether I'm angry all day, sad all day, or happy all day.
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It's a matter of what's going to help you do the work. And maybe a little bit of righteous anger is what is needed to
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to be motivated to to to do the work and and get connected and and see where you can help in your own personal community.
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Um or may maybe it's something else. But you got to figure that out and not not let them dictate.
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I do agree. not let them be, you know, I they they don't get the right they don't have the right to make us miserable all day long, right?
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I don't know.
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And what you said is very true. And you know something else and we take this for granted, but all this visibility of
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people being abused and us being able to see it, people being arrested, us being able to see it is creating what they
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want. And I know we don't really think of these things, but it's true. I believe it's true. They want us to be in
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fear. They want us to be worried. They want us to be to to know that they're very powerful and we have no power. This
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is how I do believe that collectively the world is created through our beliefs and whether we're in fear or in power.
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And the more we see these things, the worse we feel. And I feel like that's the the way we mold these things. So it's not to be heartless or to ignore,
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but it's also to stand in a place where like even though these things are happening, we still here. We still have we still have a voice. We still have a
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choice like you said to feel better, to project this in maybe in a creative way.
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Um to to reach out to people, to be close to people, to feel more in like um harmony with our community
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because at the end of the day, it's bad things are going to happen in this war.
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I call it the war of contrast. I think in in this world, I don't think we're going to achieve full peace. I think there's always going to be dark, light,
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sick, and and and health, love, and hate. I believe very strongly that this world, at least this one, it's of contrast.
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All we can do is balance our emotions of what we see, you know, and choose.
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Maybe another world, maybe in a different reality, but this one, I don't think so. It'll it seem it does seem like it will always be a fight and we'll
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we'll never just get to the other side and be peaceful, but they they want us to feel defeated and they want us
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hopeless. And so one beautiful way to resist is to not feel those things so that we can keep doing good work or
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making good trouble or raising wonderful hell or whatever.
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Yes, exactly. M is there anything you wish I had asked you or is there anything you're very
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tired of answering in interviews that you want to make fun of?
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Um, you think I sometimes there are things I keep up. Hold on. Um,
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well, I guess they always ask us they they always ask us why we don't have included a man or if we it's like just
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because you're a man, you're not allowed kind of thing. And and to me, it really comes down to no, we we have male
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friends and we love straight men. We love them. Yes, we do. We date them. But if we if we can choose a space where we
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feel comfortable, especially we're making this is our project, our our space, we simply decide, okay, knowing this one, not today, knowing our band,
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but and in fact, we have right now our um fing bass player. I don't know if you you seen him. Joy is absolutely great.
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He's uh he also does this performance uh as Lanv, which is this whole character like like a woman like he's just badass music electro uh punk.
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Oh, cool. I didn't know that.
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Yes. He's amazing. And he also plays with this other band, Downtown Boys.
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Yeah, that's how I know him. We met years ago. Yeah. Yeah. He's playing tomorrow. Um so yeah,
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I will say it's not nothing against men like specifically like oh [ __ ] you. We don't want you because you you're straight. It's mainly because this is
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our space and we have decided to keep it this way, you know, just like you decide how to keep your your home or or your
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circle and that's something that we get asked sometimes.
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Do you ever feel like you have to give uh a not fully true answer like you know what I mean?
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Like you have to be like you have to like really reassure the interviewer like no it's okay we love men don't worry you know instead of just being like [ __ ] you it's what we want to do.
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Well it's because the especially because it comes from like men asking us this.
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Of course no woman would actually ask that.
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Yeah. Exactly. Sometimes the question might be a little aggressive. Oh, you know you are you feminist? You hate men.
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I'm like no we don't hate men. And it's something like you said we've been asked so many times like we don't hate them.
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We don't. It's it's just the simple fact that we want to have our space the way we want to have it. We even have sometimes birthday parties with only
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girls, only only females. And then we have other ones for whatever, you know, but it's just a choice like you said, like sometimes it's hard to to be like,
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"Yeah, we don't hate you. We just don't want to have you in here." Yeah, that happens.
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That's funny. Uh um so what's coming up next for y'all? And where can people find you? Um, well, we're playing with
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the biggest punk band in Argentina, Dos Min.
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We are so happy. You know, I grew up listening to those Minutos. We all were fans of Dosutos when we were very, very young. So, playing with them is is for
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us is a big deal. And they can find us in Instagram,
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Ratas and Cello, Cello with a Z and everywhere. Facebook, Apple Music,
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um Spotify, YouTube, really everywhere.
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Cool. Thank you so much for joining me on But her lyrics.
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Oh, yes. But her lyrics. Yes. Thank you so much, Hannah.
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So good to see your face again after the boat show. I hope we play again. I do, too. That'd be fun, right?
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Definitely fun. Yay.
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LYRICS (in both English and Spanish):
“Cheesus” en Español
Del pecado te ha perdonado
El mismo dios que te ha condenado
y Los más tiranos lo han representado
y Sus mandamientos nos han enforzado
Mas vino Cheesus Y me salvó
Y con su gloria me iluminó
Y del pecado Me ha perdonado
Y para siempre me ha rescatado
Hail Cheesus! Hail Cheesus!
Es un negocio oscuro y asqueroso
Que manipula y condena al mundo
Con tanto pedo y tanta homofobia
Hasta el pastor ya se cambió de novia
Que hipocresía, perversidad
Pero son santos, no hay que protestar
Ay, que milagros de falsedad
En un puto circo deberías estar
Hail Cheesus! Hail Cheesus!
Te has bautizado
Su nombre aceptado
Servis en la iglesia
Tu diezmo has pagado
Predicás su nombre
Cantás alabanzas
Levanta las manos
Pero te han condenado
The presence of Cheesus is here right now
Oh, the power of Cheesus is over this crowd
And Cheesus wants to save you And you,
and you For only $49.99 you can go to
heaven And all your dirty sins can be
forgiven Hail Cheesus!
The one and only savior
Get out, get out of here
With your doctrines and your bullshit
Everybody can see through you
The game is over
Religions, they cannot explain
The divinity within ourselves
Nobody can give you a path
That's for you to find
That's for us to realize
Hail Cheesus! Hail Cheesus! Amén
“Cheesus” (in English)
From sin, it has forgiven you
The same god who has condemned you
The most tyrants have represented him
And his commands
they have enforced upon us
But Cheesus came
And it saved me
And with its glory
it has illuminated me
And from sin, it has forgiven me
And forever it has rescued me
Hail cheesus (x2)
It's a business dark and disgusting
That manipulates and condemns the world
with so many pedos and so much homophobia
even the pastor has changed his girlfriend
What hypocrisy! perversity!
But they are saints, we can't protest
Oh what miracles! of falseness!
In a fucking circus you should be
You got baptized
His name you've accepted
You serve in church
You've paid your tithe
You preach his name
You sing praises
You raise your hands...
But they have condemned you
(Preaching part)
Get out! Get out of here, your your doctrines and your bullshit!
Everybody can see through you, the game is over
Religions! They cannot explain the divinity within ourselves
Nobody can give you a path, that's for you to find, that's for us to realize