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

linktr.ee/waronwomen

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:]

Keep listening to hear “Cheesus” by Ratas En Zelo in full. 

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thanks for listening and for real, fuck ICE.

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