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Hey me too it's Rebecca Black.
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I know a spot and we're at Clark Street Diner.
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OK Rebecca Black, thank you for joining us,
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queen. This place is like if I have anyone coming in
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from out of town we come here.
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It used to be the one on one coffee shop and it
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It was like the spot.
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It looked just like this and it closed in the pandemic,
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which was like heartbreaking for LA and then Clark Street,
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which is like bread and coffee kind of chain I seen them
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before in LA. Opened up like their first diner and completely
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revamped the menu but kept everything completely the same.
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Switching gears a little bit,
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Rebecca you are actually Mexican American.
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A lot of people don't know this.
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My mom was born in Mexico City and came over here when
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like in her mid-twenties,
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and has lived here ever since growing up in like a half
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Mexican household where my mom's family is like such.
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Quintessential Latin culture and the other side of my family is like
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white Midwestern. They couldn't be more different.
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I went back to Mexico City for the first time in a
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while as an adult last year to play my first show at
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Corona Capital. It's really through those experiences through really connecting with
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everyone whenever I'm there and just like reimmersing myself,
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everybody's family like my mom growing up,
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always just like, that's your prima.
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yep she's my cousin we never met before but she is my
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cousin and he's my cousin and somehow my brother's my cousins my
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cousin like it's all that and I just have I think
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it's taught me so much about warmth and about building my own
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family. And what's the your number one menu item?
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Number one menu item is the chocolate chip pancakes.
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These pancakes are the ones.
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You know how they do the SMR of like oh my God
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the crispiness. It's crispy.
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Cheers. Cheers blink,
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It's just something about like classic diner food that always me up
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What would you say to younger Rebecca Black now?
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I would tell her like you're on to something just like keep
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keep going once I lost the ability to trust myself and and
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trust my intuition after being told like you did something so bad
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that was the hardest thing to overcome at this point in
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my life I feel the most like her than I've ever felt
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ever. That's. Beautiful.
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What is something that you think has changed for Latino artists and
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Mexican American artists since you first started?
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It almost felt like any Latino artist that was making music in
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any kind of genre was only for like Latin community and like
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Latin music was for Latin people and that was it and it
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it feels so exciting to see artists like the Marias and artists
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like Juco and and wonderful people making.
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Art for any genre and any person and seeing them being celebrated
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as like artists first and not just being pigeonholed into like a
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certain kind of community and hopefully for that also be seen as
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like a culture that is so much wider than before.
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Find out that you're Latina I'm like we claim her.
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She's like ours Latina mommy absolutely thank you thank you guys.
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I'm gonna take a bite of the pan.
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yeah, I kind of forgot they were there and I think
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we all deserve that.
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just it just baptize it.
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She's the marina of the pancake.
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Yes, holy. Oh my God.
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They're giving. Oh my God.
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I've been sharing something about you like wildfire,
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your boiler room set.
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Oh she ate and left absolutely no crumb was at an all-time
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I said you know I played it this weekend for my friends
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and like. I've DJed actually for like 7 years and a
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lot of people didn't know that's so dope.
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It was just something I did it because I loved to go
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out. Dance and I love like curating an environment and then
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boiler room came through and we were like whoa that's crazy.
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Spoiler alert she throws him some Friday in there and it's laps
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thank you props. I'll be back.
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What are you about to birth into this world?
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I love this project it's definitely the most like ambitious and fun
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and loud project I think I've ever put out.
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So there are two songs that are already out right now,
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so which one's your baby that's your favorite?
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Like you just can't wait.
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I have one that I hold really close to my heart,
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I think it's the title track Salvation because it emulates,
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I think the energy of the project the most.
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It's all about like trusting your intuition,
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whether or not anybody else will understand it.
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It's all about like finding your own freedom within something that might
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be hated or not understood by.
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Somebody else. Oh so excited I can't wait so music for
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the clubs and and for for the queers and and the community
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music for the clubs I wanted to embrace like the queer dance
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culture that I think I've lived in for so long and has
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been such a big part of my life and and I
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just wanted to make stuff that felt really big and colorful and
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like proud. When did you first feel embraced by the LGBTQ
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plus community? Gay people.
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Had my back way before anybody else did and I give them
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so much credit to like helping me find that sense of identity
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I don't know what they saw but they saw something they
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saw it and they're always historically onto everything before anyone else
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is. So apparently who do you think mother is?
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Mother for me will always and forever be Gaga.
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You like going out describe a look that just serves cunt,
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little clothing. Out butt out,
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heels on platform platform.
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There's something though about when I wanna serve.
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I like wanna be as restricted as possible and like move through
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I love to be cinched.
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I love a giant heel something that lets you sweat.
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Yeah, tall, big hair,
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big. I'm all about like more is more.
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I think a big reason.
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I connect with you and your music is because seeing you move
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forward with your music unapologetically and just like strong HBIC it's really
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inspiring, you know,
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and it just it does bring the queer community to your side
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because of that, you know,
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I mean it's truly like a like I feel like I have
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grown and gotten so much of my own confidence because of that
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relationship like it goes back and forth.
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Let's go to. Let's go to screw it.
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Let's leave behind. Let's try.
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I'm so excited. I'm gonna try your chocolate.
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I'll go vanilla. My eyes watered up.
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Oh. What about touring and performing?
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Tour starts March 4th in Seattle and I think we're in LA
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March 8th. I wanna say so not too far off,
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which I'm so excited to bring the show to LA and I
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think I'll be able to bring the show to to Mexico
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at some point this year too,
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and I'm. Really excited to do more shows down there because
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it's just beautiful. The energy is amazing it's it's the best
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One last question out out of curiosity for me,
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are you planning on being mother someday?
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I'm trying if I'm old enough.
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She's she's working. I will be mother for my name.
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Where can everyone listen to Salvation when how Salvation is out February
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twenty-seventh. And you can listen to it everywhere once it's
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out and I'm everywhere Miss Rebecca Black.
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I don't know, type in Rebecca Black and you'll find you'll
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fight her. I'm the one with my tip out yes and
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we love that we are here for it.
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Oh, thank you so much for joining us today.
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Yeah, literally a treat.
