Anything For Selena

Intelligent, insightful and personal cultural analysis about Latin, Mexican-American, Tejano culture and life told through the career and impact of mexican-american Superstar, singer Selena Quintanilla. Celebrates the joy and embraces the pain of latinx life in the USA in parallel to Selenas rise to epic stardom and untimely death. Told with a lot of sensitivity and personal vulnerability by the reporter. The cultural analysis about body politics, language, race and identity told along Selenas career is so precise and thoughtful. The necessary facts about her murder and death are shared, but it centers so much more her life, legacy and impact, which seems like the right choice. I didn‘t need the „Making of“-episode. Since the podcast was already told through a very personal lense, a behind-the-scene-episode with more perspective from the reporter and her producers seemes a little bit redundant and a little self-centered. Since this was recorded as a dialogue via the internet, the audio quality was kind of poor on this one episode. Beautiful artwork.

This is an incredibly well told and thought provoking story. I am a Black woman from Europe and Even to me Selena has meant so much.