Alex Cooper x Youtube Presents: Becoming a Coachella Headliner (ft. KAROL G) - Part 1

Join Alex in the studio for an interview with KAROL G during part 1 of the Youtube Coachella Special. KAROL opens up about her journey building her career in a male-domianted industry to now headlining Coachella. She also talks about representing her community, finding her confidence and how she’s currently approaching dating. Tune in to the official Coachella livestream on YouTube. Live from the comfort of your living room. April 10-12 & 17-19 @Coachella. #YouTubePartner

Speaker names marked ? are inferred from speaking time and the show’s known hosts — they are not voice-verified.

• 0:00Alex Cooper?

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• 2:13Alex Cooper?

  What is up, daddy gang? It is your founding Father Alex Cooper with Call Her Daddy.

• 2:22Alex Cooper?

  Carol G, welcome to Call Her Daddy.

• 2:26Speaker 01

  The little critico, of course, because I mean, call her daddy. How are you?

• 2:30Alex Cooper?

  I am so good. I've been so excited to sit down with you. I feel like you're just like taking over the world right now. You are a Grammy winner, you're selling out stadiums worldwide, and now you're headlining Coachella. Congratulations.

• 2:46Speaker 01

  Thank you so much.

• 2:48Alex Cooper?

  Of all of these things, you've had so much success. What is one of the best parts that you've been able to just like celebrate? And what are you enjoying the most of all of this right now?

• 2:59Speaker 01

  That's a complex question because I think I'm going to answer and then 10 minutes later, I'm going to think about something different. And then tomorrow, I'm going to be thinking like, ah, maybe these two. Because I'm like not right now, I'm just like a roller coaster of feelings and emotions. And even with the with the preparation and the rehearsals and the studying, all this process for this show had opened my mind in so many different ways. So I every day just see something different. I feel super blessed, of course. I feel super responsible of a lot of things. I feel super proud at the same time. I feel super nervous.

• 3:41Speaker 01

  I don't know if you know, but after my I finished the tour, Mañana Ser Onito Tour in 2020, July 2024, and since that July, I haven't been on stage. Like no, with a shovel mine, I was in, Bad Bunny was in my jeans, so I sing with him one of like a song that we have together, but not me on stage performing like a full show. And this is crazy because I love my fans.

• 4:11Alex Cooper?

  And now you're headlining Coachella.

• 4:13Speaker 01

  And I'm headlining, yeah, I'm gonna present, like, actually, I'm going to present these songs of my last album in Coachella.

• 4:19Alex Cooper?

  Do you get nervous, though, saying that? Like, are you someone that gets nervous performing on stage? Like, if you haven't done it in a while, or does it come back immediately naturally?

• 4:26Speaker 01

  I'm more than nervous. I'm like, I need to be on stage. I love stage. Like, for me, being on the studio, like, doing music and being on stage, like, I'm my happiest place to be.

• 4:38Alex Cooper?

  What does it mean to you to have this opportunity to represent your community and get up there and do this for them?

• 4:44Speaker 01

  This is huge. Like, I think, uh, to have a purpose is the most important thing. Even when we started, like, talking about the creative details of, of the show, I was like, let's start from the message. Because I love shows, but I love to be on shows that they have a meaning, they have a reason, they have, like, something to stand for. And this is my opportunity to stand for my community, you know, like, as an artist and being there. I've all the times feel that we can have a voice, but sometimes it's not enough. But to be on that specific stage is to have a big voice, this opportunity to have a big voice for them. So, yeah, I'm gonna be there speaking a little loud.

• 5:36Alex Cooper?

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• 7:01Alex Cooper?

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• 9:46Speaker 01

  Yeah, actually, I think I always wanted to be a singer. Like, my father, he loves to sing. And he used to have like a band when he was like young. And he used to take me when I was four or five years old, like to sing with him, like do it songs. So at that time, I think I was very into the music. So when I grew up, I like I studied music, I started like different instruments, violin, I started like drums, I started like electric guitar. Actually, I got in love really with my voice, that same instrument that I love the most. But everything just was.

• 10:23Speaker 01

  Guiding me that this is one I really want to do. There's another part of me that I wanted to be a motorcycle rider professional. Like I love motorcycles and that's my hobby.

• 10:34Alex Cooper?

  Dude, I love sitting with artists because it's always something like that. Like it's always like, if I wasn't gonna do this, then I was gonna do, and then it's something so random, then like, what? Do you drive motorcycles?

• 10:47Speaker 01

  Yeah, I love, you have to come with me.

• 10:50Alex Cooper?

  On the back of your bike?

• 10:51Speaker 01

  Uh huh, really, bechota moment, like riding motorcycles, imagine Colombia, you're gonna love.

• 10:56Alex Cooper?

  Do you put guys on the back of your bike?

• 10:58Speaker 01

  Yeah, like even my friends when they don't, they don't know how to ride, like they come.

• 11:02Alex Cooper?

  If you were going on a date, would you have a guy get on your motorcycle?

• 11:06Speaker 01

  Ah, okay, like, like actually that's how I started like my, a little bit like my last relationship, like giving, my first gift was a motorcycle.

• 11:16Alex Cooper?

  I thought you were gonna say my first gift was you can come on my motorcycle. You bought him a motorcycle?

• 11:20Speaker 01

  Yeah, I bought him a motorcycle.

• 11:22Alex Cooper?

  Wait, that's an amazing gift.

• 11:23Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 11:24Alex Cooper?

  We're gonna get to relationships. Um, okay, go back for a second though. 14 years old, it was your dad's idea for you to audition for L Factor X. That's pretty young. Like what did you want out of that experience?

• 11:37Speaker 01

  I was very shy. In, in my school, I always was very, very shy at that time specifically. Eh, and I didn't wanna go. Like, I love to sing, I love to perform, even at that time, I was like this little girl that always wanted to sing in front of the family, but not like that. And my father just did the line, it was crazy. He got the number, then I didn't want to go, but I went. And I got chosen. And I started, we started like recording the TV show and then I got out. And when I got out, like my parents were, they were like super heartbreaking, but I was like,

• 12:17Speaker 01

  I didn't really care like about it, cuz I was like, you know, I wasn't like little kid, like you don't really understand like what's happening. But then after that, um, eh, there is this.

• 12:34Speaker 01

  Person that uh asks to sign a contract to start like a artistic process. Um my parents, they asked me, do you want this or you do? And actually, I, at that time, I said like, this is interesting. Like, I wanna understand how this is about. Like, my father showed me the movie of Selena Quintanilla. And for me, that movie, it changed my life completely. I was like, oh, my God, I I I just visualize my myself a lot in in her story. And it gave me like the strength and and the confidence, exactly. And yeah, my parents signed that contract, uh, and I started working.

• 13:14Alex Cooper?

  Before you signed a contract, I feel like I remember reading that you really were working it to try to get gigs before just like you come across a manager and you get signed, right? So like, what were some of the shows that you were booking while you were working with your dad, trying to get noticed and seen in the industry?

• 13:33Speaker 01

  Uh, my father and I, we became like the craziest, most amazing team ever created in history of the music. And I said that because uh uh we were like, my father and I, like, sitting at a table, calling uh two different places. And I was like, hi, um, you're talking with the with Carol G assistant. She's an artist and it was me, like, or it was him. Like, and we were like this big team. Oh, you need to talk to uh the, I don't know, the executive. Like, OK, he's gonna call you later on. So my father.

• 14:04Alex Cooper?

  Would you change your voice?

• 14:05Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 14:06Alex Cooper?

  OK, I'm calling. Hi, I wanna um talk with Carol G.

• 14:10Speaker 01

  Hello, we're calling from the this Carol G team and we asking you to uh, of course, we're showing she she had this great music. She's Latina, she can sing in school, she can sing in um, I don't know, in university, she can sing in. Everybody, do you need? She has a great music, she has a great show, she comes with the artists, she comes with the dancers and she comes with all the amazing time. If you want to do something, just please call us. We're gonna be like super, super, super grateful to be part of your show.

• 14:45Alex Cooper?

  You're a saleswoman.

• 14:47Speaker 01

  No, but no, at the time it worked like we did a lot of schools, universities. Like, uh huh, it was amazing.

• 14:56Alex Cooper?

  You have to work it and you have to like, whether you pretend you have a fake assistant or whatever it is. Sometimes it's what you have to do to get people to then believe like, oh, she's got a team like she is so big. Like this is a really big deal that I'm speaking. Meanwhile, it's like, it's you.

• 15:10Speaker 01

  Girl, it's all about the movie. Like it's kind of, there is this big phrase that I love that the way how they see you, they treat you. So you are the one to have to put yourself first in a specific spot and you have to believe it. And then everyone is going to believe it too. But if you don't do it like, mm.

• 15:33Alex Cooper?

  Yeah, it doesn't, it won't happen.

• 15:35Speaker 01

  No, it won't happen.

• 15:36Alex Cooper?

  So Carol, you though, were trying to break into reggaeton in the beginning, right? Which is a male dominated genre. And so although now you have this confidence and you have this success, like what type of responses in the beginning days were you getting from these music executives who were mainly men?

• 15:56Speaker 01

  Yeah, it, it, it felt like always like a negotiation. Um, I was very blessed that I have my father on the road with me, but actually even having him by my side, there were so many things that they were like fucked up. Like, uh, I don't know, for me, it's, it's, I, I just feel like I, I feel grateful because I had those experiences and now I feel that I have to speak for all my women community, but it, it was crazy. It was all about like, first, there's a lot of people that tells you that you're not enough to do something, that, um, they want to show you

• 16:41Speaker 01

  the way to do it, how you, how and what you have to sell to, uh, have a position. And of course, if you are in a room of like full of, eh,

• 16:55Speaker 01

  Respected men is kind of you are in this this second position where you have to just listen and and go for the things that they plan. Uh, I hated that. I hated everything and I hated it. It almost made me hate what I do. It almost made me hate like my music and everything. So it was hard. Yeah, it it was hard.

• 17:18Alex Cooper?

  Yeah, I'm and I'm so happy, obviously, to now see you in this place because I think I've spoken to so many women, right, where I sit with them and we talk about how being a young woman in any industry, not just music, but any industry, there's such a power imbalance. When you are a young woman and you're in these rooms with all of these powerful men. And like you said, you kind of lose your voice because you kind of just have to agree and say yes, because you're really made to feel so small. And I know early in your career, when you were sixteen years old, what you were referring to is you signed with a manager who was in his fifties and he crossed the line, right? How did that experience affect the way that you viewed the music industry as a whole?

• 18:04Speaker 01

  It kills all the emotion and all the love that I used to have for music, you know? And and at that time, there's so many things that you feel that you're not like, you're not able to to to talk like, uh, that's why I always say that it's super important to teach people to be open with all the feelings and all the different experiences. Cause sometimes you you wanna say things, but you don't find the way or you don't have this. I don't know, but uh, you cannot speak about them. And and at that time, I couldn't speak about nothing. And I just said, I don't wanna do this anymore.

• 18:44Speaker 01

  And and and I just told my father, Pa, please, just take me out of this. Like, uh, help me. I I I don't feel comfortable. And and I just, uh, asked my father, just please take me out of here. And my father, he was my father, he had to pay a lot of, he worked a lot of years just to pay like. How it cost, what it cost to be out of that contract. But I moved to New York to announce house. And, and my father was like very concerned about like, why are you doing this to me? Like, well, it's kind of, he felt that it was kind of a, something that I wanted to do, you know, like, uh, uh, we say in Espanol, un capricho, I don't know how to say it in English, but it's kind of, uh,

• 19:26Speaker 01

  if it was something that I, I don't want this anymore and I just want to start a new thing. But in the deep, deep, deep, really deep, uh, situation, I could never explain, but he just believed in that he didn't want to do that.

• 19:39Alex Cooper?

  I think something you said too, Carol, that's so relatable for women is like, sometimes, and I agree, it's so important to talk about this because hopefully, if there is a woman who's listening to this, going through something like that right now, maybe she will feel more comfortable to speak up, but it's so hard in the moment because you feel, it's like debilitating, you feel frozen, right? Knowing how much your dad was your biggest supporter and was there with you, like, can you explain for people who may not understand, like, why you didn't feel like you could tell him what happened?

• 20:13Speaker 01

  I think because there were so many things that happened to me that they, they were like a first experience even in, in mind and, and situation that I never before spoke about, everything was new. So, so I was like, how I explain this if I don't know even if people leave this, like, it's kind of like you don't, now I don't even understand how, I couldn't say nothing, but I couldn't. It was like kind of, I was embarrassed of, of, of the things, I was embarrassed of myself, it's, it's, it's something that, uh, you, it's, there's no explanation, but I, I just feel that.

• 20:56Speaker 01

  Girls need to understand that you have to speak. There's not a, there's not a way if you have someone that is making you feel uncomfortable, disrespected, not dignity at all. There's nothing good that is going to happen. Nothing good. Like, cause you, you think that is a, this is the way or whatever. That's not, there's never gonna be the way. That, that's gonna make you lose time and that's gonna make you lose yourself. And I learned that like later on. And sometimes like, yeah, I'm really a nice person and I love, but there's people that can sit in a chair and say like, "Oh, that bitch, yeah, you think that she's really good vibe, but she's not."

• 21:39Speaker 01

  Like, I'm gonna sit down, when I say like, "Do you actually are conscious about what happened? What you did on me for you to say that?" Cause now I really make sure people respect me in the room. Like, I love everything, but I'm not like with some, I'm not gonna be sitting with someone. I'm gonna say hi, I'm gonna be very polite, but that's just gonna, it doesn't, we won't gonna cross the line of if you respect me or not. And I learned that really late. Took me time.

• 22:13Alex Cooper?

  But it's, but it's so relatable unfortunately, and I appreciate you speaking on it because there are so many women that are gonna be listening to this. And I do think it's the first lesson that you're really saying is like, giving ourselves grace when we go through something for the first time. As women, we are taught to, a lot of times appease men. And I think it's just recently that we're getting able to have conversations, being like, "That was not okay. You should not have been put in that position." But when you are in those positions, you kind of just freeze and you don't know what to do. And so, a lot of times we have to give ourselves grace that that was our response because we don't know what else to do. But then it takes growing up and learning and growing and becoming stronger.

• 22:57Alex Cooper?

  And it sucks that we have to become stronger from all the pain that we endure as women and going through these hard situations, but it does make us stronger. So now when someone Is coming, whether they're trying to take advantage or they are treating you a specific way. Now Carol G can sit in a room and it makes me upset for you that you learned it through such a painful moment, but you now know exactly what you will not put up with. And there you go.

• 23:21Speaker 01

  You know what's the craziest thing about it? That then like living life, I just knew a lot of, a lot of girls that they had had the same situation and I was like, wow, this is something that repeats a lot. This is something that we really have to stand for because uh it's, it's kind of, it, I don't know, but it looks like it was a normal thing, you know, like a normal thing in the process of every girl that want to do something huge in their lives. So that's why I have to, let's start from the opposite. Let's start being hard and boss and respect yourself first instead of learning it late.

• 24:03Speaker 01

  And this message, and I'm going to speak to the camera, this message goes to the parents too. Cause actually the communication start at home. And if you're telling like, no, no, no, don't do that. Men, they do that. No, no, no, don't hold that because like actually men do that. No, teach a girl to be strong from the beginning. We can do everything. And actually I love to read books about like mind and about spiritually and everything and most about girls. And we have a really strong spirit like over everything. We can do the most crazy amazing like girls that they give life, like they give birth,

• 24:45Speaker 01

  you know, like so starting from that, like just believe that your girls at home, they can do whatever they want. They're as a strong, they're even stronger, like it's a message for, it's a message for everyone, you know?

• 25:00Alex Cooper?

  Such a good point. And is there anything now that you have had so much success and you're in your position that you would want to say to those men who doubted you or didn't treat you right? What would you say to them now?

• 25:12Speaker 01

  Oh no, my work is speaking about me. So I don't have anything to say like they can watch and, and, but everyone is so welcome to be and join my show because it happens that I have had people in my show that they are like so sorry about this and whatever. And I don't take it like personally like that. Enjoy like you're part of this and I just hope you learn your

• 25:32Alex Cooper?

  Yeah.

• 25:32Speaker 01

  You know, you're

• 25:33Alex Cooper?

  Like you can watch me on stage at Coachella. I'll be on the main stage. Where are you bitch?

• 25:39Speaker 01

  Yeah, a little bit like that.

• 25:41Alex Cooper?

  I'll say it for you Carol.

• 25:43Speaker 01

  Exactly. Yeah, yeah, better.

• 25:54Alex Cooper?

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• 28:02Speaker 01

  You know what, like even we did this stadium tour with Mañana Sara Bonito and right now I have the same stadiums as a bucket list for my next tour. It's crazy because you leave it and your brain is like kind of not ready for it. It didn't happen to me, you know, I don't know, but now I still have like the same places that I just went and I have it in my bucket list. I wanna be there and I wanna, I don't know, but when you're on stage and you see all that amount of people that they made these crazy efforts to pay the ticket and everything, it's kind of like your brain is not ready for it.

• 28:41Alex Cooper?

  Yeah.

• 28:42Speaker 01

  And I wasn't ready for that album and for that too at that time.

• 28:45Alex Cooper?

  And because that, obviously that album changed your life and I know it was really inspired by your own relationship, how did it feel to share those emotions and experiences with your fans?

• 29:00Speaker 01

  I think they were part of the rebellion. Of course, they started like being just feelings that then it was part of the rebellion. And my only way to speak was about like through my music. And I always say like, Carol G is a really good artist and a really good musician, but heartbreak, like heartbroken Carol G, girl, get ready. That's, that's something crazy because like that's when like my superpower comes out.

• 29:33Alex Cooper?

  Like I'm gonna write some bangers, get ready.

• 29:37Speaker 01

  Get ready.

• 29:38Alex Cooper?

  And the world was like, okay, yeah, these are bangers. I mean, I, I think about that album and I know like I've been in unhealthy relationships. I think probably everyone listening has, but when you get out of it. And you have that clarity, you're like, how did I not see that? But there's so much that goes into relationships that again, it's like even if there's a bad moment, then it's met with a good moment and then you remembered the good and then it happens again. It's like, I think, I don't know if you have, but like, have you ever made excuses for a partner's behavior?

• 30:08Speaker 01

  Yeah, of course. Like you romanticize everything and, and, and that's how brain works. Cause the, our body hates pain. So we all, our brain is going to be like, ah, yeah, this is bad. But remember when he was nice this time and you are like, yeah, maybe it's not that bad. But then you spend like a lot of time like, you know, doing negotiations with your brain. And then no, it's like, it's, I know, exactly.

• 30:35Alex Cooper?

  Have you ever been in a situation where you look back and you really realize like, oh, I started to lose myself in that relationship and what did that look like for you?

• 30:46Speaker 01

  No, that happens a lot to me. And actually, uh, I need to work that on me. Cause if not, I'm gonna fail every relationship. Now I know that. Cause uh, when you start like having a relationship with a person, you need from the beginning to set things that they're like this, you know? You have your life, you have your life. You do things this way, you do things this way. It's two people that complements each other. But when you start like changing for the other person, just to make the other one feel better, feel comfortable. Like you start like sharing more time with their friends, doing their stuff, doing their thing,

• 31:30Speaker 01

  in their times, in their like routine. That's when you lose yourself. And now you don't find yourself anymore in that specific. So you don't love yourself. And you don't, you're not able to love the other person and, and everything is not like, if you're holding the relationship because of that, then when it breaks, everything breaks, you know? So I need to work that on me. I need to be more like this is how I do things.

• 31:59Alex Cooper?

  Yeah, set the boundaries.

• 32:00Speaker 01

  Exactly, set the boundaries, exactly. So from the beginning, you start like doing things because you know you're in the right, like the most amazing moment, situation, and you just want the other people to feel happy, comfortable and everything, and you start like doing things because of that. And they become habits. You know, they become habits and with the time they become like stronger and stronger, and then you don't know how to be out of.

• 32:22Alex Cooper?

  Right, you've done it for so long that even if you try to change it, they've gotten used to you putting up with it. And then by the time you try to change it, it's too late.

• 32:31Speaker 01

  Yeah, too late, yeah.

• 32:32Alex Cooper?

  You're, I feel you. I feel you hard on that.

• 32:35Speaker 01

  I think all of us.

• 32:36Alex Cooper?

  All of us are like, and yes, yes, yes.

• 32:39Speaker 01

  So I need to defy my love. Is that a word?

• 32:42Alex Cooper?

  Yeah.

• 32:43Speaker 01

  It does be car. I need to learn how to defy a love that keeps going out, but it's still coming in.

• 32:49Alex Cooper?

  Because are you a romantic?

• 32:52Speaker 01

  The most corny romantic girl. And I love details. And when I say details, I'm not talking about like presents. I love details. I love that you find a little note. I love that you find a little thing here, right there. I love to, I've done graffitis on the wall.

• 33:10Alex Cooper?

  For a man.

• 33:11Speaker 01

  For a man. Like, girl, taking time, like long night with my friends, doing something, and the next day sending a picture and find that because it's for you, like, girl, like.

• 33:22Alex Cooper?

  No, that's romantic. But then they're like treating you like shit. You're like, you don't deserve me.

• 33:28Speaker 01

  I love corny songs and I love, I don't know, yeah, I'm stuck in time.

• 33:32Alex Cooper?

  Do you write songs for guys that you love?

• 33:35Speaker 01

  Of course.

• 33:36Alex Cooper?

  And perform them to them?

• 33:38Speaker 01

  Of course.

• 33:39Alex Cooper?

  Carol!

• 33:40Speaker 01

  You know what I did once? I just did a song I recorded in a cassette. I let the, the little cassette player, I don't know how to do the player, with the cassette inside, and I left the house with a note, like, listen to this for you.

• 33:56Alex Cooper?

  Did he text you and say, "I'm madly in love with you"?

• 33:58Speaker 01

  Yeah, of course. Yeah, that was cute. That was cute.

• 34:02Alex Cooper?

  Um, okay, your song, TQG, has become such an empowering breakup anthem for so many women. How did that collaboration with Shakira come to be?

• 34:12Speaker 01

  Okay, uh, she was having this specific moment in her life. Uh, and I had this song that I wrote in a specific moment, kind of in the same moment of my life. And I just noticed in her interviews and everything that she was speaking about like a feeling that represented the song. So I had the song and I didn't have communication with her, but I just, um,

• 34:37Speaker 01

  got her contact, sent her the song, explained her a little bit why I felt that she could be like a part of the song. And then she loved it. I think we had like amazing like conversations before like to shoot the video and everything. And, and I think that, that's why the song became like so big. It was like really genuine about like how she was feeling and how I was feeling when I like, when I did the song. So it was amazing.

• 35:04Alex Cooper?

  It worked. The song talks about an ex coming back when they see you doing better, which is so annoying and so relatable. When this happens to you, Carol, how do you respond?

• 35:18Speaker 01

  With a multi-million selling album and tour. About what you and how you made me feel.

• 35:32Speaker 01

  Yeah, like that.

• 35:33Alex Cooper?

  Mic drop. Oh, watch me make some money and just like live out my dreams now. Yeah, that's how you respond. And do you respond to them ever?

• 35:45Speaker 01

  No.

• 35:45Alex Cooper?

  No. That's your response.

• 35:47Speaker 01

  You know, like how I am, I'm like when I, I'm done, I'm done. Like, there's not a, there's not a door, not even a window, not even a, nothing. There's not, nothing. There's, I'm done. It's like a, you, you have to notice that I'm trying too hard to put this together. Cause when I don't do it, I don't do it anymore.

• 36:08Alex Cooper?

  You're done.

• 36:09Speaker 01

  I'm done.

• 36:09Alex Cooper?

  And that takes confidence. I feel like we can't talk about confidence without talking about bechota. For anyone who isn't familiar, can you please explain what it means to be a bechota?

• 36:20Speaker 01

  Uh, you know, it's still like, we have this specific word in Spanish, un capo. We say un capo to a, a person that is really good at something. Like, for example, Messi is un capo, you know, we say like that. It's like kind of his abichote, uh, and it's the same meaning. It's a word they used to use it for a narco person. But it became like a, a heavy word that represents like a heavy personality. So I loved that for bechota and now there is bechotas and bechotes all over the world. Just super powerful and running their thing and, yeah.

• 36:55Alex Cooper?

  You are such a confident person, which I think people love so much. You even have a tattoo of yourself. What inspired this?

• 37:06Speaker 01

  The three people that I admire the most in my life and it's always been the same. And even like knowing and meeting different people is still the same. And it's, uh, Rihanna, Selena Quintanilla and Carolina that it's me. And, and, and actually people, I know, they understand like, uh, they can feel that it's really weird. Cause, uh, it's kind of a,

• 37:33Speaker 01

  I don't know, like, uh, it's hard to say that you have a tattoo of yourself in your body. But for me, it's kind of, I'm the only one that knows.

• 37:44Speaker 01

  How hard has been life for me in different situations. Like if there's someone that I admire a lot is myself. It's kind of, I just sit down sometimes and I say like, wow, I don't know how I did this. I don't know how I passed through this. I don't know how I'm here. And actually, I keep just repeating that to myself. My last year was a really hard, crazy year. So I really admire like who I've become. Cause I'm still like, I'm not confident person like a lot of times. But there's these lucid moments that I have that made me remember how everything, how hard has been. So I have myself here. I have Selena Quintanilla.

• 38:28Speaker 01

  She's like my most biggest inspiration in the world. Her personality, her spirit, her music. She is the, see, if there's something that represents Latina girl is Selena Quintanilla. And then it's Rihanna. Rihanna, she's my baby. She is my baby. She is like this smart, brilliant, strong person that I really want to remember in every situation. I always say like, okay, what would Rihanna do? Okay, so let's think about it. In this situation, like, cause she's a, she's a bitch. She doesn't care. She's like, everything is fuck it, fuck it for her. So I, I really want to have that. She has been like, she has done everything she wanted in her life.

• 39:14Speaker 01

  She has become like a business girl, like a mom. Very dedicated and lovely mom. And she has done everything as a girl, as a women, women, like everything. So I'm ready.

• 39:27Alex Cooper?

  Have you gotten to meet her?

• 39:29Speaker 01

  Yeah, I met her at her Super Bowl. And she gave me the most amazing lesson a person gave me in my life. You have to be, she didn't tell, she didn't tell this, but that's like what I realized from our meeting.

• 39:50Speaker 01

  You have to be the person you would love to meet for everyone. No, for, not, not convenience, no, for everyone. Be the person you would love to meet, like when you are in a situation, you say like, ah, this person that made me feel so uncomfortable, so bad. I don't wanna be that. She made me feel very special in that room. When I got in. She was so, uh, she was like eating little pollitos, like chicken. She was eating little pollitos and she was already pregnant and she presented his pregnancy that night. And she was like with no shoes, just hitting her sofa and she was talking to me like things that I never.

• 40:30Speaker 01

  I didn't know that she knew my music, she knew my career and she made me feel very comfortable. She talking about like, as a, like as a girl, like I'm very proud, I'm like. So after that, I was like, ah, okay, maybe this is the best lesson that I can have. Like I need to be that person that people and my fans would love to meet when they see me. I want everyone to feel comfortable in my presence. That's very beautiful. I felt like that with her.

• 40:55Alex Cooper?

  Did you show her the tattoo?

• 40:57Speaker 01

  Of course, like, you know what happened to me? Crazy. So embarrassed. Like she must be super tired of me talking about her. And actually, uh, sometimes I think, ah, you're showing too much. And when you show too much, like, I don't, I don't need to do as on with her, like I, I don't. That's a dream, at least, but I don't need to. I met her. Now, my next dream in life is just to go out with her, like and speak about life and whatever. But I was shaking so bad when I met her. And I was like so embarrassed about, like my body was shaking. I was like kind of. Hi, Rihanna, I love you. And my, my voice and everything like kind of just put me on my ballet song.

• 41:41Speaker 01

  And I was just dancing. I was shaking, like literally shaking and I. I, I, I'm still embarrassed about it.

• 41:49Alex Cooper?

  And were you just like, I got a tattoo of you?

• 41:51Speaker 01

  I got a tattoo of you, like I couldn't stop speaking. We were like there for an hour and I was like, yeah. Living my life, you know, it was my moment. I don't know, maybe never repeat again, so I just.

• 42:02Alex Cooper?

  I'm so happy for you though, and that makes me so happy that you had such a positive experience with her. She has such a beautiful energy and I, oh my God, I think so many women look up to her.

• 42:13Speaker 01

  And she smells like heaven.

• 42:17Speaker 01

  She smells like Rihanna.

• 42:19Alex Cooper?

  You're like, do you want to just actually do the rest of this episode? Let's talk about Rihanna. Carol, she's like, you know what?

• 42:25Speaker 01

  Yeah, next. I can keep like just next. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 42:30Alex Cooper?

  I think that's how a lot of people feel about her, though. Okay, let's talk about your latest album, Tropic Coqueta. How did you come up with the name?

• 42:38Speaker 01

  Okay, with Tropic Coqueta, it was like a world of different things. Because I did the album while I was on tour. And I was just going to these different countries all over the world. And even in, like, if I was in Europe or wherever, I had like all these people coming from all the different Latina countries. And the name, it was like kind of, we, as Latinas, we are coquetas. We are like these flirty girls, like, we love being like the center of the room. Like, we like that. And we're sexy and we love our curves because they're in a specific way and whatever. And I wanted to express all of that. And for me, the name was like a kind of a tropical vibe and a flirty vibe.

• 43:22Speaker 01

  And I put them together and it's a tropicoqueta. And we are, all of us, we're tropicoquetas.

• 43:27Alex Cooper?

  I mean, it's so good. And I think there's so many good also love songs on this. So I have to ask, where is your head at currently when it comes to dating, Carol?

• 43:40Speaker 01

  No, like, I'm done for a while, you know? Like, yeah, I think I'm okay.

• 43:45Alex Cooper?

  No.

• 43:46Speaker 01

  But not in a bad way. It's, I feel very special to when I'm alone. Because it's when I focus more in myself. And I kind of, I'm liking it a lot to be this way right now. So I'm not like even, I'm not missing, like, to be with someone. I'm just enjoying my, yeah, enjoying having fun, like, being in my process with the music, thinking about like...

• 44:14Speaker 01

  I just wanna be back on tour with my fans. I just, I'm, I'm missing them. I'm thinking more about that relationship, like, cause uh, I like, I put it like in aside. And I was ready to start like a different thing in my personal life. I think I was ready. And just life told me like, not yet. Uh huh. And just not, not, not yet. So I'm just trying to get the message, you know, and yeah.

• 44:39Alex Cooper?

  Do you think that you have a type?

• 44:41Speaker 01

  I, maybe yes. I like the bad guy a little bit. You know, I have to change that. That's why. That's why I'm. And I like the, the guy that like, it, it, it looks like he's from the neighborhood and he's chill and he, yeah, that's my type.

• 45:00Alex Cooper?

  I love how you just caught yourself too. You're like, the bad guys. Oh, wait, no, I'm, I'm done with them.

• 45:05Speaker 01

  Yeah, that's why. Did you just have this message from heaven?

• 45:10Alex Cooper?

  Yeah, it's being like.

• 45:11Speaker 01

  That's why.

• 45:12Alex Cooper?

  Uh huh. Stopped. What is an ideal first date for you?

• 45:16Speaker 01

  Oh, take me to it. Like, uh, hot dog, french fries, like take me to this street most dirty place in the world that made me feel that I'm the who, like where you come from, bad guy. And I love that. Yeah.

• 45:31Alex Cooper?

  Carol, no bad guy.

• 45:33Speaker 01

  No, I know. No, like erase this and let's start again. And what about, um,

• 45:42Speaker 01

  bad club? Uh, date and I love bad guys. I'm fucked. Yeah.

• 45:50Alex Cooper?

  You're fucked. Every answer, you're, every time I ask you about love, you're so sweet because you're so romantic and you're like, and then you just like drift off and you're fully talking about the bad guys. I'm like, Carol? And you're like, oh, wait, no.

• 46:02Speaker 01

  Now, after this interview, you're gonna be like my, my little boy.

• 46:06Alex Cooper?

  Carol.

• 46:06Speaker 01

  No.

• 46:07Alex Cooper?

  Okay, we're gonna play a little game.

• 46:08Speaker 01

  Okay.

• 46:09Alex Cooper?

  Let's see how much you like bad guys. I'm gonna give you a scenario and you're gonna tell me what you would do. Okay, what would you do if you start dating a guy and then you find out he has been a secret massive fan of yours for years?

• 46:24Speaker 01

  No, no, that's gonna take it like, I don't know, like he, he, if he admires what I do is a thing. But he was like a crazy fan, like, I don't know.

• 46:34Alex Cooper?

  Okay, what would you do if your boyfriend proposed and you absolutely hated the ring he got you?

• 46:41Speaker 01

  I don't know, I don't care.

• 46:44Alex Cooper?

  You don't care?

• 46:45Speaker 01

  No, about the ring?

• 46:47Alex Cooper?

  Yeah.

• 46:47Speaker 01

  No, but I care more about the moment when he asked me.

• 46:50Alex Cooper?

  What would ideal proposal be?

• 46:53Speaker 01

  I don't know, like a really unique one, like be, be creative.

• 46:58Alex Cooper?

  Would you pretend to like the ring?

• 47:00Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 47:01Alex Cooper?

  Love it. Okay, what would you do if you caught your boyfriend lying about his location?

• 47:07Speaker 01

  Problems, we have like crazy problems, that's gonna start like a, a, a new

• 47:14Speaker 01

  way of manage this relationship.

• 47:16Alex Cooper?

  What is the biggest lie you ever caught a guy in?

• 47:20Speaker 01

  A location, and a location, but I'm talking about miles and kilometers and seas.

• 47:29Alex Cooper?

  Seas, seas.

• 47:30Speaker 01

  And seas, like I'm here and actually I'm in a, in a different continent.

• 47:36Alex Cooper?

  No.

• 47:37Speaker 01

  Yeah, it happened to me.

• 47:41Alex Cooper?

  What do you do in those situations? Do you go off or do you go quiet?

• 47:45Speaker 01

  No, no, no, that's a no, that's a next.

• 47:47Alex Cooper?

  That's a next.

• 47:48Speaker 01

  Yeah, so now I'm telling something.

• 47:51Alex Cooper?

  Okay, now you move on. Okay, what would you do if you found out the guy you're seeing is still best friends with his ex-girlfriend?

• 47:58Speaker 01

  If I met him that way, I don't have any problem and because of

• 48:05Speaker 01

  I have really good relationship with some of my ex-boyfriends.

• 48:08Alex Cooper?

  Okay.

• 48:09Speaker 01

  And, and they're like.

• 48:10Alex Cooper?

  But do you like hang out with them?

• 48:12Speaker 01

  But what is, when you say hang out, hang out is what, like going to party or?

• 48:16Alex Cooper?

  Yeah, like would you see, like would you hang out alone with them?

• 48:19Speaker 01

  No, no, no, that's disrespectful.

• 48:21Alex Cooper?

  Okay, you would just like socialize with them?

• 48:23Speaker 01

  Social, exactly, and exactly, socialize.

• 48:26Alex Cooper?

  And you're just cordial, like it's chill, like you're not, okay, so no bad blood?

• 48:30Speaker 01

  No, no, no bad blood.

• 48:31Alex Cooper?

  Okay, last one, a guy didn't come up to you all night at a party, but then he DMs you when you get home.

• 48:38Speaker 01

  Again, a guy is the whole night in the party, but he didn't, he didn't say nothing, but then he DM me?

• 48:46Speaker 01

  No, you lost your opportunity.

• 48:49Speaker 01

  Okay, it.

• 48:52Alex Cooper?

  Are you or is anyone sliding into your DMs in the Coachella land right now?

• 48:58Speaker 01

  No.

• 48:58Alex Cooper?

  No. Or just have you not checked your DMs?

• 49:01Speaker 01

  No, but I, I, right now I don't have, I just deleted the, it was taking me a lot of time to be.

• 49:09Alex Cooper?

  Right, you're busy.

• 49:10Speaker 01

  Yeah, and then I want to be focused on like my show and my things.

• 49:22Alex Cooper?

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• 50:25Speaker 01

  Okay, oh my God, like last question, it sounds like it's a hard question.

• 50:28Alex Cooper?

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• 50:31Alex Cooper?

  You are one of the biggest artists of our time and just hearing, obviously, about you as a little girl with your dad dreaming of the day and then you standing in those stadiums and looking at 90,000 people and standing there and realizing how many people love you and love your music and connect with your music. Like, when you look at your career, what do you hope fans take away from listening to your music?

• 50:56Speaker 01

  With theirselves, yeah, I want to be a bridge for the people to get together with theirselves. It's just a thing that costs me a lot to understand the process. And there's this moment of perfectly worlds in social media. Everyone has a perfect life. Everything is so aesthetic. Everything is so perfect. There's no process for nothing. It's from here to success. No, I want the people to take realness from my journey and understand that there's hard situations, there's sacrifices, there's hard work, there's discipline, there's things like the ones that happened to me, that happens to everyone.

• 51:39Speaker 01

  And I just want them to understand that we are in a process. Everyone is in a process. Everything's gonna be okay. Everything's gonna be fine.

• 51:47Alex Cooper?

  I cannot thank you enough for coming on Call Her Daddy. This was so fun. I feel like I learned even more about you today. I feel inspired. I'm so happy for you for all of your success.

• 52:00Speaker 01

  Thank you so much. It's a pleasure and an honor to be here. In this specific moment, I think this interview is going to be really helpful in my career. So thank you so much for opening this door for me and to your community. We're really big fans of your show, even me and my friends. So they're there, very happy behind the monitor. And thank you so much. You have a great show. Congratulations and thank you for having me today.

• 52:25Alex Cooper?

  My God, thank you, Carol.

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