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Is it what Nats wouldve wanted?
I can just picture her shouting, Bitch, get off my grave!
or Youre so stupid for this, ho!
All of these playful ways to sayI miss you too.
We are all figuratively dancing around headstones in 2022.
But what if we actually have a go at make them talk back?
Or used those old memories to make money?
The manipulation of dead voices for capital isnt new.
I wasnt putting words into his mouth,she said.
I was just trying to make them come alive.
And,in another interview: This is just breathing life into older music for the newer generation.
Where are the guitars?
The whole thing is an uncanny nightmare because it came from an uncanny concept.
Other times hes said that its as if she were in the recording studio this morning.
They want to keep her alive, but not like that.
You take your little bits and make your own sound.
Listening to this album, that personal sound Selena talked about is missing.
Selena performed with immeasurable cadence and emotion.
But here theyre using a voice from when shes barely lived.
You wouldve heard the very thing that made her special, something that cant be re-created with computers.
I was processing grief and my own self-worth with the memories of this celebrity I deeply adored.
I was interacting with something old to say something new, but also not new.
I was doing it for myself.
And maybe thats what her family is doing.
Almost 20 years on, perhaps theyre still mourning, still figuring something out.
The character has to let her go.
She belts Como la florrrrr, and then stops and waves.
She waits for the audience to sing along with her.
Shes teasing them, almost, but its symbiotic; she wont sing the song unless they sing along.
I mean, LOOK AT HER!
Ill tell the squares in the Zoom room.
Underneath that Band-Aid, she was bleeding.
And oh, how I love her!
Because she was not a disembodied perfected voice on a posthumously released robot album; she was a person.
