Alex Cooper x Youtube Presents: BTS of Headlining Coachella (ft. KAROL G) - Part 2

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1:49Oh my gosh! Carol is doing the whole thing together. She's very slacking in her manner. Emotion!

2:03I love this. Yo, Carol!

2:31Hey, Daddy Gang. Welcome back to part two of this very special Carol G. Coachella episode. I just got to Coachella. I'm backstage. I'm about to go hang out with Carol G. And I'm so, so, so excited for you to see this episode. Before we get into it, if you have not watched part one of this series, you have to pause and you need to go watch that. In episode one, Carol G shared her story of being a teenager growing up in Columbia and then getting to where she is today, headlining Coachella. Now in this episode, Carol is going to talk about her creative inspiration and just the whole process that went into putting this Coachella set together.

3:07Before we kick off Coachella with Carol G, we're going to take it back to the studio so you can hear from her what went into this set. Let's get into it. What is up, Daddy Gang? It is your founding father, Alex Cooper, with Call Her Daddy. I know that you performed at Coachella in 2022. Now, four years later, yes, you are headlining and it's very well deserved. But where were you when you found out? Like, who called you? What was your reaction? I'm a loud person. I'm a very loud person. I love to scream. I love to, I think I'm a very loud person, but actually this one got me like super different.

3:51Like my, my sister called me, my sister, she's my sister. And at the same time, she's my manager and she called me and I was like completely shocked because I think right now I feel so, so special that I have the opportunity to be in this generation that is changing the narrative for our Latina culture. It's super important for me. And when she called me and she told me like okay they want you to be the headliner that that is going to close the festival because I have Sunday so I closed the festival and it's the first time they're gonna have like a Latina women in Spanish being a headliner so it felt heavy you know it's kind of like crazy so at that moment I was like kind of little shocked I got like this silent moment and And I was like, okay, let's do it.

4:45Like we were talking at the time, we were talking about starting the tour. But then I was like, let's stop everything and let's just focus about this because this is huge. And I really want my community to feel proud. And I really want the world to feel that I was ready for this huge opportunity. How did you begin to come up with what you wanted this message to be? It's a mix of things. I think in my whole career, like I have had the craziest experiences, good ones, very bad ones, things that I just feel that I shouldn't lift at that time. And because of that, I just feel that I need to speak for women in so many different reasons.

5:34So, yeah, there is still like the message of my community. we're fighting for rights but at the same time there's so many different uh battles that we have to still keep fighting for and so I was like thinking how I can put all of these things together and make it work and make it still like it's a show it's a concert you know so uh that was the hardest part to get in and we had like five or six different we started from something then it becomes something different than it like and at the end like well we just built for me it's kind of uh i love it i'm very hard on myself and to have a show that i love love love made me feel like very confident about the show that we have i just am so impressed because i think listen we've seen people go up there and have fun at coachella perform their songs and then we have seen people make statements, whether it was right political or whether it was to represent their community or it was about, yes, like gender, whatever it be.

6:42And the fact that you have two huge things on your shoulders, right? You're trying to speak up for women and you're also trying to speak up for your community. That is a lot. Like I think about it this year. We had the Bad Bunny Super Bowl and this is on the Bad Bunny Super Bowl. Yes, it was his Super Bowl. Yeah, we've got you headlining. Like, what impact do you hope to see from this massive moment that Latin music is having in American culture right now? I just feel like to have the opportunity to change people's minds, it's the most important. It's still like things that are still like running by different people that I don't know how much we can change that.

7:26but at least what I love the most is to see how people, for example, from here, they're fighting for us. And that's what means everything because it's about that. It's about love. It's kind of we're here in this world that is pushing us to be separated in all the ways possible. And when human, they got this empathy. And when humans understand why we are here, we are all a community. I know it's Latinos, it's Europeans, but at the end, we're us in here in this world. It's kind of a, it's humanity. So I just feel that when you see that people is open their eyes and understanding that we have to do something together that's going to make the voice louder.

8:15And that's what we need to get together and speak for everyone at the same time. And in a really powerful way, I feel like something that has always prevailed and risen up is music unites people. Music is this thing that no matter what is going on in the world, it is something that can bring us all together. So kudos to you for doing that. Okay, talking a little bit more about Coachella, because now I'm like, obviously, weekend one happened. We're going into weekend two. can you tell us a little bit about like once you decided on this vision you're like i need to represent my community i want to speak up for women how did you even think about like the set design and the set list and the costumes okay that's a good one because as i said before like we had like seven different options okay and not options because we started from this and then i feel like i like this but i don't feel yet what i visualized for this moment and then we move to here and we just until the moment we got to what we presented okay so I wanted of course to represent where I come from I am from Colombia I'm a Colombiana and I'm Latina and I'm human in this world and so I can how I can represent like my culture not being i wanted to go deep so what existed before the aesthetic of latinos you know like this colorful world we're really extra we are full of beautiful uh different even cultures in our culture because there's mexican colombians peruvian like everything and we're from different places and we have our different things so how i can represent everything but in a way that people can understand because I want the world to understand who we are.

10:09And at the same time, speaking about women, I read a book seven years ago, Las Mujeres Corren Con Los Lobos, is the name in English, is Women That Run With Wolves. I think it's the meaning. And the book is so beautiful because the book tells you and explains you how women were respected in like years ago we're going to we're talking about like uh primitive yep the og days yeah exactly we had all the socialization and society built like all the way back to the very very beginning exactly we're like women were got it exactly so women at that time we were wild you know everyone was wild at that time and it was all about intuition spirituality like the realness that it is in our energy, in our bodies.

10:57And I find always like the energy of women, like the most inspiring thing for me. Like I love men and because I love them, but when I feel something that inspires me a lot, most of the times it comes from women, exactly, from women. So when I read that book, I was like so surprised how they used to be the leader of the tribes and everything because of all the energy, you know, even because of their sensuality, their energy, the powerful mind, the power of the body. And then society, a structure, system, they just have been taking that out from us. So I was like, that's a good start to thinking about the stage, to thinking about where I want to put the people, like when they see the show, where are we going to be?

11:51so we're gonna be in that specific time when women they just were powerful because of their selves their inner mind their inner feelings their like wildness that is so powerful and so beautiful and i want to put the people in that specific time and i want everyone in that space even women more feeling that powerful energy you know you you can be big feeling intelligent smart brilliant but you can feel like intelligent smart and brilliant feeling sexy hot mama see that why not and i want to put that wildness in all the show so we have like one two three like four different stages as the people saw we have four different stages that this kind of of this world where we live in that for me would be the perfect world for women to be free women are going to be going feral like i can't i can't explain even just you sitting in this chair how like it has me getting hype because i'm like this is what we need right now so then when you go out on stage do you ever get nervous that you're going to get choked up and emotional or do you just go right into performer mode and you just have to like black out the emotions?

13:17Because this is pretty emotional, Carol. Literally, I'm the most emotional person that you're going to have sitting in this chair. Like I cried for everything, like happiness, sadness and everything. I think with the time, I've been trying to control it a little more because you understand that sometimes I want to be super genuine and honest with my feelings but sometimes you realize that there's specific places where people is gonna be hard on you because you feel real so i'm trying to take care of myself because with those things but i'm super emotional it's it happens to me and and actually i love my fans because they gave me the confidence that i needed to be open with one of my albums mañana será bonito i like i did that album in a specific moment in my life where I was like really broke everything in me and then when I had to put like an album it was like a like songs that I just were like doing just two little feelings and then when I put all those songs together and I put that album out because okay you have an album it becomes something that I understood people needed like a voice you know someone that speaks about realness and real feelings so after that like i feel comfortable i know they call me crier they call me like like i'm like a kid they call me like i'm immature and everything and girl yeah i i don't i just feel that i have the most beautiful memories of my childhood and the way i used to feel at that time and the the way i used to uh have relationship with people and yeah I didn't grow up like I still want to be there and I I'm still that girl yeah I and there should be no shame though it's like being emotional about things that you love that's what we live for right like to actually be affected by those things and to feel it so deeply like that is that is beautiful

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17:19How did you decide for yourself of just like what you wanted to look for when it came to filling that stage with people? Okay, with the guests, I started like with different feelings because, okay, I'm going to be a headliner. Coachella is a there's something special that happens just in Coachella you know but at the same time I wanted just to have the people that uh if I'm gonna put a song on the show and I have a guest like on the song like I just want to bring them on stage because they're part of the success so I don't I don't sit like in in my chair thinking okay what would be the greatest guest for the show to I don't know to touch someone no no for me it was about who are the ones that I feel their song to perform their song on this show is gonna make a moment very special for my fans and I'm gonna bring them on stage.

18:25So it was about that. And actually for one of the moments, specifically talking about the Latina culture, I want to bring someone that has made like a statement for life, you know, a legacy, a pioneer of what we do and why we're here. And that said, it was so... I love it. I'm so happy for you. Okay, speaking of your fans, you referenced them. They obviously are obsessed with you, but your fans wear bright blue and red wigs to your shows. And they are very, very, very invested in the different colors that you dye your hair. Can you walk me through each of your hair color eras and what they represented in your life at the time?

19:15Okay, when I was at school, my mom, she was super open with the idea of me dyeing my hair in different colors. I didn't do it with a chemical, in the chemical way. But I don't know if you know, there's like a paper that you use to pack presents that they have. like you put in hot water it like just put like the water in the color and I used to pull like my hair there and I got like this little blue or the little it was like a touch it wasn't that hard as I did uh-huh so when I was in um we were in in COVID time and we were just locked and I was like okay this is I don't have interviews I don't have like shows I don't have nothing I really want to be back in this love that I feel for colors in the hair.

20:09So the first one was blue. I am a very colorful girl. And when I say colorful, it's not all the time colorful. It's because I see colors. I see everything in colors. Like I see feelings in colors. So sometimes I'm with someone and I just, I'm just talking and I'm like, Alex, like what I feel for you is pink. And I say that like, I don't know about what I'm feeling right now with you is pink and and sometimes and the song for the show it has to be yellow and everyone is like but it's not kind of like black and I'm like no it for me it feels yellow so let's put the visualizers and everything in yellow so I don't know but I see everything in colors so my soul at that time was feeling blue so I just put my hair blue and I tried to explain to people why it was blue and I think my fans they just got this as I'm feeling blue too so they put their heads in blue and the crazy thing is I never asked for that it started like coming to the shows with the hair blue and they came to the show at Coachella with the hair blue and it was like this this was this crazy picture about the crowd with this little um group of people with their hair blue and I was like I loved it so much and then I was so scared to change the color but I wasn't feeling blue anymore but in that specific time where you're healing there is a rebellion moment you don't come from this to the healing there is a part of you that is tired that it's it's kind of you know it's rebellion it's like fiery exactly so it's someone that I start thinking like fuck it like you know I it's just that's it like please so that's red for me so I put my hair red and I was I remember that I was in Santorini and I put my hair red and I was like how do I show this to the world like I don't know I don't know if I'm gonna lose my fandom because they just noticed me with this blue hair okay just a video on Instagram and poop I'm with the red hair right now and people got crazy with it so the next time like I just the next day like videos on tiktok and everywhere like people going to the salon to change the hair from blue to red and I was like oh my god okay that's crazy my fans are crazy It's so intense.

22:42We have a really, really toxic relationship. We might possibly have a toxic relationship because we go hard. You go really hard. Uh-huh. So they always with me, they have my tattoo. They have this tattoo like most of them. I have this tattoo that represents like friendship. And they all of them, they got this tattoo. It was like a full codependent relationship. So then wait, because I was with this red hair. and then when you heal actually you feel less heavy you feel uh everything feels effortless and everything is just about like chill you know you're kind of understanding at the time yeah now I know how I was feeling that way now I understand how like why I was like with this red idea of this toughness that I needed to be here right now so it was pink so for me that era was pink and I knew at the time like if I put my red in pink my fans were about to do it like too so I put my hair pink and then next day videos my fans like please Carol stop bitch because you're gonna make my hair and my even my wallet literally they're like babe my hair is falling out of my head i was with you from the blue then i was okay for the red now we're going to pink i'm gonna have no hair left and actually when i was about to come back to my natural color with highlights but with to my natural color i was crazy i was crazy about the idea to have it like orange no yeah but then i was like more conscious about like my fans you know like let's let's have a moment let's have a moment to just make the hair too exactly now i healed if you carol if you went orange i think your fans would have been like i've got like three strands of hair left girl okay i'm gonna put these three little hairs that i have left in orange because yeah but maybe just one day i can be back okay so now we're gonna wait to see if you dye your hair again because now i'm stressed i would I would love to.

24:52Okay. I will love to. Like always like fashionable people is always like, girl, with your natural color hair, everything looks more elevated and this and that. Like I don't really care like a lot about it. So maybe I just wake up one day and. You're having fun. And it's done. I love it. Yeah. Okay. Being a Sunday headliner, Miss Carol G, are you going to be able to catch anyone else's sets or are you like way too busy rehearsing for all of your stuff i would love to go like uh actually i'm still a fan girl you know and and i would love to go to some shows so maybe for the second weekend i'm gonna be around so first weekend you'll lock in yeah second weekend you may go see who yeah uh like i don't know but for sure i really want to see uh justin show uh it's long long time he haven't been on stage and and and i had the opportunity to meet him in at super bowl we were in the same like uh sweden we talk a lot about like what does this mean for us and actually his show at the grammys for me i loved it how he was like in his like bed shorts with his guitar on it they just like uh creating the instrumental right there like it was honest and so pure and so i don't know but for me it has a really big meaning the show like that so maybe i'm gonna go to that one i would love to go to see sabrina's of course because uh i think i wanna i want the people to feel that this is our year it's not like about like every single year we see these different artists that are going to be there.

26:40But I want the people to feel that this year is about all of us. And I want to be for some like some of them. I can be in all of them, but I would love to be in a lot of them. It's beautiful. As you were speaking about, obviously, your Coachella set is so focused on celebrating your culture. What do you wish more people understood about Colombia?

27:06Oh, beautiful. You nailed it with that question because you said it's specific about Colombia. And Colombia is a country that grew from a lot of disaster, from a lot of suffering. My country, it's the most beautiful country you ever going to see. Because when people go there, they notice like we literally is a beautiful country. It's rich in biodiversity, in animals, in different species of fauna and flora in Spanish. And the people, we are like, they, we grew up like with, attitude is everything, everything. Even the person in the worst situation, there's always waking up at 4 a.m. in the morning saying, Diosito, God, this is going to be the day.

27:58Even in the worst situation. So when you meet people in Colombia, you're going to feel the most, a big hug from everyone. And speaking about that and about like the strength and the spirit that as a Colombian we have, my country has a beautiful future and an opportunity to be an amazing grown country. We just need the right people to lead the country, you know? So I just very proud of my country, of the culture that represent my country, the music, the artists that have been representing our flag from all over the places. That's a good thing. And you're going to go and you're going to see how beautifully our country has grown from all of the pain and all of the hard times.

28:48It's just amazing. It is amazing. And I think that's what is so important right now to be speaking about culture and people and what connects us because we all are so connected in a way that it feels as of recent, we've been made to feel divided and we've been made to feel like other. and I think through your music and through your work and through other artists and other people, like the more we talk about how we are connected and you speaking about your culture in such a beautiful way, like not that you have to educate people, but it is so important that people like you are able to tell people who you are, where you've come from, how proud you are because it is a really scary time in this country and I think what you're doing is so beautiful And I can't wait for the world to see this Coachella set because to even hear that you've infused so much of that love and that culture and your background into it.

29:50That's something the world needs to see. And I love that you've brought it here. Thank you. And you know what? Like just to add something like a little thing, because I can understand that sometimes people think that what we're doing as Latinos is kind of a trend. It can become something that they'll come again. with their message of course we're having a situation we're come like we're going through a lot of i'm not gonna say me but there is a lot of people that is going through a lot of hard things in this country and it's our responsibility to speak about but when we do it we do it like as a welcoming way you know we're not saying like we're this and you're not part of this no we're saying like we're latinos we need to speak about from like our culture our how this community has helped grow this country too and we're this we're like fabulous people we're like a hard worker people with the most beautiful spirit and you're welcome to join us as a community we're not taking no one like out of the situation it's beautiful and can you talk a little bit just about your foundation that you have back home in medin uh concora concora is my foundation i think like uh We grew up like going to these different like ancianatos, like old places with viejitos and for children and everything.

31:15That's something that my parents, they put us since we were like little girls. And I think when I grew up, like I think everything needs to have like a circle. It's not just for me, for me, for me. It has to keep like circling. And with the foundation, we worked a lot, even in my country. that is a beautiful country but we like we need a lot of opportunities for the people education and support and someone that sees what there was a need to see they don't see uh but actually like for me it's so beautiful that all the fans that follows me and go to my shows and they just listen to my music they they're part of this changing situation they're being part of this foundation too so i'm very grateful i love to keep like moving forward with things and and and that's what i actually what i feel that is my my purpose purpose in the life is that uh i'm this blessed because i have like a mission and i'm just making sure that it's our mission all of the people that follows me and we did this work and so beautiful so special okay carol last question what do you hope fans take away from listening to your music that's a good one too

32:39um i've i don't know like i'm on i'm on an open book and i want them to find like a space like a safe space and that's why i speak about like all of the things in life even the uncomfortable things that nobody speaks about. Like I'm trying to do music for every situation that I feel for everyone to find like a safe space in my music. And I want them to feel proud at the same time. So that's why I keep like being hard on me and learning and evolving. And yeah.

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35:34You look so pretty gorgeous. I'm excited. Should we get? Yeah, I'm doing wood sewing. You're sewing? Yeah. You're sewing? Yeah. I'm sewing a dress for my knees. What do you mean you're sewing? Is this what you're doing? Are you calming yourself? This is my first time doing this for her. I like to do things, but I'm trying to instillize a little bit her things because she came with a Mickey Mouse something. And I was like, Mom, my mom brought her with a Mickey Mouse something. and it was like, the look is zero Coachella. And it's less dirty, tropical peta. How are you feeling? Crazy. Like, I don't know.

36:20My feelings are like, I'm kind of happy, proud. I feel a lot of nostalgia, of course, but it's not healthy. Like, it's like a little, good nerves. It's good nerves, but it feels unhealthy. It was like a lot of pressure like that they when we rehearsed like of course we just We went to Las Vegas and we just build a full stage there And it was amazing but here we were like we built this station in the level of the floor Right, but here is in the level of the stage So I get like massive and and the scale of the This stage is that huge and it has three levels so I'm on top and I see everyone down there and okay I got nervous.

37:09You're like okay this feels real. Yeah this feels real. After that it is like I got these special nerves that it they feel a little hard. What did you do today? I woke up really early. I trained then I did like two hours and a half of my singing class because I really want my vocals be on point for today and then I got here like an 11 30 or something. 11 30 in the morning yeah i'm super obsessed guys just for context she's going on at 9 55 at night and she got here at 11 30 in the morning what have you been doing but i like i'd rather be here because i at least i have my team around and if i have a note or whatever or if they have notes they come to me and we're close and it's better you know like i hate just being at home waiting waiting no So it gives me more stress.

37:58And actually, I think I'm trying to enjoy the day because it's gonna pass so fast. I feel like it's gonna go by so quickly that once you get out there, right? But the lead up feels like 12 days. Wait, okay, is there anything that you do before you go on stage that is a non-negotiable, you have to do it every time before you go on stage? I don't really have a ritual. my ritual is like I get in me really like I have a lot of conversations with myself but something that is super important is to get together with the whole team with dancers production like musicians bands and everyone just to connect really all of us and be ready for the show because sometimes when we don't do it like I have this feeling if we don't connect before the show people is going to feel that this connection what is the conversation you have with yourself though before.