Qué Te Pedí with Michelladonna

yo what the fuck is up welcome to my favorite lyrics the podcast we talk about music lyrics except for when we talk about other stuff and today we've got another very very special guest you might know her from her show bodega chat which i've got an episode on at some point that will pop off it'll come one it might be out by the time that this comes out who's to say welcome to the show michelle adana yay thank you i'm so excited you know what's really funny what's really is like i was talking to our mutual friend carolina yes and she referenced she was like oh she was like and i'm seeing my friend michelle later and i was like michelle who's michelle and she goes michelle adana and i was like oh of course yeah i don't somehow i didn't consider your name is actually michelle yeah and it makes all the sense in the world this is the thing yeah i like to keep church and state very separate yeah we gotta keep them apart and so for me michelle adana is work that's how i introduced myself that's the name i prefer people to call me when you met me when we met for the first time what did i say you said i'm michelle adana exactly yes where do we i think we met at carolina's birthday show or baby shower oh yes so i was kind of on duty that day because i was djing you're a dj kind of but carolina is like like a big sister to me like i have spent holidays with her how do y'all know each other honestly the universe sent me her um at a comedy show no it was actually really beautiful i was in a like two year relationship i'm like i don't know okay okay he's like don't involve me in this i was in a two year conversation i was in a two-year relationship with someone that i had been dating like since right after college okay and i was like i don't really know what the options are i'm like should i get married or like dump this girl like what what are the those are a lot of the options a lot of time you get to a certain point where those are the main options you can do we've been together years i kind of know where her mind's at she wants to go to get her mba and it's like no i want to go to follow her to an mba i hate long distance so carolina came to me in a comedy show and the set i had seen her online and i was like she's so cool i wish i'd get to meet her one day and then i did and then we went outside and we talked about it she was like break up immediately and like i really will give you that advice and it was so good and she's always been like really like just sweet and like that's that big i'm an only child so i i don't have anyone to ask these like crazy personal questions so that's why love you carolina love you carolina this is this might be the first carolina shout out but it won't be the last okay yes that's that's that's the homie wait can you tell me can you tell me about the name because you were introduced to me michelle adana as michelle adana absolutely i had a very different life before 2020 which honey and so i actually was um studying applied economics and management at cornell and then um when you're studying finance or business back in that day where i feel like everything's different but they wanted you to keep everything super private right like your socials are private because if you get interviewed they're gonna check it and you can't be like i don't know how it is now i heard that you kind of have to be like an influencer to get a job it feels like that for everything somehow it feels like that somehow in every i have a homie who's a doctor who's like yeah i just started my tiktok and i was like nigga what like you went to med school and now you got to do tiktoks about your shoulder surgeries you do my lawyer has an insta i love you marcy hey girl shout out to marcy yeah marcy no i'm just saying shout out i'm just i'm just saying an appreciation for somebody who's in your life girl hey um but yeah everyone's doing that so anyways so i wanted to keep my actual name private and i was like let's create this other character i used to watch jimmy fallon a lot and i saw uh childish gambino go on there or something and he said that he got childhood gambino from a wu-tang clan rap name generator so i did that too and i found michelle adona whoa and then i was like is it available on instagram and that's how that's actually a very cool story because this is the thing i wanted this name or this experience and this journey of doing entertainment to be mine like nobody can claim it but me and i had different last names at one point and so that's why i'm like michelle adona is mine can you share with us any of the other last names that you tried out okay sounds good i don't like my whole government oh no i thought you were saying like you tried like stage last names like to go with your first name no this is the thing i grew up with one last name and then my father who hadn't been in my life who is not in my life um has another last name and my mom asked me to change my last name when i was in college i see okay so then it was like that's that was me this is me now but i want something that's mine and so that's why michelle adona was it michelle adona and it's so obnoxious i love it i love making people say the whole thing i just you know at first i was like yeah i guess like because people cut it and they're like oh michelle and i'm like no and then i thought about like rihanna probably had to say her name a bunch of times before people said her name beyonce probably had to say her name a few times before people respected it you know what i'm saying also those are their government names though right but beyonce is beyonce's name so i was just thinking like if they can do that i'm gonna do it why can't i thank you what's madonna's real name her name is madonna all right whatever lady gaga lady gaga right right her name is stephanie yes can i tell you one time i met uh one time i met lady gaga yeah okay and um she introduced herself and she shook my hand she goes she goes lg nice to meet you oh that's cool no i actually felt different i was like you can't do that you can't do that because you can i think you can do the there's a humble famous person thing that you can do where it's like i've heard of like i've i've i met i heard somebody who met jay-z and he was like oh i'm sean nice to meet you that's the like that's the humble famous person thing to go like off stage name yeah or you can be like i'm lady gaga yeah to me she went lg and i was like well that's yeah you got it you got we got to go in a direction you got a cold name for yourself yeah you know what i mean well now we're doing a whole other thing but shout out to her she was very sweet yeah yeah i love you lg can i call you that i don't know i think i think you really can yeah okay period i think she's seems like a phone it was yeah phone no no it was it was a phone it is that company probably exists they got stuff going on technology your numbers buttons all that stuff i love lady gaga but what does she know about tvs one of my favorite wait can i tell you something yes oh my god please tell me can i tell you i just got to go i just got to because you just referenced the what the fuck does she know about cameras which incredible incredible video incredible quote absolutely i just uh i got to go tour this museum somebody like hit me the new museum and they let me like it's like i guess what is that like soho and they like let me look at one of the exhibits before it opened and uh they were like oh and there might be a special guest as you're like touring because somebody else is touring this and i was like what do you mean special guest and they were like somebody might be here and i was like hey can you you tell me who it is and they're like kanye and sure enough within 60 seconds of me getting there him like because all those guys travel with like big groups right and i felt like like eight people showed up and i turned around and there he was oh my god yeah so you took a tour with him no we just were touring the building at the same so we crossed paths a couple times as we were touring you say hi i did give him i gave him the black dude nod okay you don't know yeah you're familiar i gave him you know what i'm saying yeah and he was like okay but that's it you know it's it's it's a contentious situation with what he got going on right now but it was it was crazy to see him up close oh yeah is he prettier no oh not especially sometimes that happens but it's you know i was gonna say shout out to him but i don't even know if that's i don't even think that's let's go to the next what we had there michelle um you're from queens i am you're from queens shout out can you tell us about what a young michelle adana was listening to okay so yeah i want to talk about history yeah and then i want to talk about what is influencing still today um now being from queens uh my mom's colombian and it's just my mom and i so i grew up listening to a lot of salsa a lot of bachata whatever 97.9 la mega had on the radio that's what i was listening to um then you know getting into middle school what happened reggaeton friday pink friday okay yeah that's not i didn't okay yeah i see what you're saying and so then i had to i thought we were following a path and i was like i think i know where the this is going but no i see i jumped to pink friday because you have i'm also first generation so like listening to rap, hip hop, like, like even R&B, all of that I had to do by myself because my mom didn't teach me that. And it was like only so much that the radio can teach me, you know? So I, you know, something got across my desk and it was Pink Friday. And I remember vividly walking to middle school, listening to Nicki Minaj. She raised me. She's from Queens. I'm so sorry to say, I hope you're doing good, girl. I'm sad. But like, I cannot act like she didn't affect me in so many ways. And like, she is one of the reasons why I feel like I'm such like a diva and a boss ass bitch. Like, cause her lyrics is literally is like ingrained in my blood. You know what I'm saying? Like I listened for years. Um, and so that's kinda, that's what little Michelle, Donna was listening to. I mean, that's beautiful. And also, can I say something about what you were saying? I think you can also, I think now, I think currently, I think we can, uh, look back to people who are inspirational and say like, Hey, that person was inspirational to me in the time that I found them. And now I maybe have a little bit of a different relationship with them based on some things that have happened since then. I think, I think that's okay to say. I don't know if I'm going to get canceled. I hope not. But for saying this, I still listen to moment for life when something big happens. Come on. Like it's an incredible song. Are you kidding me? Come on. Cause sometimes you wish you could have that moment for life. This is the moment for like, and it like, I have cried over that song before it. Cause it's like, it feels like a prayer almost. I really, I love that song. I still listen to it when something goes my way. When I feel good about something, I'm like, Nikki. Wow. What a moment. And what a moment in time. What a moment for life. Yeah. Right. I mean, you were in middle school when this was going on. Yeah. What year is this? 2010. Yeah. Okay. 15 years ago. I graduated middle. Oh my God. Let's not. Yeah, of course. I graduated middle school in 2012. You graduated middle school in 2012? Graduated. Sorry. Sorry. Hold on. Let me do the math. No, I graduated middle. No. Yeah. How you telling me? I was just, I was just, I never heard anybody say they graduated middle. 12 plus four. 16. Yeah. I graduated high school in 2016. Why are you making me. No, that math, the math adds up. I think I was just, uh, I never heard anybody say they graduated middle school. What did you do to leave middle school and go to the next school? Did you not graduate? Was there not a ceremony? We didn't do a ceremony. It was just like, oh, middle school's over. Time for the next thing. Darling. There were awards and there was. No, we didn't have, we didn't have the hoopla around it. And that's something. Well, maybe that's we could do that we could do a middle school graduation for me now yeah okay let me talk to somebody about it let me get i'll buy a hat and stuff like that we can figure it out anyway i'm sorry you were listening it was middle school it was 2012 you were listening to the pink print or i'm sorry pink friday yeah yeah was it is it called pink friday no no there's pink friday and pink print no yeah no it's pink friday this is the first one yeah okay well girl i'm trying i'm trying to figure it out i'm remembering things incorrectly not right it's also it's been it's also been a while since since this yeah i mean what else was happening on pink friday i gotta look at the other songs i just remember seeing the album cover and it was like her as a barbie it's crazy look at her legs did you have the actual cd absolutely not no it was on pandora skipping as much as i could to get to the next song um she also has i'm the best which is the first one oh my god okay wait i want to talk about other songs i don't want to just talk about nikki minaj you talk about whatever we can talk about all of it okay but i'm the best yeah now if you want to feel like a bad bitch yeah papa that's the one okay she literally declaring i'm the best i'm gonna have to put this on on my way home yeah when i leave here yeah i'm sure of course i remember roman's revenge come on now i remember did it on him of course yeah that was you see right through me fly was the only song she has with rihanna which was sad and also great because the song's not that good i don't yeah i don't think i even know that song i'm not i'm not even familiar with it she got one with will i am on here your love come on i do remember this i'm sorry we got distracted no yeah we got we got nicki minaj distracted information 2010 there was a lot of stuff going on yeah um but i'm sorry okay you were listening you're listening to pink friday so i was listening to pink friday i was listening to salsa achata like all this stuff and i think i still had that resistance towards like um music that sounded older to me that my mom was listening i was like why are you putting this on have you heard about nicki minaj like so now she know who nicki minaj is but but like i was the one pushing it at home you know or like playing it wherever i could but when i got home it was different yeah because your parents not really trying to listen to what you got no and also she'd be like this is disgusting right of course sometimes the word she would say and i'm like okay so yes but i'm 13 i'm freaking 11 let me live yeah yeah i remember like i remember trying to put on like wayne in the car with my dad and him just being like hey man so you can't do that i guess if you want to listen if that's what you want to listen to kind of in your own time then it's like that's your headphone time but it's like when it comes to the this is the song that you're listening to it's like you're listening to it's like you're listening to it's like you're listening to it's like you're listening to the speakers in the in the camry we gonna have to go ahead and put on some yeah we're gonna have to put that jazz back on because little wayne's talking about eating pussy too frequently and that's not something that he wanted to address with his son right okay okay you know what i'm saying did you have the talk with him you know my my folks always say that they had a talk with me the only sex talk i remember my dad ever having with me was when we were hooking up speakers we were like connecting some speakers and my dad was like yeah so like this is kind of like the male part of the speaker and then he like plugged it in and he was like and this would be like the female port and he was like get it and i was like i suppose so yeah so red with red right basically it was basically that the red goes with the red and the white goes with the white and i was like so is this like wow yeah is this a lot of lessons here you know it was also color based yeah it was a he was like and you're in the red and the white do not mix they do not mix in the green and the red do not go together as well so just he was also being like yeah the color's gotta stick together yeah i'm fucking crying oh my god um that's the closest talk that i remember did your folks did your mom talk with me um i found a book she doesn't want me to say i'm sure she i found a book she had let me not say actually does your mom listen to like does she like follow all the media that you're in honestly yes she's like a big supporter she will send it to everyone look follow like whatever like my daughter's on it and like once my daughter's eating and you bitches want to eat with us you gotta make sure you use come into the shows and you do it and they do i respect i have the show i do called little sabado that i do it like you know every three months maybe there's always the first two roles are señoras yeah they're aunties i like that yeah and they're loving it too and i'm doing everything i'm doing you know queer things i'm doing like very cunty things and they understand some of it all of it and they're loving it that's beautiful yeah no absolutely the sex talk my mom had with me when i was going to high school was do not get pregnant if you get pregnant i'm kicking you out and you're fucked like i'm not helping you no she was and i believed it yeah that's uh yeah that's a certain type of sex talk and hey look at me and look at you not pregnant not pregnant come on you don't know i'm saying i'm not i'm not i'm not yeah no you know i gotta start thinking you know what i'm saying whenever you're ready yeah no rush thanks yeah of course um okay okay so it was it was nikki minaj and then as you as a as a a little bit older michelle adonis you got into high school and college what were you listening to um now i'm fully trying now i'm in high school and college i'm realizing there's so much music i don't know about in high school i learned about queen because everyone was like running around the hallways talking about thunderbolt and lightning i was like what's the whoo where i don't see it and then i was like i heard queen and i was like guys this song is really good and everyone knew i'm like i don't know 50 years behind or something yeah big papa what if i did you find that like later in high school interesting i would have felt i would have thought because like because as like being from new york i would have thought that was like just like around but but elementary school they're not gonna sit you down and teach you big pop that wasn't playing middle school i went to catholic school so they didn't want me to do nothing yeah you were and then high school i went to catholic school is when i have the opportunity to like meet other people and have friends and you know what i'm saying it's not as like sectioned off for you anymore and that's when i started learning about like freaking erica badu in college and like all these things i got so late and sometimes i feel like a little i'm like i'm slow but it wasn't my fault i'm just like first gen but i could tell you so much about salsa well i feel like i feel like that's what ends up happening right is like like music from before your time you're mainly either getting from like an older like an older cousin or like an older sibling like if you got that like they'll put you onto stuff from like you know if they're like five ten years older than you they'll put you under that stuff but then from stuff from like when you're a kid that's like 20 30 years old you kind of got to get that from your parents so the stuff that your parents like from when they were young that they give you like you have that but like I was tell people like I didn't know nothing about I knew who the Beatles were but I didn't know none of that music I didn't know nothing about no like Led Zeppelin or like I didn't learn about I learned about in college because you go to college around like white kids who like grew up on that type of music and they play and I was like oh I do like some of this stuff but it was never that was never at my house and if it's not at your house like there's nowhere really that's not on the radio like this and that's like go and look like searching yeah exactly I remember I lived with a white girl shout out to you girl and I remember this was after college and she was like yeah like Africa by Toto okay that is that it yes and I was like okay what is that that's like a big song no that's what she looked at me seven times she asked me are you sure you never heard I was like I don't know what you talking about Toto means something very different for me so what you mean and then she played it I was like yeah I've never heard this song before it's you never wait how old are you at this point 22 okay yeah that makes sense you know I don't remember where I was the first time I but that was a song that I knew from something I feel like it's in movies or something like that but I know what you mean I know that feeling of like somebody being like how can you not know this and I'm like oh I don't think you know like right I'm gonna get real specific yeah I don't think you know this song by Brian McKnight and a lot of times a lot of times they didn't and that's the cultural exchange that we got to be able to you know so now I know Africa by Toto how do you feel about that song I think I heard it like twice so I don't know what does Toto mean to you vagina oh beautiful it's the funniest way you could have said that but that's what I mean no no no respect for the minute I'm not Dominican but Dominicans call it Toto respect for the minute I'm not Dominican but Dominicans call it Toto respect for the minute I'm not Dominican but Dominicans call it Toto okay yeah okay so then you okay then you got a little bit older you started finding about new music yeah yeah I will say also like my cousins so like my mom's side of the family is all in Colombia and so I had like these three cousins that I would always hang out with them like I'd be sent to the summers with them and they definitely like put me on to some stuff like put me on to some stuff that was American that was American that was American um when I was younger I was listening um when I was younger I was listening um when I was younger I was listening because I was listening to a radio so I because I was listening to a radio so I because I was listening to a radio so I was listening to Taylor Swift and so do was listening to Taylor Swift and so do was listening to Taylor Swift and so do you want to do you want to say that into you want to do you want to say that into you want to do you want to say that into the microphone so people can it'll pick the microphone so people can it'll pick the microphone so people can it'll pick that up sorry it's okay it's okay you that up sorry it's okay it's okay you that up sorry it's okay it's okay you don't have to apologize it's just that's don't have to apologize it's just that's don't have to apologize it's just that's just where you I was young I didn't know just where you I was young I didn't know just where you I was young I didn't know any better that's just where you are in any better that's just where you are in any better that's just where you are in life exactly and also a lot of people do life exactly and also a lot of people do life exactly and also a lot of people do listen to that artist it's popular listen to that artist it's popular listen to that artist it's popular anyway so I got to Columbia and then my anyway so I got to Columbia and then my anyway so I got to Columbia and then my cousin's clowned me for it for listening cousin's clowned me for it for listening cousin's clowned me for it for listening to that music yes and I was like that's to that music yes and I was like that's to that music yes and I was like that's fine what are you guys listening she's fine what are you guys listening she's fine what are you guys listening she's put me on to paramour so I also you know put me on to paramour so I also you know put me on to paramour so I also you know yeah like I love Pamela when I'm yeah like I love Pamela when I'm yeah like I love Pamela when I'm feeling like mad or something oh man I feeling like mad or something oh man I feeling like mad or something oh man I just let that white lady sing come on just let that white lady sing come on just let that white lady sing come on and boy does she sing ah I remember and boy does she sing ah I remember and boy does she sing ah I remember where I was the first time I listened to where I was the first time I listened to where I was the first time I listened to paramour where were you I was a teenager paramour where were you I was a teenager paramour where were you I was a teenager I was in my homies Jetta he drove this I was in my homies Jetta he drove this I was in my homies Jetta he drove this like little red Jetta and we were in like little red Jetta and we were in like little red Jetta and we were in high school and he just we just got out high school and he just we just got out high school and he just we just got out of school and I forget where he was of school and I forget where he was of school and I forget where he was going but like like that that movie going but like like that that movie going but like like that that movie Tokyo Jift and come out like Fast and Tokyo Jift and come out like Fast and Tokyo Jift and come out like Fast and Furious and so he was really trying to Furious and so he was really trying to Furious and so he was really trying to like drift his little Jetta and he was like drift his little Jetta and he was like drift his little Jetta and he was turning on like misery business and like turning on like misery business and like turning on like misery business and like trying to like swerve around in the trying to like swerve around in the trying to like swerve around in the parking lot and I was like it was parking lot and I was like it was parking lot and I was like it was incredible and it was a and come to incredible and it was a and come to incredible and it was a and come to find out and I loved to pair more from find out and I loved to pair more from first time that I heard her but uh come to find out like later in life black people just like that black people in paramour there's a real do you know about this I feel like I've heard about it there's like a real like I don't know welcome her yeah and paramour as a whole I yeah absolutely at least like Hayley Williams for sure yeah I think black people do just tend to have an affinity for her I think I heard there's a show called like an online show called black people love paramour I feel like I want to I trust her there's something about her no I'm with you on this sit down actually come yeah come on come come hang out and it feels like it feels like she wouldn't she'd be cool about it she just feels like she feels like a white girl that I could get around yeah yeah and it would be it would be like very normal yeah yeah like don't that's my friend and I don't know what that I don't know what it is about her but neither there is so there's a quality it's just like it's like ah come on over here yeah come on yeah Hayley Hayley Williams if you're listening and we know that you are hey come kick it come kick it with me and Michelle Adana we'll have a nice time yeah I don't know what we about to get into but I'll put on an orange wig I wouldn't I'm not gonna do that but I'm gonna appreciate what y'all got going on no okay if everybody's doing I'll put on the wig with y'all I'm not gonna I'm not gonna bust down I'm not gonna yeah come on now I'm gonna flip it around I'm gonna flip it around my shoulders like I'm ice spice no I like that no I like that I'm gonna start acting different yeah I never put down I never put on like that type of wig but I've worn a lot of wigs and sometimes you can really you can lose yourself in them I know it's a whole character you know what I mean well I will say I also listen to a lot of salsa and my mom is from Cali Colombia which in my mind is a capital of salsa of the world but also New York City is very much in Cuba and all of them but there is a song from there called Cali Pachanguero and that song is like exactly which that song is like Pachanguero I think is party person party goer or something I also I really do like you might be the first guest to ever transition yourself into the lyric portion yeah I was like you might nobody's ever done that before you listen to the show most of the time there'll be like a brief you know there'll be like a little pause and I'll be like all right it's it's lyric time and I'll be like hey guest you brought lyrics yeah let's which ones would you like to talk you're the one we were like and you know what that brings me to the lyrics that I would like to speak about you know what let's go ahead and get into the stuff that I came here to talk about the real stuff because I like put this together I was so excited I have so many you've worked so many sounds in my head and I'm like okay let's go to three and you're like I didn't come here to fuck around I didn't come here to talk about what's going on here I'm passionate I'm passionate okay okay Michelle Adana you brought us some lyrics today yes and I'd love to talk to you oh my god thank you I want to talk about them too Cali Pachanguero is an iconic song from Cali Colombia which is where my mom is from which they you know shout out to Cali they just had a tough earthquake right now and um kind of the city's kind of rebuilding itself love y'all hope to be there soon and help out um but Cali Pachanguero is one of those songs it's like the one with Alicia Keys and Jay-Z for New York oh yeah Empire State of Mind right yeah like how New Yorkers sing it yeah that's this people sing Cali Pachanguero okay what lyrics would you I'd like to hear something yeah okay the whole song is amazing but right here I have one of the like this is so cunty of them to say like okay so can I say it in Spanish or absolutely I would love for you to say in Spanish so this is the way they say it they go Barranquilla Puerta de Oro Paris La Ciudad Luz Nueva York capital del mundo del cielo Cali la sucursal que todo el mundo te cante que todo el mundo te mime celoso estoy pa que mires no bebo evas ni por miles a mi ya siento tu aroma cualquiera justo razona que Cali es Cali señores señores los demas es lo wait lo demas es lo ma da da da da da da so many trumpets happening is crazy so basically he has said Barranquilla which is another uh city in in Colombia is the golden gate sure Paris the city of light that's right New York the capital of the world which shout out to me I'm in I'm included in two different lines here and Cali the branch office of heaven what does branch office mean I don't know but what I understand is like we're like low-key the the the heaven we're like where heaven starts or something you know so the thing about us is we're kind of like we're kind of like low-key to heaven you know what I'm saying you ever be to a place and you're like low-key this is hell we're like the opposite yeah yeah we got a kind of different thing going on to me the branch is like uh it's like it's like you know when something going on with your with your bank and you can't figure it out online where you got to go to figure it out the branch you got to go sit down with somebody at one of them desks okay you got to go sit down with somebody at one of Or you got to stand at the desk. You stand at the desk if it's a little problem. If it's a big problem, you got to go in one of the offices and sit down. And that's what y'all got going on over there because it's like, because it's really, it's really where y'all get shit sorted out. Okay, yeah. So that's what he said. And then may the whole world sing to you. May the whole world pamper you. I'm jealous of where you cast your gaze. I'm never leaving, not for any price. I catch your scent from miles away. Anyone would rightly reason that Kali is Kali. And so Kali is a valley. Now we talk about geographics. That's not how you say that. Geography. Now we talk about geography. Honestly, no, we're talking about geographics. Thank you. Yeah. And so Kali. I think that should be a word. Thank you. Yeah, I'm with you. And so Kali is the valley. Yeah. so so when he said Kali is Kali he's saying Kali is Kali and the rest because okay so so when he said Kali is Kali he was basically saying Kali is Kali right of course so but then naturally you gotta understand that the rest of Colombia a lot of Colombia is on hills and mountains and so what he's saying is so Kali is Kali and then everything else is just hills I see what you're saying so he said bitch right I like that she said bitch quiet he said bitch well we scream that on the streets you can scream it here it's okay to be loud in here lo demás es lo más like bitch you a mountain me I'm a valley come on and we heaven that's what they said I love that song it's like so much pride comes with it and you know I go for December for Christmas and stuff to Kali and it's just kind of a party after Christmas until New Year and everyone's just on the street dancing salsa and then this song comes on no it's like it's like I bet I bet it's like how Disney adults feel when they see Mickey Mouse you know Mickey Mouse it's like right now it's happening the thing that's how I how we all feel when Kali Pachanguero comes on can I tell you I really like I like learning about what this song is for like a bunch of different places like learning about like what it is like in New York and then I think in New York there's like different boroughs where like different songs mean different things and it's like in Texas there's like a couple of songs that like if you put on I mean where I grew up it was like rap songs were like in the place that I like to be but there's also certain country songs that if you like put on around certain white people that they also gonna go what would you say is a Texas song like that I have some in my mind what's that Neon Moon Neon Moon by Brooks and Dunn is a song that I like love in a very deep way because it does it's honestly as far it's probably my favorite country song I don't know what you're talking about when the sun goes down no on my side of town can you play it for me please the lonesome feeling no comes through my door no you know which one I heard about the other day or Friends in Low Places that's a that's a yeah yeah yeah that's like it's later in the night I think they both they both are to me and then there's like there's like rap songs there's like Mo City Don or like or I Wanna Be a Baller those are like if you play any of those four songs depending on like cultural dependent like two of them are like more white people in Texas and two of them are more like black people and then and then the Mexican people can kind of get and then there's like Selena that you can also play that'll also really I feel like everyone enjoys Selena oh I'm not saying no but I'm saying like it's just not gonna set it it's gonna set it off in different ways depending on what type of function you're in the you know the one I heard about the other day what's up I don't know where I don't know you're not saying a lot of the words the jail oh you're talking about Johnny Cash Johnny Cash that's that's not that's country but it's not like sorry sorry have you ever have you ever been to like a like a country bar before where everybody's like listening to country music no it's you know it took me a while to appreciate it I think now that I'm like away from home I think I appreciate it in like a deeper way I don't know if you had this I'm also talking to you nobody knows who I'm talking to I know this is my friend Roberto like this is my diva Roberto who's here and from Texas you can't you can't see Roberto but Roberto is is here with us in the room off mic so this won't really translate to a lot of y'all but yeah the presence of the presence is felt you can feel the energy yes exactly yeah but there is like yeah I don't know I feel like a lot of people that I meet that are from Texas yeah you're about to ask me something no I'm like I'm not opposed to it right I'm like if you walk me there and guide me there like I'm happy to do it I can talk to a freaking stick like I'm down to conversate and make connections I just you just need to walk me there I understand I'm gonna be afraid if I'm in Texas and I just walk somewhere by myself it also depends on what type of country spot we bring you into and I'm not really I'm not really like when I go home I'm not like picking to go to the country bar but like when you grow up around like it's true it's just like around yeah it just is around so it like feels familiar and I feel like I talked to a lot of people who are from Texas who leave who it's like when you're from there people from Texas love being from Texas it's like New York in that way but I always thought that was whack when I was growing up I was just like ugh okay alright okay you love being from and when I tell you the second that I moved away from home I literally got like a Texas pendant for my chain I was like I'm the most Texas New York I've ever seen in your life I got like really did you like did you ever get boots cowboy boots yes I own them now and I never owned them when I lived there and now I do have cowboy boots it's like what I wear for like formal wear like if when I'm about to go to a wedding and I wear cowboy boots to the wedding and I never was like I never would have been like that back home so I don't know it's it's a way to carry home with you right have you ever I know you I know you went to college outside of the city outside have you ever lived outside of the state I lived in Paris for six months excuse me does that count it's yeah yeah I love it I lived in Paris and I the city of lights yeah I guess so three times they mentioned me in the song come on this basically is a song for you yeah I studied abroad in Paris but I really was traveling most of the time I was in Paris I just left Paris got you to go anywhere else were you not you not you wasn't really fucking with Paris no I just I went to school there right so I had classes throughout the week and it was just interesting because they really care about like I don't know outer exterior like what you look like I love wearing sweats they hate it and this is really yeah people do dress up there people be dressing yeah I hear what you're saying no they would give me dirty looks I'm also so freaking loud like they hate that in Europe and it's like no I get it I get it but this is how I talk on the train babe yeah and then also like anytime I would try to speak French they would just talk to me in English so then I would talk to them in Spanish yeah I'd be like haha what about now and now nobody understands how about that so bonjour so now we all confused yeah yeah love escargot though I do too I do too and that's something I never would've thought that I said but my life is good that's what I got going on now you like them alive or dead what so like so hold on so there's a way they can cook them where they're frozen and there's a way they can cook them where they're like fresh alive but they're not alive when they serve them no but right I guess maybe I don't know the difference maybe I don't know maybe I gotta learn about this the live one is better sounds sadder but they gon' die regardless yep are they not I'm sorry that might be the episode that might be the name of the episode they gon' die regardless Michelle Adana yes you brought us a few more lyrics absolutely I did I'm gonna let you cause I know you have a lot that you wanna talk about I'm gonna let you you can take any of these we got them all here whichever one wherever you'd like to start I know I really wanna just show you La Que Mona to show you how crazy it is so La Que Mona I just learned about a few years ago my cousin love her she has me blocked but I love you girl love you Kim this for you and she put me on we went to a gay club which I told her I was like I'm not going to a regular club I'm only going to a gay club in Cali Colombia and the song called comes on and I'm listening to it and I'm like this is disgusting this is crazy what is she saying and then everyone knows the lyrics word for word and it's the craziest song I I'm gonna say the lyrics but I kinda want you to listen to it okay what goes first say the lyrics first and then I'll listen also I don't speak Spanish you're right so I don't know if I just always think you're Dominican I'll take it okay um so I'll just say this en la mañana el pobre hombre ya se va a trabajar y comienza el toque toque por la puerta de atrás y sale bien caripelada ella abrirle la puerta diciéndole al mozo ay papi casi no llega pase siga recuéstese un rato un rato porque hoy le vamos a dar de seguida hasta las cuatro entra don seca se acuesta y se relaja y ella va y le lleva el desayuno en la cama diciéndole papito te quiero para mi el desgraciado de tu marido que se muera así feliz so what she said was in the morning the poor man heads off to work and the knocking starts the knock at the back door and she comes out brazen as can be I don't know what that means to let him in caripelada means like she doesn't have any makeup on natural ooh saying to her lover oh my love you're barely making it like you almost didn't make it like hello like where have you been come in come on in lie down for a while because today we're going straight we're going at it straight through until four that's late yeah and then he enters he lies down he relaxes she brings him breakfast in bed saying daddy I want you all to myself and then he goes that wretch of a husband of yours and she said let the miserable fool die drop dead I see what's happening But that's not even the best part of this. the song. It's a crazy song. Do you want to explain for the people who might not? Um, so she's fucking him. Right, right. And then she makes the sounds. And then the whole time she's just like, keep fucking me, bro. Don't even stop. Right. And then eventually the song goes to like, he's so tired. He finished up his work. It's about 4 p.m. She starts running around the house, starts cleaning and doing all these things and making the food for the husband. Then the husband comes home. Oh, they're fucking at the house she lives at. Yeah. The beginning of it said he went to work. Yeah. In my mind they were at the guy's house. No, no. No, they're at her family home. Yes. Especially disrespectful. Yeah. Probably the same bed, even. Fuck. That's not what you want to hear. Literally. Yeah, well. So then he, the husband comes home from work and he's like, oh my God, my woman has everything cleaned and the food is on the table. And he literally is like, I bet she loves me so much. And then the next line is like, yeah, I hope you die. Love that girl. I have no idea when this was made or how, who is this? I have no idea. But it is like something that you go to a club and they put that song on and everyone knows it. Word for word. That's why I had to learn the lyrics because like, I don't want to look weird. I'm like, I know it too. That's why you had to make sure you got it all down. Yeah. I mean, this says this says the song's from 2018. So it's not that old. Yeah. I mean, I heard about it again like a like three years ago, maybe. But it was like, it was like a big hit in Columbia. I don't even know. I just know that at the club, everyone, I think is one of those songs that's so crazy that it's like, guys, we're just going to embrace it. Yeah, this is maybe like the Colombian version of like Trapped in the Closet. Do you remember? R. Kelly did a series called Trapped in the Closet. No, I don't know that. You're not familiar? It's insane. It's insane and I want you to just take like 20 minutes and like just visit some of it. Study. There's a lot, a lot of YouTube videos about it. There was maybe 20 or 30 chapters. There's quite a bit. So you don't need to get involved with all of it, but just like skim it. Okay. It's basically like a, it's like a soap opera. It's like a novella. It's a book? No, it's like a, it's music videos. He did a bunch of music videos and songs describing all this like this insane like soap opera series. And this kind of seems like the Colombian version of that. Yeah, absolutely. And it's like a soap opera in and of itself. Absolutely. Exactly. La Que Mona. La Que Mona. Go check it out. Go get involved with it. It's a crazy song. Yeah. I think you're the first, not I think, you're the first guest of ours to bring Spanish songs. I'm so happy! Fabulous. Nobody's done it before. I love that. And you know, while we still got some time, let's go ahead and get into the rest of it. Okay. I'm going to talk about La Lupe. So real quick, it's going to be long, but still. Real quick, I learned about La Lupe in college where I was obsessed with my professor and Nightlife 101 was the class. And she told us about La Lupe, which was an amazing singer around the 60s and the 70s. She was from Cuba. She came to New York, but she was a very eccentric woman. She was very much like, she would say what she had to say, probably like Nicki Minaj back in that day. You know, with a Cardi B, Nicki Minaj back in that day. And they were not accepting that. But, you know, she had a great voice. She was talented. So, you know, you work with talent as much as you can. But then, you know Celia Cruz? I know the name. Right. Well, okay. So Celia Cruz was also doing Salsa at the same time. And like she was doing, they both had like boleros and different type of music. But when they got to New York, that's where all the sounds came in. They had hip hop coming in from the Bronx. They have, you know, just different type of boleros and different type of songs coming, not songs, but sounds coming from Cuba. And they put it all together and the Puerto Ricans here, like they put it all together. And they made Salsa in New York City. So these two women were pit against each other a lot, right? Two women obviously. They said there can only be one. You know. So what happened was that Celia Cruz ended up being the one. So she, you know her name. You never heard of La Lupe. And so La Lupe actually died in poverty and obscurity. That's not what I was going to hope you were going to say. I was hoping it was going to be nicer than that. Okay. No, it's sad. Yeah, it is. She was an incredible, you know, talent. But, you know, then there was some stuff about her spirituality that came in. She was like, actually, the devil is the one that wants me to sing. So she stopped singing. And it's like not a, it's a sad story. But then also thinking about like, what were the powers behind the scenes actually doing? What were they forcing them to think or like say to them? And like, what were they taking? And, you know, it's the 60s and 70s. What's going on? So I just had, like, a little bit of a healthy obsession with her because I just feel like she was robbed. And her voice is so beautiful. And I'm like, the world needs this. And the second I can get her the rights to her life, I will make a movie about her. Like, I'm so determined to let the world know about her. That's beautiful. I love her. And what was she talking about in the song? Can you give the title of the song? Yeah, Que Te Pedí, which is like, what did I ask? Okay. So she says, Pero que te pedí? Tú lo puedes al mundo decir. Que supieras que no hay en la vida otro amor como mi amor. Hoy me pides tú las estrellas y el sol. No soy un Dios así como soy. Yo te ofrezco mi amor. No tengo más. Pide lo que yo puedo darte. No me importa entregarme a ti sin conclusión. I That's not how she says it, but it's just it's like I'm giving you everything I can and you want the sun and the moon and the stars and I'll give you everything I have. I love you so much and you will never find a love like it's just so beautiful. What she is saying is, but what did I ask of you? You can tell the world that you knew there is no other love in life. Like my love, today you asked me for the stars and the sun. I'm not a god. Just as I am, I offer you my love. I have nothing else. Ask for what I can give you. I don't mind giving myself to you unconditionally. Aye, aye, aye. But you have to listen to her voice. I love her. I have like three of her records on vinyl. I just like, I just need people to hear this. It's so good. Yeah. Incredible song. I can't believe you heard it before. I have heard that song. I don't know where, but as soon as it started, I was like, oh, this is yeah. Yeah, I've definitely heard it before. That's good. Michelle Adana. Yes. We're running out of time. Yes. But, I said we're running out of time. She goes, good. No, I'm like, I won't stop talking until someone tells me to stop, so. I will say, the beautiful thing is we do, we got some, we got voicemail from a fan. Okay, let's, yeah. Yeah, let's go ahead and get into that. Okay, absolutely. There's some headphones right there. Oh, okay. Seven new friends. So, we all know that the song Mambo No. 5, a little bit of moniker in my life, you know, listing all the girls' names. Right. Well, I think Mambo No. 5, Mambo No. 5, so that Titi could create a bad bunny in his song, Titi Me Pregunto, when he lists like, me gusta mucho las Gabrielas, las Patricias, las Nicole, las Sofia, listing all of those names. Which then allowed Drake to just ask, where the fuck the function? Where he also lists not in Mambo No. 5 and Titi Me Pregunto, they both are talking about kind of like the girls and what they're doing, what they remember about them. Drake's just asking, is it Stacy? Is it Becky? Is it Keisha? Just no idea even who these girls are. Oh, and that's very funny. I love her. I want to hang out with her. I do like this. I like, I forget, she didn't give her name. Aw, she sounded shy. Yeah, we didn't get her name, but I guess she said she lives in Wisconsin somewhere based on her area code. But I like this. It draws a line between Mambo No. 5 and Titi Me Pregunto by Bad Bunny and Nokia by Drake. And I like it because it's like, in Mambo No. 5, he has all these girls and he knows what they got going on. And he needs a little bit of all of them. I mean, he's got 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 different women in his life for different scenarios and different situations going on. Bad Bunny's got a similar thing going on where he's saying I like this one, I like this one, I like girls like this, I like girls from this. My old girl from back in the day and then Thalia from when that was going on. First grade. Drake's just kind of being like, who is I've got so many numbers in here. Just give me a reminder of, which one of them. There's all kinds of area codes and numbers and I'd imagine Drake probably has numerous phones for different type of activities. He don't even know who's getting in touch with him. And Drake, if you're listening and we know that you are, go ahead and save some of them numbers. Save some of them numbers that way next time you get that call, you know exactly who it is. Hello, Stacy? How you doing? What's up? You want another Birkin bag? I'll have my man send it. I'd imagine those were what Drake's phone calls sound like. I love that. If I could guess. Yeah. How did this How'd this voicemail hit you? No, I feel like, yeah, I don't, I know Mambo No. 5, I feel like, has a specific, like, experience for Americans. I feel like people, like, I feel like you guys clown it, right? I mean, it's kind of, it was a silly song now. I remember that song came out when I was maybe seven or eight years old. And at that point, it was going crazy for the, like, second graders. We were having a blast with it. Didn't maybe understand the full message. I just thought maybe he just, like, knew a lot of people. But, yeah, I had an appreciation for it. Now it's kind of like a novelty song. Now it's like a song that, yeah, people kind of make fun of. But if you were around during the moment, it's kind of like Bow Wow. If you were around when he was going on, you, like, know the power that he had. Now that we're a little bit further removed, we're giggling when his name comes up. Okay. Yeah, I mean, I don't have too much relationship with Mambo No. 5. How about the other two songs? No, Titi Me Pregunto, of course. Like, that, and so when I think about that one, I think men always like to, well, you know, men and, you know, superstar, whatever, like Bad Bunny, Drake, they're going to be like, ah, mad bitches. So that's what Titi Me Pregunto is literally like, I got that one and that one and that one and then the Colombian one and then the one from Spain and then, like, all of that. And so, I mean, we just got to, we need a girl to make that. We need an LGBT to make that. Interesting. Is there, is, we got to, listeners, if you know of a, if you know of an LGBT version of this, let's, go ahead and give us that information. Go ahead and drop that in the comments or the Carments, as they're now being called because of Carmen, our producer, they're now called the Carments. Okay, period, period. That just came up on one of the last episodes. You know, I think maybe Young Miko might have something where it's like, I'll take you and your sister, but none of us are getting pregnant, which is such a great line. Y'all heard that one before when she said that? I didn't hear that one. Yeah, she was like, you and your friend or something like that, and we're not, nobody's getting pregnant, which is phenomenal news. Yeah, she's following your, she's following your mother's advice. Excuse me? Not getting pregnant. Oh, she's gay. Well, sure, but nobody's getting pregnant. Right, nobody's getting pregnant. Which is what your mom was hoping that. I wonder if my mom likes Young Miko. Have you heard of Young Miko? I heard of her, I don't know. I'm not, I'm not super tapped in. My little sister asked me for Young Miko tickets. She asked me to buy her Young Miko tickets. Oh, buy her? I was like, I want Young Miko tickets. What was that? Okay, I didn't know you were purchasing it. My bad. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. That's a lot of. I feel like we need one where, you know, there's a gay guy saying it, or there's a lesbian girl saying it, or a doll saying it, and like. That has to exist somewhere. Because you know what? I want equality. I'm with you. And so when it's like three different men. Yeah. Solidarity. And so when you hear three different men talking about all these people, it's like, okay, I know people too. Right, yeah. Yeah, no. And I would never say you don't. I would never say you don't know no people. And maybe this is not about like, oh, I've smashed all of them. It's more like, well, this is my neighbor. Right. And that's the bodega man. That's the cat's name. Maybe these, you've opened us up to a new possibility, which is that maybe these songs aren't about how many hoes you got. It's about building community. What is it? He was in the, Mr. Roger? Oh. Is that his name, the white man? Yeah. Mr. Roger, yes. And he would change his shoes. I always remember, I'd be like, what the fuck is he talking to the camera about? Just focus. You couldn't have asked that question in a funnier way. That's so funny. Also, I thought you were talking about a song. You were talking about the PBS. He had a song too, but he. He did, he did. It isn't about the neighborhood. That's true. So maybe in a way. And then doesn't he walk around into the neighborhood? He walks around, yeah. And he meets everyone in the neighborhood? And he meets a lot of his neighbors, yeah. So that's what we got to do. We got to work together to build community. You can't be like Drake. You got to know everybody's name. Hey, meet the postman. See what the UPS guy got going on. The person who lives next to you, above you, below you. You got to get to the bottom of all this stuff. You live alone? Yeah. You ever thought about what if you fall down one time? Who's going to be in your neighborhood? You know. Your phone is not close to you. Some new people just moved in next door. I don't even know their names. Give them a cookie. You're right. It's about community building. Zoran. The other day, I opened my neighbor's package by accident. And I'm going to have that conversation with him eventually. You got to talk about it. I know. Can I be honest? I just, I got a hoodie delivered and I haven't seen. Yeah, let's see. Well, I don't. What is it? I don't know if I got it. I haven't seen it. It said it's delivered. You know when it says it's delivered and you're like, I don't see where it's supposed to be at? Exactly. Anyway. Yeah. We've gone into a different zone. Michelle Adana. Yes. Thank you so much for being here. Thank you for having me. This was so much fun. Did you learn Spanish? A couple of things. Thank you. Okay, good. I learned about Cali. Cali, Colombia. Yes. Yes. Yes. I learned that it's a valley. Yes, it is. Yes. Everything else is mountains. Come on now. And before we get out of here, is there anything you'd like to plug for the people? Absolutely. Obviously, I'm also the host of Shop Cats, where I go around bodegas and I talk to cats. I also have a fabulous show called Bodega Chat, where Devon. Devon's on it, too. Hey, where we're literally in a bodega, trying your bodega order, and then I rate it. Which, I don't recall which one. What's it? I remember, I'm not sure when my episode comes out. I'm not sure when this episode's going to come out. But if y'all watch my episode of Bodega Chat when it comes out, Michelle Adana is very skeptical about my bodega order. I put in my bodega order, and Michelle Adana is very much like, well, that's how you live in? Michelle Adana really looked at me and said, damn, bitch, you live like this? And then we sat down and we had my bodega meal. Right. And I said, wait a second. Yeah. That's going to be a big thumbs up. Community. Come on, now. Right? We got to build. Learning from each other. We got to build. We got to link hands. We're stronger when we're together. You see the vision? Yeah, no, I get it. Come on, man. Go ahead and check it out. See what I eat at the bodega. Yes. It's pretty tasty, actually. Yes. And make sure you go get involved with whatever you see Michelle Adana in. Yes. If you listen to the episode, you know her and you love her. Yes. And Michelle Adana, thanks so much. Thank you so much for having me. Yay. My Favorite Lyrics is a production by Disco Nap. If you guys like what you hear, leave a review and tell a homie about the show. And make sure to follow us at My Favorite Lyrics Pod on all social platforms, except for Twitter. We offer that. You can learn more about this week's guest and the My Favorite Lyrics team by checking out the show's notes. And thank you to the guys that made this show happen. Executive producer, Lauren Mandel. Producer, Carmen Kerrigan. Our editor, Nicole Lyons. And yeah, that's all the people that I'm going to thank for now. Thank you.