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

Episode Date: April 11, 2026

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 headlinin...g 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 Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

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Starting point is 00:00:03 What is up, Daddy, gang. It is your founding father, Alex Cooper, with Call Her Daddy. Carol G., welcome to Call Her Daddy. The little Gritigo, of course, because I mean, call her daddy. How are you? 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.
Starting point is 00:00:27 You are a Grammy winner. You're selling out stadiums worldwide. And now you're headlining Coachella. Congratulations. Thank you. so much. 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? That's a complex question because I think I'm going to answer and then 10 minutes later,
Starting point is 00:00:53 I'm going to think about something different. And then tomorrow, I'm going to be thinking like, oh, maybe this too. Because like not right now, I'm just like a roller coaster of feelings and emotions. And even 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.
Starting point is 00:01:31 I don't know if you know, but after my... I finished the tour, Manana Sera Onito Tour in 2020, July, 2024. And since that July, I haven't been on stage. Like, no, with a show of mine. I was in, but Bonnie was in Medellin, 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. And now you're headlining Coachella.
Starting point is 00:02:02 And I'm gonna present, like actually I'm going to present these songs of my last album in Coachella. Do you get nervous, though, saying that? Like, are you someone that gets nervous performing on stage? Like, if you haven't done it a while or does it come back immediately naturally? 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, at my happiest place to be.
Starting point is 00:02:27 What does it mean to you to have this opportunity to represent your community and get up? there and do this for them. This is huge. Like I think to have a purpose is the most important thing. Even when we started like talking about the creative details 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, the opportunity to have a big voice for them. So yeah, I'm going to be there speaking a little loud.
Starting point is 00:03:17 Can we talk about your evolution as an artist? Because you're sitting in front of me today so successful, headlining Coachella, Grammys, selling out all the things, which is so amazing. but when you were younger, did you expect this to be your career? Like, what life did you envision for yourself? 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.
Starting point is 00:04:05 So when I grew up, I listened, 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's the instrument that I love the most. But everything just was guiding me that this is one I really want to do. There's another part on me that I wanted to be a motorcycle writer professional. Like, I love motorcycles and that's my hobby. Dude, I love sitting with artists because it's always something like that. Like, it's always like, if I wasn't going to do this, then I was going to do and then it's something so random that I'm like, what? Do you drive motorcycles? Yeah, I love.
Starting point is 00:04:48 You have to come with me. On the back of your bike? Uh-huh. Really bitchota moment, like riding motorcycles in Mexico. You're going to love. Do you put guys on the back of your bike? Yeah, like even my friends when they don't, they don't know how to ride. Like, they come with me. But if you were going on a date, would you have a guy get on your motorcycle? Ah, okay. Like, like, uh, like, that, like, that, Like actually, that's how I started like my little bit like my last relationship, like giving. My first gift was a motorcycle. I thought you were going to say my first gift was you can come on my motorcycle. You bought him a motorcycle?
Starting point is 00:05:20 Yeah, I bought him a motorcycle. Wait, that's an amazing gift. Yeah. We're going to get to relationships. 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.
Starting point is 00:05:35 Like, what did you want out of that experience? I was very shy. In my school, I always was very, very shy at that time specifically. And I didn't want to 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.
Starting point is 00:05:57 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 like recording the TV show and then I got out
Starting point is 00:06:12 and when I got out like my parents were they were like super heartbreaked but I was like I didn't really care like about it because I was like you know I was like little kid like you don't really
Starting point is 00:06:25 understand like what's happening but then after that there is this person that that asked to sign a contract to start like an artistic process. My parents, they asked me, do you want this? And actually, at that time, I said, like, this is interesting.
Starting point is 00:06:47 Like, I want to 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 just visualized myself a lot in her. story and it gave me like the strength and the confidence exactly and yeah my parents signed that contract and I started working 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
Starting point is 00:07:30 with your dad trying to get noticed and seen in the industry my father and I would became like the craziest, most amazing team ever created in history of the music. And I said that because we were like my father and I, like sitting at a table calling to different places. And I was like, hi, you're talking with the, with Carol G. Assistant. She's an artist and it was me. Like, or it was him.
Starting point is 00:07:55 Like him, we were like this big team. Oh, you need to talk to the, I don't know, the executive. Like, okay, he's going to call you later on. To my father. Would you change your voice? Yeah. Okay, I'm calling. Hi, I want to talk with Carol G.
Starting point is 00:08:10 Hello. We're calling from this Carol G team, and we're asking you to, of course, we're showing. She had this great music. She's Latina. She can sing in school. She can sing in, I don't know, in university. She can sing in everybody. Do you need?
Starting point is 00:08:28 She has a great music. She has a great show. She comes with the artist. She comes with the dance. and she comes with all the amazing time. If you want to do something, just please call us. We're going to be like super, super, super, super grateful to be part of your show. You're a saleswoman.
Starting point is 00:08:47 No, but no, at the time it worked. Like we did a lab, it's cool, universities. Like, it was amazing. Girl, 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.
Starting point is 00:09:10 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, yeah, it doesn't, it won't happen. No, it won't happen. So Carol, you though
Starting point is 00:09:37 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? Yeah, it felt like always like a negotiation. I was very blessed that I have my father on the role with me, but actually even having him by my side, there were so many things that they were like fucked up. Like, I don't know. For me, it's, it's, I just feel like I feel grateful because I had those experiences and now I feel that I have to speak for all my women community.
Starting point is 00:10:29 but 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 they want to show you the way to do it, how you how and what you have to sell to have a position. And of course, if you are in a room of like full of a respected man, And it's kind of you are in this second position where you have to just listen and go for the things that they plan. I hated that. I hated everything.
Starting point is 00:11:09 And I hate it. It almost made me hate what I do. It almost made me hate my music and everything. So it was hard. Yeah. It was hard. Yeah. And I'm so happy, obviously, to now see you in this place because I think I've spoken to so
Starting point is 00:11:24 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 in balance 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 16 years old, what you were referring to is you signed with a manager who was in his 50s and he crossed the line, right? How did that experience affect the way that you viewed the music industry as a whole? It kills all the emotion and all the love that I used to have for music, you know?
Starting point is 00:12:10 And at that time, there's so many things that you feel that you're not able to talk. Like, 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. Because sometimes you want to say things, but you don't find the way or you don't have this. I don't know. But you cannot speak about them. And at that time, I couldn't speak about nothing. And I just said, I don't want to do this anymore. And I just told my father, please.
Starting point is 00:12:47 just take me out of this. Like, help me. I don't feel comfortable. And I just, as 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 caused, what it calls to be out of that contract. But I moved to New York to an aunt's house.
Starting point is 00:13:12 And my father was, like, very concerned about, like, why are you doing this to me? Like, it's kind of, he felt that it was kind of a something that I wanted to do, you know, like we say in Spanish, a capriccio, I don't know how to say in English, but it's kind of, if it was something that I, I don't want this anymore and I just want to start an idea thing, but in the deep, deep, deep, deep, a situation, I could never explain, but he just believed in that he didn't want to do that. I think something you said to 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
Starting point is 00:13:50 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 I think because there were so many things that happened to me that they were like a first experience even in mind and situation that I never before spoke about. Everything was new. So I was like how I explained 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 the things.
Starting point is 00:14:44 I was embarrassed on myself. It's something that there's no explanation. But I just feel that girls need to understand that you have to speak. There's not a way if you have someone that is making you feel uncomfortable, disrespectful, not dignity at all. There's nothing good that is going to happen. Nothing good.
Starting point is 00:15:15 Like, because you think this is the way or whatever. That's never going to be the way. That's going to make you lose time and that's going to make it lose yourself. And I learned that later on. And sometimes, like, yeah, I'm really a nice person that I love, but there's people that can sit in a chair and say, like, oh, that bitch, yeah, you think.
Starting point is 00:15:36 that she's really goodbye, but she's not like, I'm going to sit and I'm going to say like, do you actually are conscious about what happened, what you did on me for you to say that? Because now I really make sure people respect me in the room. Like I love everything, but I'm not like with someone. I'm not going to be sitting with someone. I'm going to say hi. I'm going to be very polite. But that's just going to, it doesn't, we won't going to cross the line of if you're
Starting point is 00:16:08 respect me or not. And I learned that really late. It took me time. But it's, but it's so relatable, unfortunately. And I appreciate you speaking on it because there are so many women that are going to 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 being 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
Starting point is 00:16:53 takes growing up and learning and growing and becoming stronger. 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 new 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. You know what is the craziest thing about it? That then, like, living life, I just knew a lot of, a lot of girls that they had the same situation. And I was like, wow, this is something that repeats a lot.
Starting point is 00:17:36 This is something that we really have to stand for because it's kind of, 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 the boss and respect yourself first instead of learning
Starting point is 00:18:03 in late. And this message, and I'm going to speak to the camera, this message goes to the parents too, because 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. we have a really strong spirit like over everything we can do the most crazy amazing like girls they give life like they give birth you know like so starting from that like just believe that you're you're girls at home they can do whatever they want they're as a strong they're even
Starting point is 00:18:55 stronger like it's a message for everyone you know 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? Oh, no. My work is speaking about me. So I don't have anything to say. Like, they can watch and, but everyone is so welcome to be enjoying 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 person like just enjoy. Like you're part of this and I just hope you learn. You're, you know, you're. You can watch me on stage at Coachella.
Starting point is 00:19:35 I'll be on the main stage. Where are you, bitch? Yeah, a little bit like that. I'll say it for you, Carol. Exactly. Yeah, yeah, better. So you work with your father. You get out of the situation with this manager.
Starting point is 00:20:00 Your career really starts taking off. And then you start collaborating with some major artists and your album, Manana Serra Bonito. It broke so many records. crazy. How were you feeling emotionally when your career really just started to take off? You know what? Like even we did this stadium tour with Manana Serra 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 want to be there and I want to
Starting point is 00:20:46 I don't know but when you're on station you see that amount of people that they made this crazy efforts to pay the ticket and everything. It's kind of like your brain is not ready for it. And I wasn't ready for that album and for that dude at that time. 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? 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.
Starting point is 00:21:28 And I always say like, Carol G is a really good artist and a really good musician. But a heartbreak, like heartbroken Carol G, girl. get ready. That's, that's something crazy because like, that's when like my superpower comes out. Like, I'm going to write some bangers. Get ready. Get ready. And the world was like, okay, yeah, these are bangers. I mean, 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
Starting point is 00:22:15 good moment. And then you remember 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? Yeah, of course. Like, you romanticize everything. And that's how brain works because our body hates pain. So our brain is going to put like, oh, yeah, this is bad. But remember when he was nice this time? And you're like, yeah, maybe it's not. 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. 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
Starting point is 00:23:00 what did that look like for you? No, that happens a lot to me. And actually, uh, I need to work that on me. Because if no, I'm going to fail every relationship. Now I know that. Because when you start 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.
Starting point is 00:23:28 You do things this way. It's two people that compliments 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 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'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 you breaks everything breaks, you know? So I need to work that on me. I need to be more like,
Starting point is 00:24:13 this is how I do things. Yeah, set the boundaries. 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 moments, 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 strong. And then you don't know. how to be out of it. 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. Yeah, girl. Yeah. You're, I feel you. I feel you hard on that. I think all of us.
Starting point is 00:24:52 All of us are like, and yes, yes, yes. So I need to buy my love. Is that the award? Yeah. It does I think I need to learn how to defy a love that it keeps going out, but it still's coming in. Because are you a romantic? The most corny romantic girl. 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.
Starting point is 00:25:18 I love that you find a little thing here, right there. I love to. I've done graffiti on the wall. For a man. For a man. Like, girl taking time, like long night with my friends doing something. And the next day, sending a picture and find it because it's for you. You, like, girl, like...
Starting point is 00:25:38 No, that's romantic. Yeah, that's romantic. But then they're, like, treating you like shit. You're like, you don't deserve me. I love corny songs, and I love, I don't know, yeah, I'm stuck in time. Do you write songs for guys that you love? Of course. And perform them to them?
Starting point is 00:25:54 Of course. Yeah, you know what I did once? I just did a song. I recorded in a cassette. I led the little cassette player. I don't know how to do. the theater with the cassette inside and I left the house. We don't know, like, listen to this for you. Did he text you and say, I'm madly in love with you? Yeah, of course. Yeah. That was cute. That was
Starting point is 00:26:17 cute. Okay, your song, TQG, has become such an empowering breakup anthem for so many women. How did that collaboration with Shakira come to be? Okay. She was having this specific moment in her life. 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,
Starting point is 00:26:51 but I just got her contact, sent her the song, explain 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 did it was amazing. It works.
Starting point is 00:27:20 Yeah. The song talks about an X 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? with a multi-million selling album and tour about what you and how you made me feel. Yeah, like that. Mike drop. Oh, watch me make some money and just like live out my dreams now. Yeah, that's how you respond.
Starting point is 00:27:58 That's how I am. And do you respond to them ever? No. No. That's your response. You know, like how I am, I'm like when 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.
Starting point is 00:28:13 There's, I'm done. You have to notice that I'm trying too hard to put this together. Because when I don't do it, I don't do it anymore. You're done. I'm done. And that takes confidence. I feel like we can't talk about confidence without talking about Bichota. for anyone who isn't familiar,
Starting point is 00:28:33 can you please explain what it means to be abichota? You know, it's still like we have this specific word in Spanish, un capo. We say un capo to a person that is really good at something. Like, for example, Messi is a couple. You know, we say like that. It's like kind of his abichote. And it's the same meaning.
Starting point is 00:28:54 It's a photo that used to use it for a narco person. But it became like a heavy word that represents. represents like a heavy personality. So I loved that for Bichota, and now there is Bichota's all over the world, just super powerful and running their thing and yeah. You are such a confident person,
Starting point is 00:29:14 which I think people love so much. You even have a tattoo of yourself. What inspired this? 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 Rihanna, Selena Quintanilla, and Carolina that it's me. And actually people, I know, they understand, like they can feel that it's really weird
Starting point is 00:29:44 because it's kind of, I don't know, like 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 how hard has been. life for me in different situations. Like if there's someone that I admire that 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 because I'm still like a not confidence person like a lot of times. But there's this lucid moments that I have that made me remember how everything, how hard has been.
Starting point is 00:30:41 So I have myself here. I have Selena Quintanilla. 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. is Selena Quintanilla. And then it's Rihanna. Rihanna, she's my baby.
Starting point is 00:31:02 She is my baby. She's 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.
Starting point is 00:31:16 In this situation, like, because she's a bitch. She doesn't care. She's like, everything is fuck up for her. So I really want to have that. She has been like, she has done everything she wanted in her life. She has become like a business girl, like a mom, very dedicated and lovely mom.
Starting point is 00:31:38 And she has done everything as a girl, as a woman, like everything. So I'm ready. Have you gotten to meet her? 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 this, but that's like what I realized from our meeting. You have to be the person you will love to meet for everyone. Not convenience, no, for everyone.
Starting point is 00:32:16 Be the person you will love to meet. Like when you are in situation, you say like, ah, this person made me feel so uncomfortable, so bad, I don't want to be that. She made me feel very special in that room when I get. getting she was so she was like eating little pojitos like chicken she was eating little pojitos and she was already pregnant and she presented his pregnancy that night and she was like with no shoes just hitting her so fine she was talking to me like things that i never 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.
Starting point is 00:32:56 I'm like, so after that, I was like, oh, okay, maybe this is the best lesson that I can have. Like, I need to be that person that people and my fans will love to meet when they see me. I want everyone to feel comfortable in my presence. That's very beautiful. I felt like that way there. Did you show her the tattoo? Of course. Like, you know what happened to me?
Starting point is 00:33:16 Crazy. So embarrassed. Like, she must be super tired of me talking about her. And actually, sometimes I think. like, ah, you're showing too much. And when you show too much, like, I don't, I don't need to do a song with her. Like, I don't, that's a dream in my list, but I don't need to. I met her.
Starting point is 00:33:37 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 it. Like my body was shaking. I was like kind of, hi, Rihanna, I love you. And my voice and everything. everything like kind of just put me on my palais song and I was just dancing. I was shaking, like literally shaking and I, I'm still embarrassed about it. And were you just like, I got a tattoo of
Starting point is 00:34:06 you? 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 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. And she smells like heaven. She smells like, like, like Rihanna. You're like, do you want to just actually do the rest of this episode?
Starting point is 00:34:38 Let's talk about Rihanna. Because Carol G's like, you know what? Yeah, next. I can keep like, just a name. We're going, we're going. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I think that's how a lot of people feel about her, though. Okay, let's talk about your latest album, Jopi Koketa.
Starting point is 00:34:51 How did you come up with the name? Okay, with Tropicoqueta, 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 if I was in Europe or whatever, I had like all these people coming from all the different Latina countries. And the name, it was like kind of we, as a Latinas, we are coquettas. We are like these flirty girls. Like we love being like the center of. the room. Like, we like that. And, and we're sexy and we love our curves because they're in a
Starting point is 00:35:29 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 flurry vibe. And I put them together. It's a tropi coqueta. And we all of us, we're tropi coquettas. 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. No, like I'm done for a while, you know? Like, yeah, I think I'm okay. No.
Starting point is 00:36:02 But not in a bad way. It's as 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 amazing like to be with someone. I'm just enjoying my my yeah, enjoying having fun like being in my process with the music thinking about like I do want to be back on tour with my fans. I just I'm missing them. I'm thinking more about that relationship like because I like I put it like in a side and I was ready to start like a different thing in my personal life.
Starting point is 00:36:45 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. Do you think that you have a type? I maybe yes. I like the bad guy a little bit. You know, I have to change that. That's why. That's why. And I like the guy that like it looks like he's from the neighborhood and he's chill and yeah, that's my type. I love how you just caught yourself too. You're like, the bad guys. Oh, wait. No, I'm done with that. Yeah, that's why.
Starting point is 00:37:23 I have this message from heaven. Yeah, that's why. Stop. Stop. What is an ideal first date for you? Oh, take me to eat like hot dough, 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, but guy. And I love that. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:37:47 Carol, no bad guy. No, I know. No, like, erase this and let's start again. And what about, um, book club, uh, date and I love bad guys. I'm fucked. Yeah. You're fucked. Every answer, you're, every time I ask you about love, you're so sweet because
Starting point is 00:38:11 you're so romantic and you're like, and then you just like drift off and you're fully talking about the bad guys and like, Carol, and you're like, oh, wait, no. Now, after this interview, you're going to be like my little boys. Carol. No. Okay, we're going to play a little game. Okay. Let's see how much you like bad guys. I'm going to give you a scenario and you're going to tell me what you would do.
Starting point is 00:38:31 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? No, no. That's going to take it like, I don't know. Like, if he admires what I do is a thing. But he was like a crazy fan, like, I don't know. Okay. What would you do if you're. boyfriend proposed and you absolutely hated the ring he got you? I know, I don't care.
Starting point is 00:38:59 Mm-mm. You don't care? No, about the ring. Yeah. No, but I care more about the moment when he asked me. What would ideal proposal be? I don't know, like a really unique one. Like be creative. Would you pretend to like the ring?
Starting point is 00:39:16 Yeah. Love it. Okay. What would you do if you caught your boyfriend lying about his location? Problems. We have like crazy problems. That's going to start like a new way of manage this relationship. What is the biggest lie you ever caught a guy in? A location. And a location, but I'm talking about miles and kilometers and seas. Seas. And seas. Like I'm here and actually I'm in a different continent. No.
Starting point is 00:39:53 Yeah. It happened to me. What do you do in those situations? Do you go off or do you go quiet? No, no, no. That's a no. That's next. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:40:04 So now I'm telling something. 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? If I met him that way, I don't have any problem because of I have really good relationship with some of my ex-boyfriends. Okay. And they're like...
Starting point is 00:40:26 But do you like hang out with them? But what is, when you say hang out, it's what, like going to party or... Yeah, like, would you see... Like, would you hang out alone with them? No, no, no. That's disrespectful. Okay. You would just like socialize with them. No, social. Exactly. And exactly. And you're just cordial. Like, it's chill. Like you're not... Yeah, yeah. Okay. So no bad blood. No, no, not bad blood. 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.
Starting point is 00:40:54 Again, a guy is the whole night in the party, but he didn't say nothing, but then he DM me? No, you lost your opportunity. Okay. Are you or is anyone sliding into your DMs in the Coachella land right now? No. No. Or just have you not checked your DMs?
Starting point is 00:41:17 No, but I, right now I don't have instruct. I just deleted the, it was sticking me a lot. lot of time to be right you're busy yeah and then i want to be focused on like my show and my things okay last question okay oh my god like last question it sounds like it's a hard question no no no easy easy um 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,
Starting point is 00:42:06 what do you hope fans take away from listening to your music? With their selves. Yeah, I want to be a bridge for the people to get together with themselves. It's just a thing that costs me a lot to understanding 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 a hard situation, there's sacrifices, their hard work, there's discipline, there's things like the ones that happened to me that happens to everyone. And I just want them to understand that we are in a process. Everyone is in a process. Everything's going to be okay.
Starting point is 00:43:00 everything's going to be fine. 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. Thank you so much. It's a pleasure and a honor to be here. And this specific moment, I think this interview is going to be really helpful in my career. So thank you so much for open 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. My God. Thank you, Carol.

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