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In 'Soy Yo' Video, Bomba Estéreo Pays Tribute To 'What's Inside Of You' 

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RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: 

It's being called an ode to little brown girls everywhere, a swaggier "Little Miss Sunshine," empowering.

(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "YO SOY")

BOMBA ESTEREO: (Singing) Y también me perdí. Fracase, me encontré lo viví y aprendí. Cuando te pegas fuerte más profundo es el beat...

MARTIN: The music video for Bomba Estereo's 2015 hit song "Soy Yo" was released last week. Simon Mejia is one half of the Colombian electro-cumbia group. He joins us now to tell us why he thinks this video has been resonating so much with audiences.

Hey, Simon. Welcome to the program.

SIMON MEJIA: Hi, hi. Thank you.

MARTIN: So before we talk about why this thing is connecting with people so much, why don't you tell us a little bit about the video itself? Can you describe it for us?

MEJIA: Yeah, the video is a beautiful piece. And with this Danish director, he came with these very, very special idea about this girl that goes to the parlor² thing and does her hair and everything and then goes out to the street and is, like, being free and being free about what she feels she is - no? - about her individuality.

MARTIN: Soy yo means I am me, so the whole thing is this empowering message. And this little girl is the perfect messenger. As you say, she's gone into the beauty parlor, and she has her hair done in this super funky³ way. And she walks out onto the street, and you feel some judgment⁴ coming from a couple of little white girls on the corner. And then she sees these guys playing basketball, and she goes and she shows them up. And she's just got this awesome⁵ presence. Where did you find this actress?

MEJIA: It was a whole process that the film crew did. They, like, did a very precise casting - no? - like, looking for this very particular and special girl. And they came out with this girl, and they showed us. And we thought it was perfect because she represents, like, a whole community - no? - a whole community. And she can be from everywhere in Latin America, like, from Mexico to - even to Argentina, she could be, like, anyone. No? So it's, like, perfect.

MARTIN: She is 11-year-old Sarai Gonzalez, who is of both Peruvian and Costa Rican descent and lives in New Jersey⁶.

What do you think it is about her performance that brings new audiences to this particular song and gives it this new kind of life?

MEJIA: I think it's all due to what she represents. No? Like, she represents her whole community probably - people that are immigrants living in a foreign country. No? So she's kind of representing what's happening to - in the world that we have lots of immigration issues in the States. That is people coming for poorest countries - no? - to developed countries.

And this is, like - reflects a whole social and cultural situation that - for example, now in Colombia when we were making this whole campaign around the song, we were having big issues in the schools around, like, bullying⁷. And recently, a small kid - he was gay, and he was having so much bullying in the school that he committed suicide. And so we're trying to, like, empower people to feel that doesn't matter if you're different or if you're from one country or the other or you're black or you're white or you're gay. No?

What's important is what's inside of you, and you have to fight for that. And I think that the video, like, brings this message along.

MARTIN: May I ask about some of these dance moves? Because she totally rocks this.

MEJIA: (Laughter) I don't know. But she - surely she has a rhythm inside of her.

(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "SOY YO")

BOMBA ESTEREO: (Singing) Soy yo - soy, soy, soy, soy, soy, soy. Soy yo - yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo. Sigo caminando y sigo riendo. Hago lo que quiero y muero en el intento.

MARTIN: Simon Mejia of Bomba Estereo. The band's album "Amanecer" came out last year.

Thanks so much for talking with us, Simon.

MEJIA: Oh, thank you very much for inviting⁸. It's a pleasure, always a pleasure.

1 browser   

n.浏览者

参考例句：

• View edits in a web browser.在浏览器中看编辑的效果。
• I think my browser has a list of shareware links.我想在浏览器中会有一系列的共享软件链接。

2 parlor   

n.店铺，营业室；会客室，客厅

参考例句：

• She was lying on a small settee in the parlor.她躺在客厅的一张小长椅上。
• Is there a pizza parlor in the neighborhood?附近有没有比萨店？

3 funky   

adj.畏缩的，怯懦的，霉臭的；adj.新式的，时髦的

参考例句：

• The kitchen smelled really funky.这个厨房有一股霉味。
• It is a funky restaurant with very interesting art on the walls.那是一家墙上挂着很有意思的绘画的新潮餐馆。

4 judgment   

n.审判；判断力，识别力，看法，意见

参考例句：

• The chairman flatters himself on his judgment of people.主席自认为他审视人比别人高明。
• He's a man of excellent judgment.他眼力过人。

5 awesome   

adj.令人惊叹的，难得吓人的，很好的

参考例句：

• The church in Ireland has always exercised an awesome power.爱尔兰的教堂一直掌握着令人敬畏的权力。
• That new white convertible is totally awesome.那辆新的白色折篷汽车简直棒极了.

6 jersey   

n.运动衫

参考例句：

• He wears a cotton jersey when he plays football.他穿运动衫踢足球。
• They were dressed alike in blue jersey and knickers.他们穿着一致，都是蓝色的运动衫和灯笼短裤。

7 bullying   

v.恐吓，威逼( bully的现在分词 )；豪；跋扈

参考例句：

• Many cases of bullying go unreported . 很多恐吓案件都没有人告发。
• All cases of bullying will be severely dealt with. 所有以大欺小的情况都将受到严肃处理。 来自《简明英汉词典》

8 inviting   

adj.诱人的，引人注目的

参考例句：

• An inviting smell of coffee wafted into the room.一股诱人的咖啡香味飘进了房间。
• The kitchen smelled warm and inviting and blessedly familiar.这间厨房的味道温暖诱人，使人感到亲切温馨。