Andrea Gonzalez Ramirez
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Podcast Appearances
And then being there, feeling so at home, I was just like, this is the best thing.
And also, I'm so incredibly sad right now.
And I cried throughout the entire song.
He wraps up with La Mudanza, and I was still crying throughout.
He is saying, like, no one's going to take me out of here.
Like, it's a very, it's like a, it's a very fun song.
But it's also, I think, as the closer in the album and the closer in the show,
There's like a level of defiance and like pride that comes with that song.
And I think that once my husband and I walked out, we're coming down the nosebleeds.
You had like people chanting, I'm Puerto Rican, just so you know it.
It just felt very lovely and empowering to be surrounded by so many of us.
And I don't know, I think there was like this sense of community that was like very beautiful and also very fun.
And it kind of like healed me, whatever like trigger I had had two songs prior.
Like definitely when we walked out, I was like, oh, I kind of love this a lot.
Yeah, it's like 3 million people at this point.
Like there's 5 million Puerto Ricans living in the U.S., like stateside.
It's like a smaller population than many, many states.
It's a declaration he's making, right, that you can be the biggest artist in the world or one of the biggest artists in the world and you don't have to compromise or change your art or attempt to cross over to appeal to an English-speaking audience.
And instead, you can just bring everyone together.