Selena Interview - Part 2 - Clubs - http://maxpages.com/selenaclub4grl/Selena_Interview_Part

Cristina: Here we are back with Selena. The first thing I want to ask you in this segment is how come you have this "bow" done? (hairstyle) or how do yo say "bow" in Mexico? Chongo? (pony tail)

Selena: Gajos..(meaning orange slices shaped)

Cristina: How come you put your hairdo so big today?

Selena: Because...(laughs)...I don't know..

Cristina: Did you do it all by yourself?

Selena: Yes..

Cristina: I've very amazed! How can someone can do that all by themselves??!

Selena: I don't know, I don't know..

Cristina: Do you do your own make-up too?

Selena: Yes, everything, everything.

Cristina: Wow...

Selena: Thank you very much!

Cristina: Wow! My god...I am very impressed. Great, well, we're going to talk about the father whose face isn't very friendly and in this segment I want to ask what did your father do for all of you to be "professional musicians." Tell me what you used to do and what happened during your life?

Selena: Everyday we had to practice only 15 minutes. We didn't like it at all but when you're really young you want to play with your friends and neighbors. Just to pass the time and have fun! And to practice 15 minutes! It was, "AHH!!! But papa, we wanna play!" But those minutes paid off!

Cristina: What kinda work did your father do? He ran a restaurant?

Selena: Yes, a restaurant.

Cristina: Where the kids used to play?

Selena: Yes, that was like a hobby...to pass the time. I believe my father never thought that this was going to be our career, being an artist.

Cristina: Your father was a musician too?

Selena: Yes, a musician way before. He had a group called "Abe y Los Dinos." That's why we called ourselves "Selena y Los Dinos," because it is 2nd generation.

Cristina: You have a brother and a sister.

Selena: Yes

Cristina: Both are older than you?

Selena: Exactly..

Cristina: You are the baby?

Selena: The baby.

Cristina: Okay, aren't they jealous of "the baby"?

Selena: No..

Cristina: That it's "Selena y los Dinos" and not "Los Dinos and also Selena"?

Selena: No, no, no..All of us have..we grew up with morals and also respect for everyone. My father also treated us EQUAL and we're not different. We all have talent even if they are in different aspects.

Cristina: What do you think of one father, that is also a manager, like Michael Jackson's father? They came out with a lot of books and his kids who are now adults are now complaining about how he used to make them work, how he was very abusive. He used to hit them and that they didn't really have a childhood. What's your opinion of a situation like this one?

Selena: First I want to say that my father wasn't like that. My father, he saw the talent and he tried to cultivate it and tried to do something about it. But it wasn't in a bad way. It was to help us to do something in life. I think it is something very sad because not all parents are like that. And even if the father of Michael Jackson did that, you have to love your parents even if they do bad things. (Applause) Thank you. You know, it's like the roles, like they reverse. When a child does bad things, the parents are always going to love their child even if they do something bad. They are always going to love them. It's like that love you have within a family.

Cristina: You think that those kids should have more respect and love them even though the parents made them go through something like that?

Selena: I think that Michael Jackson loves his father. They've gone through a lot of bad things.

Cristina: Did you think you lost something because you were a child star? Like what ordinary kids had?

Selena: I believe so.... but I won in other aspects. I met other goals. Even though I was a girl and I lost some of my childhood it was for a good cause. To help my family because we've been working since we were very little to put food on the table.

Cristina: So you didn't used to dream about being a singer or a star? Like other girls who get a spoon or a soda bottle and practice in front of a mirror because they dream of becoming a big famous singer! And you, no?

Selena: No... I never thought about it.

Cristina: What did you want to be?

Selena: I wanted to have my own business and I had a dream about being a designer and I am doing that.

Cristina: You are designing and we're going to show them today here. How come you used to climb trees with the boys and you didn't like dolls and you are a designer!?

Selena: (Laughs) I don't know! I love a lot of sports. The boys were more challenging. I could do anything like the men! It was equal!

Cristina: How come that is so important to you?

Selena: The truth is I don't know. I just wanted to play with the boys at that time, now I don't! (Laughs)

Cristina: What do you like to do to relax?

Selena: To relax? To tell the truth, I don't know how to rest! I am a person that has to do something all the time. When I relax I am working on business.

Cristina; Selena thinks that a singing job is the same as working in a factory or secretary?

Selena: It's a job.

Cristina: But it doesn't pay the same Selena?

Selena: (Laughs) That's true, but it's work! A person...The life of an artist is not all glamorous. It's a lot of work. A lot of people think that it's very easy. They think you always stay in good hotels, you buy good things, but it is not like that. You have to work very hard like everybody.

Cristina: How do you like being a star? How do you like when you get to a hotel and the whole world seems to be after you? When you're having dinner, when you're walking, when they ask for an autograph and when they ask for your picture all the time, when you're feeling good and when you're not feeling good?

Selena: Well, for me it's totally something! When I am... like when I don't feel good at the same time I think they don't know my private life. How can you take that little magic that they have in you? The image they have of you, if you treat them good...you understand, if you treat somebody bad, they're not going to buy your record! Why, why would you want to treat someone like that?

Cristina: Always when they ask for a photo or autograph, you will give it to them?

Selena: Yes.

Cristina: You never refuse?

Selena: No...or I say when I'm with my family and I want to relax little with them, I'll say "Could you wait a little and after I'll sign?"

Cristina: What do you think about the artists who don't do that?

Selena: (Makes a face) For me, how can you do that when the public has you up there? (gestures with hands) You understand? (applause) How can you do that? They are the ones who make the artist! They buy the records, they buy everything. And you have to be grateful to the public in that way to give autographs if they want an autograph, you give them an autograph! It's not going to take very much of your time, I do it!

Cristina: It's not a big deal, in other words?

Selena: Exactly!

Cristina: When we come back, we're going to learn why Selena says that women have to be LISTEN TO THIS GIRLS submissive towards their man. We'll be right back!

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