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Buscabulla Is True to Form

July 15, 2024
Puerto Rican couple and musical duo Buscabulla reveal the meaning behind their band name, their party meet-cute, and differences between Mexican and Boricua Spanish.
Show transcript
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Ok, we are here with Busca Boa,
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a husband and wife duo nominated for the song of the summer
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with their track 1111.
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But before we get into talking about the song,
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how did you guys pick your name?
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Bobo is a Puerto Rican street slang.
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It's kind of like your trouble maker rouser,
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you know, you're looking for trouble,
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but it's got like a double on Tre,
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right? Because boa also a lot of places in Latin America
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hes like a ruckus like a noise,
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you know, so you could be either looking for trouble or
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a party or both.
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Oh, I love that.
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And what inspired it to be your like name?
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I mean, I think I'm kind of a Busca is definitely
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I don't know about that.
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It's a fun word.
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It's kind of like,
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I don't know a lot of truth and you guys are
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like couple goals. This is awesome.
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I wish I could find someone and do something together with them
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This is so cool.
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Like, how did you guys meet?
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Yeah, we met at a party like a Thanksgiving Day party
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So we had,
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we were both born and raised in Puerto Rico,
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but we both moved separately without knowing each other to New York
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And in New York,
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every Puerto Rican somehow finds each other,
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you know. So we were at a party there,
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I think Raquel was sort of,
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she had a band with her friends and famously,
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she was like, you know,
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trying to do this cover of bad romance in Spanish lady Gaga
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bad romance in Spanish.
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And,, but they didn't have this one chord,
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you know, and I knew that one chord.
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So I was like,
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I got this, he slipped in and he was like,
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I know the chords.
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Yeah, I know that one chord and I played it and
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the rest is history.
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The rest is, yeah.
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And now we have the nominated song of the summer.
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Everybody. Let's go.
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Let's go. So,
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you guys are husband and wife.
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Kind of technically not really.
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We are, we were never married by the church government,
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but we've been together,
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we've been together for like,
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13 years. So at this point I guess we are,
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you know, we kind of laugh at it every time we
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read it but it's everywhere.
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But it's cool. I take it,
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you know. Yeah.
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And then how is it like working together?
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You know, being on tour together?
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How's that? You know,
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as a couple, it's hard,
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it's hard. I mean,
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it's hard to do everything together.
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So, what we do is we just take a lot of
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space we have to,
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otherwise we go crazy.
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It's just too much stuff,
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you know, who is a very creative person.
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She's got a lot of,
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a lot to, you know,
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a lot of opinions,
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you know, intensity and,
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and,, you know,
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so I think, like,
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if we were constantly in a sort of space together it,
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it can get to a place of tension,
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you know what I mean?
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Like, especially we do parenting together.
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We do you know,
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a day to day things together.
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We do the band.
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We tour, it's just so much stuff,
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you know. But but we,
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we want to make it work and we're here,
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you know, like doing our very best and,
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and I think it's cool because people respond,
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you know, like we also on your collab with bad bunny
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like how did the bad bunny collab come about,
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his producer. Hit us up on Instagram.
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He slid into the D MS,
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he slid into the D MS on Easter Sunday.
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Bad bunny. Easter Sunday.
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I'll never forget the bunny.
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Yeah, the bunny came on Easter Sunday and he like,
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literally like the producers like,
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yo, he Benito wants you guys to be on this track
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And then I got nauseous and then I told li and
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it was like 11 o'clock at night and then we were like
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what is it?
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They send us the track and we were like,
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when you got to hit them back,
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let's hit him back and we were like,
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OK, so what do you want us to do on this
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track? The producer is going to send us some notes and
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he's like, can we just call you on facetime?
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And like when we answer,
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you know, when we answer,
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it's basically Benito and we're in our pajamas.
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No way he was on there.
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He looked like a fucking rock star with cool hat,
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hot earrings and shit.
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We're all fucking sit.
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We were in our pajamas with holes and stains on.
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Hey Benito, we're about to go to bed and we were
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like, and so we had,
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we talked to him for like,
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I don't know, like an hour and then after that two
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weeks later, Andrea was done.
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Oh That's awesome. Oh my God,
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that's so cool. And so how do you pick 1111 as
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the title? 1111 kept showing up around kind of around the
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time when all that craziness,
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that funny thing happened.
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And it was also kind of around a year before my dad
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passed away. So I don't know.
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It just kept, it kept cropping up.
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I'm not seeing it anymore,
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but I was seeing it a lot at the moment.
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Yeah. Now I'm seeing another one.
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Yeah. Now I see,
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now I see 77 I schizophrenic,
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but it's fine. It's all good.
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And what else do you guys have coming up?
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What's new? So,
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we're working on an album,
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we're trying to finish the album this year.
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Yeah. No, we have to,
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we, we're going to finish the album this year and we're
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going to play, yeah,
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we're going to play in New York City on August 10th part
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of festivals. Really big like all girl festival,
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kind of all. That's really cool.
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It's all kind of girl,
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girl. Oh, well,
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thank you guys so much for joining us.
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Thank you. Thank you.
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So, so cool.
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So where can everybody follow you?
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Where can they stream your music?
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Yeah, man. We're at at Bus Ka on Instagram
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at bus music on Twitter.
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What else do we have?
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It's called oh shit,
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we curse on you can,
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you can fuck go let go.