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Jarina De Marco: Electrico feat. Diego Raposo

Dominican by way of Berlin, Jarina shares her goals for this uniquely personal song. Plus gelatin. Lots of gelatin.
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This is Rina and Marco here and these are my vibes.
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My vibes are Dominican sprinkled with Brazilian with a little
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Berlin in New York and L A.
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It's all the places I've grown up in.
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Lived in my sound is definitely a huge mass, all of these different
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cultures.
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Uh But I really hone in on the Dominican part of it.
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You got me driving up to silver, specifically the folkloric
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percussion and bringing also the modern sounds of, of Latinx
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culture, which is all my songs up until now, have been mostly
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either political or about empowerment and not ever personal
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or about love.
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And is the first song I've written in a very long time that's
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specifically about a person.
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And this song was me falling in love with now an exboyfriend
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and really honing in on my sexuality and sexuality.
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It was like, I wanted to make some like baby making music, you
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know, like I wanted to like, put myself in that mood and put
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everyone in that mode.
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Obviously, this video had to be sexy as fuck, right?
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I had been working and experimenting with Jello for about
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a year.
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Now, I did an art show with face around jello.
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So I thought it was a perfect medium to depict sex because when
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you slap up one of those jellos that are kind of hard jellos
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it mimics the body, it mimics a boob or a butt or a thigh.
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And it's also really visceral to look at.
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And it's also really fun to play with and squish.
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There's like a ASMR uh element to it.
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And I thought that also kind of isn't very in line with sex because
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it's not just physical, it's, it's visual, it's uh it's, it's
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tactile.
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So that's where the idea came from.
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And then I just got real freaky with it.
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So the Jello was created by myself and Luz Maga who is my Jello
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mentor.
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She's from Mexico.
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Her Jello is super hard core because she is a very specific
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kind of Jello.
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That's not what you buy in stores.
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I on the other hand, being the amateur that I am bought it at
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the store, you know, the jello packs you get and those babies
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need to be refrigerated for a long time and also can't stand
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the lights of a studio.
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So some of my jello melted.
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Thankfully, I had a, I had a back up but hers was like freaking
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rock hard the entire time.
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Thank God for Lu.
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Thank you Luce.
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The looks for came from the most incredible place on Earth
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Slosson Mall in South L A.
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It's like a mix of black culture, Latinx culture um and Asian
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culture altogether, it's everything you ever wanted from
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like all kinds of color hair.
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You can get grills, you can get uh gold chains.
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Um And you can also uh get amazing lingerie.
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And also there's all these stores for strippers.
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So I got all my clothing there from that, that store.
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So I had never seen my boobs in something that half my boob was
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hanging out.
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And I was like, this works moments in this video where things
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get a little freaky.
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There's like shells on the jello and I cover it and then I just
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like rub the jello sensuously and then I just stick my fingers
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in there.
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I think people when they look at it, the reactions I've gotten
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are like, oh, but also like, oh it's like disgusting and also
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like sexy.
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Honestly, I really wanted this to be from the female perspective
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and uh displaying all of these orifices that are a part of who
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we are as women.
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And there was no need for a because I was with my fingers was
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the penetrator in this instance.
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So it was very much focused on the female form is gone.
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You know, I got a playlist that's for like love making like
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a baby making music play if you will.
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And I want this song to be in that playlist for you.
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I want you to like, get, you know, get yourself all dolled up
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and feeling good and have a good time with your lover.
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That's kind of creepy, but it's totally what I want.
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I just want you to feel good and, and feel sexy when you hear
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my song.
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And also the video might just get you to that place.
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Honestly, I am Jana de Marco and you can follow me on Instagram
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at my song is out now on all platforms.
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Thank you for sharing my vibes.
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Don't go anywhere.
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My video for Electric is coming up next.