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Jessie Reyez: Before Love Came To Kill Us

The Canadian Colombian singer songwriter explains how a respect for death and destiny is woven into her sultry debut album.
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What's up y'all?
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My name is Jessie Reyes and these are 95.
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I, I was born in Toronto, Canada.
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My family is from Colombia and my vibes is romantic, violent
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and high and low.
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All.
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At the same time.
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The song I do was about an old relationship of my dad didn't
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work out the whole idea.
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The whole promise behind before love came to kill us was to
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kind of motivate people to think more about their mortality
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But the beautiful thing in that is that if we're aware of our
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mortality motivates us to live in a more authentic way to be
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more truthful with yourself and with other people as a Latina
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part of our culture is being very open to death, very aware
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of it.
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Even the way that my mom communicates with me, like if someone
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asks her, hey, what are you and Jesse doing today?
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And she said, oh, we're going to her house, which means if God
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allows and it was just something secondary because I was so
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used to it.
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But the older I got, the more I realized that's homage to the
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fact that we're at the of destiny.
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We're at the mercy of whatever God has planned for us.
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And I think that's a gift because sometimes death is stigmatized
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and there's more fear added to it as opposed to the idea of reunification
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as opposed to the idea of.
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And if love transcends death, that means that we're reuniting
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with the people that we've lost.
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You know, so that's seeing and that seeing all best friends
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that seeing a love you might have lost to the other side.
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We shot it in Toronto.
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We shot it in like the middle of summer, which was lovely because
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I don't really ever get a quote unquote comfortable suit.
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It's rare.
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So that was nice.
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That's one of the only music videos I've ever done on film.
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To be completely honest with you.
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That music video was one of the most difficult ones that we
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did because you have a lot of time to shoot with film.
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It's not as free as with digital.
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So it doesn't matter if we have to go over an hour or two hours
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it means that we just can't, I'm trying to see the silver lining
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in a lot because I didn't want to release this.
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I felt like it wasn't important to promote my shit during times
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like this.
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And then I asked my friends, I went on the gram and it was 97%
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and she was telling me to drop that shit.
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So this is for you.
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And if you're quarantined.
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Hope this is some theme music.
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It might make you want to call your ex.
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I don't know if you should or not.
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If they weren't an asshole, maybe you should call them if they
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were a dick.
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Gods speak.
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Oh, shout out to me too for having me.
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My album, my debut album.
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Hope you listen to it and you fuck with it.
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Follow me everywhere, Instagram and Twitter everywhere
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at.
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Stay the hell indoors.
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Be safe and sound.
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Goodbye.
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Yeah.