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Vanessa Zamora: Ayer

Borderlands singer-songwriter and producer Vanessa Zamora unpacks her psychedelic pop song and dreamy AF music video.
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Hey, I'm Vanessa Zora and these are my vibes.
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My vibes are emotions, emotional, my vibes are extroverted
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introvert.
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And my music is just the soundtrack of my life of my emotions
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is the platform where I could really be myself in any way, in
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any mood that I am.
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But I think my guys are pretty chill.
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I pretty chill person try to be pretty simple and just let myself
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go into my emotions and see what happens.
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It's a song about lucid dreaming and this constant uh dream
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that you have every night and then that energy that you connect
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and it's about just be wanting to be with someone, just kind
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of being a little bit obsessed with someone that you don't
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know more like an energy.
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And I think that that's something that goes along with all
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my, my vibe, how I feel and how I can connect with myself to my
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conscious mind.
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The video was directed by a good friend uh named Marcelo Quinones
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The production and the art was made by a good friend and musician
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It's basically the vibe of the video.
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It's just me connecting with myself just being alone, just
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trying to kind of meditate about what I dreamed about this
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person, this girl that I was dreaming of just connecting with
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my central heart, with my womanhood, with my loneliness,
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with my sadness, with my happiness.
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That's how the video captures that feeling and that vibe.
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Yeah.
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That look with this, you know, like the triangle.
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It's exactly being this extroverted with my eyes, you know
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but just introverted, just want to be with me.
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And I really like that scene.
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And I also like the scene that I'm in the bed, just like with
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myself.
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I think that's a very powerful scene where I'm like connected
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with my sensuality.
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You know, I think that being a woman sometimes you really want
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to feel like a woman, you know, I just really want to connect
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with your sexuality.
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So I think that scene for me is one of my favorites, the makeup
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and like the glitter on my face.
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That's basically the mood, the vibes on those scenes.
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The creators behind this video are all Mexican make up by,
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by Maria production by which is an amazing songwriter as well
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And the direction and photography by Marcelo Quinonez.
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Birth of the noise all Mexican crew.
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And the, the video was shot in Mexico City and it was kind of
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an abandoned house where used to live.
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So I think the vibe was amazing and it on Mexico, it was produced
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by a good friend called Dan Solo.
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He sent me a track, I was home alone just recording with my microphone
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and I literally just vomited the song because I had those feelings
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like very intense.
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Then all the pandemic came along.
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So we recorded the rest of the song, me being in Tijuana and
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he being in Mexico City, we were like just exchanging files
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and then the song just came out without us even looking, you
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know, we spent like three months not seeing each other, but
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the song came out and I think the work that I did with that and
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the chemistry that we had, it was super nice.
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When you see the video, you just, you know, kind of accept yourself
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as how your mind is thinking, you know, so that 95% that we have
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we usually see it on our dreams.
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So just, you know, let embrace your essence and your authenticity
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This also for me of a queer song, a queer anthem for me because
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it's for a girl and just to let yourself go with your emotions
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and what you you feel and do not have to question everything
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that you feel.
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I'm Zamora.
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I'm a writer from Tijuana Mexico.
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You can find me on Instagram at and don't forget to stream a
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and all the platforms.