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Joalin: Hot and Cool

April 29, 2024
Finnish-Mexican singer Joalin talks about her bicultural identity, throwing money onstage, and shares the best slang in both languages.
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00:00
Me too fab, it's Aleko and I'm here with,
00:07
I, I didn't want to mess it up.
00:08
I know you said Jo,
00:09
Jo Jo or Jolene.
00:12
I like no, you said Spanish is your native tongue
00:18
Well, it's not,
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it's like what I grew up with and I went to school
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in Spanish and everything.
00:22
So you go to school Spain and Mexico and you also
00:26
speak, this is a fun fact but you also speak Finnish
00:29
So I'm from Finland.
00:32
Oh, my mom always spoke Finnish to me even though I
00:34
haven't lived in Finland like that much now.
00:37
I live there though.
00:40
Yeah, it's just,
00:41
yeah, this is Mrs Worldwide for real.
00:43
Like I know Mr Worldwide exists but it's not married though.
00:47
You know I'm just saying because everywhere and speaking of you being
00:51
everywhere you're popping off right now,
00:53
you were at Coachella recently and I'm assuming you're gonna be back
00:56
this weekend, right?
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Is that how that works?
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I'm sorry, I'm a Boomer.
01:00
Maybe you never know.
01:02
But come on, wait,
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what do you mean?
01:03
Because you never know.
01:06
I guess we'll find out.
01:09
But I mean, how's it been like I mean,
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Coachella is huge. Life is crazy.
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Yeah, everything feels very good right now.
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I'm very blessed. I'm very grateful to be here too talking
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to you. Music is great.
01:20
Music is fun. I knew someone that was playing at Coachella
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A DJ called Tiffany Tyson and she said,
01:25
I'm gonna play your song and then she gave me a money
01:27
gun and she was like,
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come on stage and I shot money and the money had like
01:31
my face on it,
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but it was so windy that it didn't make it to the
01:35
people. It just went back on stage.
01:37
So it was a little like underwhelming.
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Yeah, somebody got mad at me.
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They were like, don't throw money.
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I was like, it's already done.
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So was like the whole usher buck situation that some people try
01:48
to use it. No,
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I don't think so,
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but I did spread all the cash I had with my face
01:53
on it everywhere at Coachella.
01:55
So I hope people found them and now they're like,
01:57
yeah, well, if you're watching this and you have
02:00
some Joline bucks let us know in the comments.
02:05
But ok, so you,
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you said you speak Finnish,
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Spanish. But so the Finnish,
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what is your favorite saying?
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My favorite saying? Oh,
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like favorite slang. But yeah,
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like, what's your favorite Finnish word?
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Well, it's funny because,
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you know, I grew up outside of Finland so I
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don't really know, like the teenage slang or just in general
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slang. But now that I've moved to Finland and I hang
02:26
out with people my age.
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Yeah, I've learned all the slang and my Finnish has changed
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from, like, grandma finished to,
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like, young people.
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Now I sound my age.
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Yeah. So I was like,
02:39
what's, what's this one basic word that you're like?
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So one that I've learned,
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which was very weird to me is,
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le le,
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le le is when something is very cool you say?
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Oh Le le Yeah.
02:54
But right. Like Leia,
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like Princess Leia from Star Wars.
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Yeah. Yeah, like Leia but it also means like
03:00
Papalote. What's the Papalote?
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Yeah. So when people said it at first I was like
03:05
why is everyone saying kite like what's,
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what's up with this?
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But yeah, it's like cool.
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Yeah, I'm Leia.
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She's Yeah. Yeah.
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Yeah. OK. How about like,
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you know how some like languages?
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Like it sounds like you're yelling but you have to say something
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really nice. Like what's something that,
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well, that's the whole like Finnish is like that.
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I remember like when I lived in Mexico and my mom and
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me would sit like in a taxi and we would just have
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a normal conversation. Sometimes the cab drivers would be like,
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what language is this?
03:32
Are you guys fighting?
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Like it sounds like you're fighting and we're not,
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we're just like, I love you.
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I had such a good time yet.
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Like, how do you say I love you.
03:39
Maracas. Right?
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It doesn't sound right.
03:52
And people saw but where can they find you on social?
03:54
you can find me everywhere on socials.
03:56
Joalin Yalin,,
04:01
Lalande or Jos.,
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yeah. Go listen to my music.
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It's very good swag.
04:08
It's very,,
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come on. Yeah.
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All right.