Who Could Be The Next Gloria Estefan?

Come on shake your body baby do the conga, wait for Gloria Estefan’s broadway show you won’t have to do much longer! 

The DAILY NEWS reported yesterday that the musical based on Gloria Estefan is set to hit Broadway as soon as 2015. Not only do we get to see her trajectory played out on the stage, but we also get a reality show out of the deal too. Since reality TV and competitions marry so nicely, the show will feature the hunt for actresses to portray Estefan.

While they get on that, I have a few suggestions for Latinas I’d like to see play Estefan, if they wanted to give a wack at Broadway and I had it my way.

Selena Gomez

Come on, don’t tell me you don’t see a little resemblance? Dot a beauty mark under her right eye and have her whip her hair to create a little extra poof and there you have it, mini Gloria Estefan.

Demi Lovato

Lovato can evoke deep and dark emotions as she’s shown us in her music video for Skyscraper, for example. Estefan went through a rough recovery after nearly dying in a car crash back in the 90’s. If there’s a Latina that can tap into the emotions involved when overcoming a hardship that brings your career to a hault, it’s my girl Demi. Plus Lovato’s got pipes!

Becky G

The singer/rapper on the uprise would nail this. Talk about a relentless strive for success. Becky G is young and fierce and comfortable with who she is. She’s covered JLo’s Jenny from the Block with her own Becky from the Block, so we already know she’s not scared to tap into the greats!

Photo courtesy of @iambeckyg instagram

Selena Gomez Breaks Up With The Jenners

BREAKING NEWS! Well, it was a few days ago anyways. Earlier this week Perez Hilton reported that Selena Gomez unfollowed her besties Kylie and Kendall Jenner on Instagram. And to throw salt in the wound, she also got rid of their selfie shots together. OUCH. This is exactly how it goes down in most relationships that end badly, so algo serio must have happened. It got me thinking about the mentality of unfollowing on social media. Because it’s definitely a thing now. It’s a statement with purpose.

Whenever I have an amiga who’s relationship is on the rocks–or completely over–they always come to me asking, “should I unfollow him on Twitter & Insta and unfriend him on Facebook?” My answer is almost always, YES. Many people would argue that this is immature and unnecessary. I say there’s just no way around it.

Social media allows everyone to show who they want the world to see them as, and oftentimes after a breakup or fallout (this can happen with friends too) it’s used as a tool to hurt the other half of the broken relationship. If you’re broken hearted, or just hurt, swiping up and down a feed full of subliminal messages via memes, gifs, photos, or just words, will only cause more heartache.

Everyone’s fear is always that the unfollowee will think less of you when they realize you are no longer keeping tabs on their every public move. The thing is, the act of unfollowing isn’t about them or what they think, it’s about you. The real purpose of moving forward on this is to give yourself peace of mind and actual space to move on. With the constant suffocation of knowing what they’re up to, the time you’re suppose to spend healing is actually spent pining over their posts. You’ll overthink the meaning of their every social media move and suddenly you’re not in a relationship with them, but you are with their feed. In the end, you’re the only one losing and with every subtweet they post, you’re practically getting broken up with over and over again.

I’ve deleted/unfollowed a guy and friend or two. Did I ever regret it? Nope. Why? Because I got to move along with my life and not have to be an outsider watching theirs play out without me. So if Miss Gomez had a falling out with her gal pals and decided to excommunicate them from her social media life, I say, do it boo! And if you need to do the same with tu ex novio, I’ll back you up.

Couch Correspondent: 2013 MTV VMA Show

Well another awards show bites the dust. Tonight I enjoyed tweeting commentary on the 2013 MTV VMA show. Here were the few highlights of the show:

Grande voice. Ariana’s Grande voice at the pre-show proved she deserves a spot next year on the main stage.

Bieberless Is The Wave. Selena Gomez always has red carpet fashion nailed. Her classiness is on point, though I’m annoyed her bff Tay didn’t get the memo and they both wore navy. Matching with your friends is only cool when you’re 13. Miss Gomez also took home the first award of the night, Latinas always win.

Bye Bye Bye. Speaking of being 13, I travelled back to that age when Nsync performed! Justin Timberlake had his very own concert at the VMAs but NO ONE was complaining.

Pequeño on a Pedestal. Another Latino who sang his little pipes out and took home a moon man as well was Bruno Mars. He’s always performing up on a pedestal..we know you’re short, come on down from there!

Macklemore’s Message. Awkward moment with Jason Collins and A$ap Rocky, but Macklemore’s “Same Love” performance was exactly the balance that was needed at the VMAs tonight.

Yikes. Hannah Montana was dead before, she just got buried 6 feet deeper. The biggest disaster of the night was Miley Cyrus. Billy Ray is somewhere comforting Liam and figuring out if Malibu’s has a twerking rehab. From the creepy teddy bear leotard to the pancake booty peeking out under those tan colored panties. No. No. No. Why Robin Thicke agreed to share the stage with such a calamity I will never understand.

Tweet with me during all awards shows @quelatinablog & @katerinatorres