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Platte County, NE / Hollywood, 1945

A 22-year-old Isadora Martínez, longing to reinvent herself, moves form Nebraska to to LA to pursue a career as a performer. Inspired by her embellished Gulf Mexican heritage and her former title as Platte County Fair Corn Queen 1939, she begins to build a fantasy of who she'll become onstage.

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(ARIELA: I found my old yearbooks from preschool, and when asked, like, what job I wanted, I literally said actor-singer-dancer-painter-scientist.)

Goodbye, dusty tomb!
Then again, I never knew you
My heart’s a sleeper train
from this field to California

They say it’s all corn these days
I shiver toward the glitter of the cabaret
War has happened, lover’s absent,
Reinvention seems the fashion

Cut up the papers for ticker tape
Sweep up the scraps on the next day
Peppers ripe for reaping, I leave while Gueya’s sleeping
Plant myself among the stars in the golden ground
Act for all my life like I do when no one’s around
Aah, ahh, aaah, aaaah

I was corn queen
Sweetest 16
Come to life again

She was corn queen
Sweetest 16
She’s alive again

This is the encore
Of the song that you ignored
Watch me spin cardboard to gold (2x)

Gold fields from the Pullman trains
The land of milk and honey waits
I’ll teach the lights to spell my name
I-S-A-D-O-R-A

I-S-A-D-O-R-A
I-S-A-D-O-R-A

(ARIELA: In any group I'm in, I'm not quite anything. I identify more as, like, Mexican American. Like, when I go to Mexico, I suddenly feel American. And it's like, whenever I'm hanging out with white people, then I suddenly feel like I have some sort of authority over my culture. But if there's anyone else who is, like, more Mexican than me, then...they get it. They get the authority.)

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from Inheritance, released May 10, 2019
Interview with Ariela

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