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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hey, guys, welcome to Hot Takes and Hangouts. And today
I am joined by a very special guest.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Who am I with Kirston Maldonado.
Speaker 3 (00:09):
There we go.
Speaker 1 (00:10):
You may know her from Pentatonics, also as a Broadway
superstar currently in six the musical, which y'all better get
your tickets to go and see. We just had an
amazing conversational, full length conversation, so the episode before this,
you can check that out.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
You don't want to sleep on it. It is so good.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
We revisit some things from your child. As we'll say,
I brought out some names. You were like, hey, who's that?
Speaker 3 (00:33):
You know that?
Speaker 2 (00:34):
I love it?
Speaker 1 (00:35):
But this is the Hot Takes round, so we are
gonna pump through some questions and get your take on them.
Let's do it, okay, all right? Number one, who is
the most active in the Pentatonics group chat?
Speaker 2 (00:48):
Ooh Scott Scott?
Speaker 3 (00:52):
Like all day every day?
Speaker 4 (00:53):
Well, I feel like Scott's always the one that's like
bringing new ideas, the most active in the chat, Like
in terms of responses, it maybe is me, really yeah,
because sometimes we have to we have to hunt people
down for the responses.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
You love a group chat.
Speaker 4 (01:08):
I am I like a group chat. I'm pretty good
at responding to the group chats. I will actually say
that Scott's.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
Pretty bad replying to group chats, but he does come
with ideas, you know, So I'm like, okay, okay.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
Is your group chat on like mute so it doesn't
constantly come in?
Speaker 2 (01:22):
No, they are all full blast.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
It's anxiety.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
It's pretty crazy. I know.
Speaker 4 (01:26):
I'll like have my phone down, look at it and
be like sixty something messages.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
Oh my gosh.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
Oh no, yeah, I have a big like Italian family
group chat, and I can't.
Speaker 3 (01:35):
It's too much for me.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
It overwhelmed. I'm like, I need a glass of wine.
If I go through all these messages. It's too much,
way too much. Okay, what is the song you're dying
to cover?
Speaker 4 (01:43):
Mm? I don't know, I just will. I just covered
a Rosolia song that I really love. It's Mio Cristo
Pianga the a Month. It's in Italian. It's from her
latest album and where she sings like twelve different languages
(02:04):
or something, and I love that song and I had
been wanting to cover it, and then for our tour
we had little solo moments where we got to kind
of like do whatever, and so I was like, you
know what, I'm going to cover that one.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
So I just got to check that off my list.
So that was that was cool.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
Is that all in Italian?
Speaker 2 (02:20):
The entire song, the entire song is in Italian?
Speaker 3 (02:23):
Do you remember all of that?
Speaker 2 (02:27):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (02:27):
It's hard, you know, but like with with choir and everything,
like back in the day, like it kind of like
came pretty naturally. And I've studied Spanish a lot, and
it's similar, you know, similar enough that it wasn't too crazy.
Like if I couldn't do a song in like German
or something, that would be really hard.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
Yeah, it cuts out a year from now, so I'm
doing the song in German, of course you are, of
course that tracks.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
Okay. Who was an artist you've had on repeat recently?
Speaker 4 (02:59):
Russellia Rosalia I'm all about I'm seeing her when she's
here in New York too.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (03:04):
I I love her latest album. I think it's really amazing.
I I it is an album I'm able to just
like put on repeat and really enjoy.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
Yeah, Okay, besides, who is an artist you would want
to write for?
Speaker 2 (03:22):
Oh Man Zara Larson. That would be really cool who else.
Speaker 4 (03:37):
I mean, it'd be really cool to write with Ray
like being the same. Like I love her.
Speaker 5 (03:45):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
I just saw her at Radio Click Clack Symphony.
Speaker 4 (03:49):
Yes, so amazing, so smart and I love whereas my
husband like, I feel like I love her because she she's.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
Just like doing her thing.
Speaker 4 (04:01):
And I love when people bring in like those influences,
Like that's how I feel about like Roussa Lee with
her stuff too, Like I'm like they're bringing in what
makes them uniquely really cool and then bring it into
like the pop realm, which is really important.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
Like I feel like Olivia Dean kind of does the
same thing. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (04:20):
Yeah, I just saw Ray at Radio City, so cool.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
And I interviewed her in LA for the iHeart Radio
Music Awards, and I was into her, but not like
you know, I didn't really listen to her albums. Yeah, yeah,
I liked her, met her and was like captivated. This
woman is unbelievable, Like she just draws you in And
the conversation was quick but like so fulfilling. I'm like,
(04:43):
I need to go stream all her stuff.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
Became like a hardcore fan of all her music, and
I'm like to my husband, we're going to Radio.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
City to see her.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
I love that. I want to see her. She's brilliant live.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
It is unbelievable. You better believe drur in click clack symfony,
I was. I was click clacking.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
Did you did you have click cluck shoes? You made
it work.
Speaker 3 (04:59):
I made it work. You would have thought I did.
You would have thought I did. Okay, do your kids
understand your career or not yet?
Speaker 2 (05:09):
Kind of? I think kind of. Yeah. I mean my
son is.
Speaker 4 (05:14):
A baby, so he's you know, doesn't get it, but
but my daughter loves it.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
I think it's hard for her.
Speaker 4 (05:23):
With the timing, like even like this past week of
rehearsals and six, like it's I'm pretty much gone like
all day. It's different from like taking her out on tour,
where I'm still really busy during the day, but I
get to see her in little spurts, you know.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
So I think that's really hard.
Speaker 4 (05:37):
But she loves, like like being out on tour. She
will go and like knock on everyone's door and be
like thirty minutes to show, ten minutes to show, and
she has like a flashlight and she like walks us
all there like it's time for VIP and she'll go
and when I do hair and makeup, she'll come and
like assist, like our jay who does hair makeup for us,
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and she loves and she's like ready to be on stage.
She'll like sit side stage and like start to do
the choreography.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
So she loves it.
Speaker 4 (06:07):
So I think like in that way she thinks it's fun.
And even this morning she was like, I want.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
To do your hair. Can I give you a ponytail?
Speaker 5 (06:13):
And I was like, not today, but later later you
can give me a ponytail. Yeah, I was like, no, no, please,
But she she loves it and it's fun and it's
fun to see her like be incorporated into the tour
life and the tour family too, and everyone out there
like loves her, and she'll like go sit and like
(06:36):
she'll just go like hang out with each person and
kind of like help them with their jobs.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
And it's really cute.
Speaker 3 (06:42):
Have you heard any inclination that maybe she has a voice.
Speaker 4 (06:46):
Oh she does. Oh she's gone out there. Yes, she's
gone out there and gone on stage. And anytime she
comes out on stage, we have a bit where it's
like the wheel of Christmas or like some kind of
like a dice game or something, and so I've brought
her out on stage to help with that and she'll
like roll it or whatever. And at one point she
(07:07):
tried to like take the mic from me because she
wanted to sing.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
And so there's like.
Speaker 4 (07:11):
Video I think it was when we were here at
Madison Square Garden. I think Will has a video actually,
and she's going like this for a second, I'm like
right now fighting for the mic. But she she loves singing.
She loves it so much. So while we're here in
New York, she's doing like a camp that's like a
musical theater camp where she puts on a show every week,
(07:31):
and so I feel like she's gonna love it.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
So we're both doing our shows. Yeah, you can catch
us all summer.
Speaker 3 (07:35):
Oh my god, like mother, like daughter.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
I love it.
Speaker 3 (07:38):
Oh that's so cute. That's amazing. Okay, which six song
is your favorite to perform?
Speaker 2 (07:44):
Ooh, I mean.
Speaker 4 (07:48):
Don't Lose Your Head is ambulance song and it is
really really fun. I also love Get Down, like the
choreography and the vibe is like really really fun. And
and I love No Way too because of the choreography, which,
by the way, those songs are like really hard and
like I'm absolutely out of breath and like sweating like crazy.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
But they're just like really fun.
Speaker 4 (08:12):
I feel super badass doing them, and I think because
you just feel cool.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (08:18):
Again, I would never say that I'm a dancer, but
to do all the dancing and like kind of be
that like cool backup dancer to like support the bad
athlete is like really cool.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
Yeah, I'm just like having the most fun.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
He's all about, Yeah, you have to have fun doing it.
I love that touring or recording in the studio. Which
do you prefer?
Speaker 2 (08:43):
Touring touring?
Speaker 4 (08:45):
And you know, I think this answer flip sometimes I
will say because for a while I was like, oh,
I love like recording. It just feels so fun to
like create the song and capture the vocal on the
vibe there. But most recently I have like really really
loved touring again, not that I didn't for you know,
but I've just had the best time. And like it's
(09:06):
also based on like audience energy too, Like when the
audience is giving such lovely energy and then we're all
like working in this like symbiotic pace. And I feel
like with this last tour and with the Christmas tour
before then we've had that, and so it's been like
such a joy to be performing.
Speaker 3 (09:23):
Yeah, okay, harmonies or riffs.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
Harmonies, harmonies, harmonies, harmonies. I'm a shy really are you?
Speaker 3 (09:35):
I don't know about that.
Speaker 4 (09:37):
Yeah, I'm just now I feel like starting to be like, okay,
I could do this, I could do yeah.
Speaker 3 (09:40):
Yeah, I feel like I've heard you riff like amazing,
and you.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
Riff I can yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (09:46):
It doesn't come as like naturally to me, I think,
which is why I was always very like a little
more buttoned up about it.
Speaker 3 (09:52):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (09:53):
But now that I'm like more comfortable in my body,
I guess I'm I'm able to do it more comfortable.
Speaker 3 (10:00):
Okay, I will say, what's your favorite genre of music
to sing? Mmm?
Speaker 5 (10:11):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
I mean, I guess just pop pop world.
Speaker 4 (10:21):
I don't like sides of pop, you know what I mean?
Because like whereas my husband is like a really cool
song or like the Rosalia stuff is really cool. I mean,
I obviously love like a good musical theater BELTI song too.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
Yeah that answered.
Speaker 3 (10:42):
Yeah, a little bit of everything, you know what.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
I do?
Speaker 4 (10:44):
Love though like a big influence to me growing up
with Sarah Brollas and so more like singer songwritery songs.
I feel like I love doing those too, Like that's
kind of like my my favorite.
Speaker 1 (10:56):
Do you know what song you would crush from Anaesthesia
Attorney to the past you would love?
Speaker 2 (11:02):
I love oh and I also waitress when we were
talking about earlier, I'd love to be a waitress. Oh
my god, that would be so good.
Speaker 3 (11:09):
That that's one of the most beautiful shows.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (11:12):
Not music, Oh my god, so so good, gorgeous.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
The past is also good.
Speaker 3 (11:16):
Yeah, I love it. Okay. Last question, lair in New York.
Speaker 4 (11:23):
So hard because I love New York and I will
always love New York. So maybe I should just land
with that.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
But I love I love LA.
Speaker 4 (11:37):
You know, I never saw myself being out in LA,
and now I found like a pocket that I like,
really love out there, and like I love my friends
and the lifestyle that I've built out there. But I
think in terms of like loving a city and all
that it is. I love New York and I love
the energy here, I love the people here. I feel
(11:57):
like every time I come to New York, I just
have like the best conversations with the most random people
and I just like I'm obsessed.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
I don't know. I just you don't get that in LA.
I feel like as much. Yeah, I don't want to
say it.
Speaker 4 (12:11):
I'm not like shitting on LA at all, but like
I just the energy is different out here, and I
just love it.
Speaker 3 (12:16):
So you could be here full time.
Speaker 2 (12:18):
Maybe if work work brought.
Speaker 3 (12:20):
Me out here, you wouldn't hate it.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
I wouldn't hate it hate it.
Speaker 1 (12:24):
Oh my god, Well, thank you you survived hot takes
and hang out and like I said, go listen to
the full interview right before this episode. It is so
so good. And go see My Girl and Six the musical.
Get your tickets until August ninth. August ninth, go and
see it. Thank you, my friend, Thank you,