“It’s obvious in the show that she was such a light for her family, but I really do wish that there was more about her making costumes and more about how she was dealing with being in school.”īut Selena’s character is not the only one who is underdeveloped in the series.
It sheds a lot of light on the rest of the band, but I wish there has been more Selena,” she says. “I think that the series, if you’re consuming it for entertainment, is really enjoyable. Stephanie Bergara, 34, the star of tribute act Bidi Bidi Banda based in Austin, Texas, agrees with Peralta. (It is worth noting, however, that the young Selena, played by the talented Madison Taylor Baez - who also sings - is one of the positive highlights of the first season of the series.) I think they focused more on portraying her as a performer rather than as a human being.” But in the series, it was very confusing to see her very passive and very accepting of everything. She wanted to play with her friends and she didn’t want to learn Spanish. “Even little Selena was more … not confrontational, but challenging.
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“I was a little disappointed, because even in the movie there was more character development,” says Monica Peralta, 27, a Selena impersonator based in Los Angeles. In that film, fans got to see the spunky, beautiful, silly, confident, adventurous Selena who often clashed with her dad and put her foot down to get her way - the one who Pérez so vividly described in his 2012 book, To Selena With Love. She’s a far cry from the Selena we saw in the 1997 movie Selena, which launched Jennifer Lopez’s acting career. We don’t need a special day to remember her.”Īpart from that, Selena is portrayed as an innocent, soft-spoken, perfect daughter who is more interested in her parents’ approval than in her own life. “We remember our daughter every single day. Our family never got together every year on the day of her murder, because there’s nothing to celebrate, and this year won’t be the exception,” Quintanilla, a Jehovah’s Witness, said in on the 20th anniversary of her murder. It grows every day with events everywhere, but we’re not organizing them. Over the years, Abraham has shared his confusion and frustration with the festivals and celebrations for his daughter. Fans on social media have even joked that the show should’ve been called “the Quintanillas.” While the late “ Bidi Bidi Bom Bom” singer is meant to be the star, she’s treated as more of a side character, or even as an employee of her dad’s band, which he formed to chase his own dream of being a successful musician. One of the biggest issues fans are having with the show is the lack of complexity and development in the characters, Selena included. Now that Selena: The Series, the Netflix show executive-produced by her 82-year-old father Abraham Quintanilla, has been streaming (it returns for its second season on May 4th), it’s become even more apparent to viewers that they are only getting one side of the story. Yet, for the past 25 years, her fans have been questioning her family’s aggressive attempts at controlling her legacy.
Selena became a crossover star after her death, and her legend only continues to grow thanks to the fans and a myth that is still carefully cultivated by her family. All these decades later, fans still put her photos up on their Día De Muertos ofrendas and dress up in her most famous outfits on the anniversary of her death. In her home state of Texas, they painted large murals of her, erected a statue, named a park in her honor and made her Corpus Christi music studio into a museum.
When Dreaming of You, her first English-language album, was released posthumously that summer, it sold over 175,000 copies in a single day and eventually over 3 million copies. For some it was like a close relative had been assassinated and an untouchable, living religious diva was extinguished before she could perform her miracles.
After the Queen of Tejano music was murdered on March 31st, 1995 - shot once in the back by the president of her fan club, Yolanda Saldivar - her Mexican American fans mourned her. The subculture of Selena Quintanilla Pérez super-fandom, or Selenidad, was born out of grief.
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