Line #24 YMMV/Selena


1	!!YMMV items for [[Music/{{Selena}} the singer]]:
2	* FandomRivalry: With Music/SelenaGomez fans, but less over their music and more at the fact nobody can really look up Selena anymore without having to clarify the last name due to the latter becoming a mega star. The irony is that Selena Gomez was ''named after'' Selena herself!
3	* FanNickname: The Queen of Tejano/La Reina
4	* FriendlyFandoms: With fans of Music/{{Aaliyah}}, whom like Selena, was also killed in her early 20s at the height of her career.[[note]]And both eerily died only weeks before a well-known national terrorist attack; the Oklahoma City Bombing occurred after Selena's murder and 9/11 occurred after Aaliyah's death[[/note]]
5	* SacredCow: She is '''loved''' by the Latin community, and talking bad about her is very much a no-no. Howard Stern received '''heavy''' backlash for mocking Selena's death. Even her murderer Yolanda spoke fondly of Selena when she was interviewed by [=VH1=] in 1998 for the television special ''Selena: Behind the Music''.
6	* SignatureSong: "Bidi Bidi Bom Bom", "Como la flor", "Dreaming of You", "Baila Esta Cumbia".
7	* ToughActToFollow: For Tejano musicians after her, it's '''hard''' for them to get a popular big break outside of Texas. Averted with A.B. Quintanilla, Selena's brother who was able to start up his own career as a musician with Kumba Kings and later on Kumba All-Stars.
8	* VindicatedByHistory: Although she was obscure among non-Hispanics at the time of her tragic death, her [[WhatCouldHaveBeen final album]] received widespread commercial and critical success. Today, Selena has become one of the most influential and successful Latin music singers of all time.
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10	!!YMMV items from [[Film/{{Selena}} the film]]:
11	* HarsherInHindsight:
12	** In the Japanese dub of the film, Selena is voiced by Creator/RicaMatsumoto, who previously voiced [[spoiler:Rumi, the manager of the main protagonist Mima Kirigoe]] in ''Anime/PerfectBlue''. Anyone who watched that movie would know [[spoiler:Rumi impersonates Mima and she tries to kill her at the end of the film]] compared what happened with Selena in both this film and RealLife.
13	** Selena talking to her mother and Chris about having children. It's sadder once you realize she died before she could ever have kids with her husband, which makes the scene where Marcella cries tears of joy more saddening rather than heartwarming.
14	* SugarWiki/HeReallyCanAct: Up until this film, Jennifer Lopez's career was mostly fanservice type of roles but drew critical raves that set her up on her future success. Even when she turned in critically panned films or performances later, fans and detractors alike would still point to this film (among others like ''Film/OutOfSight'', or ''Film/{{Hustlers}}'') of what she's capable of.
15	* MemeticMutation: "Anything for SALINAS."
16	* QuestionableCasting: Many Selena fans had a problem with the decision to have Music/JenniferLopez, who is of Puerto Rican descent, playing the eponymous musician, who is of Mexican decent. It got to the point where people started ''protesting'' to have the film re-casted. She managed to win most of her detractors over with her performance (and earned the approval of the Quintanilla family).
17	* RetroactiveRecognition:
18	** [[Music/JenniferLopez J-Lo]] is the late Selena.
19	** Abraham Quintanilla Jr. is [[Series/BattlestarGalactica2003 William "Bill" Adama]] and [[Series/MiamiVice Lt. Martin Castillo]].
20	** Marcella is [[Series/TheGeorgeLopezShow Angie Lopez]]. Being the wife to neurotic husbands should be of no problem to her.
21	** A.B. is [[WesternAnimation/MaxSteel Dr. Roberto Martinez]].
22	** Chris Perez is [[Series/ChicagoPD Antonio Dawson]] and [[Series/HomicideLifeOnTheStreet Paul Falsone]].
23	** Yolanda Saldivar is [[Film/TheGoonies Rosalita]]. She'd later receive acclaim for ''Series/DesperateHousewives'' and be more familiar to 2000s kids as Abuelita in ''Series/TheBrothersGarcia''.
24	* ValuesResonance: While Abraham's speech to Selena and A.B. about the importance of being a Mexican-American was always valid, it became even more powerful over the years due to the increased marginalization of various ethnicities in society and politics, particularly Latinos, Blacks and Middle Easterners. One line that resonates powerfully with American children of immigrants is that he and his family have to be "more American than the Americans and more Mexican than the Mexicans" -- a poignant encapsulation of the struggles that American immigrants face due to societal pressure from cultures both of their countries of origin and their new home country.
25	* {{Woolseyism}}: The Mexican Spanish dub gives to all the Mexicans or Americans with Mexican ancestry characters ''thick'' Mexican accents, as this is pretty normal when dealing with movies with Mexicans in the cast as a way to differentiating them from the rest of the non-Mexican cast.

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