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PEOPLE & ARTS Saturday 31 auguSt 2019
Residente worked with scientists to create his new album

By MESFIN FEKADU and Bad Bunny to produce
Associated Press the album's first single, "Bel-
NEW YORK (AP) — Gram- lacoso." The song is a return
my-winning rapper Resi- to Residente's reggaeton
dente has some new col- roots and the collaboration
laborators on his upcoming with Bad Bunny, born Benito
album: scientists. Antonio Martínez Ocasio,
The Puerto Rican performer came as a surprise since
said he studied intensely the 41-year-old Residente
with professors at Yale Uni- is known to rap about poli-
versity and New York Uni- tics, social justice and relat-
versity to read brain pat- ed topics, and he has been
terns in worms, mice, mon- critical of the younger gen-
keys, fruit flies and even hit- eration of Latin trap stars as
maker Bad Bunny to create well as the popularity of the
his second solo project. reggaeton sound.
"(The album is) going to "I wanted to prove to the
be about everything that people that even though
I have inside of my head we are different in certain
... because of that I kept ways, we can connect
brainstorming and I said, with each other with our
'Oh I have to study my This July 12, 2019 photo shows Puerto Rican rapper, writer, and filmmaker René Pérez Joglar, brain frequencies," Resi-
brain, and then I have to known professionally as Residente, at his home in New York. dente said. "For my fan
study other people's brains, Associated Press base, they are very hard-
and then I have to study core fans and I know they
animals' brains,'" he said. pus, they used electroen- see individual cells talk- music," Colón-Ramos said. don't understand why I'm
Daniel Alfonso Colón- cephalogram (EEG) tests ing into each other. It turns The untitled album will be collaborating with Benito
Ramos, an associate pro- on worms to track and re- out when these cells, when released in November. even though he's huge.
fessor of neuroscience at cord brain wave patterns. these neurons talk to each Residente, born René Juan Because of the things that
Yale, said Residente spent "Without harming the ani- other they're using rhythms Pérez Joglar, worked with I stand for, and other stuff,
days at the school doing mals we can actually see to communicate — we call Suzanne Dikker, a senior the way I write lyrics, I want-
research: "We were joking as the animal is thinking, as it rhythms of activity. But, at research scientist in NYU's ed to show them that even
that at that we should give it's moving, as it's exploring the end of the day, those Department of Psychology, though we're different, we
him a diploma." On cam- its environment, we can rhythms can be turned into to use EEG tests on himself can connect."q

Documentary looks at political comeback of Imelda Marcos

By LINDSEY BAHR Bongbong win the vice-
Associated Press presidency. It helped in-
VENICE, Italy (AP) — Docu- form the title, "The King-
mentary filmmaker Lauren maker," which she landed
Greenfield started inter- on a year into editing.
viewing former Philippine "It would be like (Richard)
first lady Imelda Marcos Nixon coming back and
four years ago thinking that running for re-election,"
it might be a redemption Greenfield said. "I was
story for the then 85-year- amazed that this family ...
old. What she found is that was welcomed back and
Marcos was not only stand- into public office."
ing by the controversial his- For Greenfield, known for
tory of her family but de- documentaries like "The
fending it as well. Queen of Versailles" and
Greenfield's documentary "Generation Wealth," it was
about Marcos, "The King- a unique experience work-
maker," premiered Friday ing with an "unreliable nar-
at the Venice International rator" and she struggled
Film Festival. with how to tell the audi-
Imelda Marcos's husband, ence that some of what
the late Philippine dictator Marcos was saying was
Ferdinand Marcos presid- This image released by Showtime shows Imelda Marcos from the documentary "The Kingmaker," incorrect. She also said he
ed over the country for 20 which premiered Friday at the Venice International Film Festival. found Marcos, now 90, to
years and declared mar- Associated Press be generous and kind and
tial law in 1972, which ulti- candid. She said Marcos
mately resulted in his being elected to political office. about extravagances — "I was taken in with her story has not yet seen the docu-
ousted by an army-backed "I started it attracted to her 3,000 pairs of shoes and and her history," Green- mentary.
"people power" revolt in Imelda Marcos because the island she turned into field said. "(But I) soon re- "I think she is extremely con-
1986. He died in self-exile in she was an iconic refer- a wildlife sanctuary for ex- alized that the political fident about her story, her
Hawaii in 1989 but Imelda ence in the work I was otic animals — but came to comeback story was what place in history and her
Marcos and her children doing on wealth," Green- understand that there was I wanted to focus on." legacy and that's what I
returned to the Philippines field said Friday in a press another story brewing be- The film chronicles Mar- wanted to hear from her,"
where many have been conference. She'd heard yond the decadence. cos' efforts to help her son Greenfield said. q