Host Drew Afualo gives Becky G flowers, and she shares how Selena Quintanilla has helped inspire her music, her love for her fans and more at Billboard Women in Music 2025.
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00:00Y'all, we're here with the talented, iconic, hilarious, and stunningly gorgeous Becky G, period.
00:11How are you feeling being here at Billboard Women in Music?
00:13We're not just in Billboard Women in Music, we're in Inglewood.
00:16Period.
00:17My hometown, so I'm very happy to be home. It's very nice.
00:20And also, we're celebrating so many badass women, so...
00:22I love that. And I do want to start off by giving you your flowers first.
00:28Hold on. Here you go.
00:31That's for you.
00:32So, I'd like to ask you, who do you give flowers to for getting you where you are now?
00:37Ooh, um, my mom. I quite literally would not be here without her.
00:42I love that. That's beautiful. And who do you give flowers to for inspiring your music?
00:47Selena Quintanilla. Easy answer.
00:49What a great answer.
00:50See You in a Mess is my favorite song of hers.
00:52All of them.
00:53All of them.
00:54Bidi Bidi Bambam.
00:55Duh.
00:56Has to be.
00:57Yes, you love it.
00:58We love that.
00:59Echidado en apartamento cinco, dos.
01:01We can go on and on.
01:03Don't get me started on Selena.
01:04It's fine.
01:05Okay, and last kind of serious one.
01:07What do you give flowers to your fans for?
01:10Oh, oops.
01:11You know, I think any artist who's been doing it for a long time,
01:15one thing we can thank our fans for is rock it with us throughout every phase.
01:20I grew up doing this longer than I've ever not been doing it, and they have seen, my life
01:27is basically chronological on the internet, like available, you can look up Becky at nine,
01:31you can look up Becky at twelve.
01:32Um, but the me today is very thankful to, you know, the fans from the beginning to the new ones, um, for just supporting me.
01:41Yeah.
01:42And the writers.
01:43Writers.
01:43Writer, writer, writer, love that.
01:44Real beasters.
01:45And I'm going to give you your flowers for something very silly, if that's cool with you.
01:50I have some fun facts about you.
01:51Let's go.
01:52It says on here, you wrote an article for ABC News when you were 15 about songwriting in the
01:56studio and said, quote, I have to have my nerd glasses on when I'm writing every single time.
02:01They're just for fashion, and I have them in different colors.
02:03They have no lenses.
02:04This is true.
02:05And guess what?
02:05Guys, I have astigmatism.
02:07They should have lenses.
02:08I also have an astigmatism.
02:10What were they doing?
02:11I don't know.
02:12It was giving, like, Urkel, but, like, fashion.
02:14But clearly it worked, because now here you are.
02:16Yeah, here we are.
02:16This is Becky G.
02:17And I wear contacts now.
02:19Me too.
02:20Period.
02:21Well, thank you so much for your time.
02:22I appreciate it.
02:23It was so lovely to be here.