Puerto Rico has one of the highest rates of violence against women, according to the ACLU. Singer ILE spoke with Brut about how she is using music to speak out against sexual assault with her new song "Temes."
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00:00I cannot support violence in any way. I cannot see someone die and say, oh, that's okay.
00:13I started, like, letting go a lot of things that I was thinking and a lot of anger, and
00:20then suddenly that anger became powerful.
00:31¿Por qué me temes?
00:41It was important for me to try to put myself in this place that I've never been even close to it,
00:48but it's important for me to know that this could happen to me, and I think that's what
00:53people need to realize, that it's not this girl or this person that went through this,
01:00it's just that that girl could be me.
01:03That's what I was thinking, and that's what we thought also when we were working on the
01:09ideas for the video, to be very present in this woman that just went through this horrible situation.
01:24I wanted to be a powerful and defiant bolero.
01:28For us, we wanted her to be like she survived this even though he thought he killed her,
01:34but he didn't, and she starts recomposing herself little by little until she goes her own way.
01:42It's easier to ignore these things, but we have to talk about it.
01:46If we ignore it, nothing is going to change, but if we let people know that this is wrong,
01:52I think maybe it might take a while, but maybe people are going to start questioning,
02:00and that's like phase one.
02:02It's important to stop ourselves a little and start to question if we're actually making
02:08progress in the world we're living in right now.