Sometimes life hands you a 3 a.m. bathroom-floor therapy session with your baby in your arms — and a frantic Skype call to your brother across the pond— where the conversation swings from Spanish accents to existential dread and, of course, global misinformation chaos. Welcome to the world crystal ball of trust, where Emeli Baldwin wrestles with identity, cultural connection, and the odd backlash that seems more about her being a woman than anything else. Is Mercury in Gemini messing with our communication lines, or is this just classic human absurdity playing dress-up in the pandemic wardrobe? Baldwin’s journey dives deep into how accents shift like chameleons on foreign soccer fields—because, hey, if guys get to sound like their teammates, why can’t she claim her multicultural roots without the drama? Here’s a tale of resilience, humor, and the exhausting dance of proving who you are when the world wants you to stay “in tune” with its own static. LEARN MORE.
“I’d sit on my bathroom floor, nursing my baby Edu at 3 a.m., and speak to my brother in Spain, and I’d cry to him, nauseous about it all,” Baldwin writes. “He’d try to lighten things up by saying, ‘Can we just stop for a second and talk about how nonsensical this is? You’re speaking to me in Spain, where I’ve lived for most of my life, in Spanish, about the validity of our connection to Spain. No one is really offended —it’s COVID, and they are home alone and bored, and there is so much misinformation.’”
People shares that in her book, Baldwin references a New York Times article about male soccer players’ accents switching up when they change teams in different countries or how sometimes they take on their teammates’ different accents. Baldwin reportedly suggests that she’s received backlash because she’s a woman.