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Ever notice how Mercury always seems to retrograde exactly when your ex emails you or your favorite pop icon drops off the face of the digital earth? Well, buckle up, stargazers—with today’s moon sashaying through dreamy Pisces and Uranus stirring up surprises (as usual), it’s almost cosmically ordained that Rose McGowan would reappear with a sly, velvet-fisted message on Baby Yors’ pulsing new single, “Monte y Culebra.” If you’re wondering how a jungle-dwelling activist, best-selling author, and occasionally tree-whispering legend ends up sprinkled over a reggaeton beat—same . But isn’t reinvention just a Leo season tradition? Baby Yors, Argentina’s wild-card musical mystic, calls her an icon . Rose herself? She’s been living “off the chess board,” curating a softer life with spotty 3G, creative rebirth, and the kind of vulnerability you can practically slow-dance to . So, why does a voice note from the jungle hit harder than a lunar eclipse? Maybe it’s because sometimes, the best art surfaces when we step away from the brawl and talk to the trees (or, in Rose’s case, become them for a hot minute) . Fascinated? There’s transformation, friendship, rebirth, and just a teensy bit of cosmic chaos ahead—seriously, what’s not to love? LEARN MORE
Rose McGowan has resurfaced.
Argentinian artist Baby Yors dropped a new single on Friday titled “Monte y Culebra,” and the reggaeton track features an intro from the actress turned activist and best-selling author. “Hey Marco, it’s Rose,” she says, referencing Baby Yors’ real name, Marco Palou. “Um, I just am not gonna be in the world for a little while.” The beat then kicks in to reveal a song Baby Yors describes as an upbeat dance track with themes of rebirth and transformation and inspired by a process of “embracing the esoteric” side of himself. It’s also just fun.
Baby Yors pulled McGowan’s audio from a voice note she left for him as they were becoming fast friends. Though they initially crossed paths years ago at a dinner in New York City, the two bonded more recently online over a shared appreciation for one another’s work. He calls her an “icon” backed by unique talents and an unmistakable voice while she has praised his music on social media.
As it turns out, the line about leaving the world “for a little while” isn’t that far-fetched. After playing a pivotal role in the #MeToo movement and making high-profile rounds on the media circuit (speaking about everything from Harvey Weinstein to her memoir-meets-manifesto Brave), McGowan all but disappeared from the public eye. She moved to Mexico where she hung out in the jungle, “talked to trees” and recalibrated after an intense few years.
“Slowly, I started to remember that I love being creative, and it allowed me to remember who I was, just in a different way. Baby Yors played a big part in helping draw me out of my self-imposed exile,” she told The Hollywood Reporter by phone from London after a recording session. McGowan, who released her own album called Planet 9, has multiple projects in the works including another music single, an acting project in Paris and narration duties on a short film directed by Baby Yors titled Any Moment Now. Below she updates THR on how it feels to have “creativity firing again,” life with 3G phone service and curating a “softer” reality: “The ultimate power move right now is not to be on that chess board. I don’t want to be knocked around or freaked out.”
Baby Yors’ “Monte y Culebra” is standalone single that follows his recent album Americano. Of McGowan, he says, “She is extremely smart and super sharp. She puts words together in ways that really shock me because of her level of eloquence. She’s also very, very mindful, very thoughtful. Now that she’s been living in Mexico for quite a bit, I know that she’s feeling more earthy and in tune with nature.”
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I know you are intentional about using your voice, especially in music. How did you first meet Baby Yors and why did you say yes?
After years and years of talking out loud and hearing my own voice far too much, I went away for quite a few years. I wanted to be silent and listen. So I did that, and talked to trees. Slowly, I started to remember that I love being creative, and it allowed me to remember who I was, just in a different way. Baby Yors played a big part in helping draw me out of my self-imposed exile after we connected online.
You are living in Mexico? But you’re in London right now, right?
I’m in London. I actually just get out of the recording studio where I collaborated on a song and wrote lyrics for it. It’s cool having the creativity firing again.
What’s the song?
It’s for an amazing artist, Kid Bookie, who a very rare type of music. I don’t like referencing other bands to say that “it sounds like this” or “it sounds like that.” It’s quite unique. Somehow it goes from incredibly melodic to incredibly hard but with power. It’s very beautiful. I did not know this at the time when I agreed to do it, but the track is called, “Rose McGowan” featuring Rose McGowan. It’s on his album. He’s another one who really helped draw me out creatively, so to speak.
Wow, talk about putting you front and center.
Yeah, it’s pretty fascinating how life has its turns.
The dialogue on Baby Yors’ track finds you saying, “I just am not gonna be in the world for a little while.” That can be taken a couple of different ways and there’s more context after hearing you say you were in living in this self-imposed exile. What does that line mean to you?
I recorded that at a time when it was taking a lot for me to connect and talk to anybody. Even just texting or sending a direct message would exhaust me. He managed to get me on the phone at one point, and then called again. I responded with a voice note, and that’s the audio he used for the track. It’s hard for me to articulate, really, what that time was like. Even talking out loud on the phone would sometimes freak me out. I would feel like I had to get back to the trees, that I wasn’t ready to communicate yet.
Now that you have been drawn out with the “creativity firing” again, where do you see yourself going from here? Is the fire still burning?
That’s an interesting way to put it — the fire —because it’s something I thought was completely gone. After basically being stalked for over two decades, I was exhausted. It cast a shadow over a lot of things that I did. I didn’t know what it was like to perform without that or how to be creative without this thing constantly following me.
It has been really magical to get to this place I am in now. I only want to be around people who are high vibrational, joyful, creative, kind, soft and safe. I’ve been putting that out there and it’s been coming true. I’m going to Paris tomorrow to film something that is a very unique opportunity. I’m discovering the joy. Speaking of discovery, I was discovered so young. My first onscreen appearance came at 14, and it all happened so fast after that that I never had a chance to stop and wonder if I actually liked it. Taking this time off, I discovered that actually I did. And I do.
What’s the project in Paris?
It’s under wraps. But what I can say is that I’ll be playing a mother seeking a unique revenge. Her son creates a machine that steals dreams, and someone steals it from him and hurts him. The mother sets out, not on a violent revenge mission, but something more psychological.
Back to Baby Yors. I interviewed him this week and all those adjectives you mentioned could also be used to describe him. How do you describe “Monte y Culebra?”
He is Argentinian and I’ve been getting to know and become friends with quite a few in Mexico. I’ve also traveled to Argentina. “Monte y Culebra” is very much like the Latin American culture — it has a high joy factor, it’s very fun but has a depth to it. There’s a little bit of mystery with the spirits, incantations and rituals. Not for any nefarious purposes but solely for joy. It’s a sound that feels like it shouldn’t work with all the elements but it completely does. That’s because Baby Yors is a unique performer.
Baby Yors
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I read a feature about you in Untitled Magazine, which detailed this reinvention, your move to Mexico and a name change to Rosa. Can you share more about this moment in your life?
My birth name is Rosa Ariana. When I was sent to the U.S. from Tuscany, Italy, they changed my name on the school form and it somehow became Rose. Thinking of it as a sliding doors moment, what would life have been like for Rosa versus Rose? I think people become their names. Rose is a strong name. It’s like a velvet fist, even though at heart, I’m quite soft.
It was most unfortunate when I had to put on a lot of armor and go to battle. It was very much not for Hollywood. I felt like I owed a great debt to the larger society out there beyond the screen, the people I communicated with via roles and moves. I always felt like there was programming being done on them, and some cleanup had to happen. For me, my goal was a strange one, to be fair, as I realized back in 2014 that I could maybe help change the way the world thinks by 10 percent. I was thinking, sure, I bet I could do that. It then became about using the knowledge that I had from the sect I grew up in to understand how language was being used to hypnotize people and then to somehow change that from the way it was being used behind the scenes to the viewers. I wanted to adjust the mirror people were being given to look into.
And that became part of the mission when you spoke out later?
Yes. There are so many beautiful, creative and talented people in that town and in the entertainment industry. We’ve all had jobs in our lives, whether at McDonald’s or in some fancy movie, where we thought, God, wouldn’t it be great to do this job if it weren’t for this situation always happening? Or how would it feel to have this rotten apple removed? On a massive level, if you do that, it can have a ripple effect for the people and make life a little bit better. Why can’t we be free to be creatives without deep creepiness? Why not?
Speaking of, did you pay attention to Harvey Weinstein’s recent trial or any of the headlines?
I did not follow the trial. I’m lucky now where I live that when I’m not on wifi, there’s only 3G phone service. It’s like being back in 2007. It really cuts down on what I know and what news I’m accessing. I’m really enjoying it, to tell you the truth. It’s a reality that’s a bit softer. I was really proud of what those women achieved at trial and the Herculean effort it took. But I was not part of that. My special interest was really with my book, Brave, and focusing on this massive hypnosis and how to unwire people’s minds and how to set them free a little bit.
I spent so many years in darkness because of the situation behind the scenes that never really stopped for me. At a certain point, after being terrorized and harassed for so long, I got very mad. I stored up all that anger and it took almost everything out of me. I knew that I had to spend some years getting all that resentment and poison out of me so that I could get back to being soft. I needed to find out who I am, and I needed to create art. I’m at the place in my life now where I just want to live with so much more joy.
That sounds nice, actually.
Yeah. The ultimate power move right now is not to be on that chess board. I don’t want to be knocked around or freaked out. I don’t want to have my head spinning every other minute with this or with that. I’ve done that. The stuff that’s really important has a way of filtering through, and you realize what you can do, what you can change and what you can’t. Or you can go talk to a tree. It’s happier.
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