The Tiarra Girls – sisters Tori, Tiffany and Sophia Baltierra – have one big goal. To push the boundaries of what others think and say women can do with and in music. Since they formed, they’ve worked tirelessly to push those boundaries as bi-cultural fourth generation Mexican-Americans women pursuing and making music which blends several genres including latin, rock, pop, soul and reggae. They recently released their cover of the Go-Go’s hit “Can’t Stop The World,” but with the addition of updated lyrics courtesy of Go-Go’s band member Kathy Valentine, and PopWrapped are delighted to premiere the lyric video.
Kathy Valentine has herself championed the new version of the track saying: “I am so proud and happy that ‘Can’t Stop The World’ has been recorded and released by the Tiarra Girls. They are the perfect band to carry the strong message of empowerment and resilience that the song represents.”
Asked why the band chose to cover and re-work this song in particular, Tori explains:
“Covering the Go-Go’s song “Can’t Stop The World” was an empowering act of expressing our awareness of the world. With revised lyrics from Kathy Valentine and our present day take of the song, we incorporated the playful idea of using magazine and journal graphics in our lyric video to represent the idea of a teen in the 2000s coming of age in this world. Growing up, we used to cut out photos and words from our magazines and insightfully put them together, like an act of selfcare. Doodling in our notebooks was a subconscious act of expressing what was on our mind.
Playing on these visuals in our lyric video was an homage not only to The Go-Go’s, but to our younger selves. The very mesmerizing thing about this song is that the lyrics are incredibly subjective. As a band that advocates through music, it was interesting to know that we could sing these words to empower ourselves in a political way, direct them at the universe, or even a single person that has tried to knock us down. As we’ve stepped our way onto the brink of adulthood in a world that gets crazier by the day, we’ve had to step back and understand that we aren’t meant to fight with the world.
Covering “Can’t Stop The World” has been a reminder to us that we have more control over our own destinies than we think, that it’s okay to surrender to our individual ambitions, not others’ projections of us. If we can’t stop the world, why should we let it stop us?”
Check out the lyric video for “Can’t Stop The World” below and for more information on the Tiarra Girls, visit their website, give their page a like on Facebook or follow them on Twitter.
