1 | 03/03/2021 – 16:39 (GMT-4)
The song “Homeland and Life”, by Yotuel, Zone People, Descemer Bé, Maykel Osorbo and El Funky, has almost the same I do not like it (I don’t like) on the digital platform YouTube, that the I like (I like) that he has reached his “opponent”, “Homeland or Death for Life”.
By visiting the account of singer Yotuel Romero, where “Homeland and Life” premiered a little over two weeks ago, you can see that the song has more than 176,600 I like compared to only 6,011 I do not like it, Figures recorded at the time of writing this note.
For its part, “Homeland or …”, released on the official portal account Cubadebate, Accumulates 78,773 I do not like it with just 6,071 I like.
This coincidence may be that the people who voted against ‘Homeland and Life’ are probably the same ones who gave their approval to the issue of Raúl Torres, although this data has not been verified.
Some users have even compared this competition to a political election in Cuba, and are encouraging their compatriots to cast their vote as if it were a matter of going to the polls to choose a candidate from one party or another. .
“Updated partial results of the first free elections in Cuba since 1959. Don’t stop voting!” Carlos Miguel Mateos Rosaenz, a Cuban living in Colombia, summoned on his Facebook wall.
In this competition no one has any doubts about who will rise with the victory.
The video of ‘Homeland and Life’ surpassed 3 million views on YouTube this Friday, With nearly 20,000 comments since its premiere on Feb. 16 about 7 p.m. (Miami time), during a live broadcast by the artists.
The audiovisual, recorded between Havana and Miami and directed by the young director Asiel Babastro, has been considered a hymn of freedom for Cubans on and off the island, who yearn for a political change that will lead to the end of the dictatorship in his homeland.
Another fate has befallen ‘Homeland or …’, considered the worst song of 2021, According to Google.
The musical theme, produced by the Cuban regime with the intention of counteracting the success of ‘Motherland and Life’, from the day of its release on the air generated widespread rejection in the population.
The failure has been of such magnitude that journalist and pro-government investigator Raúl Antonio Capote Fernández asked his friends to they would give their support by liking ‘Homeland or Death for Life’ on Youtube.
Capote’s plea on his Facebook wall was removed, not without Raúl Torres sharing it on his profile, proof that his creation desperately needs the support of his friends and followers to try to save himself from ridicule. .
The video has been the meat of memes and teasing on social media for its poor bill as well as the lyrics and music, not to mention that viewers do not forgive that their message goes against the feelings of many of them.
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