| 03/03/2021 – 15:59 (GMT-4)
the song Homeland or Death for Life, Official response to the issue Homeland and Life with Raúl Torres at the helm, he surpassed 50,000 I do not like it (I don’t like it) on YouTube just 48 hours after its release.
From the first minutes of its release, the song received a majority rejection on social media and in the middle official channel Cubadebate, With heaps of I do not like it which were increasing at full speed and most of the comments were negative.
The poor billing of the video, the lyrics, the performances and the fact that a government response to a song has generated memes, taunts, criticism and bewilderment.
If already the disproportionate reaction of government to a song, deploying a campaign of discredit and attacks on artists, left the regime quite exposed and badly set before the international gaze, this forced song response and its resounding rejection speak for themselves .
Politics aside, the song has received an avalanche of criticism from a musical and performance point of view, even from people and artists sympathetic to government.
Although the requests of Raúl Torres himself and the support of the official media, the song has only managed to reach 4000 I like.
Torres, who has earned the nickname “necrotrovador” for his songs after the deaths of Fidel Castro and Hugo Chávez, turned to its well-known vulgar and sexist language to fend off the criticism and overwhelming rejection his song has had.
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