3 | 03/03/2021 – 14:29 (GMT-4)
Just 4,500 likes and 48,135 dislikes on YouTube, the song Raúl Torres “Homeland or Death for Life” it seems doomed to failure, Despite the author’s attempt to reverse the trend by reproducing a post – it has already been deleted – in which Likes were requested for the topic.
Collapsed in less than 72 hours, the response of the cultural bureaucracy that sought to confront the success of “Homeland and Life“, Has been touched on the waterline by a battery of comments and reactions that show the degree of unpopularity of the initiative.
“Friends, I call on you to support Raúl Torres’ song, to Like him on Youtube. Homeland or Death for Life,” he asked. the journalist and official investigator Raúl Antonio Capote Fernández through your Facebook account.
The post -already deleted- was played by the singer-songwriter on his Facebook page, highlighting the need for help from like-minded people like Capote and his nearly five thousand five-friends on the social network to try to re-float an unfortunate product ‘public opinion has rejected him for being servile, manipulative and, above all, of poor artistic quality.
“Capote, this is bullshit! There’s no way to like this, old man,” a user told reporters of Granma and collaborator of Cuban who has mobilized to try to minimize the damage and correct the course on the cliff, which seems inevitable and which is reinforced the more his official flag is waved.
Becoming a very faithful troubadour of continuity, Raúl Torres jumped ready to defend the “counter-revolutionary” onslaught of popular artists Yotuel, People from the area, Burn Good, Maykel Osorbo i the Funky, Those who -with their Homeland and Life– have caused an unprecedented phenomenon in Cuban society and moved the board to the regime in front of world public opinion.
With a repertoire that includes numerous songs commissioned by the Cuban leadership, Torres urgently musicalized a poem of his with verses such as this: your time / Because in the Revolution / It has more than 62 millennia left “.
Failed by music and lyrics, the theme of Torres has caused an avalanche of memes and critical comments from social media users where it has been disclosed. Compared to the mysterious sonic attacks on embassies, the song has been the subject of ridicule and the classic Creole joke. “Realization as original as a CDR guard,” said one victim, while another opined, “I’d rather be deaf than hear this m … again.”
The pro-government platform Cubadebate, In charge of promoting the song, does not walk in its best moments. Like the pro-government media that have come out to counter the effect of Homeland and Life with messages that do not tune in to a growing number of Cubans, Cubadebate is responsible for one of the biggest fiascos of the Cuban regime’s propaganda communication.
This Wednesday, the place disappear the publication of the survey which he had carried out on the perception of the population about the implementation of the so-called “ordering task”, in the face of negative comments from users and the results of the survey itself. The unpopularity of monetary unification and that of the subject “Homeland or Death for Life” have indisputably marked the news of this medium.
In the meantime, Homeland and Life it is already approaching 3 million views and has provoked numerous enthusiastic reactions on and off the island. Yotuel’s proposal to remix the theme once this number of views has been reached seems like a better promotion strategy than the sad call to like the lamp of a regime that obscures the common affinity of Cubans: music.
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