3 22/02/2021 – 7:45 AM (GMT-4)
A group of Cubans have reacted indignantly The Tarzan of Tails, musical theme against the coleros of Man Y Kelvis Ochoaas it mocks the needs of Cubans and the issue of shortage on the island.
Although it was released in November 2020 – time of which it failed to surpass even 3 thousand views on YouTube – the song has come up now to change the layout of the Ministry of Culture and from the Egrem to fund a video favoring the government’s position on the coleros; very different attitude then virulence with which the regimen has responded to the premiere of Homeland and Life, highlighting the urgency of democratic change in Cuba.
“If you’re going to call people who use their art or work to criticize what’s wrong in Cuba, remember that this ‘anthem against coleros’ and other similar topics are sponsored (paid for) by the Ministry of Culture, the Institute for Music and the EGREM (public money from all of us) ”, wrote José Raúl Gallego on Facebook, who considered that given the result and the size it is even“ badly spent money ”.
“The creative anemia, the slow hypocrisy and the forced happiness that emanates from liters of this cantata and video, are between comical and pathetic”, wrote the artist Julio Llópiz Casal, adding that it is a product that “increases the list of junk with which the power in Cuba diverts attention from the problems it has created and stubbornly refuses to solve”.
‘I just heard a song that I didn’t like at all. Virulo and Kelvis Ochoa, I think indeed, the tails are no mystery to Scotland Yard. They are the responsibility of the mismanagement and insecurity the Cuban government condemns us, ”wrote activist Camila Lobón, calling the song a“ caricature that identifies our economic and political woes as idiosyncratic ”.
“It is a terrible thing to downplay the tragedy in the service of the power it creates and at the height of their age they should not allow such clumsiness, if not hypocrisy.Because I doubt these musicians are in line. If they do them, unless they are enlightened or masochistic, they would know that there is no humor in hours, days, months, years of life and work wasted on bad food and bad living, ”added Lobón. .
“This song is a great example of a well-executed musical work that at the same time socializes a message that I interpret as reactionary., with games, fantasies and ridicule of the circumstances and those who suffer from them (queues, chores and citizens who have not invented them) and ignores and is complacent about the causes and those responsible (political and economic system) ”, wrote Enrique Guzmán Karell.
Virulo and Kelvis are not rookies or naive. As artists and public figures, they should know that not everything lends itself to jokes and ridicule and that this is a subject of great annoyance and popular impact right now, and that most people know or suspect why they are being forced to queue. stand ”, added.
Guzmán Karell remembers that “There are issues or sensitivities beyond political viewpoints that are simply empathetic, respectful, and common sense.”
“What’s funny about being forced to queue at sunrise?” He asks, underlining that it is “art well-done but socially irresponsible”, which invites the question of whether it’s art “conservative, reactionary, complacent with power, opportunistic, cowardly art or interpretation ”.
The song has also sparked comments on Twitter, where one user described it as “demeaning”, “a mockery of the people,” and asked the two singers to “get rid of the dishonesty”.
Another thought that Virulo definitely “the muses went on vacation.” Keep that in mind Virulo was the author Don’t mess with Cuba, a song funded by the Ministry of Culture and released shortly after the strikers’ expulsion from San Isidro.
Since then, journalists, artists, and Cubans in general have regretted and rejected on social media that a talented artist like Virulo would kneel so blatantly before the Cuban government from a creative point of view.
Different, The Tarzan of the Tails – directed by Mildrey Ruiz and with the comedian Telo González – refers to a reality that emphasizes the scarcity in which Cubans live.
In the months when curfews were in effect in Havana due to the coronavirus, given the inability to queue at sunrise due to the ban on driving from 7am to 5am, there were reports of people lining up in the trees to bypass security and be the first to phone long lines to buy food.
There was also the case of some who chose it sleep in the corridors of buildings next to shops in MLC, and therefore try to arrive first.