1 05/03/2021 – 4:39 PM (GMT-4)
The song “Patria y Vida”, by Yotuel, Gente de Zona, Descemer Bueno, Maykel Osorbo and El Funky, has almost the same dislikes (I don’t like) on YouTube’s digital platform, that Loves (I like) that he has reached his “opponent”, “Homeland of Death for Life”.
On a visit to the account of the singer Yotuel Romero, where “Patria y Vida” was released a little over two weeks ago, it can be seen that the song exceeds 176,600 Loves vs only 6,011 dislikes, figures recorded at the time of writing this note.
For its part “Patria o …”, released on account of the official portal Cubadebate, collects 78,773 dislikes with only 6,071 Loves
This coincidence may be due to the fact that the people who voted against ‘Patria y Vida’ are likely the same people who gave their approval to the Raúl Torres case, although this data could not be verified.
Some users have even come to compare this contest to a political election in Cuba, encouraging their countrymen to vote as if they were going to the polls to choose a candidate from one side or the other.
“Updated partial results of Cuba’s first free elections since 1959. Don’t stop voting!” Exclaimed Carlos Miguel Mateos Rosaenz, a Cuban resident in Colombia, on his Facebook wall.
In this competition, no one doubts who will win.
The video of ‘Patria y Vida’ surpassed 3 million views on YouTube this Friday, with nearly 20,000 responses since its premiere around 7pm (Miami time) on February 16, during a live broadcast of the performers.
Shot between Havana and Miami and directed by the young filmmaker Asylum Babastro, the audiovisual film is considered an anthem of freedom for Cubans inside and outside the island, who long for a political change that will lead to the end of the dictatorship in their native country.
Another luck has run ‘Patria o …’, 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 ‘Patria y Vida’, caused widespread rejection from the day it went on the air.
The failure was so great that official journalist and investigator Raúl Antonio Capote Fernández asked his friends to give their support by liking ‘Homeland or Death for Life’ on Youtube
Capote’s plea on his Facebook wall was removed, not before Raúl Torres shared it on his profile, proof that his creation desperately needs the support of his friends and followers to try and save itself from ridicule.
The video clip is the meat of memes and ridicule on social networks because of the bad bill, the lyrics and the music, without forgetting that the viewers cannot forgive that the message goes against the feelings of many of them.
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