21/02/2021 – 12:59 PM (GMT-4)
The song Homeland and Life It has been an unquestionable success; This is confirmed by more than a million views on YouTube before your first 72 hours on the apron.
Besides the fact that the numbers don’t stop taking off on the various musical platforms, the song has also been promoted on social networks the challenge of uploading photos with the phrase Homeland and Life painted on the torsos, as Yotuel looks in the video clip, or on a poster or other parts of the body.
“It’s over”, “People are asking for freedom, no more doctrine. Let’s no longer call Homeland of Death but Homeland and Life”, “Who told you Cuba is yours when my Cuba belongs to all my people?” ” are fragments of the song that have also spread like wildfire in social media publications, repeating thousands of Cubans inside and outside the island.
However, there is one in particular that has caused confusion and which, while many have given it a meaning, wonder what exactly it means: “You 5.9, I double 2”
The phrase is a play on words between Cuban dominoes and two important dates for Cuba, for several reasons.
The number 59 refers to the year in which the revolution led by Fidel Castro was founded in Cuba and the double 22, after the year when Cubans woke up and demanded freedom and rights.
When the controversial topic was released last year Hopefully succeed, which at the time also became a sort of anthem among Cubans and Orishas got into a dispute with Silvio Rodríguez over the use of part of his song Could be, Yotuel said in some interviews the double 2 referred to the year 2020, in which many Cubans had united to demand the end of the dictatorship in Cuba.
If the stones on which the domino depends on are 5.9 and double 2, the game cannot continue, it is locked, as it is popularly called. That is why the following phrase of the song indicates: “Sixty years has locked the domino”, sixty years (revolution) without Cuba moving forward, without prosperity, without freedoms or rights.
This year Yotuel became part of Hopefully succeed in Homeland and Life, with the collaboration of Alexander Delgado and Randy Malcom from Gente de Zona, Descemer Bueno, Maykel Osorbo and El Funky, and gave new meaning to the double 2: 2021, the current year, which he has left behind in his latest publications.
Some wonder why “sixty years locked the domino” when it is actually 62, but that part of the song belongs to the previous version. Partly for this reason, Randy Malcom clarifies that in this new one “They did 62 damage
Despite the fact that the authors have already explained the meaning of the lyrics, many followers of the song have given it their own and assume double 2 as the year the dictatorship in Cuba will end: 2022
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