| 21/02/2021 – 12:59 pm (GMT-4)
The song Homeland and life It was an undeniable success; This is confirmed by more than one million views on YouTube before the first 72 hours on the platform.
In addition to the fact that the numbers keep growing on different music platforms, the song also promoted on social networks. the challenge of uploading photos with the expression Homeland and life painted on the torso, as Yotuel shows in the video or on a poster or other body parts.
“It’s over,” “People demand freedom, no more doctrine. Let’s stop shouting Homeland or Death, but Homeland and Life,” “Who told you that Cuba belongs to you if my Cuba belongs to all my people?” are excerpts from the song that also spread like wildfire in social media posts and are repeated by thousands of Cubans inside and outside the island.
However, there is one in particular that has caused confusion and which, although many have made sense of it, one wonders what exactly it means: “You 5.9, double 2”.
The phrase is a play on words between Cuban dominoes and two significant dates for Cuba, for different reasons.
number 59 refers to the year in which the revolution led by Fidel Castro was founded in Cuba and double 22, until the year the Cubans woke up and demanded freedom and rights.
When the controversial topic was launched last year Let’s hope it passes, which also became a kind of anthem among Cubans at the time and brought Orishas a dispute with Silvio Rodríguez over the use of part of his song May be, Yotuel said in some interviews that double 2 referred to the year 2020, in which many Cubans had united to demand the end of the Cuban dictatorship.
If the cards on which the domino depends are 5.9 and doubles 2, the game cannot be continued, it is blocked, as it is popularly called. Therefore, the following sentence of the song indicates: “Sixty years blocked dominoes”, sixty years (of revolution) without Cuba advancing, without prosperity, without freedoms or rights.
This year, Yotuel became part of Let’s hope it passes in the 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 a new meaning to the double 2: 2021, this year, which he left reflected in his latest publications.
Some wonder why “sixty years have blocked the domino” when in reality it is 62, but that fragment of the song belongs to the previous version. Also for this reason, in this new one, Randy Malcom clarifies this “It simply came to our notice then“.
Despite the fact that the authors have already explained the meaning of his lyrics, many followers of the play have given it their own and assume double 2 as the year in which the Cuban dictatorship will end: 2022.
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