Last Sunday, Juanes on the Place de la Revolution in Havana, mega-concert three blocks from my old home! Damn! I can not remember the number of times I called La camisa negra and A dios pido the festivities in Cuba, I am a big fan, I loved being there, let's be clear.
Yet, looking at the pictures, I feel like a show full of good intentions and emotions a bit forced. Almost a misunderstanding. As this excerpt where Juanes and Miguel Bosé sing " an island called freedom": they have facial expressions full of suffering, the situation is serious, talking about Cuba, "listen to the words" recommends Bosé who wrote ten years ago while returning from Cuba just ... except that it's still a Cuba seen by foreigners, cliche-cuba, cuba-flag, cuba-I-tell-your-name- but-I-speak-of-me-in-fact.
Let us be clear, I am sure that Cubans were delighted with the concert. But the island of good feelings "sympathizers" fall often flat, and there is a discrepancy between what they believe and what mean the Cubans button.
I imagine for a moment what would have been a chorus on this site you Lucha yuca Ray Fernandez, or Aldeanos welcoming everyday heroes who are not those is believed, or Decadencia has to arise, or even The Yabo of Felpa azul , Clan 537, which refers to police abuse (not to mention the Comandante Porno Para Ricardo).
only spark of second degree on the scene Sunday, involuntary demand Juanes apparently Silvio Rodriguez Ojalá sung, beautiful love song for everyone, except for Cubans who see a veiled message (to Fidel? to Papito Serguera? " P ourvu a flash make you suddenly disappear, never to see you both, just to see you always, every second, every vision ... ").
PS: on Penúltimos Días, the text of the exchange between Juanes, Bosé and Cuban officials, a few hours of the concert, where the two singers are threatening to drop everything. Apparently, they come to realize they were monitored, and are shocked. "Why they humiliate us like this? Why do they abuse us like that? " moaned Miguel Bosé. It is surprising that their astonishment: Juanes is it so naive that he did not imagine it would be tracked, that all his travels, his encounters, his remarks would be carefully recorded ? He believed himself protected by his "good intentions" when it is contrary to the G2 deploys more zeal in finding loopholes that may later prove useful?
