Buena Vista Social Club - Homophobes
This has gone on too long and it's about time someone said something.
Sure there are subtitles in the video, but I'm not fooled for one second by this last second editorial cover up. This is bigger than 9/11 * 7/7 (though 7/7 is 1 so it'd still just be 9/11).
Candela translated to English means fire. So using the following as your chorus hook:
"Aye candela, candela, candela the gay boy"
is frankly disturbing.
Are you implying that we should burn homosexuals? It's the only logical conclusion I can draw and frankly, I'm shocked.
How many other Ry Cooder projects harbour this homophobia? How many hidden messages are there in the Brewsters Millions soundtrack advocating this murderous bigotry? Who will have the confidence and time to unearth them? Can we afford not to? Exaggerated comparison to Hitler?
Until they explain this heinous crime, I shall be burning all of my Buena Vista Social Club CDs (well, the one) and DVDs (well, also just one) and marching from Marble Arch to Hyde Park on March 14th 2009, the day of reckoning. You're either with me, or also harbour genocidal prejuduces.
The choice is yours.
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ma0sm, Thu 8 Jan 2009, 16:38,
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YEP!
It's like the Cuban version of this: www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIUZlzd37sI
Lyrics on the right hand side of the page, under 'more info'
;-)
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Darklord, Thu 8 Jan 2009, 16:46,
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Surely, they could just as easily be referring
to another type of 'Flaming homo'?!
(, Thu 8 Jan 2009, 17:12, Reply)