A Cuban turned the most famous chorus of Selena Quintanilla into an anthem for blackouts: instead of crying over a lost love, she cries because her neighbor has a portable battery while she remains in the dark.
The video of Kirenia Guibert on Instagram sparked countless laughs, garnering thousands of "likes" and hundreds of comments in just a few days.
The parody takes "Como la flor" —the 1992 Tejano cumbia whose "ay, how it hurts" resonates throughout Latin America— and changes the object of sorrow: it’s no longer heartbreak, but the envy of someone who can’t afford an EcoFlow while their neighbor lives with power, a fan, and a charged phone.
"I know you have an EcoFlow, that's why you’re not complaining anymore. I’m still here, in the dark, waiting for the electricity to be restored. I want an EcoFlow too, so I can be like you. I’m going to be like you, with power; right now I'm in the dark, but oh, it hurts, bam, bam, bam, bam, oh, it hurts," sings Guibert in the 48-second clip.
The description of the video, succinct and on point, concludes the joke: "Donations accepted."
Days later, Kirenia posted a second video showing behind the scenes of the recording of her parody.
Although humor is the main feature of her social media, Kirenia leads the Diapasión camera ensemble, made up of students from the Manuel Saumell Elementary School of Music; so in addition to her talent for making people laugh, she excels in the art of music.
It's not the first time an EcoFlow has become a subject of humor in Cuban social media. Comedian Javier Berridy had already introduced the fictional name "EcoFlow Domínguez" in a satirical video about future names in Cuba, alongside "Apagonio Rodríguez" and "Kilowatt Martínez." And a Cuban resident in Spain described in July the cycle of expenses incurred to help her family: first a generator, then fans, and finally, an EcoFlow.
What makes Guibert's parody special is the precision of its cultural critique: taking a song that all of Latin America knows by heart and turning it into a chronicle of a crisis that the Cuban state cannot — or seems unwilling to — resolve. Throughout 2026, Cuba experienced eight total outages of the National Electric System, and the last week showed no signs of improvement.
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