Sigh.
Gwen Stefani has to cover up provocative parts of her body if she is to perform in Malaysia (apparently there were protests too). Reading the comments on MSN’s music page, I’m rather torn between opinions.
Okay, so it’s a Muslim country and there are rules to abide. Just as rules go, some rules are pretty damn stupid (c’mon, you gotta see WHAT sort of people would go to these hiphop concerts .. definitely not some Holy Book grabbing fanatic) .. At USM, we’ve got rules that don’t make much sense, ie. no driving in, no revealing of too much skin, one must brandish their student card at all times in the library, etc. What to do … as a lot of the posters said, ‘When in Rome, do as the Romans do.’ I’m there to study, therefore I obey those rules (haha) and try to get my ass out of there as soon as possible. Of course I whine a lot about it, but whatever. So yeah, it’s embarrasing for this ‘cover-up, Gwen!’ thing to be blown out of proportions, because it’s a rather simple and StupidBrainlessFucktarted request. I’d respect her more if she actually carried out her concert and not cancel it because of SBF request.
Thing is, you gotta go to the board (http://boards.msn.com/Musicboards/thread.aspx?ThreadID=360938) to read those rather nasty comments I’m not inclined to insert here because it’s called RESTECP (respect). Those comments get you thinking too.
Anyhow, because this ‘request’ has been publicized, these posters from anywhere now think that Malaysia is some Middle Eastern country, in which everyone is a Malay and everyone is Muslim. These people, no matter how insightful their opinions are on this cover-up issue, prove themselves rather ignorant at times. Hence, some of them are a type of bimbo - although they’ve got a good argument, once they don’t know the subject matter, they’re just pretentious fucks. As a response to the whole skimpy clothes thing, some Joe Deez dares a provocative act to perfom here. He says, ‘Next stop for the Pussycat Dolls…..Malaysia!!!!!’ … Dude, you stupid fuck, they were just here (with the same skimpy clothes issue too). We’re not some backwater country (although some of us most certainly have got that mentality).
Bah. Still. It isn’t much of a wonder why we don’t get many international acts coming over.
