Malaysia bans Avril Lavigne

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http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1592957/20080818/lavigne_avril.jhtml

*I couldn't find the specific article in NST >.>*




First of all, I'm not a fan of Avril Lavigne nor do I drool endlessly staring at her or listening to her songs. But I still find this issue of Malaysia banning Avril Lavigne really absurd, and I felt like talking it out here. I've nothing else better to do anyway.



I'm sure most of you would have heard about the punk rock singer being banned from performing here. Well right now they're considering again whether to ban her or not, but yesterday the newspaper had reported that she IS banned. Now they're rethinking about it again. Scared of the people? Should be.


I wouldn't care less who or what party or ministry called for her ban, but whoever and whatever did it, gosh you guys sure are really narrow-minded. As in, friggin' narrow-minded. First of all, one of the reasons you guys wanna ban her is because her date of performance is too near our Independence Day celebrations. Alright fine, just postponed it. You don't have to ban it.


Next, you're saying she's being 'too sexy'. In what sense is she being excessively sexy? Her clothes too many holes? It's transparent? Wearing her panty and bra come out sing? For goodness sake, she's not even going to perform naked or anywhere near being naked! I could even bet my entire current savings that she won't strip naked in the middle of her performance. Lose also nevermind la, I'm getting my pocket money again soon anyway XD She's a singer merely expressing her feelings out through songs. For her case, she prefers punk and rock style. You guys think she's a pornstar is it?



Then you're saying her performance would promote the wrong values to us, the Malaysians, in which the majority of us are youths. What wrong values? You're afraid we youths would all join rock bands and be punk singers with Tomahawk hairstyles and black leather spiked singlets. You're afraid we would all dye our hair pink and go around shouting "LOOK I'M AN AVRIL WANNABE!!!". You're afraid we would simply hold concerts in our neighborhood singing our own renditions of The Best Damn Thing. Or maybe you're afraid we would all turn gloomy, humming When You're Gone to ourselves. I see, so kind of you..



Another thing.. I didn't know there's a rule here stating that performers can't jump, shout, nor kiss and hug people on the stage. Kissing and hugging band members or the audiences cannot do that I understand la, but even jumping and shouting is prohibited? You expect people to spend a hundred or two ringgits buying the tickets to watch performers stand there sing sing then go back? So much for your efforts in promoting tourism in the country.



With all due respect to the Malaysian government, while this may be an Islamic country, if you really are trying to bring unity within its people, at least be more open-minded in how you manage it. That is their culture, and you can't eradicate those so-called 'negative elements' by simply banning people from performing over here. How sad, you're just getting more people against you.



Ban it all you want. People can still listen to her songs and watch her live performance somewhere else. So you still think banning her can stop those 'negative elements' from spreading? Tsk tsk tsk.. Never learn la you people.






My PS skills getting rusty. =P

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