Matty Healy demonstrates that being a musician and having two brain cells to rub together don’t necessarily coincide.
A festival in Malaysia has been cancelled after British singer Matty Healy attacked the country’s anti-LGBT laws.
During the performance by his band The 1975 at the Good Vibes Festival, Healy addressed the audience in a profanity-laden speech before kissing bass player Ross MacDonald.
The band then ended their set, claiming officials ordered them off stage.
What did he expect? Homosexuality is illegal in Malaysia. You go to someone else’s country, you obey their rules. Well, unless you are on a dinghy crossing the English Channel, in which case, ignore the above.
“When we were booking shows, I wasn’t looking into it,” Healy said. “I don’t see the [expletive] point, right, I do not see the point of inviting the 1975 to a country and then telling us who we can have sex with.
Well, they do and if you don’t like it, don’t go there. And do a little homework before making the decision.
What a tosser.
’Malaysia’s Communications Minister Fahmi Fadzil hit out at the band’s performance on Twitter, calling it “very disrespectful”. He added that he had contacted festival organisers and asked them to provide a full report.
Healy has previously used appearances on stage to highlight anti-LGBT laws.’
What’s the Malaysian for ‘Someone didn’t do their due diligence’..?
Well, yeah, bit of a two way street.
It’s a shame that Malaysia doesn’t have judicial caning like they do in Singapore. That would have given us a fun news story.
If it was against the law they should have arrested him after the event and given him three lashes or whatever it is that the punishment was.
I’d watch that several times on YT
So the gig in Afghanistan is in doubt?
But Pakistan is a go.
I just don’t understand why musicians think we’re interested in their opinions.
I’m paying them to do something I can’t do very well myself – play an instrument or sing.
If I wanted a discussion of politics, I would go and watch BBC parliament.
Same goes for actors.
It also speaks to his self control and lack of understanding.
Why invite you to the country? Erm, to play music in a financially mutually beneficial trade? If you can’t control yourself enough to keep from bumming someone for a week, or however long the festival is you’re expected to perform in, you need a good hard look at yourself.
Exactly this. He is being paid to entertain, not to shove his politics down people’s throats. Be a gayer if you like, but don’t rub other people’s noses in it.
He’s not a gayer – if that’s what you were suggesting. He was romantically linked with Taylor Swift until she realised what a cock he was, and not good for her image.
He’s just a virtue signalling clown who thinks that because some people like his music his opinions on everything are equally valid and important.
Well, she certainly has her head screwed on.
That said, I am not a gayer and the thought of kissing a man physically revolts me. I simply couldn’t do it. Think Ricky Gervais in his Extras sketch.
Didn’t Monica Lewinsky once say that ‘she’d forget her head if it wasn’t screwed on…’?
(H/T Victoria Wood).
Son of the actor Tim Healy and brought up in Alderley Edge – you know, where the Premiership footballers live; so Privileged Tosser.
Imposing European values on foreign countries was once regarded as colonialism.
Obviously not when the virtuous do it.
I’ve said it many times: these folk think they’re being all Enlightened and Modern, but looking down on our colonial past is just what That Sort of Person does nowadays. 150 years ago it was bringing God to the natives, or being an officer in the Indian Army. They’d all have been right in there, hectoring those of us back in the old country about how Important their work was. What they do is merely a by-product of the way their minds work.
I do wish there was the opportunity to emulate the Malaysian laws in this country to be honest – especially for militant trans campaigners – I’d love to see such people subject to Sharia law. To be honest the same holds true for the other ‘letters’ – seen and not heard is sufficient. Aggressive paedophilia certainly isn’t..
Just wait a bit. Be here soon.
Never heard of him (Them?)