Meet consequences.
British pop-rock band The 1975 has cancelled upcoming concerts in Indonesia and Taiwan after its gig in Malaysia was controversially cut short.
Lead singer Matty Healy attacked Malaysia’s anti-LGBT laws on Friday and kissed bass player Ross MacDonald on stage – the band was swiftly banned from playing in the country.
Homosexuality is illegal in Malaysia and punishable by 20 years in prison.
It is shunned – but not illegal – in most of Muslim-majority Indonesia.
But it is banned in Indonesia’s conservative Aceh province.
The band said it had cancelled its Indonesia and Taiwan gigs “due to current circumstances”, without elaborating.
How about just play your crappy music and leave the politics alone? The bloke is still a massive tosser. If you deliberately antagonise people expect a backlash. It is not his place to go to a foreign country and lecture them on their laws. If you don’t like those laws, don’t go there, which is why I would never travel to an Islamic theocracy.
Came across an interesting idea the other day.
Life used to be hard, really hard. each generation had a struggle. The great depression, the 1939-45 disagreement, the civil rights movement/women’s lib, equal rights for gays.
Then you get to my generation, millennials, and subsequent generations. There hasn’t been a big struggle, a war or anything like that, so a lot of people (especially those without families) struggle to find meaning. As a result they over compensate, becoming social justice warriors, prodnoses, etc in an attempt to fulfil their Messiah complexes and have a purpose.
Tyler Durden was right.
Douglas Adams, too. Although he was an optimist and envisioned people deliberately breaking their own limbs.