Cultural Differences

[douglas9401]

Our heroes arrived in a country where homosexuality is illegal with conviction bringing severe penalties for transgressors.
Why disappoint fans and invite harsh punishment by openly displaying man on man action onstage going against cultural and legal difference?
If Mr 1975 had been flaunting drug taking would his hosts be subject to the same slightly snoffy reportage from the achingly inclusive?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-66281846

[tuxedo37]

yes , his protest certainly backfired, ill bet the fans were hating him too

[Untitled]

Good on him... those laws are cruel and unjust.

[naomi24]

He’s a plonker.

[douglas9401]

Cruel and unjust, untitled, but their laws nonetheless.

He might find a slightly more robust enforcement policy and prison regime than he'd get at home if he wanted to push a point.

'sniffy' btw. :-)

[pastafreak]

I guess he thinks his actions are more important than the negative effect they will have on those he's trying to 'help'.

[mushroom25]

he could have tried toking up on a stage in Singapore.........

[retrocop]

As they say in Yorkshire Douglas
‘None such queer as folk’

[bednobs]

I quite like the term snoffy

[ToraToraTora]

what a plonker, if you go to a country then you are presumably accepting their laws so why then try and take the peece?

[Untitled]

if the 1975 propose occupying malaysia and changing their laws by force then i will call him a plonker... as an individual musician he is completely right to oppose unjust laws that victimize many members of his audience

if he said nothing then you'd all be calling him a hypocrite

[ToraToraTora]

He's a hypocrite for going there. If you go round someone's house you obey their rules or don't go, simples.

[wolf63]

Blame his mum?

https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/showbiz-news/denise-welch-matty-healy-1975-27376680?int_source=nba

[mushroom25]

as a former partner of Taylor Swift, maybe he did it to encourage her to write a song about him?

[Rosetta]

Their laws on this are not new, so why accept the gig in the first place? But then would not generate any publicity would it

[douglas9401]

From what I hear of the fragrant Taylor she must get a deal on Biros.

[Untitled]

"the malaysian government" and "malaysia" are two different things... he wanted to go there because he has malaysian fans and as his art is pro LGBT it stands to reason that many of them are victimised by these laws

[ToraToraTora]

For gawd sake untitled, the lengths you will go to defend the indefensible are unbelievable. Malaysia is a parliamentary democracy. The government are operating the country on behalf of the people. If the government were not implementing the will of the people they'd have been out on their ear long ago.

[Untitled]

so what? because it’s a democracy nobody should criticise it? how does that make any sense?

there are malaysians who are mistreated appallingly because of those laws (introduced by the lovely british empire btw)… why should anyone ignore that?

[ToraToraTora]

untitled: "so what? because it’s a democracy nobody should criticise it? how does that make any sense? " - who said that? I was referring to your assertion that - //"the malaysian government" and "malaysia" are two different things... //

[Untitled]

do you disagree with that?