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Pop Singer Matty Healy's Protest at Malaysian Concert Sparks Fury

#malaysia#dollasign#muslim#hug#gay
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0:00 but what they said that if they initiate the hug then that's on them to break to be sinful if they go right the whole time you're like Kiana you're like just yeah you're orbiting these you do that I went like this when they try to hug me [Music] uh do you guys know about what happened over in Malaysia during a music festival where um there's this band called The 1975 and they have a singer named Matt Healy so uh they're in the middle of a concert mid performance he starts ranting about how uh you know Malaysia it kind of doesn't have the best I guess lies in the advantage of or in favor of gay people I think that's an understatement yeah I'm starting a real real mild

0:51 they're not that chill about game they're actually second I guess it's some kind of rating they're number two for like the worst place to live if you're like trans number one I wonder but um so they're headliner Festival The 1975 right in the middle of it he starts saying like uh um he starts saying I don't see the point of inviting The 1975 to a country and then telling us who we can have sex with so he's on the mic saying this ████ and then he is he American I think he's British but he made out what is yeah that's what's coming next oh so he grabs he grabs a dude his uh band mate and they start kissing on stage yeah as a demonstration and in his mind he's like helping the situation yeah is he alive right now he's a rock star dude

1:41 he just got banned from Malaysia yeah so he they get banned and then also they shut the festival down and everyone else who is supposed to perform doesn't get to like Ty Dolla Sign kid Leroy Strokes it's just over vessel's done everyone who paid you don't get your money back done and then they just fly out and they leave so there's a situation going where there are some people that maybe look at it from the outside like especially people here that go oh yeah that's you're championing it for us but then there's people in Malaysia who are gay and they're like well thanks ████ now we can't even ████ go anywhere there's a Crackdown yeah now you've like come in and disrupted our ecosystem you don't have to live in as an outsider and you peace out so there's like two sides going on and we didn't get to see Ty Dolla Sign yeah because I'm more for that side when you go into someone else's house

2:31 and some like let's say your dad's like you know like yelling at you and then you ████ roast the ████ out of their dad anyway I helped you out you know and you leave your dad's gonna beat the ████ out of you like you gotta like there's little ecosystems and it's like man you gotta protect them you know I uh I commented on this next shark article it was mad it was ████ magical what I found out because I don't know this group right but um apparently they've been an issue prior to this yeah they've had other ████ in South Korea they did something really ████ up I forgot exactly what but it was enough to wear um it wasn't gay stuff it was something that was like disrespectful to the culture like he made comments or something like that and then he was getting canceled out there

3:22 and so a lot of so so the sentiment I got was a lot of people on on the comments were like why would you bring this like guy that's already shown cultural insensitivities toward Asians to Malaysia and expect that he'll respect any culture yeah because he's coming at it as like oh we're Superior westerners and our morality is better than yours so let me show you how we do it in the west and then he kisses his ████ boyfriend that's that's what that comes from and that always works out great now the debate is between like what is considered human rights and what is considered religious uh uh expression and freedom yeah yeah yeah and I think we're having the same debate here but out there it's a lot more um ruthless because it's old school you know like I know that um also you don't live there

4:12 either they also have different rules so when when we were out there there's rules for Muslims in the Sharia law but the Chinese citizens of Malaysia and the secular community in Malaysia they're not subject they're not subject to the same rules so that's I might be wrong here but I remember specifically being told that during Ramadan there's a Muslim police that goes to the clubs and they check your ID morality police and then they're like oh you're Muslim you're in trouble because they'll they'll like the malays are under that law but they don't give a ████ about the ████ Chinese or anybody else if you want to go to hell you go to hell but they don't go to jail for drinking during Ramadan or whatever yeah so there might be some kind of thing there where it's like hey if you're a Muslim Malay then you can't get

5:03 caught but I also know on top of that a lot of Muslim countries have PDA laws where even if you're straight making out you get in trouble so it's not just a gay thing it's like if you're straight making out if you're straight showing PDA whatever you also get in trouble but if you're gay it's obviously worse it probably is but but also it's woke so then you go broke shout out to things that rhyme I'm sorry but that's the thing like these these concert goers they paid a ticket right and then you know the guy went walking they went bro everyone lost it it definitely does suck to to not have to live in the environment that you like create like if you made a hostility occur and then all right guys later well what's that I mean there's a line

5:53 between human rights and just courtesy because for example when we went to Malaysia we were told girls with the hijab don't initiate hugs and yeah they're like don't like we like we hug our fans or whatever right but then I I could have been like no I have every ████ right yeah to make sweet love to my fan base whatever the ████ I want if they were I ████ the fence that's what I do it's my it's who I am and then you could have thrown off and I could have been like other people I could have been like American Freedom ████ and then I just ████ make out what a girl oh my Lord Big Time fan I could have but I respected the culture and what we did was of course we did air high fives something something but what they said that if they initiate the hug then that's on them to break to

6:44 be sinful if they go right yeah the whole time you're like Kiana you're like just ████ yeah yeah you're orbiting these ████ I went like this when they try to hug me yeah but then but that yeah I could have been like no this is my relationship with my fans and in America I can ████ hug all my fans or I could have been like well I know that's how they do things here I don't get it but I respect it you know or like you could have been in the Muslim country for example and be like no abortions I'm from ████ Florida mic drop and they would have been like yeah that's my culture yeah yeah and then people like yeah that's it yeah so a lot of people look at it like it's saviorism he's annoying he thinks he gets to go in and do that but I think it's a leave yeah I think it's all right

7:34 that's the part there's no consequence yeah yeah it's like if you moved to a country that didn't have the justices that were you know representative of you and your identity then maybe making a change makes more sense because you've lived there and this dude's probably like bragging about it back home like yeah dude I got kicked out of Malaysia but if you just look at a different country and you're like oh they shouldn't be living like that and you go over there and you ████ do this yeah and then you leave it's like he thinks he's trailblazing something yeah I looked it up too and to see like what laws were like legit if they if being gay was illegal and apparently um it's under the sodomy law that they have and it's been struck down like seven years ago or something so their federal court system said that um that's actually no longer illegal because a guy

8:24 there was a raid a gay raid or something and then they were caught doing butt sex but ████ each other right no and then he appealed it at that moment he appealed it I think it was 2007 or something but you know those cases take a long time when it gets to the Supreme Court he appealed it and then I guess they the the federal system out there in Malaysia they they said oh actually it's not illegal to do butt sex they changed the law for that guy they don't have anti-sodomy laws anymore so then people that are quoting it was overturned right because it's it's it's it's um outdated on Wikipedia if you look it up on Wikipedia versus gay World versus no the sodomy laws were the bottom right and then they got topped yeah that makes sense yeah yeah yeah but apparently yeah it's been it's been it's

9:14 it's the street yeah yeah it's no longer a thing yeah dude it is so ████ up to like think your country has the best ████ laws and then you just want to spread that ████ that's kind of funny to me it's so presumptive yeah it is it's kind of American because you usually go to like someone else's home and you're like oh they got their own rules whatever you're just like normal person what the ████ is this ████ cereal in the pantry no you leave it on the counter dude yeah I don't I don't take my ████ shoes off I'll tell you that I'm not gonna take my ████ shoes off okay but I gotta go that Rule's not for me yeah yeah and it's I like the 1975 too that's good really yeah I actually like this band they are really good I did read some stuff from like the gay malaise what they were saying what was

10:04 the game Malaysia same thing like what what Ryan was mentioning how it's like it's ████ up that we have our own like progress that we're trying to do and these guys coming in and just ruining it taking us backwards whatever it's like in cop movies when the ████ FBI moves in on what the cops are doing and they're like oh my God we've been working on this cake for eight years we're taking over yeah he's out of your jersey we have jurisdiction exactly it's like they might have they don't make eye contact yeah showing the badge yeah because what if they do have their way of infiltrating the system and making they're like in a way that's easy for everyone and then you get taken off the case bro oh and then you gotta work not to be Renegade yeah dude you gotta be a renegade and at the same time they're finessing they're finessing the powers at that b and they're like oh let's not do like uh pull the Band-Aid off straight away let's like kind of like smoothly get this transition going and then some band comes in ████ overseas and does this yeah and then there's all

10:55 there's also another group that we're saying like you know it does it does suck to just see how the world is accepting it but like in my own home country like we have to be hidden and like afraid and then like because it's even if it might be legal now there's still the social stigma and the violence right that they that's inflicted on the gay community I do think that no culture can speak to you better than your own culture though yeah yeah so if you have a guy from the outside coming in it just would probably make everyone just mad yep well didn't didn't insync tour there in Malaysia and they're pretty gay yeah and all they got to do is do shape in my heart or whatever yeah or I think it was Backstreet Boys but yeah you just do shave in my heart that's as gay as semi-suggestive gay you know what I mean that's not not quite explicit yeah you're not exactly like buttholes but you might as well be like like there's a couple degrees in between there but I see where you're going with

11:46 you know what I'm saying but they were doing it they were basically doing a pro gay message on tour and they didn't have to be so over the ████ head with it you mean like fingerings those buttholes yeah you there's more incognito mode yeah and that allowed the message to promulgate more and allow more maybe like tie-dye jeans or like faded jeans or like all that kind of stuff people were able to wear those more crop top shirts wet shirts crop top shirts fishnet jewelry disco ball one ear earring frosted tips shorts really hygiene shorts exactly and all that was fine dude's wearing bracelets and being like Oh I thought this was a watch I have to wash jeans exactly yeah that's that's the rough part man but what did Ty Dolla Sign say about this did all the artists get paid still or I don't know what did Ty Dolla signs say about this right like as when he was in The Green Room what do they what do they hear him say

12:37 check does it say yeah no I'm just trying to look up I feel like he was busy in the Green Room eating his Roti because they have some fire ass Roti out there he said I messed with white girls Asian girls Spanish girls black girls everything literally everything everything that's my guy dude what a good statement I miss all girls [Music]

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