Pussy Cat Dolls in Malaysia

About a month ago The Pussy Cat Dolls performed here in Malaysia. I was supposed to go for the concert but due to my stinking luck, their timing wasn’t convenient. I had just arrived from US and I was still jet lagged and tired. Something interesting happened after their show though.

The Pussycat Dolls played to a sold-out arena in Malaysia, considered a moderate Muslim nation, in late July.

A local city council fined organizers for allowing the chart-topping singers to wear skimpy costumes and perform “sexually suggestive” routines at a recent concert.

Absolute Entertainment, the local organizer of the Pussycat Dolls concert, was fined $2,714 for flouting decency regulations.

The Malaysian government plays the game in a smart way. The fines are symbolic in my opinion. The concert gets to happen and whoever wants to go can go while at the same time conservative Muslims can chill out after knowing a punishment has been rightly enforced. Everyone is happy this way.

Concerts and rave parties happen here all the time. When conservative Muslims complain, the government calms down their worries by enforcing “strict” restrictions on events. For example when Linkin Park came here about 3 years ago, they were told not to you obscene language during the concert. They didn’t and the concert turned out great. I went and it was good! Mariah Carey was told to wear a decent outfit when she came. In other words, she was supposed to cover up her bazooka-sized watermelons. She did. Rave parties here are cool though and they don’t usually have much restrictions on them but most of the time security is very tight. They’re as wild as they can get.

A few months ago, I went for DJ Tiesto’s rave party. How was it? Too good… Just way too good. Absofreakinglutely. Oh ya! Imagine 6pm all the way until 3.30am. Too good! Unfortunately a friend of a friend of another friend overdosed while tripping on E and died. Sigh! Don’t get the wrong idea though, me good boy and I don’t get high. I just like the loud bass and the crowd.

The Malaysian government does quite a good job in trying to make everyone happy. It’s a delicate balancing act and it’s hilarious. Read what my friend Aimster has to say though. Babe, I hear you!