After sum blog surfin, found out that a number of u ppl have taken offense to the "Negarakuku" song on Youtube. Now i can go on and on rambling about how brilliant or how stupid or how the man has a freedom of speech. But i'm sure by then, i'll be like everyone else eh? Anyways, here's all i have to say (if ya'll bother to read la) :
1. We have a freedom of speech. We are living in a democratic country rite? Dude wasn't insulting anyone or anything IMHO, he was merely speakin (or in his case, rapping) his mind on what he thinks is the current state of the nation. Which i have to say, is pretty darn true. Dare any of u disagree? Maybe there is a lil racial sluring but thn again, aren't we all guilty of that at least once in our lives?? No?? Seriously???
2. I'm sure if it was any other song, he'll still get the rap. Just cos he used the national anthem, modify it abit, thn he gets shit.. Do u know folks, in order for anyone of us to play our national anthem, we can't change ANYTHING to it. Not its tune, melody or even key! So, if anyone of us was to remix the national anthem for any other purpose (even good) we'd be in deep shit from d government. On the other hand, look at the US, they allow ppl to modify their national anthem but of cos must not slur it la. Good examples? Jimmie Hendrix and BB King gave awesome awesome renditions of it. Sumthing if we were to do, will end up in sum correction facility in Kemunting (i think).
3. Dudes pretty smart, doin it overseas means he cant get caught by d police. But i read sumwhere that he will come back here just to 'try n see' what it feels like in a lock up. Then wat about all the terrorist bombings and associations to it dat 'some' of our malaysians are part of?? No public scrutiny? No publicity?? No one saying that for them to do such a thing and being malaysian, its a shame towards d country?
Don't have much else to say. 50 yrs of independence and of cos we do have a lot to show and be proud of. But does that mean our country is perfect? And we are we suppose turn a blind eye on all d flaws and fuck ups citing the reason we are a 3rd world country and we are still in the development stage therefore this things happen?? You have ur own say.
I'm sure many of u can point out good and bad things our beloved country has to offer. But please, this is just one person's voice trying to say what most of us are already saying. Only this time, he says it via youtube. So cut him sum slack. If anyone still has sumthing against him, go make a vid on youtube la..
Oh, to those reading that i may have offended, u have ur say, and i'll have mind. Democracy rite? Thats wat our country is build on.
