I didn't know who Akon is. Scratch that. I still don't know who he is, and can't really be bothered to Google either. But apparently the dude had said or done something against Buddhism/Buddhists. Nobody bothered, but now that he had decided it's cool to visit us islanders, seems some of the said islanders aren't really happy about it. To the point of wanting to kill the dude. I was baffled with a little bit of WTF-ness to go with it.
But then, a couple of days ago I saw one of my friends had joined one of the 174,566 'Kill Akon' or 'I hate Akon' FB groups and I proceeded to read the comments to it. Someone had asked what's going on to which the reply was, "I really don't know"! In an instant, even faster than one of these guys could shout Kill Akon, my WTF-ness was turned into a LOL-ness. You could even say it's a LMAO-ness or a ROFL-ness, if you like to be really dramatic, but that's not the point.
The point is, only a handful of morons really think that it is essential to kill the dude in order to preserve Buddhism in Sri Lanka, but there are many a thousand who's quite ready to succumb to their marketing strategies, if you will, just like my friend. But I don't think that it's really fair to generalize every Buddhist in SL branding them with words ranging from 'ignorant' to 'myopic' to even 'plain dumb'. It is no different from branding every Muslim a terrorist.
We live in a funny world don't we?
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Why kill Akon? 'cos there are semi-nude girls dancing in front of a buddha statue in the music video for sexy bitch (which is not actually his song to begin with). The really funny thing is the scenes with the budda statue amount to about 1-2 seconds in total. But by giving it so much hate publicity people are actually taking the time to look it up. Otherwise it probably would have gone unnoticed. Ah the mis-endevours of our people.
ReplyDeleteLOL, is it so? I never knew what this was all about to begin with.
ReplyDeleteBut my point is that, well, not everyone wants to kill the man.
hehehe..i heard that him coming to Paradise is going to bring out a big turn out..:D
ReplyDeleteWe'd be doing the world a lot of good by getting rid of his obnoxious music! ;) (this has nothing to do with the music video btw, I've hated the guy ever since he started 'singing', although I'd call it 'making squirrel noises' instead) :D
ReplyDeleteI actually didnt notice the semi nude chicks in sexy bitch..I think all this 'Kill Akon' hype is also partly coz of the hip bumping thing he did with a 15yr old girl in a concert - which is actually really really gross.
ReplyDeleteThat aside all those ppl signing up to kill Akon - lol - Its quite funny actually. Most of those ppl are harmless enough. Just hope there arent any stupid morons to reenact a SRK bombing again.