{"id":50917,"date":"2016-01-10T00:50:38","date_gmt":"2016-01-10T06:50:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=50917"},"modified":"2016-01-09T16:57:43","modified_gmt":"2016-01-09T23:57:43","slug":"incident-at-enrique-inglias-concert-is-a-storm-in-tea-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2016\/01\/10\/incident-at-enrique-inglias-concert-is-a-storm-in-tea-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"Incident at ENRIQUE INGLIAS\u00a0 Concert is a \u201cStorm in tea cup\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

Malin Abeyatunge<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n

Spanish singer Enrique Iglias is the current king of the Latin Pop. He is a\u00a0 versatile singer and song writer young and famous. Personally I like his many both rhythm & blue songs though I am not in his age group. Some of his songs like Bailando & Bailomos<\/em><\/strong> curry \u00a0flavour with our \u00a0Portuguese influenced Baila which has become a part of our culture. Then,\u00a0But what\u2019s this big hullabaloo <\/em><\/strong>about some girl throwing a bra at him ( No one knows whether she threw the bra she was wearing at the concert or brought it separately to throw at him. Only she will know the answer). And, another girl invaded despite any private securities (if there were any) and hugged Enrique. I do not find any obscenity in any of these acts other than may be merely the external manifestation of internal frustration (To own the singer for a\u00a0 split second) of the two girls and I don\u2019t blame them. Such incidents are not uncommon in the musical concerts. It\u2019s how they expressed their feelings and emotions towards the artist and I don\u2019t find anything wrong. I have witnessed live performance of many\u00a0 world famous artists like Late Michael Jackson\u00a0 Tina Turner, Cliff Richards, Engelbert Humperdinck , Elton John to name a few \u00a0in Melbourne Arts Theatre over the years with fans screaming and dancing. Event Organising Company\u00a0 should take the full blame of this whole episode.\u00a0 I suggest that Mahela\/Kumar company should continue to bring more and more world known artistes for Sri Lankans to watch, listen and enjoy but at a reasonable affordable price for many to enjoy but not limited to a so called elite class only. After all music is universal.<\/p>\n

The irony of the whole issue is making this minute incident a storm in a tea cup\u00a0 \u00a0by President Sirisena \u00a0getting himself unnecessarily involved\u00a0 and making a reprimanding statement saying those responsible\u00a0 should be whipped with Madu Walige<\/em><\/strong> as the incident is uncultured. If that\u2019s the case, firstly\u00a0 he should reprimand his son for attending a such an uncultured event. I don\u2019t personally blame his son for attending the concert as he is another young of the young generation.\u00a0 President has made a mountain of a mole hill may be to divert attention of the people from more contentious issues than this small incident. \u00a0However if anyone thinks this is an obscene behaviour on the part of the two young girls, how will those so called hypocrites look at the Sigiriya half-naked Frescoes and Isuriminiya lovers. Aren\u2019t they master pieces of all time of our history?<\/p>\n

I know there will be brick bats on me of my honest opinion but I am not a hypocrite because I love music in all forms and varieties.<\/p>\n

10\/1\/2016<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Malin Abeyatunge Spanish singer Enrique Iglias is the current king of the Latin Pop. He is a\u00a0 versatile singer and song writer young and famous. Personally I like his many both rhythm & blue songs though I am not in his age group. Some of his songs like Bailando & Bailomos curry \u00a0flavour with our […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-malin-abeyatunga"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50917\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}