Avril Lavigne is getting under the skin of Malaysian censors.
A hard-line Islamic opposition party in the Southeast Asian country is calling on the politics to opening an upcoming concert featuring the "Sk8er Boi" isaac M. Singer, calling her stage pretend way "excessively sexy" for local tastes.
Officials with the Pan-Malaysian Islamic Party's youth wing postulate Lavigne's Aug. 29 operation in Kuala Lumpur would set a bad representative for citizens, especially climax two years before the nation's Aug. 31 Independence Day holiday.
"It is considered too aphrodisiac for us...it's non good for viewers in Malaysia," party official Kamarulzaman Mohamed was quoted by the Associated Press as saying. "We don't want our people, our teenagers, influenced by their performance. We want clean artists, artists that are good role models."
Kamarulzaman subsequently sent letters of protest last week to Malaysia's Culture, Arts and Heritage Ministry and Kuala Lumpur's mayor demanding the gig be canceled.
No word yet what the Ministry plans to do.
Officials on that point have yet to o.K. the covering submitted last week by the booster, Galaxy Group, seeking a permit on behalf of the Canadian pop-punkster. However, a citizens committee will purportedly take up the matter during a meeting on Tuesday.
Still, organizers claim Galaxy has standard "very positive" reaction from the Ministry so far.
A rep for the mathematical group expressed sure thing that its request would go through, noting that the 23-year-old Lavigne's act does non contain whatever "negative elements" that would offend the sensibilities of local concertgoers.
A largely buttoned-down society where Islam is the official religion, Malaysia has a strict policy when it comes to maintaining traditional values, forbiddance performers from exhibiting "lewd" behavior on stage�defined by government officials as define jumping, shouting, hugging and kissing or displaying any sexual imagery or do drugs references.
Additionally, artists are today allowed to wear anything revealing and must cover themselves from the thorax to the knees in line with conservative Muslim edicts.
There was no immediate comment from Lavinge's camp.
A number of notable Western entertainers get run into trouble playacting in Malaysia Beyonc� axed a engagement in the country and instead engaged a show in Indonesia rather than try to adhere to the country's stringent standards.
Christina Aguilera avoided the rural area altogether during a trek through the region last year, while Gwen Stefani decided to forego the belly-button ring and her usual stripped fashion statement to lenify the powers that be.
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