A viral video show scantily dressed Thai dancers at a concert in Kelantan has triggered a heated debate.// Pictures from The New Straits Times

A concert featuring a well-known Thai folk songstress and scantily clad dancers at a Buddhist festival to celebrate Loy Krathong has stirred controversy in the conservative Malaysian state of Kelantan, according to Malaysian media.

Video clips of the Nov-24 event have gone viral, triggering a heated debate across social media platforms and prompting some netizens to call for an investigation, The New Straits Times reported.

 

 

The concert was held in conjunction with the Loy Krathong festival in the vicinity of a Buddhist temple in Bachok, 25km east of the state capital Kota Baru. Bachok has a sizeable Malaysian-Thai community.

 

Videos and pictures that have gone viral show Thai artiste Thungpang Chanoknan performing with her dancers on a stage in sexy attire, with the crowd dancing along.

 

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 Ok so where are the "scantily clad dancers" they are alluding to ?

What's the problem? Was anybody harmed?

If people don't like to see sexy girls, then don't go there and don't watch! 

Thought the dancing girls were a bit overdressed.

I love these temple do's the way you pay 10b for a garland, and then, they are collected, taken back to the vendor who then resells them, to whoever for the next performer. 

Such silliness. Alot of this fake purity likely originates from the government. The goons in charge are focusing their efforts in all the wrong areas. They are trying to make Thailand a Quaker State. A land of purity. Total BS. Nonsense. Misplaced priorities, and wasted efforts. And likely completely fake and hypocritical. No doubt these terribly misguided fools are trying to rid Thailand of one of its most popular attractions. The nightlife. 

 

People love sexy. You cannot deny that. Making a big deal over something like this is just churlish and silly.

38 minutes ago, spidermike007 said:

Such silliness. Alot of this fake purity likely originates from the government. The goons in charge are focusing their efforts in all the wrong areas. They are trying to make Thailand a Quaker State. A land of purity. Total BS. Nonsense. Misplaced priorities, and wasted efforts. And likely completely fake and hypocritical. No doubt these terribly misguided fools are trying to rid Thailand of one of its most popular attractions. The nightlife. 

 

People love sexy. You cannot deny that. Making a big deal over something like this is just churlish and silly.

 

The concert took place in Kelantan, in Malaysia.

 

The people complaining are Malaysians.

 

"The Straits Times of Singapore also reported that several online commentators pointed out what they saw as double standards by Parti Islam Se-Malaysia (PAS), which governs Kelantan, questioning why such a “vulgar performance” was allowed, given the party’s previous criticisms of international performances in the country.

The Islamist party had said concerts by foreign artists were against the values of Malaysia’s Muslim-majority population and will promote a hedonistic culture."

https://www.thaipbsworld.com/concert-in-kelantan-with-sexy-thai-dancers-stirs-controversy/

 

 

 

Edited November 30, 20232 yr by Enoon

1 hour ago, webfact said:

the conservative Malaysian state of Kelantan

I stayed in H(R)at Yai.  Its population tripled at weekends as the conservative Malays crossed over for their oats.

Yeah just look at that audience front row, ready to tear the performers limb from limb they're so outraged.

1 hour ago, JoePai said:

 Ok so where are the "scantily clad dancers" they are alluding to ?

I was wondering the same... just what would they call the girls at the bars, or on the streets eg Soi Bangla.

1 hour ago, JoePai said:

 Ok so where are the "scantily clad dancers" they are alluding to ?

The ones with the sexy waist to half thigh black Lycra tights

Where in Thailand can you erect a stage and put on a performance that isn't within some invisible, morality-dripping, boundary that abhors 'scantily dressed performers?'

Put a stage up in a Thai village - there is a Buddhist temple.
Put a stage up in any Khet in a major or minor city, and there is/are a Buddhist temple(s).

This is a nothing burger.  Average people don't care. 

45 minutes ago, Enoon said:

 

The concert took place in Kelantan, in Malaysia.

 

The people complaining are Malaysians.

 

"The Straits Times of Singapore also reported that several online commentators pointed out what they saw as double standards by Parti Islam Se-Malaysia (PAS), which governs Kelantan, questioning why such a “vulgar performance” was allowed, given the party’s previous criticisms of international performances in the country.

The Islamist party had said concerts by foreign artists were against the values of Malaysia’s Muslim-majority population and will promote a hedonistic culture."

https://www.thaipbsworld.com/concert-in-kelantan-with-sexy-thai-dancers-stirs-controversy/

 

 

 

Now that's more like the 'real' reason. 

We have a six day concert starting Dec 1......hope they have been booked!!

I've been to this area and it operates under its own pseudo shariah law....  with all the puritanical hypocrisy that comes with it. 

 

The Malay colleagues I was with had to 'pretend' they were non-muslim Indonesians just to be allowed into a restaurant which served beer. 

 

I don't see a peaceful culturally rich environment when I visit such places... I see fear and repression...  people fear persecution for not conforming...  

 

I'm surprised the girls got as far as stage without a hijab.

 

 

 

 

Looks like normal dancing girl attire to me. I've seen them at Weddings, funerals, monk parties, etc.

What a joke!

I couldn't see any sexy dancing or scantily clad girls.

And the audience looked to be mostly women having a great time.

1 hour ago, Enoon said:

 

The concert took place in Kelantan, in Malaysia.

 

The people complaining are Malaysians.

 

"The Straits Times of Singapore also reported that several online commentators pointed out what they saw as double standards by Parti Islam Se-Malaysia (PAS), which governs Kelantan, questioning why such a “vulgar performance” was allowed, given the party’s previous criticisms of international performances in the country.

The Islamist party had said concerts by foreign artists were against the values of Malaysia’s Muslim-majority population and will promote a hedonistic culture."

https://www.thaipbsworld.com/concert-in-kelantan-with-sexy-thai-dancers-stirs-controversy/

 

 

 

 

 

Well the same applies to a lot of Muslims who subscribe to a very fake form of purity, and an exterior appearance of cleanliness, which does not necessarily include their hearts and minds. 

2 hours ago, brianthainess said:

I love these temple do's the way you pay 10b for a garland, and then, they are collected, taken back to the vendor who then resells them, to whoever for the next performer. 

 

It's called "donating."  I think it's a nice tradition.  

People like this give Malaysia and Islam a bad name.  Some Christians and Jews are similarly anal about their weird beliefs.  I appreciate Buddhists because they aren't so damned serious about their ideas.  I appreciate Thailand because people don't honk when traffic is bad, they laugh when things go sideways, and are willing to be humble most of the time, at least in public. 

Looks like harmless fun for all. Some people need to get a life.

Pure Hipocresy

Edited November 30, 20232 yr by Tarteso

2 hours ago, spidermike007 said:

Such silliness. A lot of this fake purity likely originates from the government. The goons in charge are focusing their efforts in all the wrong areas. They are trying to make Thailand a Quaker State. A land of purity. Total BS. Nonsense. Misplaced priorities, and wasted efforts. And likely completely fake and hypocritical. No doubt these terribly misguided fools are trying to rid Thailand of one of its most popular attractions. The nightlife. 

 

People love sexy. You cannot deny that. Making a big deal over something like this is just churlish and silly.

But it actually happened in near a buddhist temple  in Bachok, 25km east of the state capital Kota Baru, Malaysia. Bachok has a sizeable Malaysian-Thai community.

Thank heaven there was no "twerking"

24 minutes ago, kidneyw said:

Looks like harmless fun for all. Some people need to get a life.

 

I think thats part of the problem - In such area's there are people who believe the same - except they enforce the life they believe others should have and punish the them if they don't.

They were hardly scantily clad.

 

I am far more concerned with the fact this dame who can’t even find the songs key is out there ruining the field of music,

than the girl dancing in a skirt showing some tummy.

 

3rd rate show and half-competent dancers dressed like they’re going to the mall. 

What a hypocrisy ! Many men recorded and took plenty of pics for their collection... Nothing really sexy here, 'nothing new in Thailand., it has always been like that for all the concerts that I have seen or heart about in Thailand, a young girl dancing and singing is sexy by nature, nothing new, and in some other shows, singers or dancers are wayyy more sexy and suggestive, there are very sexy coyotees also , and by the way, why not offend at the overly sexy girls hunting customers or seducing guys in the disco's not only in Pattaya or Phuket but everywhere in Thailand including in Bkk. not to mention the go-go bars where they sometimes are topless or nude.. (and I forgot the ping-pong shows) 😉...! 

the dancers at these Thai concerts in the provinces are often described as sexy and scantily clad - I have never understood why scantily clad is used to describe them though because they are never actually scantily clad! Even my wife describes them as sexy and scantily clad so it's clearly an Isaan thing to do that..........to what end though escapes me. 

The dancers in Ying Lees' famous pop video are also NOT scanitly clad but are described so. 

If they actually were scantily clad the video would have been pulled a long time ago.

 

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They quoted a senior local Kelantan official 

“However, the organizer has failed to comply with the rules They also allowed Muslims into the concert,” he told a press conference.

The Malaysian government allows their Muslim citizens to visit Hat Yai daily, three guesses what their main activities are...