The Black-Eyed Peas Concert

Hey friends,

Tomorrow is a day Dubai is extremely proud of. It is a day which Dubai thinks will get it the international fame and recognition it so deserves. Are you asking me what's happening tomrrow? Well, its the concert by the hip-hop group The Black-Eyed Peas.

It's been a while since I have heard of a prominent artist performing in Dubai. Most often, you get to hear from the lesser known boy bands, or classical artists. The last concert I went to was Bryan Adams, and no doubt he was amazing, Adams is a regular concert player in Dubai. Luciano Pavarotti's concert was a major disaster. Westlife and Blue, the British boybands, are the best Dubai can offer. Whitney Houston's concert was so-so, as she was not at her best.

The Black-Eyed Peas are no doubt a major group, and I was somewhat surprised they were coming to Dubai. What I don't like then is how Dubai seems to act like as if its the next London or Paris, when it clearly isnt. I don't like this attitude coming out from here of condemning the US, and then hosting groups like these. I mean, when Michael Jackson was here recently, Dubaians acted like as if he were their best friends or something. I mean, the media here had gone on and on about how weird and wacko Jackson is, making fun of his plastic surgeries and his pedophiliac nature. When Michael was here, suddenly, the media were painting him as a normal, better than other humans, kind of person. It was just mere hypocrisy.

Mansur