Recently, the Propaganda and Mass Mobilization Committee and the Ho Chi Minh City Party Committee sent a dispatch requesting cultural management agencies in Ho Chi Minh City to step up orientation and rectify musical activities that show signs of deviation.

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Many singers such as HIEUTHUHAI, Phao, Jack, B Ray... were named by the Propaganda and Mass Mobilization Committee and the Ho Chi Minh City Party Committee because their music products used careless and offensive language.

In particular, Ho Chi Minh City proposed to consider not inviting artists whose works, behaviors, words, and performances go against good customs, deviate from cultural standards, promote loose lifestyles, social evils, etc. to participate in the city's programs, festivals, and events. This has attracted public attention over the past week.

On the afternoon of October 30, at a regular press conference at the Ho Chi Minh City Press Center, a representative of the Ho Chi Minh City Department of Culture and Sports responded to the management role in this field, as well as the direction of sanctions for "culturally deviant" behaviors in the coming time.

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Ms. Nguyen Thi Ngoc Hang - Deputy Head of the Art Department (Department of Culture and Sports of Ho Chi Minh City) spoke at the press conference.

Ho Chi Minh City is a locality with the most vibrant, rich and diverse artistic life in the country. This is also one of the major cultural and artistic centers with the intersection between tradition and modernity, between the quintessence of Vietnamese and world culture.

In recent times, the Department of Culture has always paid attention to and closely directed the state management of performing arts activities in the city. The Department has strengthened coordination with agencies and localities to contribute to improving the effectiveness and efficiency of state management.

The Department is in charge of developing inter-sectoral coordination regulations between departments, branches, and localities in Ho Chi Minh City to proactively grasp the situation and promptly handle artistic activities.

"The management agency has discovered many violations and strictly handled them according to the law, including cases of temporary suspension or ban from performing, which has created public consensus," said Ms. Hang.

In addition, the Department also focuses on propaganda and dissemination of policies and laws; at the same time, creating favorable conditions for organizations and individuals working in the arts to promote their talents, contribute to the public with valuable cultural products, contributing to building an increasingly healthy cultural and artistic image of Ho Chi Minh City.

However, besides the positive aspects, the Department of Culture stated that there are still some phenomena of deviant creativity, promoting personal "ego", showing offensiveness in content, form or expression.

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Singer Jack got into a scandal for using lyrics that were considered offensive.

"Some works and performances contain offensive elements, use substandard language, and have forms that are not consistent with the nation's fine cultural traditions, do not demonstrate the role and function of guiding public awareness and aesthetic taste, and promote negative lifestyles, especially among young people," the Department representative stated.

In case of violations, based on legal regulations, the Department will take resolute measures to handle them; at the same time, listen to expert opinions, coordinate with organizations and unions to educate, raise the spirit of self-conscious compliance with the law and exemplary behavior of artists, contributing to building a healthy cultural environment.

For major political events and festivals in Ho Chi Minh City, the Department and related agencies, based on the purpose and requirements of the event, have cooperated with appropriate creative components, in which the performing artists are focused on not only professional capacity but also on standards in professional activities and cultural behavior. This will continue to be focused on in the future.

Photo: HK, Documents

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