| "Life is not a bed of roses".Like the saying ,KRU too,has been through hard and difficult times. When KRU first started,there were some allegations that the brothers really couldn't sing.Of course ,after a while the critics stopped criticizing the boys.Their true talent of singing,writing their own songs,and play their own instruments was crystal clear. But their hardest of all was in 1996,when their KRUmania concert was banned in several states ,claiming that it brought bad influence on youngsters by the officials.The controversy was more like a political situation between two sides.It was during this time,that Norman wept a tear in a press conference concerning the issue.It was the first time ,fans of KRU witnessed the emotional breakdown by Norman and his two brothers.The public started to question the relevancy behind the banning of the concert,as many expressed,that KRU had a family oriented show,and there was no harm at all,whatsoever.After all the fuss,Dato' Seri Anwar Ibrahim,the acting Prime Minister ,at the time,ruled out to state officials to give their permission for the concert to proceed.This was with a condition,the word MANIA' had to be dropped out from their advertisement.That meant that they had to change all the banners,posters,t-shirst and all the promotion merchandise.So,after much trouble,the boys did get to have their concert ,after all. In 1999,KRU was involved in a major scandal ,where one of the bros' ,Edry ,involved.The scandal involves 11 fake pornographic pictures of Edry and Linda of Elite,were distributed all over the internet.Linda,who was allready happily married at the time ,and Edry ,who was just about to get engaged to his Milia,lodged a police report.The pictures ,were clearly retouched' as Edry's face was a bit red and his thighs were just too big.The pictures brought much tarnishing to KRU's clean name as a group.However,KRU fans knew better than to believe in such a disgusting' thing.The pictures were most likely created and circulated by unresponsible-useless-KRUhater- person. Besides these controversies,KRU's name was still much tarnished by the unresponsible things done by others,such as, singers under the wing of KRU Records.For instance,Watie of Elite,a female pop group under KRU was found guilty of drunk-driving.And early this year,Danny of X-factor,a pop boyband group,under KRU as well,was caught for khalwat' ( Islam's forbidden rule of being alone suspiciously in a room,male and female ) Unfortunely,KRU was the one to blame by some individuals ,who ,for some reason felt that KRU should be responsible to take care of their protege's.(Like KRU has nothing better to do than watch over them-24/7!) In other words,just because the misconduct of others ,KRU was under fire' as well. |