Walk through a pasar malam (night market) in Johor Bahru, and you will hear the twang of dangdut —a genre borrowed from Indonesia but now entirely Malaysianized. Step into a hipster café in Petaling Jaya, and you might catch the dreamy, bilingual pop of , who went from a teenager posting songs on MySpace to performing on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert .
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None of this comes easy. Malaysia is a country where art lives under the shadow of strict censorship laws. The Film Censorship Board is known for cutting kisses, banning films deemed "sensitive" (anything from Beauty and the Beast for its "gay moment" to local documentaries about the 1969 riots), and fining musicians for "obscene" lyrics. Malaysia is a country where art lives under