Preetipls Spoke Out About the ‘Saga’ & Was Apparently in a Police Station for 9 Hours

Before July this year, when you hear “Preetipls”, you’d most probably go, “Pretty, please?”

Fast forward to today, and you’ll probably go, “Oh, that rap.”

Lest you’ve been meditating in some remote mountains in Bukit Timah and have just come back to reality, here’s what has transpired in the last few months:

• Dennis Chew appeared in a Brownface ad
• Preetipls and his brother did a response video in a form of a rap that’s offensive to the Chinese community
• Video was removed and the police investigated the case
• It created such a hoo-ha that even the Home Affairs Minister weighed in on it in an interview
• Preetipls and his brother were eventually given two-year conditional warning even when they’re not NUS students

During the entire “saga”, Preetipls and his brother haven’t responded to any media enquiries, and made their statements on their respective social media accounts.

After the verdict, Preetipls did a few videos that implied that she wasn’t exactly pleased with the media and the verdict. It’s subtle yet at the same time pretty obvious (what I am talking); watch them yourself:

But now, it turns out that they’ve accepted an interview request from a foreign publication instead.

Is this the new Amos Yee or what

Interview with Vice

Vice is a Canadian media company that does broadcasting and new media contents internationally, but is more well-known in Singapore for their current affairs digital contents.

So, for some reason, Vice managed to get an interview with the Nair siblings and we finally got to see things from their point of view.

It turns out that when the video was uploaded, Preetipls was on a flight to Bali.

In other words, as Singaporeans went apeshit over the rap, she was apparently not in Singapore.

When Preetipls was back, she was told by her brother that she won’t be detained as the police had allegedly said they “wouldn’t stop” her. However, she still needed to wait “a good 40 minutes until they asked me to verify all the details of my trip.”

Questioning

Preetipls and her brother went to a police station and were questioned for about nine hours, whereby she would need to explain the lyrics and the visual of the video.

Her laptop, hard disk and most importantly, her phone, were taken for “forensics”. Apparently, the officer had asked if she was going to apologise, but she didn’t give a definite answer.

When her brother was asked if he would apologise, he had said, “For what, Chinese fragility?”

That hurts.

Why the Insincere Apology

Of course, one of our dying questions is this: why the spoof apology?

And of course why a ‘sincere’ one after that.

Preetipls said, “It’s been a lifetime of shitty apologies from people who have painted their face brown, it’s been so exhausting. I wasn’t going to let another shitty corporate apology go.”

You can read the entire article here, but if you’ve only ten more seconds of Internet and just want a conclusion I came out with after reading the interview, this is it:

Expect more controversy videos from Preetipls. And her brother. What’s his name ah?