like when I say kpop Stans could overthrow the government like I
literally mean it, what are we doing with our time and energy?
Jennie, Jisoo, Lisa et Rosé...oh my god why do they pronounce Rosé like thatÉ
hi welcome to my totally legit kpop news show my name is Angelina and today we
are going to discuss a lot of very interesting topics among them are blackpink
receiving backlash for windows used in one of their stages for how you like
that we also have Chungha receiving a lot of backlash for featuring a type of
blackpink and shaded on French TV show so if any of those subjects interest you
maybe one of them all of them I don't know I have timestamps in the
description which effectively allows you to scroll through that the time fees of
the video you can see the different sections
it'll admittedly mess with my watch time but it's fine
so let's get started actually I'm gonna stop you right there to remind you to
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because I don't either okay so the first subject we're gonna cover today it is
twice being shaded by this French TV show and being compared to blackpink
now it did watch the documentary myself to really see if people were kind of
overreacting cuz I mean third gen Stans, am I right? I'm kidding second gen Stans
are pretty bad we just didn't have this big of a plot before okay so basically
this documentary starts off by praising blackpink and their accomplishments
which obviously there's nothing inherently wrong with that but the first
issue people are taking issue with is definitely the fact that they said that
blackpink have dethroned BTS when it comes to most viewed music video in 24
hours and I know you know, the boy with love views is they're really touchy
subject but that's not my circus... if you thought YouTube played fair I don't even
have a play button and that's on YG's false copyright claims so from there
the documentary goes on to say that blackpink have a feminist tone that
their whole thing is kind of girl power how essentially they represent that you
can wear what you want say what you want and be
you want you know still nothing too troubling, blackpink obviously have a
girl-crush theme that's nothing like you know revolutionary there's nothing we we
know this and honestly the praise from this documentary has already miles ahead
from this kind of German interview that kind of blew up a while back where he
also pronounced Rosé in a weird accent ''Jennie und Rosé'' but essentially the interview
kind of painted blackpink in this really manufactured light I'm sure you
remember but I digress let's get back to the French mini documentary so what is
problematic about this documentary is that they then bring up twice out of
nowhere you know and they were praising blackpink but then suddenly they're
like ''blackpink are so different compared to a typical group like twice
who are very numerous and more or less resemble each other'' okay there's a lot
to dissect at this so first of all twice as concept, they showed a picture of
twice's cute concept, that is not at all what the kpop market is saturated with
like if we want to go scientifically into this girl crush is very saturated
within the k-pop market and people are straying more and more away from the
cute concepts, even twice themselves and when you take that statement and you
know compare it to what they were saying about blackpink before that blackpink
have strong individual personalities you're kind of seeing that the
documentary is kind of implying that twice don't and I think it's just not
fair to look at a cute concept and think okay that has less depth that means that
you can't speak for yourself that means you you can't like where what you want
to say what you want and be what you want and that's kind of what I was
getting from the documentary that they're praising blackpink for kind of
their styling and their type of music while saying that twice as cute concept
means the exact opposite of all of that and I don't think that's true at all
so obviously fans are super upset with this and they really want you know m6
which is the station to apologize but as I'm filming right now there have been no
statements in regards to this now let's move on to my segment called kpop
shenanigans it's just basically fun things that have happened in this here
sphere of the kpop world or recently I'm sorry for not replying to some of your
DMS I have read some of them you know keep on sending them if you want me to
mention something in this segment first of all, Ateez have announced it comeback for
like 29th no oh my goodness you know the originally posted this
super mysterious photo that said ''maybe we're living younger that's why we're
fever ''with a caption that said ''so I gotta let it go
passion young forever'' *correction: fever* and fans are in a frenzy and I'm seeing all of these kind
of hints that they're pulling out of nowhere, does anyone else feel dumb? like
how do you come up with these theories out of little real crumbs? I could never
like when I say kpop Stans could overthrow the government like I
literally mean it what are we doing with our time and energy? but since
they have been posting more photos, but I do want to highlight this one
specific photo because I'm just gonna go ahead and say it I think if I feel it in
my heart I think they're gonna go for a school theme yeah so yeah I'm really
excited this will be my second comeback with Ateez so let me know in the comments
down below if you like Ateez, if this is your first second third fourth one
hundred and eighty third comeback with them because we know they never stop we
also have Seveteen who have a challenge on tik Tok for their new comeback which
is called the left and right challenge and rain partook in that now a lovely
individual has been spamming me for days and days on end for me to check out
3YE which is a new group who have made it come back with a song called yes
sir, now I feel like a lot of people have been telling me that they give second
gen vibes, that they give 2NE1 vibes and I just have to say that I love you but
some of you really use that term too liberally no but for real I definitely
see the appeal and I'd say that they honestly give me some BAP vibes
especially with this song in particular so kind of I guess very late second gen
into early third gen vibes for sure but moving on we also have CL who has posted
these mysterious photos and maybe maybe we're all clowns or maybe it's a
comeback and I did want to take a minute to talk about the rookie group weeekly
with 3 e's at first I was like that's like confusing but I think it's really smart
for like the optimization of search results I've fallen in love with their
debut song ''tag me'' and I hate school themes but like this is the this is it
definitely a song I recommend it has like a cute theme as we've mentioned
before that is kind of not really being done as much anymore but there's some
strong vocals and it's just everything is perfect except for the school outfits
but you know what I don't know it was good so lastly in some not so fun news
we have seen that the music video for Seulgi and Irene's music video what
monster has been delayed for a second time but this time SM has not released
any statement as of yet explaining why like people were literally to the minute
waiting for the music video to come out and then it just did it and like they
didn't say anything an update to this story is that they announced that it
would be uploaded on July 7th at 12 p.m. KST so it has indeed since been uploaded
but they still have not given a reason as to why the music video was delayed
now I watched the music video and I thought it was really interesting so if
you want a review let me know but I do have a theory as to why it may have been
delayed and here's the thing so we do have very light creepy elements within
the music video but I feel like maybe those elements were a lot stronger
previously so maybe they were about to upload the music video and then found
out that the video might have gotten banned for certain elements and I'm
thinking back to the girl group nature who had to reload a tamer version of
their music video because it got banned for being too graphic so maybe this is a
similar case maybe they went a little too far with something and had to make
changes very last-minute so I don't know let me know what you think do you think
that could be a possibility or why do you think it was really delayed again
okay moving on to blackpink and the backlash they have been receiving for
featuring certain type of windows in their stage for how you like that so it
seems some people have pointed to the fact that these windows resembled mosque
windows and that using a religion as an aesthetic is not okay for this case in
particular for blackpink's windows it seems that a lot of Muslims are coming
out and saying you know these aren't mosque window
and that rather than using religion as anesthetic people are using religion to
hate on blackpink arbitrarily the following tweet reading ''not every
building with windows and pillars is a mosque stop using my religion to fuel
fan wars and bring hate to blackpink if you're actually Muslim then you should
know the clear distinction between a mosque and a regular building this can
easily be a palace or a museum setting'' and others pointing to the fact that the
windows and pillars could very well have been inspired by Islamic architecture
but just because something features Islamic architecture doesn't inherently
mean that the area is a religious one in fact we do have instances of Islamic
architecture within secular contacts such as palaces and fortresses though
one could argue that they were built with religion in mind however the
distinction would be that those particular buildings are just not
mosques, I'm no window expert and I'm not gonna tell someone that they cannot be
offended by something however on Twitter it seems people are pointing to European
architecture as the inspiration a lot of people pointing to the fact that these
windows are actually English gothic windows so we have this one picture
going around kind of basically very similar to the windows in blackpink
stage so in terms of what originally inspired the style of the windows and
the pillars I cannot personally confirm I mean English Gothic architecture could
very well have its own inspirations and so on but let me know what you think do
you think they have more European vibes or are they more inspired by Islamic
architecture let me know what you think okay so the last story for today is
Chungha receiving backlash for featuring this kind of scene that is
quite reminiscent of a bullfighting scene that you would see in Spain
however what is notable is that there are no Bulls present and there are no
animals present within the scene but instead the bull is kind of represented
by a car and it seems that a lot of people are really torn about this one
tweet reading ''I don't think the bullfighting scene is appropriate it's
highly offensive to us Spanish people because you show a cultural celebration
that includes animals and we're trying to ban it'' so this seems
a lot of people are upset because it kind of promotes the event an event that
a lot of people are ashamed of or kind of want to get banned and I'll leave
some links down below to learn a little bit more about it to learn a bit more
about the practice however there are also a lot of people expressing that
it's not a big deal that she didn't actually use any live animals and have
actually replace it with a car so there could be some level of symbolism within
that another tweet reading ''Chungha did it for an aesthetic and it's okay as long
as there's not an actual bull'' then going on to asks that we simply you know
acknowledge how horrible the practice is instead, which does bring up really
interesting questions you know at what point in art can we use certain
symbolism to express something is there really a hidden message behind it or is
it just purely used for aesthetic so I'd really like to know what your thoughts
are on this do you think that the car represents the bull in a way that kind
of romanticize it and kind of promote something about a lot of people are
trying to ban poor do you think this imagery is just so popular within pop
culture that it gets a pass okay so that is basically it for this video if you
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