hi, welcome to my totally legit kpop news show! my name is angelina and i'm your host for today,
your very own k-pop journalist with yes, a k-pop phd and for all of you little fourth gen stans
who asked me what made my opinion relevant, i will be accepting no further inquiries.
but basically this is our sunday news show where we talk about all of the k-pop news from
throughout the week, some of your suggestions, maybe talk some crap, learn a thing or two,
who knows! and for this video in particular we are going to be talking about how blinks
are claiming the APAN awards are rigged because blackpink was seemingly snubbed
as well as some ongoings with the AAA awards, Shawn Mendes and his very own k-pop shenanigans,
BTS being nominated for a grammy award as well as IZ*ONE and b1a4's music videos seemingly being
plagiarized, so if you're interested in these subjects, maybe just one or two of these subjects,
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let's talk about blinks and why they are upset at the APAN awards so the APAN awards are organized
by the korea entertainment management association and they had previously revealed a list of 30
artists who were nominated for their top 10 artists of the year who they themselves claim
are "the greatest singers who made kpop shine in 2020'' and you know among this top 30 list who of
course had blackpink, ateez, (g)i-dle, Loona, to name a few so it seems to make it into this list
of top ten the criteria is the following, they take into consideration album sales,
digital sales, and evaluation by a panel of judges as well as fan voting and the top 10
ended up including quite a few artists including bts, kang daniel, the boyz, monsta x, seventeen,
however this list did not include blackpink and actually blackpink had only won in the category
for best music video which was entirely based on fan votes so when this list was revealed and
blackpink was nowhere in this list a lot of people were starting to ask questions and of
course we see a bunch of fans praising blackpink's accomplishments from digital sales to album sales
to their overall impact this year alone despite only having released their album at the beginning
of october and so many pointing to the fact that this really doesn't make sense at all because if
you have digital sales album sales and fan voting like how wouldn't they have made it onto the list,
if they basically have everything except for seemingly the judge panel voting
which is quite vague, so in light of this, in light of blackpink's absence from this
list of top 10 artists of the year we start seeing people trending the following hashtags
#blackpinkROBBED as well as hashtag #apan_awards_rigged so of course we
have people saying that this award show is rigged because blackpink definitely deserves to be part
of the top 10. while others are saying it's not fair to say it's rigged when you know you don't
have actual proof, when you don't really know what goes into the final decision and having a panel of
judges can seem a little bit vague but could be a really big part in determining this you know
that could technically mean anything looking at sales and votes is very concrete but you know what
a judge has to say could literally mean anything you could literally sway an award show any way you
want if that's part of the criteria, and if you're not really clear with what that criteria actually
means, but definitely let me know in the comments down below what you think of this do you think the
awards show is rigged do you think something fishy fishy is going on or do you think it's
really not that big of a deal let me know in the comments down below, actually an update on blinks
being upset that award shows are not properly recognizing blackpink's accomplishment, we have
the asia artist awards who are under fire for a comment towards IZ*ONE's achievements that people
are claiming is discrediting blackpink so in this short clip that's going around we IZ*ONE on going
to receive an award and the translation in the captions reads ''IZ*ONE set the record as the girl
group with the highest first week sales'' now this has upset a lot of people because if you actually
look at who holds the record for the highest sales in their first week of releasing their album it's
blackpink, however it's really super important to note that before blackpink released their album,
IZ*ONE were the holders of this record so for context IZ*ONE's album the oneiric, oneirique,
oneiric diary... not my circus! was released in june while blackpink's ''the album'' was released
in october so yes technically the statement is true or was true at one point in time but
it is outdated information as of now so if you scroll through twitter you of course see a lot
of people demanding that the aaa's apologize to blackpink, in fact we see again a similar type
of situation where the following hashtags are trending #aaa_apologize_toblackpink and even
BLACKPINK DESERVES BETTER and we also have a lot of people clarifying that they mean no malice or
harm towards IZ*ONE, that the group really doesn't deserve any hate in this situation but rather
the award show themselves needs to apologize for discrediting blackpink's accomplishments
so here's my little theory, this is based off a translated caption, when i read it like i kind of
understood that they meant that IZ*ONE you know, set the record, like they did, they technically
did set the record at one point in time but wording wise i understand some people take it as
them discrediting blackpink, so let me know how you understand it, do you understand it as kind of
outdated information? do you understand it as them discrediting blackpink?
or do you see it as a piece of information that was true at one point that kind of contributes to
them winning said award, they had set that record so it contributed to them winning that award, or
i don't know let me know in the comments down below!
now let's move on to a little segment that i like to call k-pop shenanigans which is basically fun
little things that have happened in k-pop this week now don't forget if you'd like to suggest
something for k-pop shenanigans you can of course send me a dm over on my instagram i try to read as
many as i can i don't always reply i'm really sorry so we have two members of saturday who
uploaded a nine minute twice dance medley onto their channel and on that twice note we also have
ace who did a medley as well but a vocal cover of twice's songs so they had ''what is love'',
''fancy'' and ''i can't stop me'' uploaded to the adromeda youtube channel, alicia keys uploaded a
cover of life goes on by bts we have twice who are scheduled to appear on the stephen colbert show,
cOlBeRt, on november 30th to perform their song ''i can't stop me'', NiziU has made their official
debut with ''step and a step'' we also have rookie group woo!ahh! made their comeback with ''bad
girl" nctu released their music video for "work it'' and purple kiss have released a performance
video for ''my heart skip a beat'' which featured a sound that i was really not expecting from them
but as usual if you're interested in my thoughts on all of these comebacks and debuts you're gonna
have to wait to my end of the month review which is coming really soon december first or
second it should be out as you guys all know these videos are so hard to edit but it should be a lot
easier now that i have my new laptop my second new laptop but that hopefully you know fingers crossed
nothing goes wrong it should be a lot easier to edit now that i have 500 gigs plus of storage
and lastly for our kpop meme of the week which really isn't a meme it's actually a tik tok that
a few people have sent me of this adorable little cockatiel who is whistling to nct's make-a-wish
honestly quite a perfect song to whistle to this tik tok is from an account called charliebirb
and honestly if you call birds birds and not birbs birbs then i don't think i can trust you,
but yes we love parrots on this channel we appreciate parrots on this channel they're
just you know, they're just too precious for this world and they are indeed real
and frankly if my parrots were real i'd make them listen to k-pop too,
not that i don't do that with other people's parrots, i will have you know...
so now let's move on to a segment that i like to call wack-ass things that i saw on stan twitter
and it seems that shawn mendes is being clowned by a lot of people so basically there are these memes
going around showing that shawn mendes now has photo cards, a photo book, virtual meet and greets
and even a light stick apparently, yes indeed seems a little bit fishy fishy like so i decided
to look into it on my own and here's what i found so essentially when you go on his merch
website the first thing you are greeted with is of course someone going through his photo book
so yes he indeed has a photo book and when you go through purchasing options you actually do see a
message that gives details about a meet and greet and it says the following pre-order wonder in any
format to be in a chance of winning a virtual meet and greet with shawn mendes but then in
some versions shall we say of the album it seems to come with photo cards or rather collectible
cards now there are other parties that are selling you know shawn mendes photo cards and everything
like that that are more in line with what we know as kpop photo cards but it seems that the
cards on his own website are part of like a game you know like playing cards his site explaining
''world of wonder is a custom playable card game on the album wonder 10 unique holographic cards
come in each pack'' so i guess they're kind of like photo cards but not like typically what we
know as kpop fans as photo cards from what i can tell but that is not all, my friends,
it seems that there are some people bringing up pictures from his concerts where there were light
up roses and you saw like the sea of pink so very similar to a lightstick but it doesn't seem that
these are readily available to be purchased but rather we're just specific to certain concerts so
of course the internet took all of these elements put them together and started making a bunch of
memes started clowning shawn mendes and i have to admit it was really funny some people calling him
shawn mendes.....oppa
my koreaboo days are coming back to haunt me.. so on one hand we have a bunch of people making
jokes about it they think it's super super funny like this original tweet that kind of blew up
the op clarified that they were joking about this but there are a lot of people who are actually
quite upset about this thinking that this should be exclusive to kpop like these elements photo
cards photo books light sticks virtual meet and greets should be exclusive to k-pop people saying
that it's weird for western artists to start doing these things i've read a few stories of people
saying that they were made fun of for having kpop photo cards at the back of their phones and now
if western artists are doing it then it's going to be okay which i will add if you're second gen
stems understand that on a very deep level we did not have photo cards back then but the bullying
was there so let me know what you think in the comments down below do you think it's cool if
western artists are having photo cards photo books virtual meet and greets or do you think somehow
for whatever reason that it should stay exclusive to kpop that it somehow takes away from kpop i'd
be really curious to know for me personally i feel like photo cards are quite new i really actually
do not remember ever having photo cards i used to have quite a few albums and i remember photo books
and like very intriguing albums like that was the allure of k-pop albums right they were
quite extravagant does anyone remember reigns back to basic's album you pulled it apart and then
anyone who had the album knows exactly what motion i'm doing
moving on to bts who have been nominated for a grammy their song dynamite was nominated for best
pop duo group performance now i'm gonna be really honest when i found out about this information
i was like a little bit confused because i thought they were already nominated like i was like yeah i
knew this already and people like no it was just announced, i guess i had a fake memory of them
being nominated for a grammy and just went with it all this time and actually this became quite a hot
topic a little while ago when billboard released their list of their predictions of who should
be nominated for grammys and such and i don't know if you remember but a lot of people were
upset with this list because bts were nowhere to be seen now of course this was billboard
making predictions for grammy nominations it had nothing to do directly with the grammys
it was just their own predictions but i digress it seems that billboard was quite wrong and BTS
have been nominated for a grammy and fans of course not even just like armyz i feel like the
k-pop community as a whole has like come together and it's just like really excited about this at
least from what i've seen so yeah let me know about your excitement in the comments down below
so let's end this totally legit news show with some totally legit k-pop journalism
i literally did a deep dive into all of these plagiarism accusations so here we go it seems that
tony and neha kakkar have come under plagiarism accusations by IZ*ONE and b1a4 fans it seems that
a lot of fans have noticed a lot of eerily similar scenes between their music video for shona shona
as well as IZ*ONE's music video for beware and b1a4's music video for like a movie yes you heard
that right i mentioned a second and group within the right context i deserve an award please mark
your calendars this will not happen again for another seven years so to paint a little bit of
a picture for you guys IZ*ONE's music video for beware was released on october 6 2020. and b1a4s
music video was released on october 19th 2020 so basically over a month ago while the music video
for shonashana was released on november 25th so just a few days ago and again to reiterate a lot
of people have been noticing a lot of similarities and they've been posting screenshots of music
videos side by side to show that there might be some plagiarism at play but of course as a super
proper super legit kpop journalist i had to look into it myself so i watched all three music videos
and gathered my own screenshots but before we actually get into you know the similarities that
i'm about to show you there's something that i found within IZ*ONE's music video for beware that
i'm honestly super surprised no one is talking about like it's incredibly shocking to me that
no one noticed this and like this didn't become a big thing there's parrots in this music video
did no one think to dm me about this like i just i feel a little betrayed i'm not gonna
lie if i didn't have Bom as my wallpaper i would definitely change it to this but it's
missing you weather and i can't do that so for IZ*ONE's music video beware we of course have
a very similar color palette and among particular scenes that people have been pointing out we have
this train scene which is pretty similar again within the colors pink and purple we also have
this movie theater scene which features almost identical shapes lights and even pink and orange
and then we also have this telephone booth scene which features a pastel blue telephone booth and
a pink phone in both music videos which is really interesting to me because as i was watching this
music video like the telephone scene literally lasted like two seconds it was even hard for me to
quickly get a screenshot so i'm like what and again the color stories are very similar between
both music videos which is interesting because when we get into the b1a4 plagiarism accusations
by fans it's like it doesn't mix because you have this IZ*ONE super bright pastel color
palette mixed with b1a4s music video which is a lot darker but when it came to seemingly allegedly
plagiarizing the scenes like they didn't really change the color palettes they kept them the same
so i just thought it was interesting because i find like it stands out a lot more and the
similarities at least for b1a4's music videos seem a lot less like they could have just been common
things you find in pop culture like a train scene i could name a bunch of train scenes even though
the colors and everything are very similar or even a telephone booth scene 2NE1 go away
digressing so first we have these buildings side by side with pretty much identical architecture
and they both happen to have like a sky background they seem like they're somewhat floating in the
air or super super high that this guy is literally the background we even have a scene where two
people are dancing on top of some type of vehicle which is like eerily similar as well then we have
this very curious scene in both music videos where there's two people kind of sitting on this ledge
but they're going through the space type scene with food kind of floating around them then of
course this neon diner sign scene however you know of course unless someone comes forward you
know themselves and says that their work was plagiarized you know there's not much fans can
do other than just like letting people know but i would love to know how you feel about this if
you think it constitutes plagiarism or if you feel differently let me know in the comments down below
so yeah that is basically it for this video thank you so much for making it to this point in this
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