hi, welcome to my 8th scandal!
the 7th scandal was ridiculous, it was over pronounciation
Rosé
I uploaded a video called ''kpop dance similarities part two''
and I've gotten so many comments saying that Everglow are copycats,
so I figured, if I'm capable of starting fan wars then today I'm going to end them
all of them
what a hero
and to be quite honest with you you guys should be the one getting blamed because
you suggested all those dance moves to begin with
I swear sometimes you guys are just asking for me to get canceled
for the 8th time
Like I said for BLACKPINK, having similar dance moves is not inherently wrong
and I don't think Everglow are copycats and here is why!
get ready to have every single fan war ended with this video...
or more started I don't know
I get really confused, because sometimes I think I'm doing good then suddenly
I'm like the Logan Paul of kpop and I'm like ''I don't... I don't understand how we got here''
so yeah
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let's start with the concept,
so a lot of people are saying that Everglow copied BLACKPINK's concept
for ''kill this love'' but here's the thing, BLACKPINK obviously didn't
innovate this concept and actually this was BLACKPINK's first time doing this concept
there are so many groups all the way back to second generation who did this whole
Mitiliry -
who did this whole military-esque style way before BLACKPINK
way before Everglow
actual footage of me trying to stop myself from bringing 2ne1 into this
so for that arguments specifically, I mean there's really a finite amount of concepts
in kpop and they get recycled and used over and over again and that's
completely fine, you know? all your faves have done a concept that someone has done before them
so more specifically within this concept argument, we see a lot of people
accusing Everglow of copying BLACKPINK's outfits,
specifically these black and gray outfits, however again BLACKPINK did not
innovate these outfits, if anything they just ripped off Lara Croft,
I'm kidding, but I mean, I stan
so when it comes to Everglow's case, I don't think
they're copying BLACKPINK, I think they have the misfortune of having bad timing
and again if we're really gonna point out outfits that are similar, well then
BLACKPINK's red and black outfits for ''kill this love'' are awfully similar to
2NE1's ''crush'' outfits, does that mean BLACKPINK copied anyone?
no, but BLACKPINK have the misfortune of being
under the same company as 2NE1
so everything they do will inevitably be compared to 2NE1
stop saying that everything is copied
when it's either inspired or completely unrelated
so let's move on to the dance
so the dance is really what started all of this, right? it's the kpop similarities part two
here's the thing, if you've learned anything from my channel,
it should be about all kpop dances are the same, all of them! all boy group dances are the same,
all girl group dances are the same, all dances are the same!
so I really don't agree with this because some of these moves are so basic and
literally no one is safe in these videos I don't know why - well, I kind of do know why
but let's pretend I don't - I don't know why I Everglow is getting picked on so much
yes, they appear multiple times throughout the video but then again
''adios'' had just come out, so people of course we're thinking of adios and
recommending adios the most
so let's move on to music, so I do have to agree
that the beginning of ''adios'' sounds very similar to BLACKPINK's Ddu-Du Ddu-Du, however.
there are so many people who are saying that Aisha's rap is identical to Lisa's rap
in ''kill this love'', I just want to talk about them for a little bit
First of all lisa has the quote-unquote yg flavor
jenny has yg flavor as well, every rapper from YG Entertainment has that yg flavor
but when you hear Aisha rap, she does not have that same flavor, she does not have that YG flavor
she has a different flavor, perhaps we shall call it an Everglow flavor
she doesn't pronounce her words in quite the same way that
that a yg artists would, and she doesn't quite have that same -
she just doesn't have that same style, you know what I mean? if you hear Aisha rap,
you're not gonna think ''oh she's from YG'' so I don't know, I'm not seeing it.
I mean, that's why CL, Jennie, Lisa, GD,
no one can ever know what I just said
of course I know there are ethical boundaries
that can be crossed, a hundred percent! but it feels like those boundaries
don't really exist in kpop, just my opinion.
so that's pretty much my opinion on all of this, but now I want to talk more objectively
about why people are targeting Everglow specifically
if Everglow does a song that is very similar to ''kill this love'', well the timing is very unfortunate
because it wasn't done that long ago and of course, it is a style and concept in kpop that
isn't done very often, in fact as I mentioned before, when EVOL did it
we let them down, despite it being the best thing I've ever seen at that point
so this is a tricky concept to do, this is a concept that's very RISQUÉ to do,
I do understand that the timing is quite unfortunate for Everglow, unfortunately
another thing is the amount of similarities that were able to find so
for BLACKPINK's ''Kill this love'' the similarities that I'm finding with other groups
are after school and 2NE1, but they're the same similarities like
similar outfits, similar chanting style music, however with Everglow there are
many more aspect like Girls Generation outfits, similar outfits to ''kill this love''
and then the song sounds a bit like ''I'm an albatross'' and people
think it sounds a bit like to ''Ddu-du ddu-du'' and sounds a bit like ''kill this love'' and
sounds like this other song, so I understand that these aspects,
when you put them all together, can kind of make you think that Everglow are copycats
I will admit that I'm a bit conflicted on these things sometimes and I often find
that the anger that comes from people is essentially this pride that we have as fans
over the artists that we think own a concept or own something that they themselves
did not innovate and if you feel that ever glow are copycats
that's totally fine, I'm not here to tell you how to feel, but I do want you to think more critically
I want you to think about the groups that you think are being copied
and think about what they have copied themselves, because the truth is
in kpop there is rarely new things that are being innovated, thank you train
you probably can't hear that because this microphone is so good to me...
so with that being said I would like to know your opinion
and if it differs from mine, that's totally fine but I maintain that as of now and
I could change my mind at any time, as of now, I don't think Everglow are copycats
I think they are merely following trends as most of your faves do, they just have
a few, you know, aspects that are going against them at the current time, but I did like their song
and I did like their whole concept and I think they did it very well
do I think they should be a bit more careful in the future, yes.
but this applies to every single k-pop group, I love to see familiarity mixed with
little aspects of something completely different
anyways so let me know what you think in the comments down below thank you guys
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