Hello everyone, and welcome to another discussion video of BebossTV.
So in this video, we’re going to walk you guys through some recent cases in the K-pop
world that have attracted the most attention.
Are you curious?
Without further ado, let's jump right into the video.
Let’s come first to the recent most-discussed controversy revolving around the way BTS’s
V replying to ARMY on Weverse.
Particularly, on April 19, V held a short livestream on Weverse.
His live broadcast lasted for nearly 30 minutes which was filled with enjoyable moments.
However, while reading the comments, V suddenly said that his livestream was full of repetitive
questions such as “Do you know Mongolia?”, “Do you know Sweden?” or requests like
“Yoongi marry me” “Can you sing a birthday song for me?”, sort of thing.
For these types of questions, other BTS members are said to either answer fans happily or
politely avoid replying to them.
However, V in total contrast, replied that ARMY should stop asking such pointless and
boring questions, and even rolled his eyes as if he was super fed up.
After this live broadcast ended, a number of netizens immediately expressed their feelings
about V’s sayings, claiming that his words might hurt ARMYs a lot: “He doesn't think
about fans' feelings”.
Some stated that if V felt bored during the live broadcast, then he didn’t need to go
on livestream to interact with ARMY then pull out such an attitude.
As an idol, he has to accept that sometimes it is necessary to do fan-service as first,
fans are an important part of his success and second, it is his job to please fans to
a certain extent.
As this is not the first time V has embroiled into these kinds of attitude controversies,
many suspected that the male idol is indeed spoiled and infected with celebrity disease.
In response to these harsh comments, many ARMY spoke up to defend V, saying that he
didn't complain about those questions at all.
If you're a hardcore fan of V, you will definitely know that the male idol is a savage and likes
to tease fans like that without any bad intentions.
In fact, his expressions were kinda cute and hilarious without any hint of malice.
So, all the controversies surrounding V being rude and looking down on fans were only anti-fans’
fabrication who deliberately distorted his sayings.
From my perspective, what V said is partly true because fans are always spamming such
meaningless questions and idols can't always answer the same questions in every live broadcast.
Moreover, have you ever imagined yourself going live and someone just jumping into spamming
the comments and begging you to marry them?
That’s super annoying right?
Maybe V was quite straightforward when talking about this matter in a livestream, but his
tone of voice was as gentle as possible to avoid hurting fans.
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Here we come to the next controversy of today’s video, which is about the song that has taken
the world by storm lately, Cupid by Fifty Fifty.
It can be said that the song is such a breakthrough of Fifty Fifty as it has totally changed the
girlgroup’s career, helping them gain mass popularity and achieve loads of success, especially
on music charts.
Unfortunately, pleasure didn’t last for long when recently, Cupid was accused of plagiarism.
To be more specific, a Turkish singer named Evrencan Gündüz uploaded a video on his
personal Instagram account with the caption which indicates that Fifty Fifty has stolen
his song Sen Aşkımızdan released 4 years ago: “Fifty Fifty released a great song.
Let’s listen together.
But wait, it’s familiar, isn’t it?
Ah, yes.
It’s a Turkish song, Sen Aşkımızdan”.
The singer also included the similar parts of the 2 songs that are considered the same
in the video to prove his claim.
He even directly tagged Fifty Fifty’s account in his post to ask for their statement regarding
the matter.
Soon after the accusation, many netizens came to listen to Evrencan Gündüz’s song and
were all surprised when finding out that there are some parts of it that sound exactly the
same as Cupid’s, not just stopping at “familiar”.
However, Fifty Fifty’s fans stated that their idols just bought the available sample
and beat for the song, thus it came as no surprise when the 2 songs have some parts
in common, not to mention there are also many songs in the world that have some resemblance
as the songwriters could have similar mind in making music.
Plus, it totally isn’t Fifty Fifty, but the producers who made this song are the ones
to blame as the girls of course were unable to check whether the song copies another one
or not.
However, these justifications seem to be invalid to some netizens as they believed that if
the girlgroup bought the sample already, then there is no reason for Evrencan Gündüz to
make a video accusing them of copying his song.
Netizens also assumed that Fifty Fifty’s agency, The Attrakt, would probably think
that they couldn’t be discovered when using the melody of a song that less people know.
Many expressed their disappointment at the group’s blatant plagiarism, as well as asked
fans to stop defending their idols blindly.
If the group’s agency gave Evrencan Gündüz the credit and paid for the copyright on his
song, the controversy wouldn’t have sparked.
Thus, many hope that The Attrakt will soon make a statement and take action to clearly
explain the matter and ease the discontentment of Evrencan Gündüz and netizens.
Up to now, it is reported that The Attrakt contacted the production team of the hit "CUPID"
to verify the plagiarism controversy.
Due to the timezone difference, the company's opinion will be announced later.
Well, I honestly feel regretful for the girls as they have just become famous thanks to
this song.
Fifty Fifty is a really talented group as the members all have good vocals, thus it
would be a waste of talent if the agency let the incident destroy their career.
I really hope that The Attrakt and Evrencan Gündüz will negotiate with each other and
come to the best solution for the problem to avoid being negatively affected or related
to the litigation due to infringing copyright.
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Are you ready to spill the last discussion?
If yes, let’s take a look at it.
We all know that fansite-master is the one who takes and owns loads of exclusive and
beautiful photos of idols.
To have these photos, it is not so strange when they frequently attend idols’ fansigns,
which is also the dream of many fans as this is one of the rare chances they can see and
talk to their idols in person as well as express their feelings and admiration to their favorite
ones.
Surprisingly, the situation of Sullyoon's fansite-master who owns the female idol’s
fansite Nightfalls is a total contrast.
To be more detailed, during the recent fansign of NMIXX, there was a video circulated on
social platforms that recorded the moment Sullyoon burst into tears after being complained
by her own fansite-master for not looking at his camera.
When it was his turn to interact with Sullyoon, this man directly criticized the female idol,
saying: “I was really tired when following your schedule but you didn’t look at my
camera for once!”
Needless to say, his words have hurt Sullyoon as you can see the confused and embarrassed
expression on her face, but still she tried to stabilize her emotion and explained that
sometimes there were too many cameras surrounding her and she couldn't pay attention to every
single one.
Sullyoon also politely apologized and hoped he would forgive her if she accidentally missed
his camera.
What is worth mentioning is that after this fansite-master left, Sullyoon was dazed for
a while and about to shed tears.
A fangirl at the next turn, after noticing the situation, immediately came to comfort
her by singing for her.
But it seemed like she was really heartbroken and self-pity she burst into tears despite
having tried to hold them back and smile.
After watching the video, netizens and fans are all angry with the fansite-master’s
action.
They can’t believe that he could act so rude right in front of his idol at her group’s
fansign, and question whether he is her fan or not.
Some also criticize him for being so selfish when just caring about his own feelings, and
say that he doesn’t deserve to be a fansite-master.
He said he was tired of chasing after Sullyoon, well then she was also tired of following
a hectic schedule while trying to please such unreasonable demands from extreme fans like
him.
After being under fire, this master fansite clarified that he was a foreigner so he was
not good at expressing his opinions.
What’s more he stated that he had apologized to Sullyoon in another online fansign, and
promised not to do it again.
He also hoped netizens believe that he “sincerely loves Sullyoon and NMIXX.”
However, due to receiving loads of backlash from netizens, the fansite has closed its
Twitter account.
For me, it is so unacceptable for a master fansign to criticize his idol as he obviously
doesn’t have the right to do so.
Sullyoon must be so shocked when receiving those words coming right from the one who
is supposed to love and treasure her.
I really hope that fans will encourage her to get mentally better soon, and expect that
she doesn’t get bothered due to this problem.
So, do you think V was really rude and looked down on fans or is it just haters' imagination?
Does Fifty Fifty deserve to be criticized for the plagiarism scandal?
And if you were Sullyoon, what would you do in that awkward situation?