hi welcome to my totally legit kpop news show my name is angelina and i'm your host for
today on this fine sunday where we basically talk about all of the kpop news from throughout
the week and today we're gonna be talking about fans pointing out similarities between
g idle's "hwa" teaser number two and blackpink's how you like that music video, Dispatch reporting
that GOT7 has disbanded as well as Bom announcing her comeback and a few of my thoughts regarding
how she did so and honestly so much more so if you're interested in these subjects maybe
just one or two of these subjects i have separated this video into super fancy segments so please
feel free to scroll to wherever you would like to start will it mess with my watch time
probably but we all need to be humbled sometimes but before we get into this video please don't
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so let's start off with my little segment that i like to call wackass things i found
on stan twitter so i actually received the following dm that says "hi angelina so twitter
is on fire basically the MV teaser for "hwa" (g-idle) has come out and it's really similar
to blackpink's how you like that music video so you can imagine twitter could you talk
about this like in the next video or something" let's take a little bit of a look into that
so when you go on twitter and you search idle the first things that do pop up are how you
like that and a black pink and yes can confirm there's indeed some asshatery going on so
this is seemingly coming from g-idle's second music video teaser for their upcoming title
track "hwa" which is actually coming out tomorrow and after watching the teaser i have to admit
the first time didn't really see anything the second time started noticing what people
are talking about and as someone who is annoyingly observant let me point out what i've noticed
so the first similarity is of course minnie's hair paired with the white outfit very similar
to lisa and how you like that's teaser pictures
but honestly i have seen a
lot of people praising this particular similarity what people are really pointing out is the
snow scene so and how you like that they're dancing on kind of this platform that resembles
ice and there's snow in the background and it reminded me a lot of kind of an old school
video game and g idols similarly are dancing on what seems like ice it's snow in the background
and white outfits now among other similarities that i think we could notice but might be
a little bit of a stretch are the umbrellas and the red outfits but that's more of a stretch
so of course with these similarities and i don't think there's any denying that there
are similarities whether or not it's plagiarism is a totally different story in my opinion
i felt that g-idle changed things up enough to the point where their own style was added
to it i didn't notice it at first to be honest but you know we have people pointing out that
i-burn comes in three different versions so fire version, flower version and winter version
so of course it would make sense for them to use those elements within their own music
video while other people are just being mean and bringing teddy into it i don't leave him
out of this! but i would love to know what you think do you think the similarities are
a little bit too much do you think g-idle added enough of their own twist to these similarities
that it doesn't really matter i would love to know the comments down below as for me
because it's just a teaser i'm going to wait for the entire music video to come out so
if you're interested in why g idle's "hwa" is familiar then let me know in the comments
down below because the title is also a little bit um... familiar! let's move on to got7
now there's a lot to cover because for a long time now people have been accusing jyp of
mismanaging the group and more recently i got a lot more traction a lot more attention
because of the seemingly lack of support that they had for their last comeback for example
we had albums selling out during the pre-order phase and we also had members themselves taking
their own social media accounts to promote the comeback among other things but a few
weeks ago actually we saw a few reports that remember jinyoung was leaning towards joining
bh entertainment and now on january 6 it was reported that member yukim was looking into
entertainment companies as well and in this report they allege that when his contract
was up he would be interested in joining aomg a company that was founded by former jyp label
mate jay park, can you imagine if Yugyeon joings AOMG?
I just thought it was really interesting.
as for jyp statements in regards to this they've basically said that they've been discussing
various possibilities for contract renewals and so on and that they would let us know
however there are other external things that are pointing to the fact that got7 will likely
not go on on twitter a fan noticed that jyp unfollowed a few members of got7 to which
bambam actually responded the following gif and we also have fans noticing things that
i can't quite fact check such as you know members deleting posts in regards or referencing
jyp and with that, we actually found out last night that Dispatch had reported
that all members of got7 have left JYP entertainment and will be seeking outother companies to
continue their careers.
Mark writting on twitter: "The past 7 years have been the best years of my life.
Nothing is coming to an end, just the beginning.The seven of us are going to continue to bring
you guys the best version of us till the end.
#GOT7FOREVER"
with all 7 members posting the same photo to their instagram accounts with the hashtag
#got7forever
as for fans response to this, I mean of course it's bittersweet, right? but a lot are very
happy at the prospect of got7 no longer being under jyp since it seems the company has been
putting very little effort and resources into them as described earlier on but i would love
to know what you think of all of this so please let me know in the comments down below
now let us move on to a little segment that i like to call kpop shenanigans which is basically
fun little things that have happened in k-pop recently don't forget if you would like to
suggest a news topic or perhaps suggest something for the kpop shenanigans section you can of
course do so over on my instagram account we have alexa who did a 2020 k-pop dance medley
which featured choreographies from nct ats twice and itsy among others ace released their
collaboration with steve aoki for favorite voice featuring tatmos hong joong from 80s
did a really emo cover of numb by linkin park which was liked by linkin park on twitter
stacey did a cover of way to go by girl's generation p nation has also announced that
hyuna will finally be having her come back on january 28th, CL did verified at home where
talked about the meaning behind her song "hwa" and I thought it was really interesting, so
I recommend you check it out.
Also this clip has been going aorund, so enjoy "How interesting is it, in 2020 i have 4 verses,
that alone I think is a f- you" and as for the kpop meme of the week
well lastly we're going to end off with Bom's comeback
so i do have to put a trigger warning because we are going to be discussing diet culture
and i really wish we could just talk about her comeback without mentioning this as well
but it seems pretty tied together as she teases said come back with the reveal of her weight
loss so in a series of posts she basically says she's preparing for her comeback and
for fans to wait just a little bit longer however in one post in particular she shows
a before and after picture the before picture being of her during the grand bell awards
where she was very highly criticized for the way that she looked and she writes this is
how i looked last year i was shocked and went on a diet she goes on to say that because
of her add medication that it was difficult to lose the weight but she has lost it and
consequently has been taking less medication i feel like i'm getting healthier i won't
go back to my old self please look forward to my comeback and with this she is hashtagging
a specific diet company which is also what shindong used for his quote-unquote transformation
and this company also has a bit of a sketchy history but we'll get into that later now
the majority of people are of course praising her for this but i do need to voice a few
disclaimers so things that are being said and done that are kind of normalized within
society like the collective society that we live in that values thin bodies over any other
type of body is not something that i personally normalize and has taken me years to unlearn
this stuff i'm not saying this in any way to demonize anyone because i used to think
the exact same way but it's also not a bad thing to question these things and offer a
different perspective i'm saying this because for me it's quite triggering and there's no
way that i can sit here and be objective about this there's no way i love baum i've been
supporting her for over 10 years like she is my ultimate bias and i can understand how
traumatic it must have been when she was at the grand bell awards and was annihilated
for the way that her body looked in fact she makes reference to this event in her post
and i just think there's really a lot to dive into when it comes to this entire thing but
i do need to preface this by saying that i love her and i understand the social factors
that would lead someone to promote something like this and i do plan on making a whole
video about this and k-pop and diet culture and all of that stuff but i did want to talk
about this now because it's relevant the thing is she's been gone for so long right she's
been gone for the entire of 2020 and that's the thing she has so much more to offer us
than just the way that her body looks which is what people are mostly fixated on now of
course with her you know quote-unquote transformation we have the vast majority of people praising
her saying that she looks healthier and all that jazz and if someone feels healthier and
is on a journey to self-improvement i obviously have nothing against that but there are ways
in which it is done or ways in which that it's promoted that i take issue with and i
did want to offer a different perspective so there were a few things that were quite
concerning to me when i looked into this diet company in particular there are a lot of people
saying that this company is known for essentially causing a yo-yo effect or a weight cycling
effect so you would lose the weight probably through restriction and then inevitably gain
it back and then have to restrict again to be able to lose it again and it creates the
cycle because it's seemingly unsustainable and this company is also known for having
sued an idol after having gained weight after being on this diet so this idol did the diet
lost the weight and then gained that weight back and was sued by the diet company which
is just objectively [ __ ] up because if you look into the science behind diets and i'm
not talking about like changing your diet i'm talking about restrictive diets then you'll
know they cause increased anxiety they cause increased depression and you're more likely
to binge because you are restricting and another thing that really concerns me about this partnership
is what they said about her so they said that her case was basically their hardest case
because she had extreme mood swings and wasn't able to control her appetite which i think
is many levels of problematic so i just wanted to say i love her and i understand you know
the pressures of needing to look a certain way but i need to let you know as someone
who watches me as a viewer if you're hungry you're allowed to eat if you have an appetite
you're allowed to eat you're allowed to enjoy food and as a fan of her i would much rather
anticipate her music than have her weight be the focal point of conversations and unfortunately
that's exactly what it's going to be as for me this is basically where we're going to
end off this video i will be leaving a ton of resources below you know why before and
after pictures are harmful so if you're interested in learning more about those or unlearning
specific things that are kind of like ingrained into us feel free to check out the description
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guys next time
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