aespa attended BLACKPINK's finale concert, netizens "asked": Did the copy come to learn from the original?

Being present to support their seniors at the last leg of the concert in their hometown, aespa members accidentally caused controversy between the two fandoms. It is known that since their debut, aespa has always been considered a "copy" of BLACKPINK.

Last weekend, BLACKPINK successfully concluded the largest World Tour in girl group history - Born Pink, with the last 2 shows at Gocheok Sky Dome, Seoul. Here, many famous idols and actors were seen, including Taeyang and his wife, BABYMONSTER, Irene, Seulgi (Red Velvet), Gong Hyojin, Bae Doona, TWICE,... .

In particular, many observant fans noticed that aespa was also present in the stands, enthusiastically dancing along with BLACKPINK during the show on the second day. But aespa's appearance at the senior concert caused Korean netizens to argue.

It's very normal for idols to go to each other's concerts. Even groups that are considered "rivals" still maintain very good friendships. For example, BLACKPINK and the members of TWICE and Red Velvet are all very close in real life. But with aespa, people were extremely surprised when they saw 4 SM girls attending the 4 YG girls' concert.

The reason given is because since debut, aespa has been oriented by SM to be similar to BLACKPINK. From the coincidence of the lineup, the girl-crush music color to even the "tricks" to polish their name, aespa is always placed next to the senior group. This caused many antifans to call aespa "an imperfect copy of BLACKPINK". Therefore, the two fandoms always feel sensitive when talking about each other.

Right after the image of aespa members appearing at Born Pink Final Seoul was spread by people on social networks, Knet suddenly started arguing and gave many negative opinions. Besides, many fans pointed out that the above issue is really not worth being drawn into controversy.

aespa has just completed the South American leg of the first World Tour of her career, the fact that the 4 girls arranged their schedules to be present at the BLACKPINK concert is precious, partly proving that the idols' real relationships in real life are not "drama". " as rumored.

Knet's reaction:

- Wow, aespa came to BLACKPINK's concert. It doesn't seem close, but it's surprising.

- The comments are right... Gen 4's A-list girl group was on tour and as soon as they returned to Korea, they went to BLACKPINK's concert, I'm very grateful and honored for that. The antis just stay here and fight the war. Thank you aespa for coming.

- Some company's fandom is inciting war. Generation 3 is targeting BLACKPINK, generation 4 is targeting Aespa, they must be so jealous.

- I wish there was a BLACKPINK selca with aespa after the concert. But the aespas' physical strength is top notch. Going on tour for more than a month, flying for 30 hours and only returning to Korea in the morning, if it were me, I would have fainted... .

- aespa went on a US tour for more than a month, and as soon as he returned to Korea, he went to the BLACKPINK concert. But in a few days, there will be an SM concert. I'm fine.

This is not the first time controversies between BLACKPINK and aespa have occurred in the Kpop fan community. Perhaps most notable was when aespa had a comeback with his first mini album in his career called Savage. This album will include 6 songs of various genres with the title song also titled Savage. The group revealed the process of taking concept photos and videos to "warm up" before the comeback.

Each set of "teaser" photos the group releases becomes a hot topic and receives many compliments for the members' visuals as well as unique concepts. However, perhaps because they have unique concepts and a 4-member lineup, aespa is often compared to their senior group BLACKPINK.

On Korean online forums, a Knet continued to post that aespa's Hallucination Quest teaser photo set has similarities in concept with BLACKPINK in the How You Like That concept photo series. The owner of this post believes that the reason for the similarity here is because aespa also uses a green background, also has the concept "the end of the century" and the atmosphere is similar. BLACKPINK.

There have been many times when aespa has caused controversy because he was said to be following BLACKPINK's concept, and was even indirectly recognized by SM as "the new BLACKPINK". Previously, many netizens also said that aespa's new image when performing live at "INK Concert 2021" was also reminiscent of BLACKPINK during "Kill This Love" with techwear outfits designed by the same stylist.

However, regarding the similarity between aespa's Hallucination Quest photo and BLACKPINK's How You Like That, many Knetizens think the comparison is meaningless. They said aespa's concept is completely unrelated to BLACKPINK, and should not just rely on the fact that the two groups have the same lineup with the same impressive concept but assume that aespa "borrowed the idea" from the YG girl group.

aespa dễ dàng "đánh bại" Blackpink để lập kỷ lục mới, ngày vượt mặt đàn chị không còn xa? Hoàng Phúc07:24:15 13/08/2022aespa là một trong những nhóm nhạc nữ tân binh làm mưa làm gió trên các bảng xếp hạng Kpop. Từ khi thành lập đến nay, họ đã tạo nhiều thành tích khủng. Trong đó, không ít kỷ lục vượt qua các đàn chị như Blackpink, TWICE