(G)I-DLE's comeback was full of trouble, constantly being accused of plagiarizing BLACKPINK and Taylor Swift

Mẫn NhiJan 30, 2024 at 16:16

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Having just returned with the second studio album of their career, (G)I-DLE has continuously encountered controversy from the group's products. Most recently, the girls were called out again because they thought the MV "borrowed" ideas from BLACKPINK and Taylor Swift.

On the afternoon of January 29, the famous Korean music group (G)I-DLE released the Super Lady theme MV, and also released the album "2" to give fans "spiritual food" at the beginning of the new year. This is the second studio album in the career of CUBE Entertainment girls.

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The comeback after nearly a year since Queencard was noisy from the first promotional steps with "scandals" of plagiarism of concept photos, clichés, and sensitive words of the opening song Wife. This time, the theme MV was revealed by group leader Soyeon, with a budget of up to 1.1 billion won (more than 20 billion VND), which is the biggest investment product in (G)I-DLE's career. However, the CUBE gir.l group continues to cause controversy in this comeback.

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This comeback, (G)I-DLE's new product was carefully invested in both form and content and received the heaviest spending in the 6 girls' careers. Most prominently, the title song Super Lady marks (G)I-DLE's strong transformation to reach the top position in K-Pop when it continuously causes fever on forums because of its "stunning" billion-dollar MV. overwhelmed".

Super Lady conveys a message expressing one's pride, beauty and strength, emphasizing the orientation of honoring women's rights. However, the music is causing people to argue about how good or bad it is. (G)I-DLE's music is responsible for the group's talented leader Soyeon. In the last 2 years, they have always been products with extremely good spread, causing social media fever and continuously achieving PAK.

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Super Lady is a strong, vibrant arrangement with many separate verses. This innovation raises concerns that the song will be difficult to absorb and create a digital music craze, especially when the group returns at the same time as Le Sserafim and especially IU. Not to mention, the last verse of Super Lady was also pointed out by many fans as similar to T-ARA's Sugar Free released in 2014. The similarity in melody is difficult to explain, but whatever the reason, it This once again caused Soyeon to b.e criticize.d for her composing skills.

Although the visual part was highly praised by many fans, everyone "complained" when the song's duration was only 2 minutes and 32 seconds, making listeners easily feel disappointed.

Besides, the audience expressed their boredom with Super Lady's melody and lyrics, which were really "hard to absorb". They rated this as the weakest theme song compared to the group's previous songs.

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Many viewers believe that Super Lady "borrowed" too much from iconic MVs. In terms of appearance, the warrior concept is not unfamiliar, but the way the (G)I-DLE team is creative makes people think of "iconic" MVs of 2nd generation Kpop like Genie - SNSD, I Am The Best - 2NE1 or Queen Bee Beyoncé. Besides, many viewers also pointed out that the Super Lady scene set scene has a layout similar to Look What You Made Me Do - Taylor Swift. The highlight of the dance break is "borrowed" from BLACKPINK's Kil.l This Love and How You Like That. Not to mention, many details were also commented on to be reminiscent of previous MVs by Red Velvet, Wonder Girls or Everglow.

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This is not the first time (G)I-DLE's MV has been involved in controversy about being too similar to another group's product. Specifically, MV Allery (2022) has been compared to Brutal - Olivia Rodrigo, Side to Side - Ariana Grande or Anti Hero - Taylor Swift. At that time, many fans defended the group, saying that (G)I-DLE was inspired by and honored their predecessors. But this time, the public is skeptical that the group plagiarized or borrowed excessively.

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