Soyeon: Talented but not marketed and a series of scandals from plagiarism, arrogance, being ostracized because of the diss rap?

Referring to the most talented star in the Korean entertainment industry at the moment, the public cannot help but mention Jeon So Yeon of (G)-IDLE. But with her talent and popularity is her noisy market series.

Soyeon is a famous young Kpop female idol and musician. She impresses with her super fast and smooth rapping ability. In addition to her performance skills and charisma, Jeon So Yeon is also mentioned as a genius female musician. Although only 25 years old, So Yeon already owns many big hits. She is the Gen 4 female musician with the most copyrighted songs today.

According to some sources, Jeon So Yeon grew up in a well-off family. From a young age, Soyeon attended elementary school, trained in ballet and won several awards. However, after seeing Big Bang perform once, Soyeon decided to give up ballet and pursue a music career. According to the disclosure, the female idol secretly attended and failed 20 to 30 vocal auditions.

In 2014, Soyeon went to Cube Entertainment's audition. After passing the final evaluation, she became a trainee of the Big 4 at that time. In 2016, Soyeon first appeared to the public at Produce 101 as a trainee of Cube. Despite impressing with her ability to rap and perform, So Yeon only ranked 20th and could not debut with IOI's lineup.

In July of the same year, Soyeon continued to enroll in the show Unpretty Rapstar season 3. Winning the runner-up position, Soyeon's name began to explode from here. At the end of 2016, the female rapper signed an exclusive contract with Cube Entertainment. In 2018, So Yeon officially debuted with the group (G)I-dle as the main rapper and leader.

With her rich experience, leadership ability and top-notch music composition, So Yeon gradually leads the group to success. All songs and styles of the group have Soyeon's involvement, not only that, but she is also praised by the audience for her composing ability and unique music style.

When working with (G)-IDLE, Soyeon took on many roles, including the group's leader, main rapper, lead dancer as well as main producer for the group. Most of (G)-IDLE's products are composed by her, each song is a separate musical color, not mixed. However, while developing, (G)-IDLE suddenly got into a scandal because of a member of the group.

In March 2022, (G)-IDLE made a comeback with the song Tomboy composed by Soyeon. Tomboy was hoped by Soyeon to help (G)-IDLE revive his reputation after member Soojin left the group because of a school scandal. And as expected, Tomboy swept Korean music charts, helping (G)-IDLE really revive its reputation.

However, popularity also brought Soyeon notoriety. In March 2022, Jeon Soyeon was involved in a plagiarism controversy surrounding the song "SUN". According to netizens, this song is similar to the song "Wave" released by ATEEZ in 2019. It is worth mentioning that the credit of the Wave production team - Eden-ary - was arbitrarily added to SUN by Cube without the consent of the netizens. Goverment.

On the evening of February 28, Cube's management company officially spoke about the incident. Cube admitted that Soyeon sent a request to the production team to request a credit change, but Eden-ary's agency objected to this. Even so, the song "SUN" was sent out for release, so it continued to debut as planned. Cube apologizes for arbitrarily modifying the song credits without discussing specifically with the author.

Later, Soyeon also posted a letter explaining and apologizing after the incident. However, the leader of (G)I-DLE added that the song "SUN" has "only partial similarities" with Wave. She also contacted, apologized to the musician involved in these controversies and promised to be more careful in the future.

Soyeon's apology was fiercely criticized by Knet for being too arrogant. Korean netizens have a negative reaction, saying that they have "lost sympathy" with Soyeon after the plagiarism controversy. Soyeon's attitude is also said to be condescending and unkind when apologizing.

The case was temporarily closed, then the leader (G)-IDLE once again caused a stir when there was a rap "swirling" from the program organizers on the MAMA 2022 music night. The content of Soyeon's rap is as follows. : "What are you going to give us this year, MAMA? You know who we are, phenomenon of the year. We turn down specially made/self-generated awards.

I'm 25, young and rich. I came all the way here with my own power. You wonder how much I have in the end? This will show you.. my bag".

In reality, Soyeon's diss rap about MAMA often has "self-made" awards. Right at the awards ceremony that year, there were many awards that made the audience question "What is this award for?". The common feature of these awards is that they are "divided", "every artist has a share".

Soyeon's rap diss immediately reminded the public of Big Bang's leader G-Dragon's shocking performance at MAMA 2014. Right on live television, for the first time, a Kpop artist rapped diss MAMA with lyrics. "It's been a while, hasn't it, MAMA? Looks like you guys have already prepared the big prizes. I'm afraid you'll win, so you have to divide it equally, right? So feel free to share it among yourself?" let's go kids (play on the word Mama means mother)".

In essence, the content of Soyeon mocking MAMA is almost similar to G-Dragon. However, if G-Dragon's rapping diss is still considered a legendary performance, Soyeon diss MAMA is considered a "joke".

Because right after Soyeon criticized MAMA, group (G)I-DLE was named by the organizers to receive the Favorite Girl Group award - an award added by MAMA this year. On stage to receive the award, Soyeon still thanked the organizers when receiving the award instead of expressing a disparaging attitude like when performing.

The audience rated Soyeon as "arrogant" but let MAMA "take advantage" to increase interaction for the show. Many people think that this is a pre-arranged deal between Soyeon and MAMA, but it was Soyeon who was "led" by MAMA with a homemade award.

Some viewers commented, "In 2014, when diss MAMA, G-Dragon was at the peak of his career, having worked for 8 years to understand the dark corners of the awards ceremony. And Soyeon is only Gen 4, (G)I-DLE has a good music product but not this year's phenomenon. Isn't the lyrics in the rap diss too arrogant? Compared to G-Dragon, it's really lame, the position of the two of them completely different".

Currently, despite many controversies, the public still cannot deny Soyeon's talent. Thanks to Soyeon's leadership, (G)I-dle is still considered as the most colorful Gen 4 girl group with the most trendy music taste in Kpop, many of which have the efforts of leader So. Yeon.