SNSD Controversies: Not Fighting, No Plagiarism

samlet in Rumors | 02 Jul 2009 - 03:49 AM

Another day, another SNSD controversy. Only this time, netizens have presented us with a double dose of issues relating to SM's female nonagon. And, just like the Yoona-Tiffany-underoo hullabaloo, initial tabloid-fodder has given way to reasonable explanations.

First, we have the Jessica-Seohyun Music Core incident. While performing "Etude" on MBC Music Core on June 27th, Jessica appeared to blow up at Seohyun for getting in her way, shoving Seohyun while spewing out "juh gee rah, ss**** (go away, f*****!).

Netizens pounced on the apparent discord within the So Nyuhs, but the whole thing was just a prank. Koreans have this common birthday prank in which they act like megajerks towards the birthday boy/girl, only to unveil a surprise party and laugh off all of the pretend hate. As Seohyun's birthday was on June 28th, Jessica was simply enacting that fake hate. Considering how much netizens overreact to these kinds of things, however, it probably wasn't the best idea to publicly carry out that prank during a live performance.
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The second controversy is over ownership of SNSD's new single, "Tell Me Your Wish (Genie)". Netizens dug up a song by Uzbekistani pop singer Dineyra released a few months ago that sounds very similar to SNSD's song.

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Due to SM Entertainment's past remake issues, many people were quick to assume that the company had simply bought another already-released song. But, news reports are stating that the song is supposed to be SM's and SM's only. They officially purchased the music from Universal Music Publishing Group on February 1st, 2009, with the song's lyrics and K-pop-ification done by SM-hired Yoo Young Jin and Yoo Han Jin. Universal Music Publishing Group has stated that they believe their song's demo tape was leaked, and is considering legal action against the producers of Dineyra's song.

But regardless of what happens between UMPG and the Uzibekistani entertainment world, the important thing for us K-pop fans is that SM and SNSD are free of any guilt on this particular issue, and that we can listen to "Tell Me Your Wish (Genie)" without any controversies lingering in the back of our minds.

Tags: girls generation, snsd, sm entertainment, jessica, seohyun, genie, etude

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09 Jul 2009 - 09:31 PM

451. cathy (Unregistered User - Sign Up!)

wow , i actually thought the song “tell me your wish” was very great and interesting
but i never knew they bought the song off another.
im very ashamed for their doings .
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& the fighting , of course it was a real one
why would jessica wanna a mess on stage when all the people can see and not doing it somewhere privately?
so it is a real fight. their company is just trying to cover it up for them ._. obviously.
you cant live with the people & cant fight for once, its impossible for them .

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12 Jul 2009 - 10:05 PM

452. harman101 | website

wow its the same song.
sm bought it like they did to mirotic && shinee’s comeback album

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14 Jul 2009 - 12:15 PM

453. amber (Unregistered User - Sign Up!)

okay, i just played both songs at the same time from when the vocals start…they match up like almost 100%. i am literally listening to them at the same time and it sounds like one song. totally the same song, just in different languages!

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17 Jul 2009 - 07:07 AM

454. boba (Unregistered User - Sign Up!)

geez, the people complaining that SM needs to make their own songs need to get over themselves. either the artists produce it themselves, or it comes from someones else. SM buy from composers outside their company, and JYP and YG artists are just lucky to have talented producers within their own. regardless, it still doesn’t make one better than the other.

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21 Jul 2009 - 09:40 PM

455. kpoplover (Unregistered User - Sign Up!)

Ok, people need to stop bitching about Jessica and look up more videos about her. She’s actually very sweet and quiet. so STOP BELIEVING ALL THOSE RUMORS ABOUT HER! The only reason why she’s called the “Ice Princess” of SNSD is because whenever she’s on a TV show or doing a live performance, she doesn’t really show that much facial expression, but that’s just her. Don’t judge a book by it’s cover, because she spent 7 YEARS training for her debut. She deserves all the encouragement and support.

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22 Jul 2009 - 01:20 PM

456. kpoplover (Unregistered User - Sign Up!)

Oh, and let me just say this to the people who think artist taking songs is bad and a ripoff, ALL SINGERS DO IT AT LEAST ONCE IN THEIR CAREER! For you BoA-lovers out there, her whole English CD are songs that aren’t written by her, but some of them were written by the people who write songs for Brittany Spears. Now, that wasn’t a negative comment towards BoA, I’m a fan of her, and she does write her own songs, but she’s doesn’t write ALL of her songs. just letting that out there….

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14 Aug 2009 - 11:48 PM

457. carine_snowsparkles | website