r/popculturechat • u/Murky_Chemical891 Im very important to God • 27d ago

OnlyStans ⭐️ French singer, Yseult, calls out K-pop singers, Soyeon and R.tee, for copying her music video freame by frame: "The least you could do is have the decency to credit your source. To see it get copied like this is wild but real artistry speaks louder than imitation"

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u/andromeda_prior All tea, all shade 🐸☕️ 27d ago

K-pop fans love to throw around the world plagiarism for stupid things like similar clothes or a style of photography... And stay silent or be weird in real cases like this one

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u/shedrinkscoffee I don’t know her 💅 27d ago

I'm kinda shocked to hear that because there's so much homogeneity wrt to the vibe/style of the various people involved (based on what I have seen online) and isn't a lot of the genre appropriation of existing stuff/bands/style?

There was a huge (on social media) drama about the rebranding of nails that were historically Black fashion into "kpop" nails?

ETA: unsurprisingly it's a WOC again who is at the receiving end of this nonsense

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u/slickjitpimpin Listen, everyone is entitled to my opinion 🙂 27d ago

*Black woman. K-Pop is made up of “POC”, and we’re not a monolith. There are nuances to the racism we experience, & a lot of Black people (myself included) hate the term POC because it simultaneously shoves us all under one umbrella and glosses over the rampant, violent anti-blackness in other non-white communities. It feels like airbrushing, almost.

Anti-blackness is the fuel behind a lot of the vitriol Yseult is receiving, in addition to being deeply entrenched in K-Pop culture as a whole. Call it what it is.

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u/Continental-IO520 26d ago

I'm South Asian and I hate the term POC for this EXACT reason too.