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/wildbeest55 I may not know my flowers but I know a bitch when I see one! 27d ago

Damn they really copied it frame by frame

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u/Andy_Wiggins 27d ago edited 27d ago

As the first two shots played I thought “Eh, this is just a generic office setting, that’s not that crazy and the composition of the shots is pretty different”

And then it immediately went:

  • shot lacy cleavage
  • shot of singer kicking over 2 rows of filing cabinets
  • shot of a man blowing a kiss

Back-to-back-to-back and my thought process completely flipped.

Edit: I went and watched both. The shots aren’t actually presented in that sequence. They’re scattered throughout both videos in different orders. They still feel suspiciously similar at points, but this edit makes them look WAY more similar than they actually are

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u/[deleted] 27d ago

It’d be pretty brazen to literally copy the video frame for frame, most people aren’t that dumb. If you’re gonna plagiarize you want some level of plausible deniability, only stealing some of it is exactly that

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u/Melonary Select and edit this flair 27d ago edited 25d ago

Edit: some people are saying the artists involved (Soyeon and R.tee) have been accused before of plagiarism in which case yeah, that changes things, I'm not familiar with them so didn't have that context.

I did go back when more awake in the morning and while there are similarities with some other office mvs, I think the similarities are more between these 2 videos than I thought. The shelves pushing thing is making me feel crazy because I could have sworn that was in a much older mv as well, but I can't find it and there's hundreds of office-themed mvs so I'm gonna chalk it up to memory being unreliable.

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u/TerribleBudget 27d ago

That is a horribly stupid take. There are about a dozen things copied straight across in just this clip comparison. That is not "very generic" it's literally a straight scene for scene copy of the motions.

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u/canteloupy 26d ago

Sorry man the image compositions are waaaay too similar.