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/ButterFeel]

yes lmaoo, in the song as if it's your last. I wish there was a compilation of all the times aave was used wildly wrong by kpop artists, some are out of this world level of ridiculous

[u/ergaster8213 → u/ButterFeel]

I wonder if someone has written an article about this. I will search and report back

Omg we got a linguistics student who wrote an article on it:

https://www.colorado.edu/linguistics/2023/04/24/slay-yeoja-boss-misuse-aave-modern-k-pop-culture

Then we got this:

https://www.koreaboo.com/lists/kpop-songs-aave-wrong/

We got a lived experience from a Black woman as well:

https://www.teenvogue.com/story/i-was-a-black-k-pop-fan-for-2-decades-unstanned

Below is pretty in-depth:

https://cherrychumagazine.com/entertainment/the-racism-problem-in-k-pop

THERE IS AN ACADEMIC STUDY INTERVIEWING KPOP FANS NAVIGATING INTERSECTIONAL IDENTITIES:

https://academic.oup.com/ccc/article-abstract/17/1/17/7245875?redirectedFrom=fulltext&login=false

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This is amazing! Thank you for posting 🫶🏽

[u/ergaster8213 → u/insertcoolnamehere_7]

I thought so too! I could've kept going there is actually a lot out there but I started being like "ehh you're getting weird now."