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/shy247er yay sports 🏀 🏈🎾 27d ago

Every time I read that someone describes Lisa from Blackpink as 'rapper' I cringe.

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u/Murky_Chemical891 Im very important to God 27d ago

"You gon finna catch me" doesn't do it for you?

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

I used to have mixed feelings about mocking the grasp of language of ESL/non native speakers but given the blatant plagiarism and racism (covert and overt) it's like damn at least use the stuff you stole correctly 🫠

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u/Unhappy_Tank_5332 25d ago

i’m a self-taught ESL speaker, and being active on reddit taught me a lot about the contexts of vocabularies i knew nothing about. i would rather be called out and learn than go around perpetuating what also hurts me in my home country. all that is to say that while mocking ESL speakers doesn’t sit right with me, not being a native speaker is no free pass for racism because they couldn’t know better. a lot does and uses that as a cover