We were all informed about KBS2FM boycotting YG Family and now it has been announced the boycotting has come to an end.
The whole controversy was about the matter of G-Dragon being a guest on Super Junior's Kiss the Radio. Supposedly, YG Family did not know G-Dragon was going to appear on the show when KBS2FM announced he was coming on the radio show. When G-Dragon pulled a no-show, both sides were angry about the situation.
KBS2FM was mad at the irresponsibility of G-Dragon and his representatives. They thought it was disrespectful and that they had to talk to YG before figuring things out. YG Family stated that they never confirmed his guest appearance on the show and that something went wrong in the communication.
On a phone call with Newsen on the 25th, YG Entertainment expressed, "It was all a misunderstanding so we personally talked things out." It has also been confirmed that KBS2FM will now start playing YG Entertainment's songs again.
Meanwhile, Yang Hyun Suk, president of YG Entertainment, has released his side of the story on the plagiarism accusations against his artistes.
[Interview] Teddy's Interview with AM7 on Sept. 25, 2009: "I did not plagiarize anything"
POSTED BY PGEORGIE SEP 25, 2009
Following the reports that YG Entertainment whose artists include G-Dragon and 2NE1 has received notification letters concerning infringement of copyrighted materials from a local copyright holder, Teddy (HongJoon Park), the composer and producer of 2NE1’s "I Don’t Care," had an exclusive phone interview with AM 7 on the 24th to express his position on the issue. Whenever there was a dispute over plagiarism, it was usually the label (who has the neighboring copyrights) who released statements to acknowledge or deny the accusation. This is the first time that the composer, the copyright holder, has spoken about his position.
In the interview, Teddy said firmly that he did not plagiarize, responding to the claims that there are similarities between the chorus parts of "I Don't Care" and "Just Go" from Lionel Richie’s album released last year. He said, "I did listen to the Lionel Richie song following the controversy over "I Don't Care." You can’t say it is plagiarism just because the feel, not the melody, of the two songs are similar.” He stressed, "Two people living on the opposite sides of the world could have similar facial features. It is not right to say it is plagiarism just because the feel of the songs are similar. "I feel frustrated that some people are convinced that I used the Richie song as a reference, if not plagiarized," he added.
Teddy is a member of the hip hop group 1TYM and has been with YG Entertainment for over 10 years, writing and/or arranging most of the hits by YGE artists. He arranged Se7en's "I Know" (2006) and Big Bang’s "Sunset Glow" (2008) and wrote and arranged TaeYang’s "Look Only at Me" (2008), Um JeongHwa’s "D.I.S.C.O." (2008), and 2NE1 and Big Bang’s Lollipop (2009).
He says, "When you write a song and if that song is similar to another song then it is the composer’s responsibility to make changes. However, as far as this song ("I Don't Care") is concerned, Heaven knows and I know that I have absolutely nothing to be ashamed of so I will not discuss it at length." He added, "I have absolutely no interest in either lawsuits or plagiarism accusations."
[©AM7; by GoGumPyeong Kim; danny@munhwa.com]
[Translated by pgeorgie]
Park MyungSoo on plagiarism case, “Instead, it is called sampling” September 24, 2009 by sookyeong
Gagman Park MyungSoo has spoken up about the plagiarism accusations made against Kpop artistes.Park MyungSoo spoke on MBC FM4U ‘2PM Date with Park MyungSoo‘on 23rd September, “It is not right to say who, but on the internet weall know that, and I find it weird that some people are insisting thatit is not plagiarism. Rather, people call it sampling, when it getstiring it becomes a comic and entertainment.”
And Bae GiSang and Sang DaeHyun who were the guest appearance on the show that day said, “Yes we should be honest about it.”
“Plagiarisms is a national humiliation. Foreigners are saying, ‘Areyou a country without your own creation?’. This serves as an awakeningcall to musician to make their own creations.”
After Park MyungSoo’s input on the plagiarism issue, there wereheated discussion online by netizens. Some said, “This is a goodawakening call for artistes”, “Ain’t this a little too rash consideringthat it is not confirmed if the songs are plagiarism?”, “Park MyungSoois not even talking about GDragon’s plagiarism case.”etc
*G-Dragon is planning on doing his solo album activities with many songs. It seems like the next song up is 'Breathe', which he has revealed the music video for it already; but he is also planning on promoting 'Boy' and 'Butterfly' at the same time on shows, and radios. They are planning on shooting music videos for 'Boy' and 'Butterfly too', and 'She's Gone' is one of the candidates that may be made into a music video. So, his plan is to do activities for 'Breathe' mostly, but also 'Boy', 'Butterfly' and 'She's Gone'. With many songs to do activities, this means that G-Dragon is planning on doing his solo activity promotions until the end of this year. http://news.donga.com/fbin/output?n=200909210200
*Some information from VOGUE Magazine's interview with Bigbang's stylist Jieun.
- The opinion of making GD's hair blonde at first came out about a year ago. He cut his hair that he was growing it and bleached his hair about four times to get the colour he wanted.
- G-Dragon's pants size: 28"
- Someone went to go buy some stuff at the Givenchy Paris showroom, and there was G-Dragon's picture where he was wearing a Givenchy shirt as the computer's background picture. They said that they saved the picture because they liked it and heard that he's(GD) a popular celebrity in Korea. http://www.style.co.kr/vogue/people/interv...011003030000014
*G-Dragon first on 'the issue makers' that Ceci(magazine) picked.
Some comments by experts:
-Artist that you cannot take your eyes off, G-Trend.by Jaeil Planning Art Director Kim Jongmin
-All the compliments and criticism he's receiving is too much for him when you think he's only twenty-one.
That's why this year's even more important for him. by Jaechun International Movie Awards Marketer Kang Sunjoo
-He's very talented in combining his style and the characteristics of his album. He definitely should be acknowledged as a 'visual' icon.
It was plagiarized. It wasn't. It was just an inspiration. Trend. In the middle of these swaying criticism he recorded 17.5% on the momentary audience shares that we haven't seen for music programs in years.by OnStyle Joo Jiyoung
-What did I do when I was twenty-one.....? by Pable Post Manager Min Taeyoung
-The boy that used to shout out 'My age, thirteen' has dominated the music charts as soon as he released his solo album.
He's in the middle of all this criticism, but you have to acknowledge his impact.by Photographer Choi Donghoon.
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