Hyori accused of plagiarism again.
 

http://community.livejournal.com/ohn.../25838951.html

So what do you guys think? Of course the first time she was accused it was for stealing Britney Spears' song "Do Somethin" :o

this issue will never end

i was interested with this before, but found these kind of news is random

So any similar thing in this world
I never listen to Hyori so I dont really care

well....you can't find original thing these days...

I dunno, with Hyori, it seems as though her producers are taking compositions like note for note.

Then again a lot of Koreans seem to do that, but Hyori stands out more. Like if BoA did it, everyone'd be all into it. Like that one song BoA had.. Spark. It supposedly copied some other song. Don't remember but it was a Britney Spears song.

I would not consider this plagiarism, she's just being VERY unoriginal.

her every album/image has just been pieced together from what's "hot & in" at the moment by her handlers. people should just enjoy her music for what it is, instead of forcing some sort of hopes of originality on it ...

Get Ya = Do Somethin' was actually founded...as in you could pretty much sing Do Somethin' to Get Ya.

However, in the link provided...can you say "wtf"? It looks about as founded as "OMG AYU COPIED SO AND SO" threads around here. The link between her and Amy Winehouse doesn't even match. o_O

And U-Go-Girl is as similar to Candy Man as apples to bananas. So they both share a similar time period theme at one part of the video...whoop-pee-doo.

I don't understand how anyone can listen to this creative vampire.

"Spark" is a cover of a Luis Fonsi song, "Fuera de Control."

It was probably a different BoA song then. I just remember someone stating that Spark was similar to a song they'd heard before. I guess I forgot that they said that it was in some American shop and that someone later explained that it was a cover or something.

EDIT: I think I remember the songs now. DOUBLE and Let Me Be. I've gotta say though that it really does seem sort of suspicious, but eh.

Gawd, can't they just leave her alone?! T_T

U Go Girl is a PV that is greatly INFLUENCED by some of the best music videos to date. I don't have time to seriously point out all of the references but Candy Man is one of them. The video showcases all aspects of a sexy woman from the 30s on up to today with actually GOOD fashion and taste.

I don't care. I don't like stuff of Hyori.
But few things are original today

The things they presented are hardly copying. Copying a look isn't exactly plagiarism. Maybe if they commented on songs on the new album sounding like Britney and Amy Winehouse they would have some kind of argument. :/

Yeah..that wasn't really plagiarism. Not as blatant as Get Ya was.

I think plagiarism is too heavy of a word. And I think if you take random screenshots of any two movies there are bound to be similarities, so the context and timing are important.

hmmm...

you know...I just...I don't even listen to her music, so I don't really...know....

but anyway...I'm really tired of all the Jpop, Kpop, whatever singers being so unoriginal...I mean...just...ugh...Like you know...Leah Dizon...so many people love her you know...spread the leah dizon love...so I was like okay, I'm gonna check her out...I download all her stuff...seriously...everything.

It's not bad...but it's nothing special either. Sounds like...a bunch of music that I've already heard a million times. I was...disappointed, and I'm sorry to any Leah Dizon fans...but...she's not that original either. Maki really disappointed me too...I've learned...don't believe the hype.

Over the time that I've been here, I've found out that most artists, aren't original at all. Every now and then you get a few great ones who do their own thing and do it well...but, I think it's getting harder to find those.

hm...the pv is nothing like Candyman ...that's just my opinion~ O-o though I didn't really like that song... eheh;

people have too much free time getting the precisly correct frame to compare to another frame of another artist's pv ... sigh..

Are you talking about Maki Goto..:smackdown

Well she should have learned her lesson from the Britney incident and be more careful with future releases. To her credit Candy Man wasn't exactly the most original PV also.

Not as bad as Get Ya was. A lot of the stuff on this album is quite fresh. much better than Dark Angel

I can see why they would say it's too much like Candyman, but I don't think it's a blatant ripoff. Either way, I don't find her music that interesting. Get Ya was inferior to Do Somethin' and this song just sounds annoying. There need to be more Lee Jung Hyuns in Korean music today :(

I agree here.

Interesting, didn't know that.

I have read all those plagiarism points and laughed to death

the point they compare Candyman & U-Go-Girl is just hilarious as they are completely different! :P

and other things like posing nude with sketchers or whatever is sucha usual thing in photoshoots for all celebrities

this smoky make-up & such has nothing to do with Amy Winehouse, as actually that's just a classic retro look

hi-la-ri-ous =/

I agree. I never liked her music, just her physical beauty up until this album. "Its Hyorish" actually passes as a pretty decent K-pop Album.

Having been a K-pop fan for WAY too long, using Western influence in K-pop is not something new. DJ Doc used to use a few beats that were originally in American songs in theirs. Dynamic Duo's "Ring my Bell" is a remake of an American 70s or 80s song. Choreography, music videos, even album booklets can be influenced from American material. As most of you may think, it's not that big a deal because nothing is really original these days. I mean after all the new kinds of music that were born in the 20th century, how can you really say one thing wasn't influenced by something else in a slightest way?

However, sometimes things do become more serious. Sometimes it is the singer/groups fault, other times the songwriters/studio, and sometimes its both. Baby Vox was a Korean girl group whose latest album was supposed to be an English debut. They incorporated recordings of the late rapper Tupac Shakur. Because the album was an English debut for them, they were also trying to promote a US release, but only received more negative feedback from American and Korean fans. Afeni Shakur and Death Row Records pushed legal action against the group. The album eventually became their downfall and they disbanded.

Hyori's "Dark Angel" album faced a somewhat similar scenario. Songwriters for Britney Spears "Do Somethin" accused the songwriters of "Get Ya" for plagiarism. It never really went to court, but it was a lot of bad publicity so the studio ended up stopping all promotion of the single.

Ehhh, I dunno where I am going with this. Maybe I'm jus trying to say that Western influence in K-pop is pretty common for a long time now. Sometimes it's sometime small, other times its bigger. This kinda falls in both because I don't think these antagonists can really make all these connections, but choreographers did a really poor job of making the music video way too similar.

And gosh, that Hoshino Akika looks really ugly. Makes me even more glad how pretty Ayu is.

This time they dont have any reason...maybe this, but I think it's ok...
http://i35.tinypic.com/rbad82.jpg

BoA also did that:
http://i115.photobucket.com/albums/n...weetimpact.jpg http://i115.photobucket.com/albums/n...shul011113.jpg


About the 'Candyman' music video from Christina Aguilera...c'mon, it's not a big deal. Many artists copy a lil' this a lil' that, but I dont think that's important in this case.
I think people just want to put Hyolee in a bad position.
The controversy around 'Do Somethin'' / 'Get Ya' songs was an important deal, that was really plagiarism, but this? Please...

Well, Hyori isn't the most original artist. But I don't care. Her new album is hot and that's all that matters to me. Those comparisons with Christina and Amy are kinda random. Like some of the Ayu/Jolin comparisons.

Yeah. Both songs are really alike.

one word: "LOL" :laugh

Hyori was always more entertainer than musician, so original in her musical works probably isn't the highest priority for her. I'd say it's more her producers fault than anything - you'd think they'd know better after the Britney Spears fiasco. Regardless of how things end, though, Hyori will always have her looks to fall back on.