{"id":13443,"date":"2021-10-03T14:37:04","date_gmt":"2021-10-03T21:37:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/?p=13443"},"modified":"2023-04-28T02:37:37","modified_gmt":"2023-04-28T09:37:37","slug":"aespa-faces-new-plagiarism-controversy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/aespa-faces-new-plagiarism-controversy\/","title":{"rendered":"Aespa faces new plagiarism controversy"},"content":{"rendered":"

Aespa<\/strong>\u00a0is once again facing a\u00a0plagiarism<\/strong> controversy, this time due to its concept photos of their comeback mini-album, “Savage<\/strong>“.\u00a0On September 30, netizens on social media said that a teaser<\/strong>\u00a0image\u00a0for their first mini album resembles a work by Hajime Sorayama<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

The illustration by the Japanese illustrator shows a naked woman wrapped around something that looks like robot creature, while in the aespa teaser, member Karina<\/strong>\u00a0is shown\u00a0wrapped around a robot who represent “Black Mamba<\/strong>“.<\/p>\n

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Netizens also mark to teaser images which show the aespa members wearing masks that resemble a collection by British designer James Mary<\/strong>. Later critic\u00a0Kim Do Hyun<\/strong> said on Twitter:<\/p>\n

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“The mask that appeared in the aespa teaser looks like the James Mary collection.\u00a0I wonder if SM Entertainment has officially collaborated<\/strong><\/em>“.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n <\/figure>\n \n

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Additionally, this is not the girl group’s first plagiarism controversy.<\/p>\n

A visual artist previously claimed that aespa’s art team copied his work before\u00a0SM Entertainment<\/strong> hired him. Also, a German artist Timo Helgert\u00a0 affirms that aespa’s\u00a0\u201cBlack Mamba\u201d MV was copied.
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In other related news, this Tuesday, September 28, aespa announced an exclusive online<\/strong> schedule for the release of the mini-album “Savage” The event is scheduled for October 5, the day of the comeback, and will feature an unprecedented performance<\/strong> by the group for the title track that bears the same name as the project.<\/p>\n

The online show will be called \u201cSYNK DIVE: aespa Savage SHOWCASE<\/strong>\u201d and will air on the K-Pop girl group’s official YouTube channel starting at 8 am (KST).<\/p>\n

In this broadcast, aespa is expected to share a variety of\u00a0stories<\/strong>\u00a0related to their new album, including how they feel about the comeback, an introduction to the album, and an\u00a0unboxing<\/strong>\u00a0.\u00a0In addition, the artists will also perform the title track “Savage” for the first time.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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Aespa\u00a0is once again facing a\u00a0plagiarism controversy, this time due to its concept photos of their comeback mini-album, “Savage“.\u00a0On September 30, netizens on social media said that a teaser\u00a0image\u00a0for their first mini album resembles a work by Hajime Sorayama. The illustration by the Japanese illustrator shows a naked woman wrapped around something that looks like robot […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2817,"featured_media":13446,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,7],"tags":[1019],"class_list":{"0":"post-13443","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-kpop","8":"category-news","9":"tag-aespa"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2817"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13443\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}