{"id":138796,"date":"2025-03-05T08:13:48","date_gmt":"2025-03-05T16:13:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/?p=138796"},"modified":"2025-03-05T08:13:48","modified_gmt":"2025-03-05T16:13:48","slug":"le-sserafim-faces-a-broadcast-ban-due-to-their-mini-album-tracks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/le-sserafim-faces-a-broadcast-ban-due-to-their-mini-album-tracks\/","title":{"rendered":"LE SSERAFIM faces a broadcast ban due to their mini-album tracks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>LE SSERAFIM<\/strong>\u2019s upcoming fifth mini-album, &#8220;<em><strong>HOT<\/strong><\/em>,&#8221; is hitting a rough patch after KBS deemed several songs unsuitable for broadcast on March 5. Tracks like<em><strong> \u201cAsh,\u201d \u201cBorn Fire,\u201d \u201cCome Over,\u201d<\/strong><\/em>and<em><strong> \u201cSo Cynical (Badum)\u201d<\/strong> <\/em>raised concerns over dark or self-harm themes, causing the network to reject the tracks. It seems like the quintet won\u2019t be able to promote these songs on KBS shows, including Music Bank, unless the lyrics are revised and re-submitted.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\">\n        <blockquote hcb-fetch-image-from=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SOURCEMUSIC\/status\/1896576301487841478\" class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">LE SSERAFIM 5th Mini Album &#39;HOT&#39;<br \/>TRACKLIST<\/p>\n<p>2025.03.14 1PM (KST) | 12AM (ET)<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udcbf Pre-save &amp; Pre-order<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/wOlYaJZpnc\">https:\/\/t.co\/wOlYaJZpnc<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/LE_SSERAFIM?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#LE_SSERAFIM<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/%EB%A5%B4%EC%84%B8%EB%9D%BC%ED%95%8C?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#\ub974\uc138\ub77c\ud54c<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/LE_SSERAFIM_HOT?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#LE_SSERAFIM_HOT<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/WtDbpeJGHX\">pic.twitter.com\/WtDbpeJGHX<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; SOURCEMUSIC (@SOURCEMUSIC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SOURCEMUSIC\/status\/1896576301487841478?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">March 3, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n        <\/figure>\n        \n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>But banning songs due to having \u201c<em><strong>controversial themes<\/strong><\/em>\u201d is nothing new in K-pop. However, many fans believe KBS is overly strict, potentially making it harder for creative expressions. Meanwhile, KBS says that songs that are considered unsuitable to be performed to the public can be revised and re-submitted. As a result, agencies and K-pop idols often change the \u201ccontroversial\u201d lyrics to comply with the broadcaster.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the setback, HOT will drop on March 14, featuring member <strong>Yunjin<\/strong>\u2019s writing credits on the title track \u201cHOT,\u201d along with \u201cSo Cynical (Badum)\u201d and \u201cAsh.\u201d FEARNOTs\u2014the group\u2019s fanbase\u2014remain optimistic, supporting\u00a0 LE SSERAFIM\u2019s new era. Regardless of KBS restrictions, the group\u2019s comeback will for sure be another dazzling chapter in the quintet\u2019s story!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LE SSERAFIM\u2019s upcoming fifth mini-album, &#8220;HOT,&#8221; is hitting a rough patch after KBS deemed several songs unsuitable for broadcast on March 5. Tracks like \u201cAsh,\u201d \u201cBorn Fire,\u201d \u201cCome Over,\u201dand \u201cSo Cynical (Badum)\u201d raised concerns over dark or self-harm themes, causing the network to reject the tracks. It seems like the quintet won\u2019t be able to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3104,"featured_media":138797,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2264,16],"tags":[1672],"tmauthors":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-138796","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"category-kpop","9":"tag-le-sserafim"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138796","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\/3104"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138796\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/138797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138796"},{"taxonomy":"tmauthors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tmauthors?post=138796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}