{"id":146174,"date":"2025-08-01T15:23:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-01T22:23:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/?p=146174"},"modified":"2025-08-01T15:23:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T22:23:12","slug":"txt-taehyuns-recent-comments-about-black-culture-sparks-controversy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/txt-taehyuns-recent-comments-about-black-culture-sparks-controversy\/","title":{"rendered":"TXT Taehyun\u2019s recent comments about black culture sparks controversy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>TXT<\/strong>\u2019s<strong> Taehyun<\/strong> is currently promoting TXT\u2019s new musical project, <em>\u201cThe Star Chapter: Together.\u201d<\/em> The idol made an appearance at the <em>\u201cCommon Thursday\u201d<\/em> talk show, where he sat down and chatted about the group\u2019s interests and activities.<\/p>\n<p>Taehyun mentioned he has been at his music agency since 2016, even before they became HYBE. Despite the idol innocently mentioning that since he started<strong>, they have been practicing mainly hip-hop and R&amp;B, and the company is based on Black music<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" hcb-fetch-image-from=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=7FIpY6ah5OA&amp;ab_channel=%EC%A1%B0%ED%98%84%EC%95%84%EC%9D%98%ED%8F%89%EB%B2%94%ED%95%9C%EB%AA%A9%EC%9A%94%EC%9D%BC%EB%B0%A4\" title=\"[SUB] \uc798 \ub098\uac00\ub294 \uc544\uc774\ub3cc\uc774 \ube44\ubc00\ub3c4 \ub9ce\uc544\uc694?\ud83d\ude0e \ubd80\uc790\ub294 \ubd80\uc790\uc778\ub370... \ube44\ubc00 \ubd80\uc790\uc57c(\uc18c\uadfc\uc18c\uadfc)\ud83e\udd2b l EP19 l \ud22c\ubaa8\ub85c\uc6b0\ubc14\uc774\ud22c\uac8c\ub354 \ud0dc\ud604 l \uc870\ud604\uc544\uc758 \ud3c9\ubc94\ud55c \ubaa9\uc694\uc77c \ubc24\" width=\"1240\" height=\"698\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7FIpY6ah5OA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Immediately, social media was filled with <strong>malicious comment<\/strong>s accusing Taehyun of doing the <em>\u201cbare minimum,\u201d<\/em> and he has been accused of cultural appropriation of the black genres. On the other hand, K-Netizens defended the idol, explaining Taheyun has done more to acknowledge the culture they are <strong>influenced<\/strong> by and appreciate it, rather than other artists who \u201cappropriate\u201d it.<\/p>\n<p>Ultimately, the controversy keeps increasing, and TXT\u2019s Taehyun could release a <strong>short statement<\/strong> to clear the air once and for all. For now, the atmosphere has become tense among the K-Netizens and the idol\u2019s detractors over the way the idol expresses his ideas.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\">\n        <blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\u201cy\u2019all are impressed by anything\u201d and it\u2019s a kpop idol acknowledging that the industry is heavily influenced by black culture \u2026?? if we can agree this is the bare minimum why is no one else doing it <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/0hszGTS0dL\">https:\/\/t.co\/0hszGTS0dL<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/xRlSPCaWLT\">pic.twitter.com\/xRlSPCaWLT<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 def\u2606\u263b (@defhue) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/defhue\/status\/1950935632068378964?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">July 31, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n        <\/figure>\n        \n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TXT\u2019s Taehyun is currently promoting TXT\u2019s new musical project, \u201cThe Star Chapter: Together.\u201d The idol made an appearance at the \u201cCommon Thursday\u201d talk show, where he sat down and chatted about the group\u2019s interests and activities. Taehyun mentioned he has been at his music agency since 2016, even before they became HYBE. Despite the idol [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3102,"featured_media":146175,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2264,16,7],"tags":[1082],"class_list":{"0":"post-146174","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"category-kpop","9":"category-news","10":"tag-txt"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146174","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\/3102"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146174\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/146175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}