{"id":156874,"date":"2026-01-17T10:04:06","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T18:04:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/?p=156874"},"modified":"2026-01-17T10:04:06","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T18:04:06","slug":"heated-debate-enhypens-knife-is-inspired-by-cortis-sound","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/heated-debate-enhypens-knife-is-inspired-by-cortis-sound\/","title":{"rendered":"Heated debate: ENHYPEN\u2019s \u201cKnife\u201d is inspired by CORTIS&#8217; sound?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>ENHYPEN<\/strong> became the talk of the town for all the right and wrong reasons following the release of their seventh mini-album,<em> \u201cTHE SIN: VANISH.\u201d<\/em> The idols&#8217; bold energy, iconic choreographies, and body of art make them worthy of being at the top of several lists.<\/p>\n<p>The idols already earned the<em> \u201c1 million first-day sales\u201d<\/em> within a day of release. <strong>ENHYPEN\u2019s rising fame also brought a controversy among the fans of the Rookie boy group, CORTIS, which accused them of stealing the idols\u2019 sound<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" hcb-fetch-image-from=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=R6e4tBWxIxE&amp;list=RDR6e4tBWxIxE&amp;start_radio=1\" title=\"ENHYPEN (\uc5d4\ud558\uc774\ud508) &#039;Knife&#039; Official MV\" width=\"1240\" height=\"698\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/R6e4tBWxIxE?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>Different social media communities have highlighted that<em> \u201cTHE SIN: VANISH\u201d<\/em> is <strong>reminiscent<\/strong> of CORTIS\u2019s <em>\u201cGO!\u201d<\/em> or <em>\u201cFaSHioN.\u201d<\/em> Many fans commented on the release by stating it sounds like CORTIS without being CORTIS, or being a<strong> fusion<\/strong> between Stray Kids and CORTIS.<\/p>\n<p>ENHYPEN\u2019s title track, <em>\u201cKnife,\u201d<\/em> was <strong>compared<\/strong> to<em> \u201cGO!\u201d<\/em> for repeating the word several times. Ultimately, neither ENHYPEN nor their musical agency has released a<strong> statement<\/strong> regarding the uncomfortable situation. Stay tuned for more news!<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" hcb-fetch-image-from=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=WXS-o57VJ5w&amp;list=RDWXS-o57VJ5w&amp;start_radio=1\" title=\"CORTIS (\ucf54\ub974\ud2f0\uc2a4) &#039;GO!&#039; Official MV\" width=\"1240\" height=\"698\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WXS-o57VJ5w?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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ENHYPEN became the talk of the town for all the right and wrong reasons following the release of their seventh mini-album, \u201cTHE SIN: VANISH.\u201d The idols&#8217; bold energy, iconic choreographies, and body of art make them worthy of being at the top of several lists. The idols already earned the \u201c1 million first-day sales\u201d within [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3102,"featured_media":156875,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2264,16,7],"tags":[3489,1071],"class_list":{"0":"post-156874","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-cortis","11":"tag-enhypen"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156874","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=156874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156874\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/156875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}