{"id":33989,"date":"2022-10-24T12:14:59","date_gmt":"2022-10-24T19:14:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/?p=33989"},"modified":"2023-01-18T04:44:47","modified_gmt":"2023-01-18T12:44:47","slug":"well-known-youtuber-mocks-blackpink-in-a-parody-of-shut-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/well-known-youtuber-mocks-blackpink-in-a-parody-of-shut-down\/","title":{"rendered":"Well-known YouTuber mocks BLACKPINK in a parody of &#8216;Shut Down&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Becoming one of the biggest K-Pop groups in the world, <strong>BLACKPINK<\/strong> has received both love and praise as well as hate and criticism. BLINK recently flagged the <strong>TwoSet Violin<\/strong> YouTube channel for allegedly &#8220;<em>bullying<\/em>&#8221; the girl group.<\/p>\n<p>The musical comedy duo, made up of Australian violinists <strong>Brett Yang<\/strong> and <strong>Eddy Chen<\/strong>, released a video for a song titled &#8220;<strong>Sell Out<\/strong>,&#8221; where it parodies and makes references to BLACKPINK and the K-Pop industry.<\/p>\n<p>The parody begins by using <strong>Niccol\u00f2 Paganini<\/strong>&#8216;s famous piece &#8220;<strong>La Campanella<\/strong>&#8220;, as it was used in the K-Pop girl group&#8217;s &#8220;<strong>Shut Down<\/strong>&#8220;. At first the video seems to focus on an artist gaining fame but his songs end up sounding the same.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\">\n        <blockquote hcb-fetch-image-from=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jnktoowell\/status\/1584291105712967680\" class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&#39;Sell Out&#39; by TwoSetViolin debuts with 4,055 streams on Spotify, becoming their biggest debut on the platform so far.<\/p>\n<p>It was only 7.5 million streams short to surpass &#39;Shut Down&#39; by BLACKPINK! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Ss94zElNZh\">pic.twitter.com\/Ss94zElNZh<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; p*r \ud83e\udd62 \ud83d\udca4 (@jnktoowell) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jnktoowell\/status\/1584291105712967680?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">October 23, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n        <\/figure>\n        \n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Then, he mentioned some &#8220;<em><strong>K-Pop Queens<\/strong><\/em>&#8220;, and later a verse said &#8220;<em><strong>You better think twice<\/strong><\/em>&#8220;, which could be a reference to the K-Pop girl group, <strong>TWICE<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>You may also like: <\/p>\n<p>He also referred to &#8220;<strong><em>brand deals<\/em><\/strong>&#8220;, which could mean criticism of the luxurious brands of which the members of BLACKPINK are ambassadors. On the other hand, it also had references to <strong>Lisa<\/strong>&#8216;s solo song &#8220;<strong>Money<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" hcb-fetch-image-from=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=klmvaVvv_0c\" title=\"Paganini - &#039;Sell Out&#039; Official MV\" width=\"1240\" height=\"698\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/klmvaVvv_0c?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>Although many netizens explained that it was a &#8220;<em><strong>parody<\/strong><\/em>&#8220;, BLINK claims that it is <strong>disrespectful<\/strong> towards the group and that the lyrics are &#8220;<em>misogynistic<\/em>&#8220;.<\/p>\n<p>In another sense, many claim that the idea of \u200b\u200bthe song is along the lines of &#8220;<em><strong>shame on art<\/strong><\/em>&#8220;, and is aimed at the <strong>K-Pop industry<\/strong> in general and not BLACKPINK.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Becoming one of the biggest K-Pop groups in the world, BLACKPINK has received both love and praise as well as hate and criticism. BLINK recently flagged the TwoSet Violin YouTube channel for allegedly &#8220;bullying&#8221; the girl group. The musical comedy duo, made up of Australian violinists Brett Yang and Eddy Chen, released a video for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2817,"featured_media":33993,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,7,1361],"tags":[17],"class_list":{"0":"post-33989","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-kpop","8":"category-news","9":"category-social-network","10":"tag-blackpink"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33989","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=33989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33989\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}