{"id":71954,"date":"2023-06-07T14:17:28","date_gmt":"2023-06-07T21:17:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/?p=71954"},"modified":"2023-06-07T14:17:28","modified_gmt":"2023-06-07T21:17:28","slug":"ne-yo-from-the-united-states-gains-attention-for-recent-comments-towards-bts-and-the-k-pop-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/ne-yo-from-the-united-states-gains-attention-for-recent-comments-towards-bts-and-the-k-pop-industry\/","title":{"rendered":"NE-YO from the United States gains attention for recent comments towards BTS and the K-Pop industry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The American singer <strong>Shaffer Chimere Smith<\/strong>, better known as <strong>NE-YO<\/strong> has been the subject of controversy after making some comments about the boy <strong>group<\/strong> BTS and the K-Pop industry in general, drawing the attention of large media and on social networks due to the considerable growth of this genre.<\/p>\n<p>Over time, the K-Pop industry has expanded to include girl groups, boy groups, soloists who can lean to other different genres, this being a versatile genre of the Korean artist, thus gaining enormous <strong>popularity<\/strong> around the world.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-71980\" src=\"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/NE-YO-from-the-United-States-gains-attention-for-recent-comments-towards-BTS-and-the-K-Pop-industry1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/NE-YO-from-the-United-States-gains-attention-for-recent-comments-towards-BTS-and-the-K-Pop-industry1.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/NE-YO-from-the-United-States-gains-attention-for-recent-comments-towards-BTS-and-the-K-Pop-industry1-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/NE-YO-from-the-United-States-gains-attention-for-recent-comments-towards-BTS-and-the-K-Pop-industry1-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/NE-YO-from-the-United-States-gains-attention-for-recent-comments-towards-BTS-and-the-K-Pop-industry1-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/NE-YO-from-the-United-States-gains-attention-for-recent-comments-towards-BTS-and-the-K-Pop-industry1-750x422.jpg 750w, https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/NE-YO-from-the-United-States-gains-attention-for-recent-comments-towards-BTS-and-the-K-Pop-industry1-1140x641.jpg 1140w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>You may also like:<a href=\"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/2023\/06\/07\/the-message-bts-v-shared-after-the-alleged-leaked-video-with-blackpinks-jennie\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> The message BTS\u2019 V shared after the alleged leaked video with BLACKPINK\u2019s Jennie<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The artist was asked if there was a possibility that he would become part of a musical group like <strong>NSYNC<\/strong> or <strong>Boyz II Men<\/strong>, and he did not hesitate to respond by praising K-Pop stars and their industry.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\">\n        <blockquote><p>&#8220;<em><strong>It seems that these were already dead<\/strong><\/em>&#8220;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em><strong>It was not fair to say that boy-bands are dead, only now they are Korean, for example look at BTS and the rest of the boys behind them, they are still becoming very strong groups<\/strong><\/em>&#8220;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em><strong>They are trained very hard since they were little, so when they come out in their debut, they come out with a superior quality, they know how to play the piano, play instruments, dance and others, that&#8217;s why they do so well<\/strong><\/em>&#8220;.<\/p>\n<blockquote hcb-fetch-image-from=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MusicMundial\/status\/1665833384226979842\" class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">United States&#39; singer Ne-Yo mentioned <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/BTS?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#BTS<\/a> in a recent interview: <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe boy band is not dead, it&#39;s just Korean. Shout out to BTS &amp; the whole K-Pop movement. They&#39;re still going strong..\u201d<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/BTS?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#BTS<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ARMY?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#ARMY<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Kpop?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#Kpop<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/KpopNews?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#KpopNews<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Music?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#Music<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/HhSdtEcdG0\">pic.twitter.com\/HhSdtEcdG0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Music Mundial (@MusicMundial) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MusicMundial\/status\/1665833384226979842?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">June 5, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n        <\/figure>\n        \n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>On social networks, netizens and ARMYs have shared messages of support for the American NE-YO for his nice words towards the idols and discussed the <strong>reaction<\/strong> of <strong>Jimin<\/strong>, who is a big fan of the singer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The American singer Shaffer Chimere Smith, better known as NE-YO has been the subject of controversy after making some comments about the boy group BTS and the K-Pop industry in general, drawing the attention of large media and on social networks due to the considerable growth of this genre. Over time, the K-Pop industry has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2817,"featured_media":71981,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,7,1361],"tags":[49],"class_list":{"0":"post-71954","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-bts"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71954","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=71954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71954\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}