{"id":8581,"date":"2021-05-31T07:38:47","date_gmt":"2021-05-31T14:38:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/?p=8581"},"modified":"2021-05-31T07:44:52","modified_gmt":"2021-05-31T14:44:52","slug":"olivia-rodrigos-promotion-in-korea-sparks-controversy-for-downgrade-bts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/olivia-rodrigos-promotion-in-korea-sparks-controversy-for-downgrade-bts\/","title":{"rendered":"Olivia Rodrigo&#8217;s promotion in Korea sparks controversy for downgrade BTS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Olivia Rodrigo<\/strong>&#8216;s YouTube promotion in Korea that mentioned <strong>BTS<\/strong> has sparked controversy. On May 30, a post on a popular online community drew attention after noticing that Olivia Rodrigo&#8217;s official YouTube channel for promoting &#8216;good 4 u&#8217; under the title &#8220;<em><strong>A western song topped the billboard beating BTS<\/strong><\/em>&#8221; on Korea.<\/p>\n<p>According to the post, she has never seen a pop singer using another artist&#8217;s name to promote her song in Korea, and many others agreed in the comments. Some of the netizens&#8217; reactions were: &#8220;<em><strong>I think the ice cream and car wash coupons weren&#8217;t enough to promote her song<\/strong><\/em>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-8582 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Olivia-Rodrigos-promotion-in-Korea-sparks-controversy-for-downgrade-BTS-proves.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"563\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Olivia-Rodrigos-promotion-in-Korea-sparks-controversy-for-downgrade-BTS-proves.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Olivia-Rodrigos-promotion-in-Korea-sparks-controversy-for-downgrade-BTS-proves-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Olivia-Rodrigos-promotion-in-Korea-sparks-controversy-for-downgrade-BTS-proves-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Olivia-Rodrigos-promotion-in-Korea-sparks-controversy-for-downgrade-BTS-proves-360x203.jpg 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em><strong>She is receiving massive support from her country as BTS stream numbers are leaking on Spotify\u2026 ARMY international is fighting a long and hard battle. But things like this make us stronger<\/strong><\/em>.&#8221; The user who first found out and tweeted was bullied by Olivia&#8217;s fans and BTS haters.<\/p>\n<p> <strong><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Hours later, the girl posted a video clip showing how Olivia&#8217;s team promotes the singer&#8217;s song in Korea. But then people cyberbulled the girl. Some comments are &#8220;<em><strong>It doesn&#8217;t matter if the girl&#8217;s team promotes her song, but I don&#8217;t understand why to downgrade and use our boys&#8217; names to harness the influence<\/strong><\/em>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<strong>I don&#8217;t understand why the team is doing such a thing in Korea when the girl is already doing very well in America<\/strong>.&#8221; Another added: \u201c<em><strong>Why are they attacking the artist? Do you really think that she, who probably doesn&#8217;t speak Korean and doesn&#8217;t do hers marketing or managing, or manages Spotify, could have intentionally done it herself? The answer is more obvious than you think<\/strong><\/em>\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" hcb-fetch-image-from=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=WMweEpGlu_U&amp;feature=emb_title\" title=\"BTS (\ubc29\ud0c4\uc18c\ub144\ub2e8) &#039;Butter&#039; Official MV\" width=\"1240\" height=\"698\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WMweEpGlu_U?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>\u201c<em><strong>Your company&#8217;s PR team is so\u2026 well maybe the PR team thinks it&#8217;s a good marketing strategy and it seems to work\u2026 Korean haters will watch the video and ARMY will also watch the video leaving some negative comments\u2026 So it&#8217;s like a victory for the PR team, maybe they knew that ARMY is easy to get angry<\/strong><\/em>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Others spoke about the double standards of the BTS team in South Korea: \u201c<em><strong>I am ARMY but this seems exaggerated to me, they don&#8217;t mind doing this in Korea when they say &#8216;BTS beat such a renowned artist&#8217; They need to stop the hypocrisy! the girl got # 1 last week even before all this.. let the girl shine, she&#8217;s breaking record after record<\/strong><\/em>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" hcb-fetch-image-from=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=gNi_6U5Pm_o\" title=\"Olivia Rodrigo - good 4 u (Official Video)\" width=\"1240\" height=\"698\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gNi_6U5Pm_o?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>Olivia Rodrigo&#8216;s YouTube promotion in Korea that mentioned BTS has sparked controversy. On May 30, a post on a popular online community drew attention after noticing that Olivia Rodrigo&#8217;s official YouTube channel for promoting &#8216;good 4 u&#8217; under the title &#8220;A western song topped the billboard beating BTS&#8221; on Korea. According to the post, she [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3106,"featured_media":8584,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,7,4],"tags":[49,1230],"class_list":{"0":"post-8581","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-kpop","8":"category-news","9":"category-pop","10":"tag-bts","11":"tag-olivia-rodrigo"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8581","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\/3106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8581\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}