English band hires musicologist to analyze NewJeans' 'Bubble Gum' over plagiarism concerns
English jazz-funk band Shakatak has hired a musicologist to find out whether K-pop girl group NewJeans' new single, "Bubble Gum" plagiarized its 1981 hit, "Easier Said Than Done," shortly after the quintet's agency Ador denied the allegations
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Regardless of whether they're going to have a case or not I can already predict this is going to become an incredibly annoying relentless occurrence in the future because K-pop stans will work day and night trying to find soundalikes in the most obscure shit for songs from their competitor groups and the artists they will "warn" will not be aware of the malice behind it. They tried it with that Jeans group and it backfired, they tried it with that Attention soundalike (which was a soundalike indeed!) that came out a year after it was already written and now they finally managed to get someone to bite. Especially older artists who have been living off residuals for years and are used to an entirely different music industry won't be able to properly see how much bad faith is behind the people alerting them will rush into fruitless lawsuits thinking they have a genuine plagiarism case on their hands when lbr they're not even remotely in the realm of music (and I mean that in a good way) most of these companies are looking to steal from. Shakatak are not nobodies but I just get such secondhand embarrassment seeing them say "To all our fans and friends in Korea" like...do you really have that many friends and fans in Korea that a 3 second soundalike bit from a song that didn't even do all that well immediately prompted them to contact you or did an army of insane parasocial people with a victim complex and too much time on their hands make you believe that you did?
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