Why is this the only flavor of coed group we're allowed to have in this big ass year.

Punishment for not letting Kard blow up.

Fr, I'd take a carbon copy of them over this.

*Wipes tears*

1st gen K-pop is back baby.

It genuinely feels like some of these companies are deliberately moving the needle a little further and further hoping we'll just eventually let them do it casually

Definitely keeping tabs on the current cultural backslidings around the world - but especially in the west.

Waiting for the "they didn't use the hard -er though!" defense that I know will be coming soon.

But with all the historical shit he has done, why do people STILL wanna work with this nasty piece of work?

Given that he now seems to exclusive prey on teenagers often foreign ones with parents overseas i can genuinely see none of them realising just how checkered a past he has. Like the child who said this was 7 when he went to jail It’s really quite sinister.

People are desperate for any chance to make a breakthrough.

beat me to it lol, literally saw someone point out under a different article how exploitative kpop is and like. thats just it. if there's a chance a lot of young folk will just take it. that's why we got a bunch of abuser and groomer management being outed regularly and why people like this get to stick around

The same with Kim Kwangsoo and he heads of a lot of flop svs to gain even more control 😭😭

All my neighbors wanna know who the fuck signed off on this 😭

They've released a clarification video trying to prove that the word you're hearing is not the N-word.

https://youtu.be/e1WWVg6CCeo
The video does show that they recorded an alternate version of the line with "neighbor" instead of the N-word. However, they shoot themselves in the foot by first showing a different clip of Yechan saying something much more like the N-word, and once you hear both it seems clear which one was used in the final mix of the song.

UGH this and the whole BBC/BAFTAS shit during Black History Month like we are fucking regressing man

at least we've come to basically expect this from kpop. which isn't actually a good thing by any means, obviously, but to me it's more a signifier that we barely budged into "progress" on the kpop side of things to begin with. what's the name of that hideous little man with the braids who debuted last year? etc.

the BAFTAs shit is so much worse to me. a white adult, disabled man is permitting himself to be infantalized and coddled by the industry so that both he and the entertainment industry can attempt to escape consequences for his actions. even if we take everything he said at face value (shit apology included...) and just leave the fact that he agreed to be seated somewhere that this could happen publicly, well aware of his own disability and what it causes...

the actual producers and editors themselves of the BAFTAs did not edit it out for some BAFFLING reason. they felt that editing out words of solidarity with sudan, congo, and palestine was more important than slurs being thrown at two esteemed Black actors on close-to-live television.

just fucking disgraceful.

This is an awful situation for everyone involved, but the whole thing about tourettes is that it's wholly and inescapably involuntary. There is literally no way to control it, that's the whole problem with the disability. The dude reached out to apologize privately, and he also left early because he felt awful. Maybe he should never have been there, but that starts a whole nother debate about ableism. He also had tics that contained other slurs that BBC chose to censor. They also censored words of solidarity, as you mentioned. So I put the blame wholly on BBC, who used this as engagement bait.

Just in case I'm misunderstood; everyone has the full right to feel offended, words hold power, even involuntary ones, but I feel like it's pretty heartless to in no way empathize with the guy with tourettes.

Agree with every single word. It's just holy fuck we are all upset over this larger issue but then Cho fucking PD decides to crawl back out of nowhere and pull this crap. What is the point of globalizing kpop when fans aren't even surprised about these things anymore..

Feels like something I would see on The Boondocks or Chappelle Show.

Tarzzan paved the way. I'm thinking we're done with coed-groups by now if this is how it's gonna be?

If only we could sic them on each other for total destruction of this bullshit

bro i desperately wanna see this dude and tarzzan both try to get on the stage with big matthew. they'd both burst into flames instantly.

he never said the word tho. u guys love to believe false rumour

Oh, I promiseyou he has, privately. But I never said he did, I just said he paved the way. With his behavior in general.

Yeah, like u know him in private

didnt he say it while rapping along to a song that didnt even have it originally

the video was made up by anti and they deleted the video after the black label release an statement about suing any false rumour. he even reply to a comment about it something like " i never say any derogatory words" to a fan comment on ig.

He will be living from his past conquests and gaslighting all the wrong stuff he did. In the end people still side with people like him cause they wanna do well regardless and not many oportunities avaliable. As usual will be a mistake and fail. On the subject, I feel there are many using that for negative PR because any attention is good in an ocean of groups where only the big ones get the eyes and works cause one thing we are not good at doing it is avoiding completelly. I do believe is a tatic nowadays because doesnt make sense for any other reason.

I thought that name sounds familiar. yep.

How tf do these people have criminal records have funds left to a) start new companies and groups b) convince teens and their parents it is a good choice to sign with them

I mean it can sound a little like Neighbours in in a non-american accent. But quite frankly I don't care what he said because 'Neighbors' in this context still means the word! Are they planning to change it for clarity to 'Ninjas' instead?

all my ninjas wanna know 😭

You just know it's a possibility LMAO never put anything past ChoPD and the antiblackness of kpop

This is G-DRAGON in BIGBANG's Bae Bae "I want to get away with saying the N word so —insert plausible deniability or whatever here—" levels of bullshit. IYKYK.

No words.

as a non native english speaker saying a word that is heard very differently...is actually something I fear

but I feel like composers should know better than this at this point, they know its gonna cause a controversy regardless so...hm