Kpop | K-Pop Meltdown - Digital Music News

Kpop | <b>K-Pop</b> Meltdown - Digital Music News

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• <b>K-Pop</b> Meltdown - Digital Music News
• Big B Radio #<b>Kpop</b> Top 15 Weekly Countdown Nov. 22, 2015
• Big B Radio: POLL: Your Top 3 #<b>Kpop</b> Songs of the Week - Nov. 23 <b>...</b>

<b>K-Pop</b> Meltdown - Digital Music News Posted: 27 Oct 2015 08:16 PM PDT Forgot Password Register Tuesday, October 27, 2015 by Paul Resnikoff K-pop is one of the most explosive and exciting genres of the past few years, but it now appears that some of its superstars have been getting stiffed.  Enter DFSB Kollective, a leading K-Pop agency that is now suing CJ E&M on massive copyright infringement claims, with bizarre price-dumping and artist exploitation schemes potentially at play. CJ's US-based arm, CJ E&M America, is also on the defendant list, with DFSB represented by Browne George Ross LLP. The action surrounds CJ's Mnet.com, accused of offering extremely cut-rate K-Pop downloads at prices at 10-cents or below.  Mnet is easily accessible to K-pop fans worldwide, and accused of facilitating that access, all of which totally undercut efforts by companies like DFSB to sell songs are full-priced stickers of 99-cent and $1.29 on platforms like iTunes. The case has been filed in US District Court for the Central District of California, with $50 million of infringement claims at stake according to court paperwork.  CJ's move to dismiss was rejected, with a full-blown jury trial commencing March 1st. The cut-rate would make sense for CJ, especially if it spurred network and hardware purchases.  That's evident in ads like these, which offers a glimpse at what a bad Steve Jobs impersonation looks like in Korea. The Korea Herald first reported on the court filings. Comments (17) kkartt Wednesday, October 28, 2015 Google search has brought me here.. I am Korean.. K-Pop Meltdown? Is your hope? H Wednesday, October 28, 2015 Hah! Paul Resnikoff Wednesday, October 28, 2015 My hope is for another PSY. Rick Thursday, October 29, 2015 Hoping k-poop melts down.. or hits the slump it's heading for sooner than later kkartt Wednesday, October 28, 2015 The outright title of this article is not desirable… K-Conned Wednesday, October 28, 2015 If the title of this article is not 'desirable' to you, how would you make it better? James Wednesday, October 28, 2015 I'd start by spelling it correctly Noah Wednesday, October 28, 2015 What part is misspelled? kkartt Wednesday, October 28, 2015 All countries have copyright issues K-Conned Wednesday, October 28, 2015 All countries also have anti-competitive price-dumping, unethical artist exploitation, and fake celebrity endorsement issues too…does that make these illegal activities somehow more acceptable? Versus Wednesday, October 28, 2015 All countries have murder "issues" too. I guess that makes it alright then. Versus Wednesday, October 28, 2015 K-pop is "exciting"? How? Lory Wednesday, October 28, 2015 "exciting" is a huge understatement. k-pop is a never-ending tour de force of colossal proportions. Rick Thursday, October 29, 2015 K-poop is….well k-poop, it's just there, and smell. get excited as you chose Lory Tuesday, November 3, 2015 you might think it smells, but you're a redneck, so now we know where the smell comes from. thank god for us intelligent folks who have what it takes to appreciate this brilliant music genre. Rick Shaw Wednesday, October 28, 2015 What…an Asian entity involved in copyright infringement? I've never hear of such a thing. Lory Wednesday, October 28, 2015 i'm a k-pop fan and i couldn't care less about all these companies lol, i care only about the music , and as long as it will continue to sound as good as it sounds today, i'll keep buying k-pop. Forgot Password Register Tuesday, October 27, 2015 by Paul Resnikoff K-pop is one of the most explosive and exciting genres of the past few years, but it now appears that some of its superstars have been getting stiffed.  Enter DFSB Kollective, a leading K-Pop agency that is now suing CJ E&M on massive copyright infringement claims, with bizarre price-dumping and artist exploitation schemes potentially at play. CJ's US-based arm, CJ E&M America, is also on the defendant list, with DFSB represented by Browne George Ross LLP. The action surrounds CJ's Mnet.com, accused of offering extremely cut-rate K-Pop downloads at prices at 10-cents or below.  Mnet is easily accessible to K-pop fans worldwide, and accused of facilitating that access, all of which totally undercut efforts by companies like DFSB to sell songs are full-priced stickers of 99-cent and $1.29 on platforms like iTunes. The case has been filed in US District Court for the Central District of California, with $50 million of infringement claims at stake according to court paperwork.  CJ's move to dismiss was rejected, with a full-blown jury trial commencing March 1st. The cut-rate would make sense for CJ, especially if it spurred network and hardware purchases.  That's evident in ads like these, which offers a glimpse at what a bad Steve Jobs impersonation looks like in Korea. The Korea Herald first reported on the court filings. Comments (17) kkartt Wednesday, October 28, 2015 Google search has brought me here.. I am Korean.. K-Pop Meltdown? Is your hope? H Wednesday, October 28, 2015 Hah! Paul Resnikoff Wednesday, October 28, 2015 My hope is for another PSY. Rick Thursday, October 29, 2015 Hoping k-poop melts down.. or hits the slump it's heading for sooner than later kkartt Wednesday, October 28, 2015 The outright title of this article is not desirable… K-Conned Wednesday, October 28, 2015 If the title of this article is not 'desirable' to you, how would you make it better? James Wednesday, October 28, 2015 I'd start by spelling it correctly Noah Wednesday, October 28, 2015 What part is misspelled? kkartt Wednesday, October 28, 2015 All countries have copyright issues K-Conned Wednesday, October 28, 2015 All countries also have anti-competitive price-dumping, unethical artist exploitation, and fake celebrity endorsement issues too…does that make these illegal activities somehow more acceptable? Versus Wednesday, October 28, 2015 All countries have murder "issues" too. I guess that makes it alright then. Versus Wednesday, October 28, 2015 K-pop is "exciting"? How? Lory Wednesday, October 28, 2015 "exciting" is a huge understatement. k-pop is a never-ending tour de force of colossal proportions. Rick Thursday, October 29, 2015 K-poop is….well k-poop, it's just there, and smell. get excited as you chose Lory Tuesday, November 3, 2015 you might think it smells, but you're a redneck, so now we know where the smell comes from. thank god for us intelligent folks who have what it takes to appreciate this brilliant music genre. Rick Shaw Wednesday, October 28, 2015 What…an Asian entity involved in copyright infringement? I've never hear of such a thing. Lory Wednesday, October 28, 2015 i'm a k-pop fan and i couldn't care less about all these companies lol, i care only about the music , and as long as it will continue to sound as good as it sounds today, i'll keep buying k-pop.

Big B Radio #<b>Kpop</b> Top 15 Weekly Countdown Nov. 22, 2015 Posted: 22 Nov 2015 07:13 AM PST Recap of Big B Radio #Kpop Top 15 Weekly Countdown aired on November 15, 2015 on the #KPOP Station. Congratulations to B.A.P & VIXX for taking the number 1 & 2 spots respectively. Big B Radio #Kpop Top 15 Weekly Countdown 2015.11.22 Ranking Arist - Title #1 NEW B.A.P - Young, Wild & Free #2 NEW VIXX (빅스) - 사슬 (Chained Up) #3 NEW B.A.P - Take You There #4 ▼-1 f(x) - 4 Walls #5 NEW B.A.P - BLIND #6 ▼-3 GOT7 - If You Do #7 NEW Hyorin (효린) - My Love (Feat. Basick) [Unpretty Rapstar 2] #8 ▼-1 CNBLUE (씨앤블루) - Domino #9 ▲+4 OH MY GIRL (오마이걸) - CLOSER #10 NEW ZICO (지코) - Boys And Girls (Feat. Babylon) #11 NEW iKON - 이리오너라 (ANTHEM) #12 ▲+3 Jay Park (박재범) - Solo (Feat. Hoody) #13 NEW iKON - 지못미 (APOLOGY) #14 ▼-4 CNBLUE (씨앤블루) - Cinderella #15 ▼-1 XIA (Junsu) - OEO *Click on song link to view the music video/performance video • Tune in next week Big B Radio #Kpop Top 15 Weekly Countdown to see if your current favorite Kpop songs made it to our #Kpop countdown chart. Keep requesting your favorite Kpop songs and find what made it on the countdown every Sunday at 11PM KST [9AM EST]. Followed by the @DJEmergency: 1 hour+ of Live Nonstop Kpop Mix Show at Monday 12AM KST [Sunday 10AM EST / 10PM HKT]. *Subject to change

Big B Radio: POLL: Your Top 3 #<b>Kpop</b> Songs of the Week - Nov. 23 <b>...</b> Posted: 22 Nov 2015 07:48 PM PST Vote in your Top Kpop Songs of the Week during Nov. 23-28, 2015. Every votes will be counted for and the results will be revealed during the next Big B Radio Top 15 #Kpop Weekly Countdown airing this Sunday at 11PM KST / 9AM EST, Nov. 29, 2015 on Big B Radio #KPop Station. Vote in your Top Kpop Songs of the Week, Nov. 23-28, 2015? You're allow to pick as many songs once every hour. Every votes will count towards the next Big B Radio #Kpop Top 15 Weekly Countdown airing every Sunday at 11PM KST [9AM EST] on Big B Radio #Kpop Station.   Thank you for voting! You may vote your K-pop songs every hour up until 1 AM Seoul Time, Nov. 28, 2015. Archive: Big B Radio #Kpop Top 15 Weekly Countdown Nov. 22, 2015

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Kpop | Language Log » K-pop English

Kpop | Language Log » <b>K-pop</b> English

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Language Log » <b>K-pop</b> English Posted: 17 Nov 2015 03:54 PM PST « previous post | next post » [This is a guest post by Alex Baumans] I've been following the Kpop scene for a bit, and I noticed that there is a special flavour of English being used on websites and the like. This is different from the English being used in the songs themselves, which is also worthy of study. In the major websites (Koreaboo, Allkpop…) the English is basically OK. However, there are obviously specific Korean terms (oppa, maknae, aegyo), and English words that are used in a specific Kpop sense (visual, bias, schedule, stage…). This makes this English slightly strange, though not actually weird. Things do get weird in fansubbed reality programs and variety shows. You get a number of literal translations (work hard, youthful feeling pictorial) and odd sentence constructions (girls fooling around cutely – hamburger deliciously cooking). Now, these expressions appear consistently in various shows, it is not just an idiosyncracy of a single translator. I have no idea why this is so, nor whether the phenomenon also occurs in other languages (Viet of Spanish, for instance). My guess is that it is some kind of machine translation of the text that appears in the Korean original. Anyhow, the result is that there now exists a specific variety of Korean English (K-English?) that is used in fansubbed programs. The examples come mainly from this series [4MFSUBS] 140721 Hyunah's Free Month E01. November 17, 2015 @ 6:54 pm · Filed by Victor Mair under Language and culture, Language and music, Language and the media Permalink

<b>K-Pop</b> Crossover: Vogue Highlights Diplo And Katy Perry&#39;s <b>...</b> Posted: 17 Nov 2015 11:07 AM PST Anticipation for 2NE1 frontwoman CL's international solo debut has been growing during YG Entertainment's recent comeback teasers. One such example is Vogue's latest feature on the K-pop rapper. Like Us on Facebook On Monday, Vogue magazine published an article, calling the 24-year-old the "next big pop supernova." In addition, the feature also highlights the praise she has garnered from celebrities like Diplo, Katy Perry, Jeremy Scott and Karl Lagerfeld. "With a rumored solo album scheduled to drop any minute now (as well as a possible reunion with 2NE1), there's no better time to get to know this crossover star," wrote contributor Janelle Okwodu. As previously reported, Diplo has been heavily involved in CL's English solo debut, including possibly having the K-pop star release her music through his record label Mad Decent. Similarly, CL has been spotted bonding with Jeremy Scott and Katy Perry. "K-pop is a weird term because K-pop has everything-rap records, it's very pop-sounding, there are really boy-band sounding records," said the 36-year-old DJ-producer to Time magazine. "It's going to be [labeled] K-pop because she's doing it, so it's going to be coming from another place and there's going to be Korean lyrics. But for the most part it's eclectic. She's very rap-leaning, she's very fashion forward. She's like the Nicki Minaj of that world." Recently, CL's Korean label YG Entertainment has been teasing a comeback that many speculate would be either be CL or 2NE1. The latest teaser images appear to hint at the former. As noted by Twitter user Taeyhugns, the various letters presented by the YG Family seem to spell out "Hello Bitches," the name of a track that will serve as CL's lead single. According to Fuse, the track was originally named "Asian Bitches" with collaborator M.I.A., but was later changed as the theme became "too categorized." "I wanted to make this EP like a sampler," said CL. "I kept thinking, 'my fans should know where I'm going.' I didn't want them to be completely confused, because it's not going to be a Korean album."     © 2015 KpopStarz. All rights reserved. Do not reproduce without permission.

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Kpop | K-Pop Boy Band EXO Confirm 'Star Wars' Collaboration Music Video ...

Kpop | <b>K-Pop</b> Boy Band EXO Confirm &#39;Star Wars&#39; Collaboration Music Video <b>...</b>

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<b>K-Pop</b> Boy Band EXO Confirm &#39;Star Wars&#39; Collaboration Music Video <b>...</b> Posted: 05 Nov 2015 08:41 AM PST (Photo : SM Entertainment ) Like Us on Facebook (Photo : Star Wars Facebook ) May the force be with EXO as they work on a promotional music video for the upcoming new 'Star Wars' film.  The SM Entertainment boy band has been confirmed to appear in the Star Wars: The Force Awakens collaboration music video called "Lightsaber." After a teaser photo was posted on the Star Wars Korean official Facebook page Tuesday, Nov. 3, K-pop fans surmised the lucky act involved with the popular movie franchise and on Thursday, Nov. 5, it was officially confirmed by SM Entertainment. EXO will release a new digital single titled "Lightsaber" in conjunction with South Korean promotions for the upcoming Disney blockbuster. A short video teaser for "Lightsaber" was uploaded on SMTOWN's official YouTube channel, which shows member Kai showcasing his dance moves. Star Wars: The Force Awakens will premiere in Korea on Dec. 17. EXO released their Japanese version of "Love Me Right" on Wednesday, Nov. 4. © 2015 KpopStarz. All rights reserved. Do not reproduce without permission.

<b>K-pop</b> star IU&#39;s song accused of &#39;sexualising&#39; book&#39;s child hero <b>...</b> Posted: 09 Nov 2015 07:29 AM PST 'The Zeze in my song is a third-party fictional creation' ... South Korean singer IU. Photograph: Kin Cheung/AP A Brazilian novel first published more than 40 years ago has unexpectedly become a highly sought-after read, after the Korean pop star IU was accused of sexualising the story of its five-year-old protagonist in one of her songs. José Mauro de Vasconcelos's My Sweet Orange Tree, first published in Portuguese in 1968 and in English in 1970, is set in Rio de Janeiro and follows the life of the boy Zeze, as he gets up to mischief and is mistreated. "Everyone beats him. If you look softhearted he will tell you it's revolting the way they beat on a little kid. Can you believe him when he says he's only six? No! The boy is a liar. He is five years old," runs the copy on the first UK edition. My Sweet Orange Tree has been out of print in English for years, but Abebooks.com has reported that the novel became its most searched-for title late last week after controversy enveloped IU's pop song Zeze, which is based on the story. The bookseller's Richard Davies said that My Sweet Orange Tree was "a much-loved book in South Korea and often studied in schools". According to the Korea Times, the book's Korean publisher has issued a statement saying that: "We regret the way the five-year-old character is portrayed as a sexual object." The paper quotes lines from IU's song which run: "Zeze, come on up the tree quick and kiss the leaves, don't be naughty and don't hurt the tree, come up the tree and get the youngest leaf … you are innocent but shrewd, transparent but dirty and there is no way of knowing what's living inside." IU has since issued an apology, translated by the K-pop Herald, in which she describes My Sweet Orange Tree as a "treasured book", and says: "I swear I did not write the lyrics to sexualise a five-year-old child. The Zeze in my song is a third-party fictional creation taken from the motif in the original novel." She goes on to apologise, writing: "However, after listening to the opinions of those who have listened to the song, I came to realise that its contents could have given offence and even caused some to grieve. I am wholly responsible for my immature handling of things as a lyricist."

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