BlackPink’s Jennie has discovered herself in the midst of a recent controversy following the discharge of her new single, ‘Like Jennie.’ The track, which was launched on 7 March, sparked a web based debate after some social media customers seen similarities between Jennie’s observe and a preferred Bollywood track.
Bollywood followers identified that the intro theme of Jennie’s track strikingly resembles the introduction track of Indian actress Alia Bhatt’s character, Rani, from the 2023 movie ‘Rocky Aur Rani Kii Prem Kahani.’ Followers alleged that the instrumental portion of Jennie’s observe was copied from the Bollywood track.
On 4 March, Jennie dropped the teaser of her new hit, which was quickly adopted by social media customers’ comparisons, shaping a brand new controversy.
What’s the Controversy?
As soon as the teaser of the track was out, movies evaluating the 2 songs aspect by aspect began circulating on-line. The principle focus was on the phrasing and melody of each tracks, significantly when Jennie’s identify is repeated in her track, mirroring the enduring ‘Rani’s Entrance’ music.
Whereas some followers consider that it is a case of pure coincidence, others don’t assist giving Jennie the advantage of the doubt.
A consumer on X, accusing Jennie of plagiarism, wrote, ‘Some unknown Ok-pop artist named Jennie Kim is copying Indian songs now, she thought we would not discover out, however we did.’ Whereas one other consumer got here into her defence saying, ‘Jennie didn’t plagiarise the track in any respect. She repeated her identify, and so did the opposite artist.’
In one other attention-grabbing occasion, Prime Video India, in a now-deleted post, allegedly tried to throw some shade at Jennie. The Indian account for Prime Video on X shared a nonetheless of Alia Bhatt’s character, Rani, from her movie Rocky and Rani Kii Prem Kahani. They captioned it, ‘BLACKPINK followers, we wager you’ll be able to hear this picture.’ The picture exhibits Bhatt’s character trying into the digital camera and smirking.
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The submit was taken down after Blinks, the identify of Blackpink’s fandom, began on-line bashing of Prime Video India with messages saying, ‘APOLOGIES TO JENNIE / BOYCOTT PRIME VIDEO INDIA.’
Pritam Defends Jennie
Regardless of the uproar, Jennie has but to reply publicly to the allegations. Nonetheless, Pritam Chakraborty, the composer of the Bollywood observe, has come to her defence. Curiously, Pritam, who has confronted plagiarism claims up to now, known as for a extra constructive strategy to discussing music.
In an Instagram post, he stated that such minor similarities in music are inevitable and shouldn’t be considered as intentional copying. ‘Rani and Jennie are names that rhyme, so the same circulate in a single phrase would not make it a replica,’ he wrote, including that artists typically share artistic concepts, and coincidences in music are sure to happen, particularly in an interconnected world. ‘Music is about creativity, distinctive inventive perspective, affect, and generally pure coincidence.’
Not the First Time BlackPink Faces Accusations
Notably, this isn’t the primary time that BlackPink has confronted accusations of plagiarism.
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Again in 2024, Lisa, one other member of the group, needed to face allegations of copying a visible idea from Travis Scott’s FE!N music video. Cinematographer of the video, Gabriel Moses claimed {that a} particular shot in Lisa’s ‘Rockstar’ video was strikingly much like one in FE!N. This led to a widespread dialogue amongst the followers and different social media customers about whether or not Lisa imitated Scott’s video or was impressed.
In the same vein, social media customers criticized Rosé and Bruno Mars for his or her collaboration on their hit track APT, evaluating it to an unreleased track by American musician Poppy. These cases have added to the rising record of plagiarism allegations which have adopted the group all through their profession.
