Fans Accuse TWS For Allegedly Plagiarizing Popular Idol Group’s Song

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On July 15, K-Pop idol group TWS released the official performance music video “Double Take.”

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While the video gave off a groovy vibe with a monotone concept, the song began receiving much criticism online.

Fans of BIGBANG noticed that the melody and the video were similar to GD&TOP‘s “Knock Out” video and began comparing the videos side by side.

We know that this is not the members’ fault, so we weren’t going to make a video, but because it was too similar, I decided to make this video (Do not criticize the artists; if you want to criticize, please do so to the company that made the song).

They noted the similarities in the music video angles, lyrics, and overall beat. They felt that if this wasn’t plagiarism, they wondered if there was a song that could actually be called plagiarized.

TWS’s song was released in 2024, while GD&TOP’s “Knock Out” was released in 2010.

Korean netizens also agreed that the melody sounded way too familiar.

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Netizen comments | theqoo
  • “Now I know what ‘something like HYBE’ is now.”
  • “It sounds like a continuation of the same song.”
  • “Wow.”
  • “I thought I heard it somewhere, and it was the ‘Knock Out’ music video.”
  • “I knew I heard the song from somewhere.”
  • “I feel bad…they already did a stage of this song, and they are getting criticized for it now. If they want to get more popular, they going to have to go more viral.”
  • “It’s HYBE again…when are they going to fall.”
  • “It’s really similar though?”
  • “Are they making us watch if by making it go viral? It sounds good if you don’t know BIGBANG. But after seeing the original, I wonder why they are doing this.”
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Netizen comments | theqoo
  • “They’ve gone too far.”
  • “But aside from the lyrics, why do I feel like it sounds more like Stray Kids?”
  • “It’s so similar…just makes me realize how good GD&TOP songs were.”
  • “They are taking it too far…”
  • “I thought they were doing a cover of GD&TOP’s song. I feel like this is just noise marketing. I guess they just don’t want to invest in creativity.”
  • “I feel like it’s more like Stray Kids.”
  • “What’s wrong with HYBE.”
  • “The song sounds similar, not sure about the music video, though.”
  • “It looks like it’s going to be hard to get out of this one.”

What are your thoughts on this?

Source: theqoo
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