BLACKPINK’s Jennie Is “Snubbed” By Music Show — Fans Call Out Alleged Double Standard
Fans claim BLACKPINK‘s Jennie was unfairly “robbed” by a music show.
Jennie recently released the single “Mantra” and has been promoting it in various ways. The idol also appeared on music shows in Korea, pre-recording her performance in advance.
Before the October 19th edition of MBC‘s MusicCore, it seemed like Jennie, aespa Karina’s “Up,” and QWER‘s “My Name Is Malgeum” would be the three songs for nomination. A popular account known for analyzing music show scores shared a pre-show count, showing the top three have a wide margin of points from the next highest artist.
However, during the episode of MusicCore, rather than Jennie being nominated, boy group AB6IX were up for the win, with Karina ultimately winning.
Fans questioned what possibly happened, what the unconfirmed consensus being that because the music video for “Mantra” was the “explicit” version containing the word “ass,” points for SNS (also known as music video views) were removed.
It seems her MV was banned by MBC (when it came to other songs in Top 4~10, they all used a part of the MV for that song, but for JENNIE, it was just her single cover) so she had no SNS points and that's why she dropped to #4 while AB6IX probably had a Broadcast point high enough… pic.twitter.com/99ZlBxzDGN
— KPOP Music Show Analysis (@KshowAnalysis) October 19, 2024
Many fans were outraged by this alleged decision, and called out MBC for allegedly snubbing Jennie. Many did not blame the boy group, but compared the lyrics of “Mantra” and AB6IX’s “NVCKED,” saying that there was a misogynistic double standard at play.
See the difference. Who would you ban? https://t.co/V8iN8hu7g3 pic.twitter.com/pXZpmjYzYv
— Jenwaldorf (@jnkqnche) October 19, 2024
Oh mysoginy. They took her out because the song speaks women empowerment. Because how come the boy group that replaced her spot get a free pass to sing about being “naked baby” and “getting funky?” If its about the MV, they were also drinking alcohol and showed naked uncensored. https://t.co/ysaN7EaMov pic.twitter.com/YnNu5Z8mC5
— blue (@pfwjennie) October 19, 2024
the double standards of this show lmao https://t.co/VlgrAm4KbD pic.twitter.com/1bfIyRT1HE
— koops (@jnkoopsies) October 19, 2024
NO HATE TO AB6IX since this isn't their fault BUT JUST HOW IS MANTRA BANNED BUT NOT NVKED??? FVCK YOU MBC FOR UR FVCKING DOUBLE STANDARD. Bro, at least try to hide ur misogynistic side, IT SHOWS!!! https://t.co/aA4COFQZWj
— 🍒ⒸⒶⓅⓎⒷⒶⓇⒶ_ғᴏʀ_𝑱𝑬𝑵𝑵𝑰𝑬_𝐂𝐏𝐀✨ (@itz_me_jeh1001) October 19, 2024
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