“Just looking at it, it’s sexual”… ADOR has clarified the controversial lyrics of New Jeans’ ”Cookie”, but the foreigners’ reaction is?
Although New Jeans’ agency directly refuted the controversy over the sexual lyrics of “Cookies”, the noise still continues.
On August 30th, the YouTube channel “channel CKOONY” posted a video titled “Controversy over New Jeans’ ‘Cookie’’s English lyrics that went over Kpop’s popularity. Foreigners’ reactions to New Jeans’ ‘Cookies’”.
In the video, Brandon, an actor from America, read the lyrics of New Jeans’ “Cookie” and was bewildered, “What is this? Megan Ther Stallion?” and said, “You know that cookie means the female genitalia right? It’s a slang like back in the day. People would use like ‘My cookie’, ‘cooka’, or something.” When asked why people used such words ‘back in the days’, Brandon explained, “When we were young, no one would say words like p***s, v****a, we would say other words when we were little kids.”
He continued, “The lyrics of this song are of course sexual. From a legal standpoint, there’s nothing wrong with this, but from a moral standpoint, this is jacked-up. It’s wrong. It’s sexual,” he said.
Brandon said, “American (pop and rap) did the same thing, with Britney Spears’ ‘Hit me baby one more time.’ A lot of her original songs were very sexual, and she was like 15-16 years old at the time. It’s not something a 14-year-old child should do. They are still underage, so they shouldn’t sing this kind of song.”
Some other American people that this channel interviewed on the street also commented on New Jeans’ “Cookie” lyrics, “It likes a nice little (sexual) metaphor. Cookies and sweets, it makes sense, so that’s what I think. Understandable”, “That was definitely understandable,” they pointed out the sexual meaning of the lyrics.
Later, when they found out the age of the members of New Jeans who sang the song, “It’s definitely not appropriate for minors to sing about”, “Although these sexual songs are also sung in America, it is not usually teenagers rapping about it.” they emphasized.
In addition, they interviewed 2 French women who rated the lyrics of “Cookie” as “very suggestive”, and when they found out the ages of the New Jeans members, they were shocked, saying, “Are they allowed to play this song? And they sing this kind of song? It’s a bit weird.”
Some domestic netizens who saw the reaction also commented, “Even if there was no intention, it still seems necessary to modify the lyrics”, “It is strange to see the Korean lyrics”, “It seems to be talking about that theme no matter how much you listen to it”, “Even the English lyrics seem to need correction”, agreeing with the ‘sexual lyrics controversy’.
On the other hand, “There is a possibility that ‘cookie’ is not used as such a slang in Sweden, the country of the lyricist”, “Even when they have already said no, you guys still forcefully create a controversy”, “It seems like New Jeans is doing very well”, “It has already been explained, it’s over,” some netizens responded.
Previously, overseas netizens had raised suspicions that New Jeans’ song ‘Cookie’ has a sexual meaning to it.
ADOR said, “The unpredictable slang language all around the world is not a standard language that everyone should know about and learn. We have reviewed the content of the claim (the sexual genitalia meaning) with many doctors of English literature, interpretation and translation experts, native speakers, and ordinary foreigners. There were many opinions that ‘it is not a commonly used concept’, and there were also opinions that ‘I did not know there was such a meaning to that word,’” the agency said, dismissing the controversy as it was only a part of the argument.
In addition, ADOR claimed that “‘Cookie’ symbolizes the new challenge that we are going to try in the future with the beat that was not often tried in the girl group scene based on the idea of ’bake a CD = bake a cookie'” and “‘Cookie’ is a song that shows the humility of expressing itself as a dessert rather than a track, but also expresses the confidence that it can outperform other music as well.”
Source: nate
