YG’s Creative Director Defend NewJeans Against “Copying BLACKPINK” Accusations
As Belift Lab accuses NewJeans of copying BLACKPINK in a recent video, YG’s creative director defends NewJeans.
Previously on June 10, ILLIT’s agency – Belift Lab, published a YouTube video that accused NewJeans of copying various other artists.
BLACKPINK was also mentioned in the video, as it alleged NewJeans of plagiarizing a concept of BLACKPINK with knee-high socks and uniform-like clothes with tennis skirts.
In response to this accusation, however, a former creative director at YG Entertainment, who was in the agency during the rookie era of BLACKPINK and so was likely in charge of the above concept, stood on NewJeans’ side.
Particularly, the former director published a screenshot of the accusation on his Instagram story along with the caption “Totally different”.
Additionally, fans have also pointed out that before BLACKPINK, SM girl group f(x) has popularized the tennis skirt concept, and the person in charge of f(x) was none other than Min Hee-jin – the “mother” of NewJeans. This thus invalidates Belift Lab’s claims.
Source: Krb, Instagram
