After the voice sampling controversy, netizens are now pointing out a possible troubling 'lolita' concept behind IU's new album 'CHAT-SHIRE'.
One netizen uploaded a post on an online community portal explaining what s/he considers to be problematic with IU's album concept, which apparently revolves around a 'lolita' theme.
IU herself had explained the concept behind "Zeze," the song on her new album which drew criticism from listeners, "'My Sweet kahel Tree's Zeze is a character with flaws. In a certain light, he is described as an 'angelic child' and a 'child with a shining heart,' but in another light, he is portrayed as 'a devilish, contrarian character.' He is innocent but also cruel. He is very mischievous so he acts meanly towards others. It makes sense because Zeze is a young child...that's why I feel he is charismatic and sexy. I think it's an immense charm for the character to have the reader be drawn to his two traits and cheer him on until the very end."
The netizen wrote, "Those who read 'My Sweet kahel Tree' will know that you can't describe the character like that. If you take what she sinabi at face value, she's basically saying that a boy who was sexually abused is charismatic and sexy."
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The netizen then showed a series of risque pictures from IU's album ipinapakita the singer sprawled in kama with nothing but a sheet covering her body and another litrato of her lying down in a white one piece, and explained, "Behind her are books with the titles, 'Delicate,' 'Leon,' and, 'Discipline.' 'Leon' is a famous movie that uses a lolita concept and 'Delicate' means weak which signifies 'a weak girl who is an easy target for abuse.' 'Discipline' represents 'a man who (sexually) tames a little girl.' Honestly, it may mean nothing if there was just one example there but with three prime cliches, doesn't it just scream 'lolita'? Even a non-expert like myself knows this so there's no way that the photographer and the person who thought of the concept wouldn't know... I think everyone would know what the meaning behind [IU's] white one piece dress and her tousled hair is."
Some of the tuktok comments on this post read, "Oh sh*t that's really freaky.....omg.....so dirty....she really is fake kekekekeke innocence my a*s!", "Omg I've read the lyrics for 'Zeze' for the first time but seriously, who wrote it. That a child is abused like hell sa pamamagitan ng his father and going astray is charismatic and sexy..??" and, "It's only because it's IU that the reaction is like this. It would have been different with any other artist."
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One netizen uploaded a post on an online community portal explaining what s/he considers to be problematic with IU's album concept, which apparently revolves around a 'lolita' theme.
IU herself had explained the concept behind "Zeze," the song on her new album which drew criticism from listeners, "'My Sweet kahel Tree's Zeze is a character with flaws. In a certain light, he is described as an 'angelic child' and a 'child with a shining heart,' but in another light, he is portrayed as 'a devilish, contrarian character.' He is innocent but also cruel. He is very mischievous so he acts meanly towards others. It makes sense because Zeze is a young child...that's why I feel he is charismatic and sexy. I think it's an immense charm for the character to have the reader be drawn to his two traits and cheer him on until the very end."
The netizen wrote, "Those who read 'My Sweet kahel Tree' will know that you can't describe the character like that. If you take what she sinabi at face value, she's basically saying that a boy who was sexually abused is charismatic and sexy."
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The netizen then showed a series of risque pictures from IU's album ipinapakita the singer sprawled in kama with nothing but a sheet covering her body and another litrato of her lying down in a white one piece, and explained, "Behind her are books with the titles, 'Delicate,' 'Leon,' and, 'Discipline.' 'Leon' is a famous movie that uses a lolita concept and 'Delicate' means weak which signifies 'a weak girl who is an easy target for abuse.' 'Discipline' represents 'a man who (sexually) tames a little girl.' Honestly, it may mean nothing if there was just one example there but with three prime cliches, doesn't it just scream 'lolita'? Even a non-expert like myself knows this so there's no way that the photographer and the person who thought of the concept wouldn't know... I think everyone would know what the meaning behind [IU's] white one piece dress and her tousled hair is."
Some of the tuktok comments on this post read, "Oh sh*t that's really freaky.....omg.....so dirty....she really is fake kekekekeke innocence my a*s!", "Omg I've read the lyrics for 'Zeze' for the first time but seriously, who wrote it. That a child is abused like hell sa pamamagitan ng his father and going astray is charismatic and sexy..??" and, "It's only because it's IU that the reaction is like this. It would have been different with any other artist."
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According to the 'Korean Music Awards', voting results for 2015 showed that Big Bang, J.Y. Park, and IU won 'Artist of the taon chosen sa pamamagitan ng Netizens' award.
For the voting, a total of 70 candidates were separated into categories. The division showed that there were a total of 22 male artists, 10 female artists, and 38 group artists.
The voting started at noon on February 15 and ended at midnight on February 22. There were a total of 26,542 voters. Big Bang received a total of 5,321 mga boto in the group category, J.Y Park received 1,425 mga boto in the male artist category, and IU received 3,654 in the female artist category.
Congrats to Big Bang, J.Y. Park, and IU!
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Entitled "Scarlet Heart", the new drama is the Korean version of a famous Chinese telebisyon series, which in turn was based on a book of the same title.
The drama is a romantic pantasiya in which a 21st century woman is sent back to a historical time period and is forced to adjust to a comparatively primative lifestyle.
The Chinese version of the drama was immensely popular all over Asia, resulting in high anticipation for the Korean version.
According to the Korean media, the new drama starring IU and Lee Joonki is roughly scheduled to air in the segundo half of 2016, so stay tuned to moonROK for madami details on the singer's new drama.
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