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SHINee performed “Just Dance” by Lady Gaga for the KBS Song Festival in December 2010, but it’s recently claimed by an American choreographer that the dance was stolen from him and SM Entertainment never credited his dance crew.

Pat Cruz, Shaun Evaristo’s Fellow Movement Lifestyle choreographer has recently launched a tirade against Korean idol boy group, SHINee for apparently stealing his dance moves. He wrote:

This is interesting. My friend Sam from North Carolina (raise up, take your shirt off, spin it like a helicopter) brought it to my attention. This video is of a Korean boy band doing my disturbia choreography to the song “Just Dance” by Lady GaGa. This was probably taken from our WOD Pomona video. You can see the actual choreography from that video here (starts at 3min)

This whole thing kind of boggles my mind. How can the “choreographer” take pride in their work knowing it isn’t really theirs? I mean congrats you copied the choreography dead on, but that’s about all you really did. I bet it would have been easier to come up with simple yet affective two steps for these “talented” dancers than taking the time to learn my routine off of youtube anyway. If you like the choreography that much then why not do it to the song it was intended for? There was a lot of thought put into the movements that directly correlated to the actual song. Now the choreography means nothing at all. I mean sure it gets the job done but it’s just movement now. No meaning, no depth, no substance, just movement. From the looks of things they have a pretty big budget so why not just ask me to do something for the artist. I would be more than happy and being that i am not considered a big name i would have probably been cheaper than anyone else.

In the end there is little to no chance at all of me getting compensation let alone any credit for this. It just sucks that those who take the time, effort and hard work to create can go over looked by artist and labels. In the end we are small fish in their pond and as of now there is little we can do about it. Thank God for Movement Lifestyle…

-Pat

Now let’s compare, shall we?

SHINee - Just Dance

Movement Lifestyle - Just Dance (starts @ 3:00)

Source: Allkpop


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I’m sure this won’t be a big issue.


People also do have to recognize that in most cases, it’s not the artist’s fault. :(


i know right! the artist are getting bashed! they didnt even made the dance! D: hope sm learn from this!


i dont know, but they need to be a bit more careful.


Why is it nearly always SM? :(


i wonder what sm is thinking! they know is=s gonna cause a scandal of some sort! i just feel sorry for the sm artists T_T


^ yeah, and its not the first time shinee was given youtube choreography routines, Taemin also used one for maknae rebellion

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkDNOqXZ4BQ[/youtube]
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=flOS8CNaYDk[/youtube]


The choreographer is at fault here, unfortunatately,ShinEE gets all the blame.


I’m not really sure what’s going on here, I do know that Shinee is doing a COVER. All cover songs need to be cleared to be used on the air.

Lady Gaga’s song is not their’s in the first place. Did they get permission to use this song on TV? U-know didn’t get permission to use a song for his dance on live TV, as well.

If your’e using someone else’s dance, you also need to get that cleared.

On the bright side, the likely hood of them using this choreography again is rare and they didn’t use it for their own songs.



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