On a recent broadcast of CNN, it based a news segment on a popular Taiwanese singer Lotus Wang and her new song ‘Bobee.’ In the past, ‘Bobee’ has been recognized as a plagiarized version of ‘Bo Peep Bo Peep‘ hence when the segment aired, this article became a huge concern among neitizens.
CNN and MTV introduced Lotus Wang by informing how the star has sold more than 100 million records and started a worldwide craze with her latest song ‘Bobee’. They also praised her on various levels and compared her to sex icon, Beyonce.
However, after the segment aired, the topic became a huge concern on various online bulletin boards to which it received many complaints from Korean neitizens. They complained how ‘Bobee’ wasn’t even the original and how CNN did not regard to T-ara at any stage.
Netizens said, “They aired a parody instead”, “It’s a remake, right? It’s not plagiarism?”, “T-ara’s music videos have much more hits on YouTube. They do not even know what they are reporting,” and were very bitter.
The segment:
I have to agree on this issue, South Korean girl group is definitely not enough!

January 27, 2011 11:00 PM | by