Britney's "Gimme More" being plagiarized & ruining careers
IU, South-Korea's biggest solo artist of the last few years, sampled Britney Spears' Gimme More in a bonus track on her latest album. The song was used earlier this year in the TV series 'Producer', but hasn't officially been released until two weeks ago.
IU's currently being eaten alive by several Korean online communities:
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1. [+10,000, -373] Just sounds totally similar...
2. [+329, -26] She needs to admit to this..
5. [+258, -27] Utter failure ㅋ
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1. [+287, -18] Britney's song was just cut up and pasted in.
2. [+273, -28] Copied and pasted and then IU goes around acting like an artist..;
3. [+221, -12] You really can't make excuses for this..
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1. [+395, -76] ?? She promoted her album saying she composed and wrote everything on it but now that this controversy arises, she claims she didn't compose it? Then why didn't she say that from the start, that she just participated in the production of the album. An artist? As if she's an artist. She didn't know? The source wasn't clear? Then isn't it logic that you don't use something you don't know where it's from? Did they go ahead and use it thinking no one would find it? Did she not listen to the song and realize something was off about it? Was she so sure that the public wouldn't catch it? Isn't the excuse that you "didn't know" so overdone?
2. [+369, -90] As if she's an artist, tsk tsk
3. [+281, -38] She put out so many articles saying she wrote and composed the entire album... so why's she saying now that there's another composer?
Then why didn't she say that from the start, that she just participated in the production of the album. An artist? As if she's an artist. She didn't know?
