Korean netizens are slamming NCT member Taeyong after the discharge of his comeback MV, “TAP“.
Launched on February 28 at 6 PM KST because the title monitor from Taeyong 2nd mini album of the identical title, “TAP” is a hip-hop quantity with Bluesy sounds and a easy, catchy rap.
The MV for “TAP”, which appears to take inspiration from the favored Japanese actuality program ‘Previous Sufficient!‘ (or ‘My First Errand‘), was filmed fully in Tokyo. It begins with Taeyong waking up in a conventional Japanese-style dwelling, the place he decides to enterprise out on a mission to search out the standard Japanese snack dango. He then visits numerous places round Tokyo together with a restaurant, a public tub (the place he dances in entrance of a big portray of Mt. Fuji), and extra till he finds what he is on the lookout for. Moreover, the MV featured captions in each Korean and Japanese all through the story, elevating questions.
The MV, with its robust “Japanese-flavor”, was not well-received by Korean netizens.
Many didn’t maintain again their harsh criticism, commenting,
“Is he pro-Japanese? Simply go to Japan!”
“Can he even name himself Korean?”
“Does he need to grow to be Japanese…”
“Even followers cannot defend him on this one. They should simply take the MV down and by no means point out it ever once more.”
“Every thing about that is so Japanese that it isn’t even an issue. It actually may as effectively be a Japanese MV by a J-Pop idol.”
“Effectively I’ll by no means ever hearken to this music so long as I reside.”
“Wow honorary Japanese.”
“This makes me so mad. And tomorrow is March First!”
“Placing this MV out per week earlier than March First… you don’t have any one accountable even when individuals name you a traitor.”
“Simply go to Japan and be a Japanese idol already.”
“Whoever considered this concept, whoever gave the inexperienced mild for this concept, whoever labored on this MV… good to know there are such a lot of pro-Japanese at SM.”
“Simply go to the military already.”
In the meantime, the Japanese dance crew TSUBAKILL, recognized for showing on ‘Road Lady Fighter 2‘, additionally made an look within the “TAP” MV.
