The producer who alleged that BTS Jungkook‘s “Seven” had plagiarized his work is facing plagiarizing allegations of his own.
Recently, first-generation K-Pop producer Yang Joon Young shocked the K-Pop world when he alleged that Jungkook’s “Seven” had plagiarized Fin.K.L‘s “Time of Mask,” which he had produced.
The allegations were met with skeptics due to “Seven” having been written by producers overseas, as well as the fact that an overwhelming majority of listeners just didn’t find any similarities to the songs.
Adding fuel to this puzzling controversy, on August 24, Dispatch released an article in which it provided factual evidence, seemingly clearing Jungkook of any wrongdoing.
Dispatch Clears BTS’s Jungkook Of All Plagiarism Accusations Related To “Seven”
If this wasn’t bad enough for Yang Joon Young, listeners who checked out Fin.K.L’s song due to the controversy realized the song was eerily similar to another legendary pop group, the Spice Girls.
I don’t usually chime in on the drama but the Seven plagiarism claim is ridiculous. I could easily say that Fin.K.L song Time of Mask is a plagiarism of a Spice Girls song, Say You’ll Be There. Go listen to both and tell me I am wrong! pic.twitter.com/8E2qyUqdVZ
— Imoogi Asana⁷ (@BTS_Noona_ARMY) August 23, 2023
Just listening to the first 30 seconds of the Spice Girls’ hit “Say You’ll Be There,” it is impossible to ignore the similarities to Fin.K.L’s central melody in “Time of Mask.” “Say You’ll Be There” was released in 1996, a full three years before “Time of Mask.”
Netizens all over the world lamented the irony and were bewildered by the audacity of Yang Joon Young.
- “I learned that ‘Time of Mask’ is more similar to the Spice Girls!”
- “The Fin.K.L song is closer to the Spice Girls’ song, in my opinion, LOL.”
- “Woah, seriously, the Spice Girls’ song is more similar to the Fin.K.L song?”
- “It’s really similar to the Spice Girls, LOL. I think he’s in for some trouble,”
- “Seriously, the intro to ‘Time of Mask’ is identical to ‘Say You Will Be There.’”
- “So, do we just send this to the Spice Girls’ producer?”
I call bullsh*t on the claim that the writers of Seven plagiarized Fin.K.L’s Time of Mask.
Within seconds of hearing Time of Mask, I noticed how much it sounded exactly like The Spice Girl’s “Say You’ll Be There”. https://t.co/pzmHgm0R2k
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NikiaSarang
(@NikiaSarang) August 23, 2023
I seen that there’s* chat about “Seven” possibly have plagiarizing Fin.K.L’s “Time of Mask”, and that’s mind boggling because “Time of Mask” sounds more like “Say You’ll Be There” by The Spice Girls than “Seven” does to “Time of Mask”…
— G. (@letternumber7) August 23, 2023
Time of Mask sound like the Spice Girls song, “Say You’ll Be There”
— sienna.🫧 (@hellosienna_) August 22, 2023
NOPE!! Excuse us! They are not alike! It sounds more like the song of Spice Girls’ Say You’ll Be There! Please stop the plagiarism issue of Jungkook’s song.
https://t.co/JJqd6S8Tgl
— Miss B (@missburny) August 23, 2023
What are your thoughts?
Here are the two songs in question, which you can compare for yourselves.
