The 2nd Official Lee Hyori Thread

[Corvina]

It's sad for Hyori, but it's bad to plagiarize even without knowing.
I still love the album to death, cause those 5 songs are good, plagiarized or not, and the album has still other epic songs to listen to.
But seriously they should fire this guy. All songs are from him, so he's obviously the one to blame for the most part.

[FIRSTKLAS]

Seriously, if MNet is not going to own up to this and is actually going to stand by Bahnus, I'm done with Hyo Ri.

I know it's not her fault but if that's the sort of company she keeps I don't think I can respect her as an artist or performer.

[emi♡]

They'll probably try to defend themselves later saying that the groups didn't own the rights to those songs in Asia or something lol

[mcluva420]

another article~

allkpop.com:

Controversy surrounding plagiarism accusations from Lee Hyori’s fourth album has finally reached the ears of her company Mnet Media.

The Queen of K-pop was alleged to have plagiarized several songs without giving credit or compensation to the originals. The songs themselves were released in her long-awaited comeback album titled H-Logic.

She was building momentum in a short amount of time until she was slammed with plagiarism accusations for six out of the seven songs in her album, all of which were coincidentally(?) produced by Bahnus. Bahnus (real name: Lee Jae Young), the leader of the group Bahnus Vacuum, apparently gave 180 songs for Hyori to choose from.

Let’s roundup the Hyori plagiarism accusations, shall we?

Cookie Couture’s Boy, Bring it Back and Hyori’s Bring it Back, Lil Precious’ So Insane and Hyori’s I’m Back, Melanie Durrant’s Feel the Same and Hyori’s Feel the Same, Mikis Theodorakis’ The Train Leaves at Eight and Hyori’s Swing, Jason DeRulo’s How Did We Get and Hyori’s How Did We Get, Second Person’s and The Alphabet Song and Hyori’s Memory.

Stacy Maroske, a member of the girl group Cookie Couture, released a statement on zacktaylor.ca after finding out Hyori had plagiarized their song and has hired a lawyer to go after Hyori.

However, according to Mnet Media’s official statements, it looks like there has been a misunderstanding about the whole situation, similar to that of the guide version American artist Ke$ha’s recorded for SNSD’s Run Devil Run.

A representative of Mnet Media stated, “We were already aware that the guide version of the demo song was up on YouTube before the release of her 4th album. Bahnus had already made these songs 4 – 5 years ago and had sold them. However, the problem was, he then made recordings of the guide and distributed the demo CDs. Also, it is also said that the vocalists who recorded for the CD all possess a copy of it.”

“Bahnus has already secured the documents containing evidence for the recording time, the name of the vocalist, and even the daily records of the entered recording studio. Since YouTube and various portal sites possess copyright infringements, a request has come in to delete the leaked source. The leaked source has announced infringement of the copyright law by the composer.

The representative added, “During the sales of the 4th album, we have revealed this truth in the description of her song Swing. There is no need to receive a copyright approval because this ballad does not have a title and its author is anonymous.”

Although Mnet Media has made official statements defending Hyori, can the issue dissolve as quickly as it erupted?

[Thanks to liljennie for the tip].

[hearted]

ok so this is totally off topic but: I SAW HYORI IN THE CINEMA YESTERDAY!! they played the adidas commercial and i was screaming so loud when she came XD my friends didnt want to share the popcorn with me anymore

[noisy_harmony]

^ lucky you!

Official booklet photos!
http://community.livejournal.com/omo...53.html#cutid1
I LOVE the artwork!

[hearted]

^i knoooow

it looks really cool! i still cant stand the blonde wig though and lol the clown... i love it XD

[miroro]

i love the clown too
and what happened to you in the cinema happens to me everytime i see the CF in TV here i always shout and my mom says "oh, the adidas cm again? "

[noisy_harmony]

^ I want to see your mom saying it xD

To be not offtopic... I say that booklet is amazing once again.

[howtousesexy]

Originally Posted by milky_way

Poor Hyori. After this, she should just leave MNet and sign with another agency.

she will be, this is her last album with mnet.
she's on gil entertainment afterwards

HQ scans here

[hearted]

^really??? thats good to hear never heard of gil entertainment though.. is gil me from there?

miroro: really???? i barely watch tv anymore so maybe they show it here too,, lmao your mom XDDD

[4minute Girl]

too bad she'll flop with a new/poor company. i guess this really is the end of her career

[miroro]

^what?

[Twinkle !]

better to leave mnet after you get the billions

[chocopockymaster]

I don't listen to her on a regular basis, but I just heard about the plagiarism accusations on ONTD....

Daaaaaaaaaaamn, girl.

[4minute Girl]

Originally Posted by Twinkle !

better to leave mnet after you get the billions

what? she probably hasn't made more than $30,000 USD in her entire career

anyway, i just heard she's been arrested and her next performance has been cancelled since she's in a holding cell awaiting trial right now.. R.I.P.

[Sundae]

Originally Posted by 4minute Girl

what? she probably hasn't made more than $30,000 USD in her entire career

anyway, i just heard she's been arrested and her next performance has been cancelled since she's in a holding cell awaiting trial right now.. R.I.P.

Are you messing around?
In 2007 she made 3.8 million USD. Before that she had made up to 42 million USD in her career alone. Doesn't make her the richest but she certainly isn't broke.

No way she's been arrested. GD actually wrote/composed a song that was plagiarized and he got nowhere near a cell.

This doesn't seem to have affected her much either though. She's still promoting and people are still asking her to be on shows. Last time she stopped all promotions and went into hiding. The only difference between this time and last time is the singer was bigger, less songs were involved, and the song accused was the lead promotion track.

[miroro]

^she's just trolling around, ignore her please

[Twinkle !]

^yeah no comment at her random posts.

i believe all of entertainment Companies would like to Sign a contract with Hyori ! thats why she is one of the highest paid female singers in South Korea

[YuriChan]

I love Lee Hyori and I hate to see this crap happen to her!