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[ASKKPOP] Director of Taylor Swift's 'Bad Blood' MV denies copying 2NE1 and calls out writer for misleading article

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It all started with a social media war betweenNicki MinajandTaylor Swift, which some are labeling a feud. As the war was raging, K-Pop was somehow dragged into the heated discourse withone random fan's accusatory tweetthat Taylor Swift's "Bad Blood" MV allegedly "borrowed" its concept from2NE1's "Come Back Home" MV.



Following this tweet,an article was uploaded on Jezebel that seemed to back the fan's sentiment. The article referred to the "Korean roots" of film and music video director,Joseph Kahn, who is the mastermind behind Taylor Swift's "Bad Blood," insinuating that Kahn's inspiration was born from what can only be considered one of Korea's biggest coin-squeezers: K-Pop. However, these so-called "roots" were actually inreference to an article written about Joseph Kahn on the Korea Times, and dwells little on the director's adventures into the realm of the Korean pop culture industry; rather, the article was more a story on his big break as a director in the American pop scene and had almost nothing to do with K-Pop.


Kahn, his feathers clearly ruffled for being dragged into something that he wished to be no part of, retaliated on his Twitter against the Jezebel author for tainting his name by suggesting he copies other people's work (and also gave a snarky thanks for making him "famous"). In fact, Kahn confessed that his knowledge on K-Pop is nonexistent as he declared on his Twitter, "If you hit me with in head with a bottle of kimchi I wouldn't know a single Kpop song in the last 5 years. Too busy listening to Anaconda [sic]." The director posted a barrage of other scornful comments on his Twitter, denouncing the Jezebel writer for her accusations. He also pointed out that the theme of "Bad Blood" are "common SCI FI TROPES," and that the flares are from 'Alien 3.'


Kahn even wrote up an official complaint regarding the misleading article:


"I need to lodge a complaint against an article you posted about me where the writer accused me of plagiarizing a Korean music video on Bad Blood. 1. I never saw that video and 2. all of the comparisons are common sci fi tropes - city, cars, helmets, body scans, flares - all recropped without context. Furthermore recording screen grabs and accusing others of copying their groups is apparently a very common hobby of Kpop fans. If you view both videos, aside from the uncontextual limited screen grabs, you will quickly see they are completely different videos.


"But an even more questionable tactic of your writer is where she accused me of likely copying because of I am Korean born:


"I never said I was going back to my "Korean roots." The article she is mentioning is here:

http://www.koreatimesus.com/taylor-swift-b...


"The Korea Times author wrote "Roots" in the title in context of questions he was asking about my family. There is never any mention of Kpop in the article. The quote about "my attention" is in context to the business structure of my field:


"The implication your writer is making is explicit: I am a foreigner born overseas and I am trying to reconnect with my birth country and have obvious motive to copy it.


"I do not listen to Kpop. I am American. And this is an unethical, slandering article."






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