Big Hit decides not to release BTS’s upcoming track 'Bird' written by AKB48 producer

[juhli.livejournal.com]

Big Hit Entertainment Announces Final Decision Regarding Release Of #BTS’s Collaboration With AKB48 Producerhttps://t.co/KYPEJ0h8nK pic.twitter.com/UbhMS8GMYE

— Soompi (@soompi) September 16, 2018

The agency announced their decision to not release the track altogether through BTS’s official fan cafe.

They stated, “The tracks included on the Japanese single album set to be released in November have changed as shown below due to production reasons. We apologize for the discomfort.” The announcement then listed out the original track list and the changed track list.

The album will still consist of Japanese versions of “Fake Love” and “Airplane pt. 2.” Instead of “Bird” (the collaboration with Yasushi Akimoto), the single album will include a remix of “IDOL” and a remix of the Japanese version of “Fake Love.”

Source: @soompi, Herald Pop via soompi

Comments

[evilcoc0nut.livejournal.com]

I mean, barring this guy's problematic-ness, he's kind of a big deal in Japan. It'll be interesting to see what the result of um...dissing him like this is.

[bubble-monkey9.livejournal.com]

even japanese people don't like him tho. he has connections in the industry but it's not like kpop groups have been thriving in japan post-2013 with the boycott going on.

[infj23.livejournal.com]

It's amazing to watch simultaneously the right decision reached and the dangerous precedents set on a number of issues.

[audiograms.livejournal.com]

Mte

[rainstormraider.livejournal.com]

Seriously.

What a paradigm shift tbh.

This and the Cube mess really brings it into perspective.

[premonitioner.livejournal.com]

so BTS won't ever work with a problematic producer ever again, right? regardless of their nationality, right? bc their fans and netizens are so super concerned about that, right?

[daceymormont.livejournal.com]

Lol mte

[evilcoc0nut.livejournal.com]

[thebloomroom.livejournal.com]

LOL

[jyusou.livejournal.com]

Lmao seriously

[goldenrosalie.livejournal.com]

lmao this

[chikage-chan.livejournal.com]

Lol suuuuuuuuuure *wink

[pepsi-twist9.livejournal.com]

I mean it's a little different in regards to Japan and Korea. The backlash against Nicki wasn't nearly this loud on homeland

[thekellieee.livejournal.com]

lmao

[katheli.livejournal.com]

M E S S

I just hope this won't hurt the boys in Japan, if anything it looks like J fans are a lot more loyal than K fans.

[jyusou.livejournal.com]

I have such mixed feeling about this. Sure, they perhaps averted an image crisis that would put them at odds with the Korean gp, and steered themselves away from association with this dude and what he’s known for. However, they couldn’t do this for Nicki Minaj for her pedo-apologistic bullshit, and still have Supreme Boi on their payroll. And i-fans have been met with radio silence and been made to Deal With It. This is some next level double standards. Well, I hope Bighit is happy with the precedent they’ve set here. Next time any fan demographic raises hell over the people they choose to work with - for good reason - I’ll be expecting at least an official statement of decision/action. Anything else is shit.

[daceymormont.livejournal.com]

I mean, good, fuck him and with their history I completely understand why karmys were so uncomfortable and upset about this but not sure if I buy their concerns about his misogyny and predatory behavior when it wouldn't have been the first time BTS worked with a pedo/pedo apologist

[racquelle2005.livejournal.com]

As usual its armies getting dragged and not bts for working with pieces of shit lol.

[vintage-boom.livejournal.com]

they couldn't have found their spines before they took nicki's call? or you know the number of other abusive pos they've worked with? or whoever's idea it was to shoot in the holocaust memorial?

[lizanka23.livejournal.com]

Those holocaust memorial pictures are still seered in my mind. They just tried to make it seem like nothing happened and sweep it under the rug. All they had to do was release an apology and admit their ignorance

[bubble-monkey9.livejournal.com]

big hit shot themselves in the foot with this tbh. offended people in their own country with a collab that won't even increase their sales in japan. ain't no one buying akb singles for aki-p's lyrics.

[lizanka23.livejournal.com]

So i guess this means they’ll continue working with supreme boi, the chainsmokers, nicki minaj, etc. unless they say something anti-korean?

[jasmineakaiumi.livejournal.com]

this

[jackieee94.livejournal.com]

Waiting for K-fans to make this amount of noise in regards to Supreme boi.

[nekobot.livejournal.com]

Not even Supreme Boi, I want them to demand a statement about Iron. He seems to be so universally despised that even meninists don't cape for him anymore yet for some reason they're not that fussed about making sure people know they completely cut ties with what was really half of the original BTS line-up and one of Bang PD's pet projects like Supreme Boi and RM? Like...where was Rock Bottom's album recorded?

It's not even that I wouldn't believe that he's not around anymore (like would all of them really be that stupid to keep someone like that in their lives) but the fact that they're keeping quiet about what is literally the least controversial statement they could make (jsyk we don't hang out or tolerate this convicted violent sex offender) makes me think they ARE still close with him. They cleaned their hands of GLAM when what Dahee did was peanuts compared to this guy.

[blck-ink.livejournal.com]

#wokekingz

[nekobot.livejournal.com]

Huh, what a surprise, so it DOES pay off when people speak up about things and boycott products made by predators instead of trying to bully eachother into silence??

Extremely telling. International fans better follow suit before BTS' pile of dirty laundry gets so Spring Day sized that the general public will be able to bury them under it.

[jazzygyu.livejournal.com]

Are you sure that the issue is with international fans fighting with each other or BigHit just caring more cuz it was Koreans fans who were upset?

[evilcoc0nut.livejournal.com]

If BTS faces backlash in the West one day, well, BTS, BH and ifans have only themselves to blame.

Thisssssssss.