Purplay’s agency addresses choreography plagiarism issue

[benihime99.livejournal.com]

Word has reached Korea about rookie group Purplay‘s alleged choreography plagiarism, and the group’s agency has finally addressed the issue.

To recap, the girl group unveiled a video teaser for their debut single “Love and Remember“, only to gain criticism from overseas fans who recognized the choreography sequences to be originally from America’s Best Dance Crew‘s former champions, I.aM.mE.

The I.aM.mE crew members also expressed their frustration through Twitter as well as on Purplay’s YouTube channel, asking to be at least credited and acknowledged, stating that the entire dubstep segment was actually theirs.

If you recently checked, the description for the full music video has been updated to include that the I.aM.mE crew worked with Purplay to create the choreography. Fans have taken notice, and have been wondering what led to the change.

Well it turns out, the word has spread to Korea, and Purplay’s agency was contacted for a statement. The agency commented, “After hearing netizens point out this matter, we are in the process of taking the appropriate steps to resolve [the issue].”

Source: Allkpop, Sports Seoul

Comments

[love-keiko.livejournal.com]

ORLY now?!

hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.....

[lysblack.livejournal.com]

omfg they are so fucking dumb, first they steal the choreo and claim the girls created it (and the girls perfomed it bsdly), then they get caught and act like the dance crew worked with them to create it, when we all know it is a lie, and now when they FINALLY noticed that they can't pretend it was okay, they say they will think about what they will do. WTF.

[waterpulse.livejournal.com]

Seriously, worst management company ever.

[iftheshoefits88.livejournal.com]

argh....it must suck to be these nugus and have such a bad rep already -_-

[nightfrost75.livejournal.com]

Checks were written.

[sandra-hall.livejournal.com]

worked with

that's one way of putting it.

[toshi830.livejournal.com]

well ok, company fucked up

I still meh at iamme though.

[honeebs.livejournal.com]

BOOO BOOO
get out!
Better luck next time, if there will even be a next time.

[10135.livejournal.com]

LOL. This just keeps getting more ridiculous.

[shining-lore.livejournal.com]

But when are they going to address that awful name?

[hellodee16.livejournal.com]

Ohhhh okay, so they worked with I.am.Me without them actually knowing... thru YouTube, gotcha.
Good job nugu company. Keep it up.
For their next song I'm gonna need more dolphin laughs, cuz I can't get enough of it tbh.

[creepink.livejournal.com]

On the good side, at least they get publicity.

[sweet16een.livejournal.com]

Now I.aM.mE. helped them with the choreography
I hope they got payed for helping these nugu's get some attention

[supplanter.livejournal.com]

Yeah, ok, does "appropriate steps" include monetary compensation, hm?