Ready to have your mind blown? From Bruno Mars to Taemin, and Katy Perry to BTS, there are a TON of K-Pop songs that came from English Pop samples, …
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English Pop Songs Turned Into K-Pop (ft. WAY Too Many SM Songs)
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Going to admit, I just played can I guess the Kpop song from the English song for the whole video. I did terribly, this is definitely not my forte. But, there were a bunch of Kpop songs here I want to check out now, so it feels like a win anyway!
Ngl, when I heard "Under my Skin"/"Mirotic" my jaw dropped.
Frankly, as long as SM payed for these songs fairly and included the proper credits in liner notes, their investment has paid off in spades. So many of these songs went from obscurity to iconic.
SM be like: Let's buy demos from American artists cause we're rich.
What about "Lion Heart"? When I first heard it I thought it was a cover and so did most people whom I showed it to. The problem: nobody was quite sure what it was a cover of. Were we all wrong or not?
Some of the songs do just sound alike but on the whole, this is quite a disaster. Until SME & Company prove otherwise I will assume it's a case of blatant plagiarism.
Hold up is this just English songs turned into Kpop songs, or is it just songs or sounds being used in both English and Korean songs, because if I remember correctly BTS's outro:wings was released before Katy Perry released Swish Swish or am I getting this all messed up?
I knew there is a lot but this is on another level O_O
I might be biased but I think most of them were an improvement lol
I'm sure that the majority had legally bought the rights, but what astounds me is the sheer number of western artist doing the same songs or using the same beats/ background music that I've never heard.
I think SM just goes online to see what songs are for sale, buys the rights to what they like and has their producers make it an SM song….
I guess to SM's defense, they picked a lot of unknown songs (essentially demos) to buy the rights to and made them more famous so it is a win-win all the way around.
Run Devil Run was my introduction to Kpop! Saw the Kesha version first then GG and I was hooked!
most of the songs in this video just sound similar
End of spring – Onewe the chorus reminded me of timber (forgot who the artist is)
SM wtf?
There were also the 7 plagiarized songs from Lee Hyroi's 4th album, H-Logic (in light of the lawsuits brought by those songwriters, I'd imagine that most of not all of the original songs in this video were legally licensed by the K-pop artists).
Holy wow. I'm speechless.