JadiGini – The second-generation idol who is now pursuing a solo career, Jay Park, has recently come under fire for being seen as demeaning the symbols of Muslims in his lyrics.
Well, apparently, it’s not only the former leader of 2PM who got into trouble with a religious group, a number of other Kpop idols have also been judged to offend certain religious groups. Who are they? So, let’s just take a look at 6 K-Pop idols that are considered to be insulting to religion.
6 KPop idols that are considered to be insulting to religion.
1. Lee Chae-rin (CL)
CL’s solo song titled Mental Breakdown or MTBD which was released in 2014 ago, in the track performed by the former 2NE1 member, the Al-Quran is heard, namely Surah an-Naba verses 32-34. At minute 2 past 55 seconds, the word of God is heard against the background of typical desert music.
As a result, the world’s Muslims reacted, according to them it was inappropriate for the Muslim holy verse to be included in the lyrics of the song, through a South Korean Muslim group they sent a letter of protest to YG Entertainment, the agency finally removed the part of the Koran’s pronunciation.
2. Blackpink
Netizens’ praise for the success of the first single from the first album, How you like that, which was released at the end of June 2020, was apparently accompanied by protests, because it was considered disrespectful to Hinduism. A number of Blinks realized that when Lisa sang the rap part, the maknae was seen sitting on the throne.
Now beside Lisa, there is a Hindu statue, namely the god Ganesha, which is placed on the floor, knowing that the God who symbolizes wisdom and is the patron God of art and science is placed on the floor. Blink India considers it a very disrespectful act against a god. Hindus believe that statues of gods should always be placed on a high surface.
Lisa, who was near the god statue at that time, was also criticized for wearing shoes, even though Hindus do not wear shoes when worshiping God. The YG agency finally responded to this by eliminating the appearance of the statue of the god Ganesha.
After the song How You Like That, the second single from Jennie CS’ album with Selena Gomez, namely Ice Cream, also drew criticism, the lyrics of the song were considered insulting to the Prophet Musa.
The lyrics read: “Play the part like Moses, keep it fresh like roses”.
Well, some people think that the part sung by Lisa contains sexual symbols and meanings, hearing that the writer of Frozen Boom also gave her classification.
“Moses parted the red sea for anyone who doesn’t know the story, so basically I need you to sort it out if you’re my girlfriend that’s standard. If you can’t buy the sea, you can’t party with me,” said the bomb, as reported by Genius.
The woman whose real name is Rebecca Roads Jansen admitted that she didn’t mean to insult any particular religion, she was just playing word games for fun with the lyrics.
“It’s very interesting to see thousands of foreigners know what you mean, I’m Christian. Prophet Musa said there was absolutely no sexual element”, denied the bomb.
3. Loco
In the x series track which was launched in 2014, he quoted the call to prayer with a remix rhythm at the beginning of the song. After being criticized by the 31-year-old rapper, he immediately apologized via his social media account, he admitted that he did not realize the chant was closely related to Muslims, the agency from Loco immediately deleted the intro melody in the Loco song.
4. NCT
In December 2020, the SM Entertainment agency was trending on Twitter via #SMstopDisrespectingIslam to trending topics in various countries including Indonesia.
Investigating the agency that oversees EXO has made netizens furious because NCT U’s ‘Make A Wish’ music video uses a lot of symbols related to the Islamic religion. Later SM Entertainment even wrote NCT merchandise which was still considered demeaning to Islam, netizens immediately demanded that SM no longer use Islamic symbols.
Now if you’ve watched the music video ‘Make A wWish’, NCT does carry a background that is identical to the mosque’s design, the same thing can be seen in its merchandise which carries the Middle Eastern concept.
5. (G)I-dle
In 2019, this Cube Entertainment-assisted girl group was also highlighted by Kpopers when (G)I-dle appeared at the 33rd Soyeon CS Golden Disk Awards using a mosque as a backdrop. According to Netter’s information, the background of the mosque used is the Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.
As a result, Muslim Kpopers protested because they thought they had demeaned Islam, they demanded the Cube Entertainment agency apologize, they also blamed the (G)I-dle committee, which was considered reckless.
6. Jay Park
Now, the latest one is rapper Jay Park who received public criticism, because the lyrics of his song titled Mommae were accused of harassing Islam. The lyrics of the song make a number of upwards such as Allah, Haram and Arab women and a statement asking to be worshiped like the creator.
Jay Park himself immediately responded to the criticism through his social media account, he denied harassing a particular religion and apologized to those who felt the lyrics of the song insulted Islam.
“He also said all of you who commented said he brought that religion or racism stop the nonsense about false narratives, that to me is just lyrics, for some people it’s more serious as simple as that,” he added.
However, netizens were furious again because they considered the apology from the former 2PM leader to be insincere until finally the Asia’S Got Talent judge again apologized and admitted his mistake.
Kpop lovers, artists always glorify the jargon of freedom of expression, including among Kpop idols. However, the freedom to work also has limitations not to overstep and demean the values of religious beliefs and certain cultures.
So because of that respect and knowledge of religion and culture are important not only for idols but also for netizens before submitting their criticisms.
