This is an interesting article that xiaochu posted on Quainte501. Read and know the story why the release of SS501 album "REBIRTH" was delayes.
10/18 [news] SS501, “Was swindled into plagiarism”
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Popular group SS501 revealed the reason for releasing their new album later than expected at the press conference held prior to their Asia Tour concert in Taipei Taiwan on 17-Oct.
SS501’s leader, Kim HyunJoong said “We are sorry to our fans because our album release was postponed for about 2 months. During the process of recording, we were caught in a swindle. If we haven’t released it during the midst (of recording), we would have sang a plagiarized song.”
SS501 planned to release their album in August, so they started recording for the album while doing their Asia Tour concert. SS501 went to USA to look for their title song for this album, they received a song that they like from an agent and started recording it immediately. However during the process of recording, this agent continued to offer to sell this song and some other songs, and even demanded for additional (song) usage fee. Kim HyunJoong paid this agent over 8 million won. But the process of recording didn’t go on smoothly after that, DSP Media confirmed that the title song was already being released in USA.
Park JungMin revealed “After we ended our Japan concert in August, on the flight back home, we don’t know who sang this song, but we heard the song which sounded like our title song. We immediately investigate on that agent and confirmed that we were being swindled.” Kim HyunJoong said that luckily through DSP Media’s effort, the 8 million won was returned to him.
DSP Media said “We are lucky that we found out about the song during the process of recording and was able to change it. Even though we do not have any financial losses, because of this, we wasted 2 months time which is like money to us.”
After all the twists and turns, they will be releasing their new album ‘REBIRTH’ on 20-Oct with the title song ‘Love like this’. This song is composed by Steven Lee, a famous composer in USA. Steven Lee composed all 5 songs in their new album and member Kim HyungJoon wrote the lyrics for new song ‘Obsess’.
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4 comments:
Gosh! the agent is so horrible! T.T
Goodness!~~
Anyway, thanks for your updates^^
How's thing going on in Seoul now?
Must be enjoying right...hehe^^
The boys are back to Seoul today~
Time is running fast...... TW concert was over... look forwards to Shanghai's ones.....^^
i just knew it, i read somewhere else like a month ago that korean singers are singing songs like those that are already out in the US. and i just thought for a second that maybe ss501 sang songs like that, cause i thought the Hey G sounded like summin familiar. but then i forgot all about it and went on in life.. and then i read this post!!
gosh! bad bad bad agent. just because theyre koreans, do they think that my boys are stupid or something?/ GOSH!!!! its good that hyun joongie oppa got his money back
Dear Liezle
REEBIRTH is OUT! It's out! I just saw in allkpop
http://www.allkpop.com/index.php/full_story/ss501_releases_rebirth_album/
Please update and tell everyone. I just listend to Love like this - it's super super good. I ran off to tell BB, Cagali and now you. Now have to run off to listen to rest of the song. Argh... so excited the boys released the songs early.
Cheerios, Belle
Dear Liezle
Please remove my post above and this post after reading. BB just informed me that it might be a leak. I had thought that allkpop was credible. So sorry for the trouble dear.
Sigh.. I really do hope it's not leaked. Instead of excited, I'm so down now.
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