[talk] Rosé's 'Apartment' Japanese Song Plagiarism Controversy···'It's Too Similar?' Pros and Cons Debate

The collaboration song "Apartment" by Rosé and Bruno Mars, which is creating a new history in K-pop, is embroiled in a plagiarism controversy. The song that has been revealed to have similarities to "Apartment," which was released by Rosé and Bruno Mars on the 18th, is "Sorry, I Can't Be a Good Girl" (ごめんね、いいコじゃいられない。) by Japanese singer-songwriter Miku Sawai (沢井 美空), released on November 13, 2013.

The song was popular in Japan at the time, reaching number 37 on the Oricon chart. The 40-second main melody of "I'm Sorry, I Can't Be a Good Child" and the 33-second main melody of "Apartment" were criticized for being similar. When the tempo of "Apartment" was changed to the same format as "I'm Sorry, I Can't Be a Good Child," the opinions continued that they were even more similar.

Sawai Miku's "Sorry, I Can't Be a Good Girl" is a lively dance song that contains the rebellious heart of a teenager. The overall intro part has a different atmosphere from "Apartment," but the main melody part, which has a high proportion in the overall song, has been criticized for being "similar," leading to a controversy over similarities.

Listeners who heard the two songs also pointed out things like, "Isn't this essentially the same song?" and "There's a reason the melody is familiar."

One listener said, “Rosé used a melody that would be a headache if she wrote it. Judging from the credits for the composer Mickey from ‘Tommy Basil,’ it seems like Rosé and Bruno Mars were somewhat concerned about plagiarism, but this is a headache-inducing melody in which the important chorus part was used to the point where it would be difficult to trace the owner.” He added, “It’s hard to trace the original creator of melodies like this, so it’s wiser not to use them.”

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This is a very common and frequently used code.

What kind of controversy is this, with a Japanese song being brought up and an article about it being published?

If you look at it that way, Junghwa unnie comes first

All of them are plagiarized from Jeonghwa's three-way confrontation, lol