“Stop stealing from artists”: singer Yseult denounces the plagiarism of one of her clips by a K-pop singer and DJ

“I guess when you go global, thieves go global too.” French singer Yseult is furious with K-Pop artists R.Tee and Soyeon, who copied footage from her music video shot for shot. Bitch you never could.

In a long message published on Sunday on X, the singer is upset by this practice and believes that K-pop plunders black culture.

“Let’s face it, the K-pop industry, like many others, has been pushing black culture like a vampire for decades,” he writes. “It samples our sounds, steals our movements, dresses our skin like a costume, profits from our pain while erasing our names!”

“A faithful copy”

“Stop stealing from artists and acting like it doesn’t matter. Every action has a consequence. You can steal the flower, but history knows who planted the seed!”

The day before, the singer who had just discovered the K-pop video had challenged those who worked on the video. “I just watched this video Damdadi by R.Tee feat. Soyeon. This is a carbon copy of my clip. Bitch you never could“.

“Director, label, artists, everyone who participated in this project, could at least have the decency to cite their source.”

In the comments on Yseult’s messages, fans of the singer and fans of the incriminated K-pop artists are furious. The first defending Yseult and advising him to contact the Korean teams. The latter accuse him of attacking the singer Soyeon who, according to them, is not responsible for the content of the clip, since she is only a guest artist in the song. They accuse each other of racism and sexism.

Soyeon, whose real name is Jeon So-yeon, is a Korean rapper. He began his career in a K-pop group called (G)I-DLE. R. Tee, whose real name is Kim Jung-gu, is a Korean composer and DJ. The video of his song. Damdadi It was released on August 10. His label also released a behind-the-scenes video of the filming of this clip, supervised by R. Tee.

the clip of Bitch you never couldby singer Yeult, was released in May 2024. It has been viewed more than a million times on YouTube. In 2024, she was among the most listened to French singers in the world, in particular thanks to her collaboration on the title Alibi by the Dutch-Iranian singer Sevdaliza with the Brazilian Pabllo Vittar.