Reporter Wu Mengting/Comprehensive Report
South Korea's star-making factory SM Entertainment's new girl group aespa is in the publicity period, member GISELLE was caught singing a racially discriminatory word because of the mouth shape of a film, was condemned by fans, SM Entertainment quietly removed the controversial film, and she also formally apologized in English earlier, winning applause in a positive response.
Aespa GISELLE apologized for the racist controversy. (Photo/Recap from aespa Twitter)
Earlier, via AESPA's official Twitter, she wrote in english, "Hello, I'm GISELLE, and I want to apologize for singing the wrong words in the lyrics of the song that was played live." I didn't do it intentionally and without any purpose, but just because I played a song by one of my favorite artists, I was washed away, and I sincerely apologize, I will always learn and will pay more attention to my behavior."
In this regard, many overseas fans left messages in English below, praising her for admitting her mistakes and having the courage to apologize, "I didn't expect SM to make her apologize, very impressed", "Thank you for your humble apology, we are very grateful", "Everyone will make mistakes, I think she has grown up because of this, it is worth encouraging", "I really did not expect to apologize positively, and did a good job", the two articles totaled more than 130,000 retweets and 210,000 likes.
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Giselle caused controversy in a film, when she and her teammates Karina and Ningning were filming the album cover, behind the Western singer SZA's "Love Galore", they danced happily to the music, GISELLE sang the lyrics to the mouth, but did not avoid the original lyrics sensitive vocabulary "niggas (niggas)" and directly sang, in Western culture, even if the original lyrics have discriminatory words, many singers will avoid singing when covering, so as not to cause controversy. After being protested by overseas fans, SM quietly removed the original film.