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On Tuesday 2 June, Grammy award-winning songwriter and music artist Tiffany Red returned home from a trip to her local mall, whe
On Tuesday 2 June, Grammy award-winning songwriter and music artist Tiffany Red returned home from a trip to her local mall, whe
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2022-09-20
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On Tuesday 2 June, Grammy award-winning songwriter and music artist Tiffany Red returned home from a trip to her local mall, where she had encountered the national guard armed with large rifles, an experience that left Red "traumatized".
Still processing her experience at the mall earlier that day. Red opened her inbox to find a message from her South Korean music publisher, Ekko Music Rights, regarding a $66 payment for a song she had written for one of K-pop’s most popular groups, NCT Dream—a straightforward business transaction with zero acknowledgment of what Red, a Black American woman, may have been going through.
For Red, who has worked with artists such as Zendaya, Jennifer Hudson and Jason Derulo,
this was a final straw
. She had already decided to stop writing K-pop music because she felt she was poorly compensated, but Ekko’s aloofness spoke to a continued concern she harbored about the industry at large: that despite K-pop’s reliance on Black music and culture, the industry didn’t actually support Black lives.
Today, a striking number of K-pop hits are written and produced by Black Americans and a significant percentage of K-pop fans in the US are Black. As K-pop grows in popularity worldwide, many international fans are waiting for the industry to develop a more sensitive, globalized understanding of race.
Within K-pop, blackface, mouthing or saying racial slurs, and purely aesthetic uses of Black culture and hairstyles are still common. In recent weeks, as the media has painted K-pop fans as politically active racists and reserving thousands of tickets to artificially boost expected attendance at Donald Trump’s Tulsa rally, official statements of support for Black lives have trickled in from a handful of groups and idols.
Arguably the most well-known K-pop group in the world, BTS, and their parent company, Big Hit Entertainment (whose CEO has stated publicly that "Black music is the base" of the septet’s musical identity) , were some of the most vocal, and the only group to donate money—$ lm—to Black Lives Matter. But many contend that the industry overall has failed to show unified support for the movement. Now, Black creatives and fans are holding them accountable.
SM Entertainment is one of South Korea’s three largest entertainment companies. It is credited with producing the first K-pop idol group, H. O. T. , in 1996, which established the "SM performance" style that the brand still employs today: a combination of impressive visuals, dance, rock, rap and hip-hop that took inspiration from Black American artists of the MTV generation. Songwriter and producer Micah Powell attended six SM songwriting camps between 2015 and 2018. At one camp, he wrote a song called Devil and created a dance move to go with it, which he then showed to SM executives. "The entire staff lit up," Powell says of their reaction.
Devil became the lead single of SM group Super Junior’s 2015 album of the same name. When Powell watched the music video for Devil for the first time, he was shocked to see that his dance move, a hip tap and high clap combination, had been used as part of the song’s chorus, without his permission, and without credit or compensation. Powell’s background vocals on the track had also been used without payment or credit.
"I had to hunt [SM]down," he says, and was eventually paid $200 for the vocals which he had recorded in Korean, a language he does not speak. Powell says the industry’s lack of action is "a microcosm of a bigger issue, part of a bigger puzzle of inequality". K-pop looks to the west for inspiration and "this is exactly how white people see us. They use our culture, they love our culture, they’ll take everything from our culture, but don’t pour back into our culture. "
What does "this" in the sentence "this was a final straw" (Line 2, Para. 3) refer to?
选项
A、Collaborating with well-known artists.
B、The transaction with Ekko Music Right.
C、Writing K-pop music for herself.
D、Writing black music for NCT Dream.
答案
B
解析
细节题。该句话出现在第三段,但是若想推断出this的含义,需要结合上文进行分析。
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