Mirotic Among Others Deemed Inappropriate For Youths
After judging that Rain’s Rainism was harmful and detrimental to youths last week, the Commission of Youth Protection has acted again by labelling TVXQ’s Mirotic, Solbi’s Do It Do It, Trust Me and Make Up Sex from Dynamic Duo’s 4th album, etc in the same category as Rainism. This has created an uproar once again in Korea with the ruling taking effect from this week onwards.
According to sources, the Commission of Youth Protection usually examines around 100 songs every month to see if they are harmful or detrimental to youths in Korea. But this is the first time that their scope is targeted specifically towards popular mainstream singers in Korea right now. In the last month alone, 110 songs were judged to be inappropriate with 32 of them Korean songs, setting a new record in the process. The reason for banning Mirotic was the same as Rainism in that part of the lyrics were inappropriate.
The ruling will come into effect from 4th December with the song being banned from playing on tv or radio before 10pm. The Mirotic album will have stickers affixed to them that indicates “unsuitable for people under 19 years old”. The song lyrics will have to be modified if they are going to perform this during concerts or events. Action will be taken if any of the above are flouted.
Although affected singers and their companies have expressed that they will adhere to the ruling, they can’t fathom the reasoning behind the ban.
Industry critics feel that this will only heap more misery on the already suffering music industry. And one wonders if the “19-only” stickers restricting the sale of affected albums will actually have any effect. TVXQ for example are already done with promoting Mirotic and are actually in the midst of promoting their follow-up song Wrong Number. With album sales already exceeding 300,000, it also means that most of their fans have already gotten the album already.
A Disney-friendly Korean music industry in future? Hope not.
Dude, You've got to be kidding me!! --Thank god I've already bought Mirotic!! But if people REALLY wanna buy the albums, they could like, USE THEIR BRAIN & CALL SOMEONE OVER 19 TO HELP THEM BUY, FOR GOD'S SAKE!! Dude, what's EVEN wrong with Mirotic's lyrics?? "Red Ocean" = girl's xxx & "Crystal"= boy's xxx??? What about "Chrome heart", then?
But seriously, these kind of "action" WON'T EVEN AFFECT ANYTHING. Actually, they make album sales EVEN HIGHER THAN BEFORE. Seriously. Rain's "Rainism" album had gotten DOUBLE the sales the day his "magic stick" is "being kept for safe". As we know, Cassiopeia will support TVXQ no matter what..maybe Mirotic album sales will boost up^^
source: coolsmuft@wordpress
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