BTS Jungkook's 'Seven' Plagiarism Allegations Debunked — Here's What Dispatch Uncovered
Dispatch has cleared Jungkook's plagiarism allegations with backing evidence.
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BTS Jungkook's Plagiarism Accusations Debunked With Dispatch's Side-By-Side Comparison
Dispatch has joined in Jungkook's "Seven" plagiarism issue.
On August 24, Dispatch released an exclusive report, stating the plagiarism allegations made against "Seven" were found baseless. The concerns were raised on August 22 by Yang Joon Young, the producer for Fin K.L's song "Time of Mask."
Yang Joon Young engaged on a conversation with Dispatch and discussed the reason why plagiarism issues were looming. The producer explained that while the keys of the two songs were different, the four-bar scale systems were identical.
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"The key of the songs might differ from one another. However, the two songs' four-bar scale system are the same," Yang Joon Young stated.
The producer then mentioned that these similarities were between the chorus of "Time of Mask" (0:52 - 1:10), and the opening second verse of Jungkook's "Seven" (1:05 - 1:20). But key sounds of both songs were entirely different.
This is because "Time of Mask" plays an E major, while "Seven" is in B minor, and the songs are executed contrarily on different sounds. Dispatch also revealed that in order to compare better, the keys of "Time of Mask" and "Seven" were changed to A minor and C major, respectively.
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Dispatch also made key changes on both songs to match both in terms of melody, meaning that "Time of Mask" was played in A minor and "Seven" in F major. Once altered, the song's notes were compared one more time.
According to the graph, the notes of the melody are identical, but most of the notes that are sung still bared differences. This proved that Yang Joon Young's claims of the songs being identical were not proved to be plausible.
It was also disclosed that notes were provided for the two songs. The graphs showed certain notes including sharp and flat signs, indicating the clear distinction between the melodies of "Time of Mask" and "Seven."
Onwards, Yang Joon Young mentioned to Dispatch that a clarification request was sent to a HYBE producer, which was referred to as "A."However, it was cleared out that producer "A" was not a HYBE producer, but an external one.
Yang Joon Young's concerns still caught the attention of HYBE, earning a brief comment from the company stating that these plagiarism accusations were one-sided.
"Materials regarding this information hasn't been sent to us." HYBE stated. "Plagiarism between the two songs are incomprehensible, and these claims are a one-sided take."
Dispatch also revealed that an expert opinion from an outside composer was considered. The composer elaborated the dismissive nature of the plagiarism claims. It wrote:
"The number of main notes are only 12, including sharps. Because of this aspect, many songs tend to have similar-sounding notes.
In order to determine cases of plagiarism, two factors must at least be taken into account: melody and chorus. In this case, the two songs are entirely different, and this plagiarism dispute in itself, is ruled as nonsense."
Click here to see Dispatch's breakdown of "Time of Mask" and "Seven."
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