[FIX OFF] Desire Project #3 'ROAR' | ATEEZ(에이티즈) 민기 Song & Vocal Analysis
Wow, that was HARD! 💪 🔥 A powerful artistic pushback against the haters.
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Yeah unfortunately they don’t have the money behind them to do lawsuits for the amount they are plagiarized. They also have had issues with people just USING them. Or their name to get ahead in general. Mingi will take this personally. Famously Hongjoong made a bit of a diss track that alluded to the issue of Bang PD at HYBE about a year before stuff came out. Lots of whispers of basically bigger companies trying to buy out their talent that works with them (their dance crew, producers, stylists etc) and because those people have been there since they had nothing, they are very loyal. They will occasionally do independent contracts in down time, but yeah. It’s crazy.
Also this is the third part in his FIXOFF Series. First one basically his hiatus mindset. Second one being his breaking free and this one his fighting back mindset. He is very visionary on his branding of FIX ON and FIX OFF. he painted all the backdrops and often will put FIXOFF logo he made on his clothing and accessories. I think he will have a long career even after Ateez
So ATEEZ gets plagiarized a lot. It’s sad bc they’re from a smaller company. They literally built their company from the ground up. So it’s easier for other companies with more money and backing in the industry to take advantage of them. They get plagerized at least once a year. Last year they got plagiarized 3 times! The sad thing is this huge network invited one of the members to be a master mc and give motivation to trainees on a creating a new kpop group survival show. Then like 2 weeks later, that same network plagiarized their art and concept.
I'm not going to list names and I'm only including instances Ateez have openly commented on so I don't assume things but here's some of the drama info: Ateez is plagiarized a LOT, which is why there's so may lyrics about copying etc. One artist even consistently put out music videos that were shot for shot a copy. A big one that's still called out today, a choreographer, on a large dance show claimed to have "invented" a dance move that's the most iconic piece of choreography for their song "Say My Name" (highly recommend). That song came out in 2019 and the person claimed to "invent it" for the show in 2022. Mingi even does the dance for a second in the video. There are so many instances of Ateez being plagiarized, i can't even list them all. Also! The barking is a reference to Ateez concerts! It sounds weird and it's hard to explain why we do it but we bark at their concerts. Mingi is usually the one that leads the barking and tells us to do it. The barking plus the fan chants.... ATEEZ concerts are the LOUDEST concerts I've ever been to. Loudest environment I've ever been in actually. Highly recommend finding a video of a Guerrilla performance at a concert. There's one fan chant for the song where we repeatedly shout "Break the wall!" And Ateez has said we always scream so loud they can't hear anything from their in ears. Their most recent show in Dallas, there was a football game near the concert and you could hear the concert from the game. When they performed at Coachella, you could hear the chant from every stage, even the furthest ones away. When Mingi talks about fan chants tearing the venue apart, that's it!