K-pop group 2NE1 is recently making headlines in Hollywood not because of a new international project but because of its "Come Back Home" music video, which is said to be the inspiration of Taylor Swift's "Bad Blood" music video.
The issue about the "Bad Blood" and "Come Back Home" music videos started when a fan tweeted Nicki Minaj a photo grid showing common details in the two futuristic videos with a caption, "Can we talk about how Taylor's video isn't original and was copied from a group of four WOC, 2NE1."
This was amid the controversial exclusion of Minaj's "Anaconda" from the MTV Video Music Awards nominations, which led to a Twitter exchange between Minaj and Swift.
In 2014, 2NE1 also created a buzz in Hollywood when Boston's 103.3FM censored the K-Pop group's single "I Am The Best" over misheard N-word lyrics in the chorus part. The radio station apparently misunderstood the Korean word "naega," which mean "I" as the said K-pop song title in Korean is "Naega jeil jal naga."
"I Am The Best" was first heard as the background music of the Microsoft's Surface Pro 3 tablet laptop commercial. Microsoft has been airing the K-pop song in commercials around the world without censoring its lyrics since August 2014.
In October 2014, Boston and New York radio station started "I Am The Best," which went on to rank number one in Billboard's World Digital Songs chart before it dropped to the second spot behind Israel "IZ" Kamakawiwo' Ole's "Somewhere Over The Rainbow."
"I Am The Best" was the song the second Korean act to top the chart, the first being Psy's "Gangnam Style," which is also currently at the third spot of the chart, according to Billboard. Watch 2NE1's "Come Back Home" music video here: