INDOZONE.ID – The APOLOGIZE TO LISA petition was trending on Twitter on Tuesday (12/7/2022).
Fans BLACKPINK Lisa urges a Korean music magazine to apologize following the allegations racism in a published article.
Music magazine Rolling Stone Korea was accused of racist remarks once morest BLACKPINK’s Lisa in an article published.
In the article in question, the author highlights Lisa as one of BLACKPINK’s personnel who she calls unique because she has a different physical appearance from other people. Korea in general.
“Lisa’s unique presence, created by her extraordinary physical charm and exotic appearance, coupled with her competence as a rapper, accentuates her identity as a solo artist,” reads one paragraph of the article.
In addition, the writer also mentioned that Lisa has good Korean pronunciation so that listeners of BLACKPINK’s songs don’t realize that she is not Korean.
“The pronunciation (of Korean) in the songs is natural enough to prevent listeners from feeling the awkwardness of having foreign personnel in the group,” continued the paragraph.
The article also sparked a debate reaction among BLACKPINK fans, especially Lisa.
They considered that the paragraph was a form of racism towards Lisa as a Thai person who is indeed brown-skinned and does not speak Korean.
Through the APOLOGIZE TO LISA petition, fans urged Rolling Stone Korea and its writers to apologize to BLACKPINK’s Lisa.
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