> The Thursday (May 7) lawsuit, obtained and first reported by Billboard, lodges copyright infringement claims against NewJeans’ label ADOR, its parent company HYBE and performers Minji, Hanni, Haerin, Hyein and Danielle. The five women were part of NewJeans beginning in 2022, though Danielle recently departed amid a contract dispute between the powerhouse K-pop girl group and ADOR.
codeverity on
There’s a certain sort of irony to this…
That being said, I wonder why they waited the two years? I’m also curious how much involvement MHJ had in song selection etc.
Edit: not the notice that this has been removed for reports 💀
Yinye7 on
Irony indeed! MHJ has been usually quiet and I haven’t checked up on what is the lates re all the legal stuff.
lnfIation on
They’re just beating a dead bush at this point.
Newjeans deserved a better (AND A FULL VERSION OF GET UP.)
jrebel_0 on
Holy, this has the potential to be the single funniest thing that could’ve happened in this whole saga
L-ghtn-ng on
Add it to the list of examples of MHJ plagiarizing something
Otherwise-Spare4433 on
Wow they are getting plagiarism complaints over music. Second song from their last releases…
FlimsyTie9109 on
The members are being sued together by the songwriters just for being the performers of the song, right? Because they didn’t have anything to do with the song choice etc.
But if this is true (let’s see how the judgement will occurs and the evidences by both sides) it will be a really bad look for MHJ and her “OG ADOR” team since at that point she was still ADOR’s CEO and the team behind all of this was still the people selected by her and most of them with some relations with her (and some of them maybe even followed her to her new company, since some people from “OG ADOR” are in OOAK now). Especially because all of the show she put against not only Belift but ILLIT about several plagiarism accusations.
I just think it’s funny how people in twitter are already saying that it’s HYBE’s mediaplay for losing (in a really crazy and dangerous ruling by the judge) the defamation case yesterday against a cyberwrecker youtube channel when HYBE and the current ADOR themselves are being sued by this and will be the ones more affected in damages if they lose this lawsuit. Not to say that saying that Billboard, with Jeff and other people who were riding for MHJ in articles during 2024 and 2025, is paid by HYBE is a choice…
marshmallowest on
So which side does a tokki send threats to?
Ok-Salad8572 on
Why are the girls in the lawsuit? Shouldn’t it be only the songwriters and producers for trying to pass it as their own?
bigterezistan on
would love to hear the song because the description in the article does not inspire confidence that there is any substance to this…..like…“Both works are in 4/4 meter and the key of B flat minor,” reads the legal complaint. “And both works contain a topline that includes an approximately eight-bar, 31-note melodic sequence consisting of four series.”…..thats half of pop music……….a lot of ppl SPECIALLY in the music industry get by swindling others into lawsuits that hold no merit and its such a shitty situation overall
snowmoon300 on
the irony….lol. Not the first lawsuit for NJ either over plagiarism either but she did love accusing others over long hair….
DrrrtyRaskol on
It seems odd to include the performers, I would think this is just between songwriters? Specifically the composers Ylva Dimberg and 250. I see that Pharrell’s a composer too but I assume that’s crediting an interpolation. Minji’s credited as a lyricist but this article doesn’t allege lyrical infringement, just topline.
Impossible to judge without hearing the demo but definitely interesting.
biaswrecker on
For anybody that can’t access the article:
“According to the lawsuit, songwriter Audrey Armacost was sent an instrumental track by her publisher in January 2024 and invited to submit topline lyrics and melody for consideration by NewJeans. Armacost convened with three other writers — Aidan Rodriguez, Adam Gokcebay and Michael Campanelli — and together, they say they wrote and recorded “One of a Kind” over that instrumental.
The four writers say they sent “One of a Kind” along to NewJeans, but were told it was not selected. Yet when “How Sweet” was released four months later, the lawsuit claims the song’s first verse was “quantitatively and qualitatively similar” to the first verse in “One of a Kind.”
“Both works are in 4/4 meter and the key of B flat minor,” reads the legal complaint. “And both works contain a topline that includes an approximately eight-bar, 31-note melodic sequence consisting of four series.”
Armacost, Rodriguez, Gokcebay and Campanelli allege HYBE, ADOR, the NewJeans members, and a host of other collaborators and distributors violated their rights by failing to license the “One of a Kind” demo. Through the lawsuit, the four songwriters are seeking a cut of the royalties from the “great commercial success” of “How Sweet.”
red_280 on
Live by the sword, die by the sword.
NfamousKaye on
I mean it kinda was a rip.
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Interested to see what comes out of this but isn’t it ironic….
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> The Thursday (May 7) lawsuit, obtained and first reported by Billboard, lodges copyright infringement claims against NewJeans’ label ADOR, its parent company HYBE and performers Minji, Hanni, Haerin, Hyein and Danielle. The five women were part of NewJeans beginning in 2022, though Danielle recently departed amid a contract dispute between the powerhouse K-pop girl group and ADOR.
There’s a certain sort of irony to this…
That being said, I wonder why they waited the two years? I’m also curious how much involvement MHJ had in song selection etc.
Edit: not the notice that this has been removed for reports 💀
Irony indeed! MHJ has been usually quiet and I haven’t checked up on what is the lates re all the legal stuff.
They’re just beating a dead bush at this point.
Newjeans deserved a better (AND A FULL VERSION OF GET UP.)
Holy, this has the potential to be the single funniest thing that could’ve happened in this whole saga
Add it to the list of examples of MHJ plagiarizing something
Wow they are getting plagiarism complaints over music. Second song from their last releases…
The members are being sued together by the songwriters just for being the performers of the song, right? Because they didn’t have anything to do with the song choice etc.
But if this is true (let’s see how the judgement will occurs and the evidences by both sides) it will be a really bad look for MHJ and her “OG ADOR” team since at that point she was still ADOR’s CEO and the team behind all of this was still the people selected by her and most of them with some relations with her (and some of them maybe even followed her to her new company, since some people from “OG ADOR” are in OOAK now). Especially because all of the show she put against not only Belift but ILLIT about several plagiarism accusations.
I just think it’s funny how people in twitter are already saying that it’s HYBE’s mediaplay for losing (in a really crazy and dangerous ruling by the judge) the defamation case yesterday against a cyberwrecker youtube channel when HYBE and the current ADOR themselves are being sued by this and will be the ones more affected in damages if they lose this lawsuit. Not to say that saying that Billboard, with Jeff and other people who were riding for MHJ in articles during 2024 and 2025, is paid by HYBE is a choice…
So which side does a tokki send threats to?
Why are the girls in the lawsuit? Shouldn’t it be only the songwriters and producers for trying to pass it as their own?
would love to hear the song because the description in the article does not inspire confidence that there is any substance to this…..like…“Both works are in 4/4 meter and the key of B flat minor,” reads the legal complaint. “And both works contain a topline that includes an approximately eight-bar, 31-note melodic sequence consisting of four series.”…..thats half of pop music……….a lot of ppl SPECIALLY in the music industry get by swindling others into lawsuits that hold no merit and its such a shitty situation overall
the irony….lol. Not the first lawsuit for NJ either over plagiarism either but she did love accusing others over long hair….
It seems odd to include the performers, I would think this is just between songwriters? Specifically the composers Ylva Dimberg and 250. I see that Pharrell’s a composer too but I assume that’s crediting an interpolation. Minji’s credited as a lyricist but this article doesn’t allege lyrical infringement, just topline.
Impossible to judge without hearing the demo but definitely interesting.
For anybody that can’t access the article:
“According to the lawsuit, songwriter Audrey Armacost was sent an instrumental track by her publisher in January 2024 and invited to submit topline lyrics and melody for consideration by NewJeans. Armacost convened with three other writers — Aidan Rodriguez, Adam Gokcebay and Michael Campanelli — and together, they say they wrote and recorded “One of a Kind” over that instrumental.
The four writers say they sent “One of a Kind” along to NewJeans, but were told it was not selected. Yet when “How Sweet” was released four months later, the lawsuit claims the song’s first verse was “quantitatively and qualitatively similar” to the first verse in “One of a Kind.”
“Both works are in 4/4 meter and the key of B flat minor,” reads the legal complaint. “And both works contain a topline that includes an approximately eight-bar, 31-note melodic sequence consisting of four series.”
Armacost, Rodriguez, Gokcebay and Campanelli allege HYBE, ADOR, the NewJeans members, and a host of other collaborators and distributors violated their rights by failing to license the “One of a Kind” demo. Through the lawsuit, the four songwriters are seeking a cut of the royalties from the “great commercial success” of “How Sweet.”
Live by the sword, die by the sword.
I mean it kinda was a rip.
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Interested to see what comes out of this but isn’t it ironic….