Recently, the official account of girl group izna has issued an official statement, revealing that they will change the girl group’s album design after being accused of copying NewJeans.
The full statement is as below:
“Hello, this is WAKEONE.
We would like to provide an update regarding the izna Ver. of izna’s album, released today.
We are aware of the concerns raised about the album’s design and have decided to completely replace it.
We will exercise greater caution to prevent such issues from recurring in the future.”
Previously on November 14, a topic titled “izna’s debut album design is so similar to NewJeans” was published on the Korean forum “theqoo”, garnering significant attention with over 44,000 views and 600 comments after just an hour.
The author of the topic attached two photos, one of the 1st mini album of izna and one of NewJeans’ single “OMG”, which bears resemblance so strong they almost look the same.
Netizens who saw the topic also agree that izna’s album basically copied from NewJeans’ album design, saying that the similarities are “blatant”. Some even suspected that izna’s agency is trying to do “noise marketing” with such a move.
Below are some comments from netizens:
- This is a bit… so blatant that it’s ridiculous.
- I don’t even know who these people are, but I was curious about which agency they belong to just by looking at the title of this article, so I tried to search it up. Hahaha, this is how they do noise marketing.
- I usually don’t say things are the same, but this is just the same, and it seems like noise marketing.
- It pisses me off so much that they copied everything and made a teaser full of male-oriented clichés.
- The imitators are running rampant
- Oh, are they two different albums? I scrolled all the way down and they really look like the same design
On the other hand, izna is a 7-member girl group under WAKEONE Entertainment, which was formed through Mnet’s reality survival show “I-LAND 2”. Previously, HYBE boy group ENHYPEN was formed through the 1st season of “I-LAND”.
Source: X, theqoo
