Yesterday, I saw an article come up about actual artists that attended the MAMA complaining about how they were mistreated and how MAMA gave preference to other artists.
A few minutes later, Mnet came out with their own statement trying to clarify the complaints saying that the traffic in Hong Kong was to blame for everything that went wrong.
That's fine and all but when I came home a few hours later and checked my tabs, Mnet had apparently requested for the first article to be deleted and taken off Nate. Not cool AT ALL.
Although it's gone now, the replies were similar to what's in the second article. People basically complaining about how MAMA is a useless ceremony.
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Article: Mnet reps "MAMA mistreating artists is a misunderstanding... Local traffic is to blame"
Source: Star News via Nate
1. [+115, -3] So why do you insist on holding it overseas...
2. [+113, -34] MAMA is just a ceremony for SM and YG because they're both close with CJ and CJ actors. They try to make it seem all important by including all of Asia but we see right through them and that crap won't work with us.
3. [+101, -23] Just get rid of the ceremony, why do they even hold it overseas? We all know it's meaningless ^~^
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curious who is the artists.... anyone know?
ReplyDeleteAgree. Honestly just hold the award in Korean. The artists would get more time to rehearse and the show would look better. Holding it oversea cost money to fly 30+ idols over there, then trying to fit rehearsal times in, trying to set up stage. It's too much efforts and the show don't even award anyone but Korean.
ReplyDeleteI saw Japanese, Chinese, Indonesian acts win awards but it were just clips of them being shown in between awards. There's not even announcement or introduction of the winners. They probably got put in there just to make Mnet look less "Korean biased."
Rather than trying to celebrate Korean music, the show was just a chance to show off with the random speech about how "Kpop spread happiness and smile" that was on par with the creepiness of SMTOWN's speech. Instead of deleting article about it, Mnet should just get the hint and hold the award show in Korea next year and stop trying to be an "Asian award". More acts can easily attend, performances would be better.
most of the ceremony is about SM and YG lol
ReplyDeleteso all awarding ceremony is a crap? LMAO
fvcking retards
you can't blame them if they are popular...
According to what I heard, the staffs gave preferences to actors over the other musical acts/idols there. YG acts were the only ones at the back stage party. There are fancams of the event backstage. I read it here.
ReplyDeletehttp://hallyu8.com/topic/30185-mnets-mama-criticized-over-poor-execution-of-the-event-discrimination/
Hmmm, them holding it overseas isn't necessarily a bad thing, but the "no show, no award" policy is stupid. Not only do idols have schedules, but some aren't in a financial position where traveling out of the country is affordable.
ReplyDeleteYou should get an award if you DESERVE an award. The reason why MAMA is such a joke is because it's basically just gives you a prize for showing up. No one's going to respect an award show for that.
lol at these dumb ungrateful netizens. mnet trying to spread hallyu by holding it overseas and these idiots are complaining and calling it meaningless.
ReplyDeleteThere is no such thing as a "no show, no award" policy.
ReplyDeleteThis year Busker Busker won 2 awards and IU won an award and neither of them were there. Last year, Big Bang won and they weren't there either. The whole 'no show, no award' thing is just something fans of groups who didn't win awards spread to try to justify why their unnies and oppas didn't get an award.
as previous commenter, no show no award is total nonsense. acts who got invitations are those who won, obviously..
ReplyDeleteThey're going about it the wrong way.
ReplyDeleteA lot of things went wrong during this year's MAMA, and Mnet is blaming Hong Kong's traffic for it. How is that "spreading Hallyu"? Blaming Hong Kong for all the things Mnet failed to do is only going to piss people in Hong Kong off.
It's already bad enough that Japan is quite literally rejecting anything Hallyu-related. If China gets on board with that, this Hallyu thing is fucked.
Really? I thought I actually read an article about there being a policy. But even if it's not an official policy it does seem to be in play and would actually make sense considering the award results in recent years.
ReplyDeleteIt looks more like the policy does exist (even if an award show won't admit it) but they make exceptions every now and then. That's probably what happened because if Busker Busker didn't win something after having such a great year then MAMA would've received a ton of criticism and their credibility would be questioned even more.
the no show no award policy was invented by pressed fans of groups that lost as an excuse because they can't accept that someone beat them :) the reason why most groups who go get awards is because the organization obviously tells the company that their groups won to make sure they are there to recieve them.
ReplyDeleteFor example YG never sends 2ne1 to anything unless they win something
The "no show-no award" policy exists in SOME shows but not MAMA. GDA had that rule last year, not sure if they'll have it this year.
ReplyDeleteTrue. A lot of koreans even hold that idea and say it does happen in their own award shows.
ReplyDeleteThey can't really deny something as obvious as a good winner but you have to admit album of the year going to Super Junior is a joke. There are other more deserving artists than them if you're going for musical quality... but I guess...
2009 was year of Gee but they never won any of the awards since SM decided to boycott MAMA. I think it stemmed from that event and subsequent years.
ReplyDeleteCompletely false, Also that's not a backstage party. That's a AFTER PARTY for the artists & visitors themselves it is their prerogative to attend or not, no one "banned them". If you watched the fancams you could see TONS of actors enjoying themselves (ie: Yoon Si Yoon,Jung Woo Sung,Han Ga In,Cha Hye Ryun etc). Double K, LOCO, Bolin Chen,Angelababy and others were there as well. So no, its not just "YG acts"
ReplyDelete"YG never sends 2ne1 to anything unless they win something"
ReplyDeleteYG also doesn't send 2NE1 to stuff even if they DO win something tho...lol
Now that is just a riff between SM & MNET not necessarily a "no show-no award" type since artists did win without appearing.
ReplyDeletethey should call it KMA (Korean Music Awards) instead of Mnet Asian Music Awards. they arent representing the whole of asia. i havent seen a bollywood nor Philipino recieve an award. and stop holding it over seas.
ReplyDeleteshouldnt even call it asian music awards in the first place...
ReplyDeletehaha it really is a crappy show they barely even invite international artists
that was not about no show, it was a problem where mnet and sme had beef with each other.
ReplyDeleteLike I said. "Read it there," "what I heard"
ReplyDeleteIf it's wrong then w/e I didn't say it.
Miss when it was called KM awards it was cleaner and nice now is just a shame how mus awards go always to the same ppl it gets predictable and annoying, also last year there were some complains on how mama mistreated some artist pff
ReplyDeletethe policy exists u should read Mnet policy for awards when the votinng came there was this part that said no show no awards so its true
ReplyDeletei agree 100%
ReplyDeleteDon't get me started on how Jay Park wasn't even invited.
ReplyDeletemost of the percentage was from album sales a 15%was from fans votes and another 20% from searching the groups on nate naver etc
ReplyDeletemusic or even movie award are shits SK. it is notoriously well known that the winners r already publish prior the event. it is A BIG FAT LIES?
ReplyDeleteSOrry to ride on your comment. Here's the translated original article
ReplyDeletetwitlonger.com/show/k9tu9h
The boycott was about the CJ group (mnet's parent company) group trying to takeover SM's music distribution, which would have CJ group a monopoly.
ReplyDelete1. [+115, -3] So why do you insist on holding it overseas...
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i've told ya, mnet is sucking yg hard right now. they still have to keep their relationship with sm, but if yg continues doing good job, might as well stir their direction to yg completely.
ReplyDeleteMAMA IS USELESS
ReplyDeleteThere's already a KMA and it's helluva lot more legit then MAMA, Melon, GDA or any other bogus awards.
ReplyDeletereally? huh.
ReplyDeleteI thought other groups were just really mindful of their goody image or smth. IMO that sucks if that's really what happened bc that party was pretty poppin. lol
It was never KM awards. MAMA used to be MKMF. And the awards have always gone to the more popular groups lol. KMA is another entirely other award ceremony that is way more legit and features tons of ~unpredictable~ non-popular wins.... but noone cares or pays attention.
ReplyDeleteThe awards began in 1999 under the name "M.net KM Music Festival" (MKMF), till 2008. and then changed the name to M.net Asian Music Awards"
ReplyDeleteit used to be cool when it was mkmf
ReplyDeleteI knew about this issue but my point was they still didn't give the award to the deserving winner.
ReplyDeleteTrue, Gee was the Gangname Style of 2009
ReplyDeleteUh yeah that's what I said didn't I? But you called it KM awards when it's actually MKMF. KM awards is another thing (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_Music_Awards). But cool story about ur biases, bro.
ReplyDeleteomg why soo rude? ppl usually call it KM or MKMF its the same and why u even get mad? anyway forget it ..lets pretend this convo never happened
ReplyDeletegracias
MAMA's are shit and only watched for performances.
ReplyDeleteThey shud go back to MKMF.
ReplyDeleteI'll never understand why f(x) came only to get their award and doesn't perform. Mnet u fail.
ReplyDeleteGDA will be held in Malaysia next year, as a Malaysian..Why do you want to held it here anyway? Same goes to MAMA in HK this year. Can they just stay in Korea? I don't see other award shows of other countries going to other countries. So much money is it?
ReplyDeleteThen please explain IU and Busker Busker winning
ReplyDeleteFilipino music is meh...
ReplyDeleteAnd why they sell the tix at an expensive price when they have such big sponsors?
ReplyDeleteI know rite! RM900++ bloody hell expensive ~~
ReplyDeletei wish there were no ceremonies anymore !
ReplyDeleteless fanwars :)
It's painfully obvious that something is wrong with the Mamas even the viewers can see it. I really bet they do mistreat the lesser known companies. I know the camera man was in love with Suju the whole freaking show.
ReplyDeleteIt used to be called MKMF Mnet Korea Music Festival
ReplyDeleteWell Big Bang was there this year
ReplyDeleteThat's just this year in the past they did no show no win thing.
ReplyDeleteThe "Asia Music " award part is dumb. Because it is heavily Korean biased and very idol-biased. It says Asia but the Korean gets 80% of all the awards while the other Asian acts get like what, only 1 award per country eg "best Japanese act" or something.
ReplyDeleteIt's mainly for the Kpop fans and the international fans. The Korean don't really care actually.
They gave an award to a Filipino singer - Sarah Geronimo - but she wasn't at the event. They also gave awards to other Asian singers, also not present during the event. They just showed video clips of them saying thank you.
ReplyDeleteRigged. Even online voting is rigged. Maybe bots or whatever. Was it Sistar or Kara that suddenly got millions of votes over a day, and jumped from 3rd-4th place to 1st?
ReplyDeleteI heard from my friend that MNet chose d representative winner from each country except Korea by asking recommendation from their Mnet global supporters without prior research..so afterall, the quality of this award is fully questionable.
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