IU issues apology for 'Zeze' lyrics

Article: IU issues official apology, "I'm genuinely sorry to the people I hurt with my lyrics" (official statement)

Source: Star News via Naver

1. [+7,416, -1,144] Her image is gone now....

2. [+5,855, -1,298] We get it so take down your digital songs and take responsibility for your actions. Apologizing doesn't resolve your mistakes. And please clarify your album concept art as well.

3. [+5,200, -1,180] Is she not going to clarify the plagiarism suspicions?

4. [+4,102, -588] She was so quick with responding to her dating scandal ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ but after sending out all those shield articles and seeing that they weren't working, she comes out with an apology only now ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ

5. [+4,432, -936] Such a good vocalist but oh so many scandals...

6. [+1,986, -186] What about her clarifications for her lolita concepts?

7. [+1,785, -159] I still don't understand how she came to these conclusions with Zeze;;;;; so many people are arguing freedom of expression but since when was moral values below the freedom of expression? Lolita is a crime

8. [+1,752, -178] She really racked her head for this one, didn't she ㅋ She felt the rush now that she has to get to her fan meet. Go in reflection now.

9. [+1,604, -97] She doesn't even mention why Zeze is wearing fishnet stockings

10. [+1,501, -145] She only opens up now that she has to go to her fan meet ㅋㅋㅋ

11. [+1,479, -176] She's probably glad that her Britney sampling scandal is being buried by this Zeze scandal ㅋ You still have to give feedback on that too ㅋ

12. [+1,439, -169] And your plagiarism scandals???

13. [+1,407, -218] Isn't this a bit late...?

14. [+1,244, -113] The apology reads like it was written by her agency but they claim IU wrote it. The apology is PR standard. I don't know about her hardcore fans but she lost a lot of her regular fanbase. Even I'm feeling off put by her now.

15. [+1,112, -167] She sounds like she's being forced to apologize even though she doesn't feel like she made any mistakes

16. [+989, -99] And your plagiarisms...????

17. [+912, -72] She really messed up this time...

18. [+736, -41] This won't end with just an apology, she needs to take down her songs. An apology doesn't change the fact that her album art and music video are left the same. Whatever her intentions were, there are sexual aspects to her works.

19. [+717, -27] So she's going to apologize but keep selling her songs??? Even Lee Hyori took down her digital songs when she got into her plagiarism scandal...

20. [+749, -60] Can't even tell if she's being genuine...

21. [+657, -34] Still no talk of her taking down the digital song 'Zeze'. Shouldn't she be taking that down?

22. [+660, -43] Your words mean nothing. Take back your album.

23. [+615, -36] And what about your lolita concept...?

24. [+581, -31] She always opens her mouth and says a whole lot of nothing.

25. [+487, -29] Her clarification is so late. And she should be clarifying her other scandals, not just her lyrics.

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Article: IU, "I swear that I did not intend to sexualize a 5 year old child"

Source: Star News via Naver

1. [+1,535, -212] And what are you going to do about your lolita concept?

2. [+1,496, -265] From a third person's point of view???? Really, that's her excuse????? After all that talk she did about Zeze??? Sigh, she just proved that she's dumb in the head.

3. [+1,212, -108] Sure it's her freedom to interpret an abused 5 year old child Zeze to be sexy and cunning but I don't find that normal. As someone who remembers crying while reading this book, I feel uncomfortable with these lyrics and that drawing.

4. [+1,201, -278] IU is Bye-U~~ the train has left already. She waited too long, testing the public for their reaction, and is only apologizing now because she realizes she has nothing else left. And of course, her excuse is that it was not her intention ㅋㅋㅋ

5. [+1,058, -190] You're already done for ㅋㅋㅋㅋ

6. [+349, -28] I wonder how Brazilians will feel about this??? The book is considered a national piece of work over there...

7. [+347, -38] She claims she wrote it from a third person's perspective using the book as a motif ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ It's already known that she wrote it after reading the book ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ and where's her apology for the sampling scandal?

8. [+289, -25] Still doesn't explain why she called a young child cunning and dirty and depicted him in fishnet stockings... I fail to understand her clarification in writing the lyrics from a third person's perspective of a character from a book she read.

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