Adore continues to clarify that New Jeans' 'Cookie' "had no intention of sexualization" in the lyrics

Article: Teen girl group 'New Jeans' under controversy for s*xualization in lyrics

Source: Chosun via Naver

1. [+366, -25] Their CEO must be unbelievably ignorant to use "cookie" in a song sung by minors when it's slang that I heard everyone using to mean "getting some cookie tonight" when I studied and worked abroad in the US. I was horrified to read the lyrics and see phrases like "look at my cookie! eat my cookie! do you want my cookie? take it!" Any English speaker will know what cookie actually stands for. To claim that you "didn't know" is so incredibly ignorant.

2. [+329, -20] Remember Loli IU? Spilling milk on her stomach, all the energy leaving her body... sucking on a milk bottle while staring at the camera. This is all in her music video but if you try to talk about any of it, she'll sue you and get you to shut your mouth. How is she human?
- [+35, -0] I think people would faint if they saw IU's music video for '23' ㅋㅋ
- [+29, -2] In that music video, why is she putting on lipstick... why is she staring straight ahead with a milk bottle.. why is she sucking on a milk bottle? Why is she laying there like that? It doesn't even look like she's posing to fall asleep... and why is there milk on her one piece near her stomach? (if she spilled it while drinking, why did it spill specifically on her stomach?) But I guess it's okay because the music video director is an adult male? And the singer is an adult female? An adult woman who can visit the sick and all.
- [+20, -1] There's a scene where she's wearing a dress and laying there with her legs in an A pose, spread wide.. it was really shocking. The dog kibble, dog bowl, bed... when the flower vase gets knocked over, it's not water that spills out of it but milk

3. [+196, -38] I don't get how you can have minors dancing to lyrics with such meaning while dressed in clothes that you would see in any red light district. 

4. [+63, -9] Their marketing is probably geared towards lolita fetishists

5. [+33, -0] Noise marketing. They probably wrote these lyrics fully intending for all of these double meanings to get read.

6. [+26, -0] The agency knew what they were doing when they produced this. It's just odd that this song is what caught everyone's attention, but if you take a deeper look at the lyrics of other famous groups or solos, you'll notice that this is a common trend. They'll use all sorts of s*xual phrasing to act like they're meaning something else, but what can you do when that's what sells in the end?

7. [+26, -2] I get that we're in a K-Pop Hallyu boom but what are companies doing with such young kids.. this seems highly problematic

8. [+26, -4] Hul... their agency is crazy. How can they think doing this to such young kids is okay? Is all that matters to them the money in the end? Bang Shi Hyuk, what are you doing?

9. [+22, -1] It bothers me that it's so obvious their company knew what they were doing with these lyrics but now they're like "oh we didn't mean it that way"... it's time to cut them off!!

10. [+21, -1] Bang Shi Hyuk's girl group history: Glam disbanded because member Dahee blackmailed top actor Lee Byung Hun, Kim Garam left Le Sserafim over school bullying rumors, New Jeans has a minor member born in 2008 singing a s*xualized song called 'Cookie'

11. [+17, -0] Their agency is totally lying by saying they had no idea... No wonder when I listened to the song I kept getting weird vibes from it. Not only the lyrics but their dancing felt weird to me too. Why would you take such normal kids and make them do these things when there are so many other ways you could've marketed them? I don't know if it's Min Hee Jin losing her touch or she's just really this dumb but it has to be one of them...

12. [+13, -1] Hearing that these artists don't even know what lyrics they're singing about makes them seem like soulless robots who just do what they're told

13. [+11, -0] Their agency must really take us for fools ㅋ how dare you think we'd ever believe an excuse like "cookie's actually about burning a CD" when we all know that producers go through great lengths to write these songs? ㅋㅋ Even a choding wouldn't believe such an excuse.

14. [+9, -0] Making minors sing such a song? Just kick them out of this industry.

15. [+5, -0] They purposely marketed these kids in a s*xual manner and are now blaming the public for being p*rverts just for noticing and calling it out. Their agency is the devil.

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Article: Adore releases clarification on New Jeans' 'Cookie' lyrics controversy

Source: Idol Issue via Instagram

1. [+343] Adore seems like the only subsidiary in Hybe that seems to do their job

2. [+246] Their clarification is really clear and to the point, I like it

3. [+137] Adore feels so dependable.. 🥺

4. [+133] I hope to see more clarification statements like this from companies... You can see just how convincing and genuine they are, and how regretful they feel about these controversies!! I really like that they clearly explained all of the rumors going around and apologized for what needed to be said and clarified everything else. Adore is a proper agency...

5. [+131] Adore does their job best out of all the Hybe subsidiaries

6. [+50] I really like Adore

7. [+40] I'm glad it's been clarified ㅠㅠ there's been so many YouTube videos that have been misinterpreting everything. This statement is clear and concise!!

8. [+80] The clarification is super clean. The US always has underlying s*xual meanings to everything and if we were to entertain all of their slangs over every word, there'd be no group free from these controversies. I really wish people would leave these babies alone.

9. [+55] I remember people would hate on IU and Sulli for lolita controversies.. Korean songs should be interpreted against Korean culture and norms. Koreans do not use the word 'cookie' as slang for anything s*xual..!!!!

10. [+3] I wish other labels would learn from this. These are the kinds of clarification statements that we want. Not companies saying "we're right and you're wrong" but clear and concise reasoning behind their decisions. If you're too lazy to write up statements like this, get out of this industry.

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