[News] Are Americans dissing 4Minute?

4Minute recently came to the attention of gawker.com- a popular American media site that jumped on board the news between relations between the North and South Korea. It was reported that South Korea has been blasting 4Minute’s latest single “Huh” along the 38th Parallel in retaliation against the North for allegedly sinking the Cheonan warship. Well, Gawker picked up on the story and put in their 2 cents…


Gawker wasn’t too impressed with 4Minute and wrote:
“The recent sound assault is a retaliation for the North allegedly sinking the South Korean warship Cheonan in disputed waters in March. The North routinely threatens to totally destroy the South over just about anything. Here is one of the songs the South reportedly plays along the border, HuH (Hit Your Heart), by the K-Pop group 4minute. No wonder they’re so pissed off.”

You can check out the whole article here.

More Kpop negativity continues in the comments:
“I thought they were blasting Barney music across the DMZ, but now I see it’s even worse.”
“4MINUTE? Pffft. That’s 3 1/2 minutes more than I need.”
“The mixture of English and Korean lyrics is making my brain incredibly uncomfortable. It keeps thinking, “Hey! I recognize those words!” Then I lose track of the word meanings and it feels like I’ve forgotten how to understand English.”

What do you think? Even though this article portrayed Kpop in a negative light, there is that saying – “Bad press is better than no press.”