At ONTD, we luv our scandals. Every girl group has its fair share of scandals. Here are the best scandals in my humble opinion. These WILD scandals range from bullying, racism, to using religious text for promo.
we love our girl groups. we stan for great groups that can dance and sing, and sometimes, even simultaneously. girl groups are always the underdogs and have it harder than the boy bands of today that do the least but get the most
however, even our favs can be extremely problematic sometimes. we still love them.
So let's look at 4 girl groups (two korean, two western) that take the throne as queens of the scandals and all things problematic.
1) T-ARA
You may not know who t-ara is because you don't listen to kpop. but t-ara is a legendary problematic girl group that also serves bops at the same time. specifically because of a bullying scandal and A WHOLE SINGLE AND PROMOTION CYCLE DEDICATED TO A SINGLE THAT DEHUMANIZES NATIVE AMERICANS. they released the single called yayaya and the music video is actually horrible.
t-ara were also hated in korea because they bullied members out of the group. the youngest member, hwayoung, was bullied horribly by t-ara, and they even force fed her a rice cake on tv as some sick form of hazing. she then left the group and korea turned their backs on t-ara for being assholes.
here's a compilation of all the fuckedup things they did to her in public
2) 2NE1
2NE1 is definitely still one of the most popular girl groups of korea despite being inactive. 2NE1 basically made their careers off of cultural appropriating. they use black hiphop culture to make themselves look cooler than their bubblegum counterparts.
here's a vogue shoot they did described as "ethnic african". some in the international kpop community turned their backs on them as it was the last straw!
Also Bom "smuggled" prescribed drugs and in Korea that's basically worst than murder so she's blacklisted for life. Like she didn't even smuggle it, it was prescribed by her American doctor
@Vision365 Damn colonialist Koreans and their cultural appropriation of sacred Igbo culture! http://t.co/EtH2WNOda2
— Agha Memnun (@Agha_Memnun) July 22, 2015CL who is trying to make it in the US is basically the asian Iggy with better flow. one of her songs, SAMPLES a child reciting the quran, because she apparently thought that would be ok, offending muslims everywhere.
3) Fifth Harmony
records of fifth harmony's problematiqueness is a staple of ontd. the first fifth harmony scandal was the ONTD LEGENDARY POST, where 16 year old camila's old twitter was found and shown to have multiple racist tweets about using the n word and calling 1d member zayn "a mexican who jumped across the border for concerts"
legendary 5h is racist post
camila profusely apologized after this incident, but it lives on.
dinah of 5h has been the most problematic recently, as she has been messy about race and uses the n word as well. there is a whole saga of ontd "dinah dolezal posts" exposing dinah's cultural appropriation and other fuckups.
dinah wore her hair in corn rows and box braids multiple times and basically defended herself by saying shes transracial, hence dinah dolezal. she also gave us the most iconic flop comeback for her cultural appropriation of all time comparing her being dragged to marriage equality
People be ignorant sometimes .. if LOVE WINS well can I win too? It shouldn't matter what I am? Or how I wear my hair we are all human
— ♕DinahJane (@dinahjane97) June 28, 20154) Little Mix
current ontd fav girl group and my fav girl group, little mix is no stranger to being messy af. zayn's messiness has led to the popularity of LM to go way up on ontd, and they deserve it, but we unfortunately have to acknowledge their messiness just like 5h.
the most well known little mix drama is due to their cultural appropriation, specifically Perrie's laguna kween moment.
little mix & appropriation: pic.twitter.com/HF4tnAyEk3
— ur faves problematic (@urfavesucks) March 9, 2015Perrie also said that little mix "wasn't feminist" despite their empowering music and the rest of LM agreed "because they love their men."
Jade is also quite problematique when it comes to the LGBTQ+ community, calling herself a f*ghag and a transphobic tweet causing an uproar within the mixer community.
#IWD2015 I'm very proud to not have a penis 🙌 nanite ladies love you all xxjadexx pic.twitter.com/jBby5Y93oz
— Little Mix (@LittleMix) March 8, 2015source sourcesourcesourcesourcesourcesourcesourcesourcesourcesource
stay tuned for my scandal:boybands post ontd! give me suggestions!