Tinashe Finally Addresses Being “Copied” By K-Pop Idols For Years

The “mood board” memes have been a K-Pop fandom staple for years. Koreaboo 4 minutes ago American singer-songwriter Tinashe has finally weighed in on the well-known memes and discourse around her in K-Pop fandoms for almost a decade. | @tinashenow/Instagram In a new interview with 66 GREENE, Tinashe was asked how much she knows about the recurring comments that she’s always “on the mood board,” particularly in the case of K-Pop artists. How tapped into the internet are you? The discourse of ‘Tinashe is on the mood board’… Do you see it? When we get to the K-Pop of it all-are you internalizing this, or is your energy more like, ‘If I’m going to be on the mood board, I’m going to give you something new that you can’t keep up with’? — Gyasi Williams Kirtley for 66 GREENE The jokes first rose to prominence in K-Pop fandoms back in 2018, when DIA’s “Woo Woo” drew widespread accusations of plagiarizing Tinashe’s 2016 track “Superlove.” | PocketDol Labels/YouTube Since then, comparisons piled up among fans, with numerous K-Pop acts labeled as Tinashe-coded over the years. Pentagon’s Kino even weighed in on the discourse back in June, revealing he “agrees” with the claim that idols look to...