On the 16th of this month, HYBE made an announcement about the US release of PERMISSION TO DANCE ON STAGE DVD. This makes many fans feel happy when recalling the moments when all 7 BTS members performed on stage in Los Angeles and Las Vegas before.
However, this good news did not last long when fans received news that HYBE was having to censor a large number of songs, with a high possibility of even having to delete them from this product. t was truly a sad loss because most of the dropped songs were fan-favorite b-side songs.
When awareness of the reason for these BTS songs being removed from the DVD and possibly banned from future performances, fans felt very upset because it was not the group's cause:
Well, for BTS fans, any song the group releases from the title track to b-sides is warmly received. Not only that, the re-release of Permission To Dance DVD also allows fans to see the moment all 7 members are on one stage - a moment that fans have not been able to witness for a long time.
So, it's clear that the DVD's removal of many b-side songs made ARMYs feel frustrated. There was even a statement that Love Myself and HOME were completely removed from this single, making fans upset. Until ARMYs found out the reason for this action of HYBE, fans realized that it was a reluctant reason for both the company and the group.
Specifically, information began to spread on SNS after the 16th of this month that HYBE is censoring a number of songs such as Love Myself, Love Maze, I'm Fine, HOME, Filter, Dream Glow, and 134340. Not only censoring these songs, there is a high risk that HYBE and BTS will have to remove them from the upcoming DVD release in the US and from future performances or on online music sites for reasons related to Musician Bobby Chung - who is serving a sentence for a vi0lent cr1me.
Previously, Jung Bobby was accused of ѕєχually αѕѕaulting and secretly filming female singer A in May 2020, making Ms. A so frustrated that she thought about it and made an extreme choice. In addition, he was also accused of ilℓєgαℓly filming another victim B from July 12, 2020 to September 24, 2020. In the first trial, Jung Bobby admitted some acts of νισℓєи¢є against the victim but denied the accusation of ilℓєgαℓ filming.
At the sentencing hearing last December, the court first arrested the male singer and sentenced him to 1 year in pr1son. Then, at the second trial this year, the second court announced a 3 million won fine for ѕєχual νισℓєи¢є and ruled to release Jung from prison last June, citing lack of evidence. Let's just accuse. Next, although the prosecutor's office filed an appeal, the Supreme Court said that the second court's decision was correct and set the penalty.
With the charges and scandals related to Bobby Chung's private life, a wave of public asked вιg нιт Music to remove songs with the participation of this producer, including songs by BTS and TXT. . But at that time, вιg нιт Music responded to Ten Asia newspaper: "We have no official statement regarding the controversial composer. The company will discuss the songs internally in the next album".
Until now, it seems that not only has there been public reaction but also many related ℓєgαℓ issues, so HYBE is considering removing the songs that this musician participated in producing. Meanwhile, for fans, the deletion of these heritage songs is truly a great regret:
- This is so sickening. It's impacting everyone who worked on these songs, I'm so mad
- I just made a whole thread being sad about this because he's literally only one of the writers. He did not solely write nor produced those songs. This is not the right decision. it's punishing all writers, producers, the boys, and fans for the wrongdoing of one person.
- it's terrible like the all team who worked on those songs are penalized because he is a p̾i̾e̾c̾e ̾o̾f ̾s̾h̾i̾t like, cant they just uncredit him???
- Did everyone forget how that one biased asf journalist dragged the 7 for including filter ? I mean it got pretty bad too. I think...it's smart to leave the songs out. They also don't want to have to pay royalties to a guy like him. Think of the songs as retired..until otherwise
- apparently he led one of his victims to su!c¡de. He needs a longer sentence
- Terrible, I'm so sad really
- home and ly answer were the most memorable songs from the PTD concerts for me so I am LIVID
- So we won't be getting any future performances for these songs????? I get why they did this but it нυятs coz those are like the some of the best BTS songs please
- In music, there are many artists who are notorious for their criminal behavior yet their music continued to be heard. Condemn and punish the man, not the art.
- my heart aches reading this, those are some of my all time favorite songs
- 134340 is one of my all-time favorites, and the prospect of it being pulled from other live performances is breaking me..
- goshhh, jimin nailed it on filter, and that's one of my favorite performances. so sickening.
- These are literally some of the best songs :(
- LOVE MYSELF is literally so so so meaningful to so many armys including myself like they cannot do this just because of one writer
