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根据下面资料,回答题 On Tuesday 2 June, Grammy award-winning songwriter and music artist Tiffany Red returned homefrom a trip to her local mall, where she had encountered the national guard armed with large rifles, anexperience that left Red "traumatized".
Still processing her experience at the mall earlier that day, Red opened her inbox to find a messagefrom her South Korean music publisher, Ekko Music Rights, regarding a $66 payment for a song she hadwritten for one of K-pop's most popular groups, NCT Dream--a straightforward business transaction withzero acknowledgment of what Red, a Black American woman, may have been going through.
For Red, who has worked with artists such as Zendaya, Jennifer Hudson and Jason Derulo, thiswas a final straw. She had already decided to stop writing K-pop music because she felt she was poorlycompensated, but Ekko's aloofness spoke to a continued concern she harbored about the industry atlarge: that despite K-pop's reliance on Black music and culture, the industry didn't actually supportBlack lives.
Today, a striking number of K-pop hits are written and produced by Black Americans and a significantpercentage of K-pop fans in the US are Black. As K-pop grows in popularity worldwide, many internationalfans are waiting for the industry to develop a more sensitive, globalized understanding of race.
Within K-pop, blackface, mouthing or saying racial slurs, and purely aesthetic uses of Blackculture and hairstyles are still common. In recent weeks, as the media has painted K-pop fans aspolitically active racists and reserving thousands of tickets to artificially boost expected attendance atDonald Trump's Tulsa rally, official statements of support for Black lives have trickled in from a handfulof groups and idols.
Arguably the most well-known K-pop group in the world, BTS, and their parent company, Big HitEntertainment (whose CEO has stated publicly that "Black music is the base" of the septet's musicalidentity) i were some of the most vocal, and the only group to donate money-- $ lm--to Black LivesMatter. But many contend that the industry overall has failed to show unified support for the movement.
Now, Black creatives and fans are holding them accountable.
SM Entertainment is one of South Korea's three largest entertainment companies. It is credited withproducing the first K-pop idol group, H. O. T. , in 1996, which established the "SM performance" stylethat the brand still employs today: a combination of impressive visuals, dance, rock, rap and hip-hopthat took inspiration from Black American artists of the MTV generation. Songwriter and producer MicahPowell attended six SM songwriting camps between 2015 and 2018. At one camp, he wrote a song calledDevil and created a dance move to go with it, which he then showed to SM executives. "The entire stafflit up," Powell says of their reaction.
Devil became the lead single of SM group Super Junior's 2015 album of the same name. WhenPowell watched the music video for Devil for the first time, he was shocked to see that his dance move,a hip tap and high clap combination, had been used as part of the song's chorus, without hispermission, and without credit or compensation. Powell's background vocals on the track had also beenused without payment or credit.
"I had to hunt [ SM ] down," he says, and was eventually paid $200 for the vocals which he hadrecorded in Korean, a language he does not speak. Powell says the industry's lack of action is "amicrocosm of a bigger issue, part of a bigger puzzle of inequality". K-pop looks to the west forinspiration and "this is exactly how white people see us. They use our culture, they love our culture,they'll take everything from our culture, but don't pour back into our culture. "
According to Paragraph 1, Tiffany Red was traumatized because_______. A.she was threatened by the national guard
B.she met the national guard with rifles
C.she was robbed by men with large rifles
D.she was shot by the national guards
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