A lot of buzz is surrounding BLACKPINK Jennie’s latest solo release for “Mantra.”
Jennie and her powerful comeback should be celebrated but it seems that the men of the internet are not enjoying her song for the oddest of reasons. After releasing “Mantra” just 7 days ago and already garnering 40 Million views, Jennie has suffered from malicious comments and even found her video blocked and her SNS accounts suspended. Instead of being able to relish in her return and victories, she is left with pressing matters regarding her social media as controversy and harassment continue from male fans.
On the 12th, after discovering her MV was blocked and her Twitter (X) account disabled, Jennie tagged various social media sites asking them to “fix this” and shared a post with fans saying, “First of all, I want to say thank you so much for loving ‘Mantra’. I love you all,” and “I’m in a sad situation where Instagram won’t work on my phone. There’s so much I want to upload, so, BLINKS, please wait a little longer.”
Although the video was restored it seems to be constantly blocked or receiving copyright strikes, making it hard for the MV to accumulate views properly. Despite this, Jennie is still trending with “Mantra” at #2 on YouTube’s music charts and even won an award for her first performance on Music Bank after 8 years.
The song “Mantra” is a very smooth track with an upbeat instrumental that has a great tempo, party beat, and easily likable sound which makes it a perfect dance track. Alongside its woman-power lyrics and girl-coded theme, Jennie showcases her beauty in her own way without any limitation or reservations – and that seems to be the problem. Anti-fans even began commenting if her outfits were too provocative and if her lyrics were just as inappropriate.
Some male fans of Jennie complained that the song is making men feel “left out” and questioned why “Girls need to have songs like these?” It seems that male fans are claiming women are being put on a pedestal and that “Mantra” is another form of radical feminism. A post on Twitter was going viral with women and men in Korea going back and forth with a heated discussion on Twitter (X).
One user commented, “These comments are crazy. Is it a song that men can’t listen to? What did we do wrong? Why are men so upset when artists release songs to celebrate women? Are you going to complain about Women’s Day too? What did we do to you guys?” and others replied saying, “I didn’t do anything wrong but I don’t think I should listen to this all-female mantra song because I feel left out.” Other comments stated “Do you think women react like this when BTS release songs that are guy-coded? You’re not going to complain about when men release their own guy-coded songs?”
아니 ㅈㅁ 제니 만트라 댓글 왜이리 약한 남자들이 많아…
예쁜 애들한테 얘기 하는거야 웅앵웅
ㄴ 너나 잘해
내가남자로태어난걸어떡해너희가맨날여자여자여성의날챙길때소외감이어쩌고저쩌고나도껴줘
ㄴ 남성들끼리 연대하세요 pic.twitter.com/yU5aDkcLKK— 💬 (@rrpelse) October 15, 2024
The original poster who shared screenshots of the conversations even questioned “Why are men being so weak? Please get it together. It’s just a song about feeling good as pretty girls.”
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I wonder how small you feel listening to this song to actually feel left out. This is just sad