Oh snap.
For those who don’t recall, Super Junior and DBSK did a holiday collaboration in 2005 titled ‘Show Me Your Love,’ which was fairly well-received and soon became a fan favorite. Nonetheless, when fans flocked to Youtube in search of reliving those days when DBSK and Suju members frolicked happily around thousand-watt Christmas trees, plastic reindeer, and girls in strange frilly white tutus, they were surprised to find no mention of DBSK’s name anywhere in the video’s description or title.
Here’s the vid for those who want to see for themselves…and also have a little trip down Memory Lane.
The video itself wasn’t altered, but fans were nevertheless not happy, as they fervently voiced on the video’s comment section:
“you didn´t mention DBSK in description…how funny, SM…now you are acting like there is no DBSK?…”
“why isn’t dbsk in the name? u know….sm, u better start posting dbsk mv’s right after ur done posting all of sujus….”
“Wow, only Super Junior sang this? I had no idea SuJu was that big! Where did those other five come from? (P.S. – SME, I HATE YOU!!!)”
It would be easy to write off the comments as just the incoherent ramblings of butthurt fangirls, and considering that it’s common K-pop knowledge that DBSK participated in this collab, it probably doesn’t seem like a big deal that DBSK’s name was missing from the title of one video. Nonetheless, I still find this is still a little fishy, especially considering that this is the video uploaded onto SM’s official Youtube account.
13 members to 5 is still a rather wide ratio, but logically speaking—if DBSK makes up more than a quarter of the group featured in the video, if we can see Changmin’s mismatched eyes gracing the camera every thirty seconds…heck, if the bottom caption of the video reads ‘東方神起 and Super Junior 05’…then there is no reason why DBSK wasn’t credited. Excluding, of course, the one explanation that everyone knows but no one wants to admit.
Even though there recently has been little to no official word regarding the DBSK vs. SM trial, is SM already beginning to cut their ties with one of their greatest cash cows in company history? Despite SM’s relative rudeness and immaturity in failing to credit DBSK’s appearance in the video, they haven’t quite begun to burn their bridges just yet.
DBSK left Korea today for China in preparation for their concert in Shanghai this coming weekend, which was one of the few activities not cleared off of the group’s schedule. They will be traveling with SM representatives, making this the first time in a while that the two warring parties will have met. Sounds like the DBSK boys are in for a rather awkward Chuseok, spending it with the people they’re suing.
As much as I wish them a successful concert in Shanghai—their first group appearance since this summer’s A-Nation festival in Japan, where they performed under their Japanese name and persona—it’s going to be somewhat depressing not seeing them at the Dream Concert this year or doing any activities in Korea, for that matter. Sigh. Here’s to hoping that this legal hullabaloo will pass and that we’ll be welcoming their return to the K-pop world soon.
credit: seoulbeats
is sme trying to make a point?
Show me your love MV
They also left out Junsu's name in his collaboration w/ Zhangliyin.
Timeless MV
so far the channel doesnt have any dbsk videos.
