A post on the online community Pann Nate with the title: "Kiss Of Life is clinging to Blackpink" attracted 86,000 views and received hundreds of comments.
The poster listed the times the Kiss Of Life group member covered Blackpink's songs and the solo songs of her four seniors, such as "Whistle", "Shut Down", "Solo" by Jennie , "Gone" by Rosé and "Money" by Lisa...
There are also articles mentioning that Kiss Of Life member Natty will become the next Lisa.
In addition to posting this article, he expressed his indignation that Kiss Of Life is not an artist of YG Entertainment, but has repeatedly sung songs by Blackpink and 2NE1. This person thinks that Kiss Of Life is like a group of street dancers covering idol music to attract attention.
However, Korean audiences have had different opinions on this issue.
Some viewers expressed their agreement with the opinion that Kiss Of Life is trying to follow Blackpink's style and YG's style.
“Kiss Of Life is a bit too much. Even Baby Monster, since the survival show, has only covered a total of 5 songs by YG artists: 1 song by 2NE1, 3 songs by Blackpink, 1 song by AKMU.”
“I want them to stop. They keep covering YG songs, and some fans feel uncomfortable about it. The lineup is similar to Blackpink, so it's a bit annoying" - some viewers commented.
One commenter also criticized the fact that many Kpop groups like Kiss Of Life are becoming street dance groups, because they don't perform their own songs but cover other groups' songs at award ceremonies.
Another viewer commented: “They seem to have no identity, and their Instagram videos mainly consist of covers of foreign artists' songs and dance covers.
I don't understand why they don't focus on their own music but only focus on covering dances or songs of famous artists. Stop imitating Lisa, Blackpink and foreign artists, find your own identity."
However, many viewers also think that the post is too harsh on a group that covers too many songs from other groups.
Netizens defend Kiss Of Life:
“The reasons female idols are criticized are ridiculous. This group didn’t cause any accidents or say anything wrong, yet they’ve been scolded for the past 2 days just because they covered a senior group’s songs too much.”
“Kiss Of Life is really famous. Now people are saying that the group is following Blackpink or wants to become Blackpink just because they cover songs. This is the first time I've seen a group criticized for covering too much. Kiss Of Life originally had nothing to argue about, so now they have to find fault like this, right?”
