SM commonly gets flack for outsourcing their songs, but at the end of the day...

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I have no problem with outsourcing. All i gotta say is Kpop fans don't have any right to bash western music when thats what SM usually uses for their artists. Even during their golden years, SNSD Genie was not a korean composition.

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5 hours ago, Shinki said:

 Korean composition/production often sound different even if they're produced by international producers, it can be confirmed by many producers out there.

Run Devil Run by Kesha is literally the same song as SNSD's version. Only difference is Taeyeon did not perform the chorus as good as Kesha. She pronounced "Run" weirdly with hardly any emotion. It would be like that since english is not her first language.

and when they sung Duffy's Mercy. i did detect a difference other than language.

Listening to Red Velvet's bad boy does not give me kpop vibes at all. It literally sounds like something that could have been released in the states. Their song Psycho is the same too. Listening to the original english demo, it clear why they could not replace the word "Psycho" with a korean word. The song would have felt off otherwise.

Sorry but i don't agree with your argument. Sure in some cases they make significant changes where the sound comes out different (and yes i see they get credited for it), but for the majority its minimal changes and a simple translation.