Ganjar-Mahfud Campaign Song Allegedly Jiplak Song Weeekly

Screenshot of campaign songs that allegedly plagiarized the song Weeekly (YouTube GM24)

JAKARTA The girl group from South Korea has become the talk of Indonesian netizens again. The reason is, their song, entitled After School, is allegedly plagiarized by parties who support the presidential and vice presidential pairs number three in the 2024 election contestation, Ganjar Pranowo and Mahfud MD.

The TikTok account @ganjarununindonesia_3 uploaded a video clip of seven young women singing campaign songs for Ganjar-Mahfud. It was stated that the video came from the GM24 YouTube channel.

The problem is that the chorus part sung in the video is very synonymous with the song After School from Weekly. This was immediately realized by some netizens who seemed to know the girl group song under IST Entertainment.

"Is it okay? This same thing withWEekly After School?" account comment @aer***.

"The difference is really the same with WEEKly After School," wrote the account @fir ***.

From the uploaded videos, several elements can be seen, such as following a Weeekly video clip, apart from the song, ranging from seven members, and a concept such as a Kpop video where there is a choreography.

Other social media accounts also uploaded the similarity of the campaign song with the song After School. The Instagram account @mimi.julid shows the same tone at the beginning of the song.

Some netizen comments were also shown that they were aware of the similarities displayed.

"They think they are Indonesian or notWEekly wkwk," commented the account @kim ***.

"It's thought that this song is as popular as what it is," wrote the account @jun ***.

For information, After School is a song from the album We play which was released on March 17, 2021. This song can be said to be the most popular of WEEKly since her debut until now.

The group, which consists of Lee Soojin, Monday, Park Soeun, Lee Jae Hee, Jihan and Zoa, has never appeared in Indonesia, but the song After School has played on one of the Indonesian television programs.