Taylor Swift "Bad Blood" music video has been nominated for video of the year in the upcoming 2015 VMA's. However, Swift's music video was said to have copied from 2NE's music video for "Come Back Home."
Billboard reports the striking similarities that have been observed by a twitter user. Taylor Swift has been in the hot seat since her alleged feud with Nicki Minaj concerning the "Anaconflict." But it seems Taylor will be facing extreme criticism as reports of her "Bad Blood" MV being copied from K-pop 2NE1 MV.
Taylor Swift's "Bad Blood" was by Joseph Kahn, a South Korean-born director, who in an interview with the Korea Times said he would "get back to his Korean roots."
The Muse says that a fan named Tay brought up this issue and tweeted Nicki Minaj saying, if they could talk about Taylor Swift's "Bad Blood" MV which was obviously not original because it has a striking similarities with 2NE1's 'Come Back Home' MV, can we talk about how Taylor's video isn't original and was copied from a group of four women of color, 2NE1," @chaelinfenty tweeted. Along that particular tweet was a comparison photo of Taylor Swift "Bad Blood" MV and 2NE1's "Come Back Home" MV. The photo shows striking resemblance.
Daily Mail UK says that the juxtaposed photo look like the Taylor Swift's "Bad Blood" MV and K-Pop 2NE1's "Come Back Home" MV came from one storyboard.
Both Music videos are futuristic, but according to Daily Mail UK's report, the plots are absolutely different. Taylor Swift's "Bad Blood" MV is supposedly making Swift an "over the top movie-style secret agent" who was betrayed by Selena Gomez. The "Bad Blood" singer aka agent is preparing for a face-off with Selena Gomez.
2NE1's 'Come Back Home' MV on the other hand is said to narrate a story of "a dystopian future in which people exist in Matrix-style virtual realities, which the group rebel against and attempt to destroy."
But regardless how each has justified their plot, it has been clear that the overall theme "rebelliousness" "attempt to destroy the opponent" not to mention the futuristic setting and some images or scenes have striking resemblance.