After the overwhelming success of the collaboration between Karol G and Shakira with the song ‘TQG’ singers find themselves in the public eye and now it falls on both an accusation of plagiarism. It was through a video posted on TikTok in which they made a comparison of the video of the Colombians and Michael Jackson.
On this occasion, the alleged plagiarism has nothing to do with the melody or lyrics of the songseveral Internet users explained that the choreography of the singers is very similar to the one made by the so-called ‘King of Pop’ during their presentations. This says the video posted on TikTok.
In the video posted on the TikTok account -@tinonaranjo- Michael Jackson can be seen performing a dance that closely resembles the one that the Colombians perform in the ‘TQG’ video where they appear on their knees on the floor and moving their hips and with their arms and legs from side to side.
However, the user -@tinonaranjo- revealed a video of Michael Jackson and dancers does the same step on stage, although it is unclear what year it was in which he did itHowever, it can be predicted that it was during the nineties.
“The great Michael already invented that little dance. Let’s stop inventing, everything is already invented”, esthe phrase that can be read in the video it carries, Until now, more than 5 million views and hundreds of comments in which Internet users gave their point of view defending Shakira assuring that nothing has been plagiarizedeveryone is inspired by everyone.
“Michael also had his references … Fred Astairebetween one of them. There’s nothing wrong with copying ideas if the result is good or improved”; “What a marvelous shaki!!! Such a good job inspired by the king!!! I love both of them!!! Pure art!”; “Many of Michael’s steps are of African origin mixed with steps from before the time plus the steps from the slums is just history” are some of the comments from Internet users.
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