Why do groups rarely cover 2NE1 despite their popularity?

2NE1 is not active, members are not even doing much as solos.

It’s harder to pull off any 2ne1 songs than WG and SNSD

their concept is too fierce and bad ass it's hard for younger generation to relate to those kind of concepts today

Maybe it has to do with copyright, i remember how during Queendom G-idle couldn't release an official studio version of their fire cover because of copyright, heck even 2ne1 had to be authorized to sign their own songs at Coachella

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Maybe it has to do with copyright, i remember how during Queendom G-idle couldn't release an official studio version of their fire cover because of copyright, heck even 2ne1 had to be authorized to sign their own songs at Coachella

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Maybe it has to do with copyright, i remember how during Queendom G-idle couldn't release an official studio version of their fire cover because of copyright, heck even 2ne1 had to be authorized to sign their own songs at Coachella

It's likely to be the case as YGE had 2Ne1's Intellectual Properties while Dara was signed with them until she left in 2021

Yeah it's always been odd how 2ne1 get shafted so often. Not even having their songs covered but also not being brought up often in knetz or media eyes compared to the usual suspects SNSD, WG, Kara, Sistar etc.

I guess it could be down to them not having a strong lasting legacy. They did very well until 2014 and then just peaced our, as a group and individually. Other gg was still around a bit longer in some form so their group and therefore songs are remembered more.

facts, and it's not about how short they were around because miss a was active as a group for a short period too, their songs are covered so often

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It's a combination of YG gatekeeping their songs/trying to make it so that they are never discussed and the difficulty of pulling off their concepts (they were strong live performers... not a huge focus on choreography but more on singing and hyping the crowd).

When you are the group that popularized the "girl crush" concept that many groups try to emulate, it's hard to live up to that. 3/4 members are strong singers, 3/4 are strong dancers and you have one of the "best" female kpop rappers, it's hard to cover that.

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What do you mean, how can they intentionally make it so that something is not talked about

And not just that no one talks about it

cus that's a high risk of setting yourself up to failure

good luck matching up to 2NE1

So for like these large award or end-of-the-year shows, do they have to get permission from the copyright owners to do covers of the songs? If that's the case, maybe YG is literally just rejecting any requests to cover 2NE1 songs?

Even in little things like karaoke on vlive or things like that, you seldom ever see people choosing 2ne1 or their songs. It's very weird

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Yeah it's always been odd how 2ne1 get shafted so often. Not even having their songs covered but also not being brought up often in knetz or media eyes compared to the usual suspects SNSD, WG, Kara, Sistar etc.

I guess it could be down to them not having a strong lasting legacy. They did very well until 2014 and then just peaced our, as a group and individually. Other gg was still around a bit longer in some form so their group and therefore songs are remembered more.

2NE1 not having a strong legacy? Lmao... many idols still call them and/or CL as inspirations so I think they do

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their songs are ass

2NE1 still has the record for most #1 songs among any girl group in Korea (including 3 from Melon in 2009) so their music must not be that bad eh?