Mr. Mr.

On the Mr. Mr. / snsd issue, there are just some ignorant comments I would like to address.

"They're using snsd to get more known."
First of all, do you realize that by doing this, Mr. Mr.'s company most likely understood that they were going to get a lot of hate for it. It's obvious that if you try to say something even remotely "bad" about an extremely popular group that you are going to have many opinionated fans against you. I don't think any company is dumb enough to think that doing this would make them /more/ in favor with kpop fans. If anything, SNSD using "Mr. Mr." as their title song name makes Mr. Mr. less well known. Personally when I am searching for a lesser known group on any search engine or site, I already have to sift through many other posts with similar wording to find what I am looking for. Even if you search "beast," a popular group, on google, they are second to the comic "Beast" in search results. So imagine now, Mr. Mr, who relies on the little name recognition that they get from kpop fans, has to compete with SNSD search results as well. It will be harder to find articles and videos and photos of Mr. Mr, and rather than associating the name "Mr. Mr." with the boy band, people are going to associate it with SNSD. If you google "Mr. Mr," three of the first four results are related to SNSD. The band Mr. Mr. only shows up in one of the results on the page, and it is the article explaining the scandal with SNSD. Name recognition is the basis of a lot of fandom's growth. People may not listen to a group or know much about them but "have heard of them" at least. If they were a popular group that had a large fanbase, it wouldn't matter as much, because they would be well known enough for this song title not to overshadow their group title. For example, Secret's song "Madonna" doesn't change the fact that Madonna is insanely more famous than Secret's song. But it sucks for an aspiring artist that is not very well known in the first place and is fighting for recognition in the industry, whose band name is now associated with another group. Even if they did use this as a way to increase their fame, what is wrong with that? The kpop industry is competitive. Mr. Mr.'s company might have seen a chance to make their group big and jumped on it. How is this any different from other companies who use the fame of their popular groups to promote their newer groups? It's competitive strategy.

"How could they think they could win this argument against the queens!"
First of all, if it had been any relatively popular group, not just your "queens," I'm pretty sure it would have bothered Mr. Mr. 's company. It's not that they were personally attacking SNSD. If you read the lyrics to their song, "Am I a loser and are you a winner? We're going the same path," it is pretty obvious that they are more upset that SNSD has put in place a barrier to their success, when SNSD used to be in the same place as them when they were rookies. They are offended by it. Mr. Mr's company just wants SM to know that just because SM is bigger and more powerful doesn't mean that SM can do whatever they want, and disrespect another group. If it had been the opposite, where a lesser known group used SNSD's name, fans would still defend SNSD, saying the group was using them for their own success. In this case, it's the opposite. It's almost as if SM is defaming Mr. Mr. Yes, Mr. Mr is not well known, and yes, the word "Mr." is common enough for this not to be completely intentional on SM's part but that is the exact reason that Mr. Mr. is offended by this. It's like saying "You aren't important enough for me to respect your name as yours." Mr. Mr. is a new group and new groups rely on name recognition. B.A.P.'s popularity grew so quickly because they were constantly promoting, constantly getting their name out there to be more well known. So if Mr. Mr. had stood still and not responded to SNSD using their name, they probably would continue to be overlooked, and many people would have not even noticed that there was a group named "Mr. Mr." and would just associate this phrase with SNSD. I respect Mr. Mr. and their company a whole lot for speaking up about this. They don't want to be trampled on. They're being vocal about something that upsets them, even if it means they have to say something against a very popular group. I think it's safe to say that no rookie group can honestly compete with SNSD, but the fact that they are still taking pride in who they are and not letting SNSD take over their name is a respectable quality.

Another note. Allkpop is terribly biased. They're a good source of news for the general idea of what is going on but please do not rely on them for accurate information. They made it sound like Mr. Mr. was being incredibly hateful toward snsd, which I personally do not believe is the case.

You can make your own judgment about what is going on but I honestly feel like this is a lot of unfair hatred towards a poor rookie group who feels wronged and spoke on it.

Also, this is my personal opinion. I'm not a big snsd fan, nor am I a big Mr Mr. fan. I appreciate snsd's songs and music and like a lot of the members. I have nothing against them. I just tried to look at the situation more objectively than some biased fans and this is what I've concluded about it.