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SM Entertainment CEO alleges Lee Soo-man delayed release of new aespa music with insistence on lyrics about sustainability

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SM Entertainment CEO Chris Lee (also known as Lee Sung-soo) has claimed the label’s founder Lee Soo-man is the reason why aespa’s new music has been delayed.On February 16, Lee, who is one of the K-pop agency’s two current CEOs, released a 30-minute statement regarding the company.

In the video, which is the first part of a series, Lee made several allegations about SM’s former chief producer Lee Soo-man.According to Chris Lee’s video, Lee Soo-man was the reason why aespa’s music has been delayed.

The four-member girl group was supposed to release a new record on February 20, he said, ahead of their two-night residency at Seoul’s Jamsil Arena for the SYNK: HYPERLINE concerts on February 25 and 26.Chris Lee alleged that Lee Soo-man ordered SM Entertainment’s A&R team as well as Yoo Young-jin – one of the label’s longtime in-house producers and songwriters – to begin injecting environmentalist motifs of tree-planting and sustainability into songs by the company’s artists, including aespa.Some of these lyrics in aespa’s case allegedly include ‘1도라도 낮출’ (directly translates to ‘lowering by one degree’) and ‘상생’ (directly translates to ‘coexistence’), while other English lyrics allegedly included key words like ‘sustainability’ and ‘greenism’.

Chris Lee noted that these lyrics and concepts “did not fit the world of aespa, which is currently centred on the metaverse”, and claimed that the band were “upset” as a result.Chris Lee later claimed that he, alongside co-CEO Tak Young-joon, eventually decided to scrap this song in favour of a new project that better aligns with the original lore and vision SM had for aespa.

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