According to reports from Hong Kong, the MV for the song ‘Real Man (大丈夫)’ in ‘Butterfly (花蝴蝶)’, the first album that Jolin Tsai(蔡依林) is releasing under her new company, has been accused by netizens of plagarising a perfume advertisement featuring Agyness Deyn, a famous model from England.

For the album, Jolin’s look was also accused of copying Ayumi Hamasaki’s (滨崎步) cover page for a magazine and her new album. Added to that, her MV for her main single ‘Real Man’ has also been accused of being lifted from Agyness Deyn’s perfume advertisement. Some netizens said: “Her songs style is copied from Lee Hyori, her image from Ayumi, now even her MV has to be copied from someone else!” There were also images from youtube clips pinned up for netizens to compare.

In the MV, there was a scene were Jolin was wearing a western-style suit with long pants, and after tossing her hair, she cuts off the sleeves from her suit, and at the end she rips off her long pants and it become a pair of sexy mini-shorts. Though it appears that it is full of creativity, but when we compare it to Agyness Deyn’s advertisement, we see that the two scenes are exactly the same as each other. Even though her company claims that it was ‘purely coincidental’, and her fans reason that there was bound to be similarities in the entertainment circle, it is hard to shake off the suspicion after Jolin has yet again been accused of plagarism.

Jolin’s Real Man MV

Agyness Deyn perfume advertisement