Singer and producer Cloud is attracting attention by posting an expose about her former agency and artists.

On the 14th, Cloud posted on her SNS, “I have posted several somewhat dark articles periodically with the company. As I continued to solve the problems in this way, it seemed like the series of problems I had experienced would not be resolved beyond a certain point, and I judged that I could no longer go forward, so I started to organize the necessary information.

He continued by saying, ”PLP (People Like People) is a company run by the executives of Blue Vinyl, a company I was affiliated with until February of this year,“ and ”It is also the company that my band The Volunteers is affiliated with.“ He continued, ”During the past activities, I continued to take care of PLP‘s artists beyond what I could do as a music producer and colleague.“

Gureum said, ”This was to prevent work disruption due to the severe emotional ups and downs of PLP artists and their impulsive behavior driven by emotions.“ He continued, ”At the time, I judged that I was the only one in the company who could control those matters, so the executives of the company also left it up to me to handle the situation when it arose,“ explaining that rather than making an active choice, he had given up on his personal life.

In the meantime, Gu-reum claimed, ”At the time, when everything was centered around work, I had my current lover, but I kept in mind not to hurt the feelings or schedules of the company and its artists. Even after I had a lover, I had to keep in touch with the PLP artist as well as the staff from the moment I opened my eyes until I went to bed. During this process, the PLP artist sent me messages that were disrespectful to me and my lover, such as, “You’re going to marry me anyway,” and “Are you going to keep seeing that girl?”“

He continued, ”In the end, my lover saw most of the texts, and there were several times when I had to run over and sort out the situation after hearing about my impulsive behavior in the middle of the night from an acquaintance. It became a habit to always be tense over trivial things, regardless of time or place.“

In addition, Gureum said, ”When I was dating a PLP artist, I asked him several times to wear the ring we matched together because it would interfere with the projects we were doing together, and to refrain from making personal comments on stage, but he mentioned and recorded previous nicknames and expressions that only the parties involved would know in public settings,“ and explained, ”He unilaterally wore the couple ring without my knowledge and went on a performance, and that image was left in photos and such, which hurt my lover, and furthermore, I felt serious about the fact that my personal space as a colleague was not being respected.“

Gureum claimed that he sent a clear message to the PLP artist to be careful about this situation, but all he got in return was abusive language such as, ”The band and the music, you do what you want. It‘s great that you’re trying to protect your girlfriend now, but you hurt me, and in the end, the karma of that misfortune will come back to your girlfriend.“

Gureum, who eventually decided to leave the team and the agency, said that there were problems even when moving the studio. He claimed that ”During the moving process, the PLP artist changed the password to the shared studio without permission the day before the move, saying that my personal equipment was equipment I bought with the money I earned from my work, and prevented me from taking my personal equipment out,“ and that he received it only after several months of legal requests.

While organizing his long writing, Gureum said, ”I was in a relationship with the PLP artist in the past, but we broke up and returned to a public relationship a long time ago. However, even after we broke up, I continued to take care of him more than colleagues while we were working together in order to prevent any unexpected situations or disruptions to my schedule. However, seeing him try to shift all the responsibility for the part where I didn‘t reveal all of my private life and justify his rude attitude, I decided that further rational discussion and ignoring the damage were impossible,“ making his reason for writing clearer once again.

In addition, Gureum explained, ”During this process, I judged that it was meaningless to review the unreleased songs from a moral perspective with my former agency and colleagues, so I sent an email saying, ‘As a co-author, I do not want the unreleased songs to be used anywhere in a form that I do not want,’ However, the songs were performed, so I decided to take legal action.

Meanwhile, Gureum was a member of the four-member rock band The Volunteers with Baek Yerin, Johnny, and Kim Chi-heon, but left her agency Blue Vinyl in February to go solo, and also withdrew from the band at the same time. Netizens are speculating that Baek Yerin, who was rumored to be dating in 2021, is a PLP artist. However, Baek Yerin and PLP have not responded to Gureum’s claims, such as notice of legal action.

Lee Seul-bi, Donga.com Reporter misty82@donga.com