Gabriel Moses is a self-taught photographer and videographer hailing from London. He shot to fame at just 18 years old through his directorial debut with Nike. Since then, he has worked with the likes of Pharrell, A$ AP Rocky, Skepta, and Travis Scott.
On July 4, Moses took to Instagram to call out BLACKPINK‘s Lisa for alleged plagiarism.
Fans brought up concerns about the latter’s “Rockstar” music being similar to the “FE!N” music video that he shot for rapper Travis Scott. It was released on March 31, almost three month’s before Lisa’s solo comeback.
He expressed his disdain on his Instagram Story, saying he “got mad love for all [his] snitches” for bringing this to his attention.
A female artist imitating your work without giving you credit:
I used to listen to Fein by Travis Scott. I noticed that a female artist (Lisa from BLACKPINK) blatantly imitated a clip from Fein‘s music video.
— Fan email posted by Gabriel Moses
He added the offending clip from the “Rockstar” music video to another Story. It was the scene where the camera continuously panned to Lisa and her dancers.
It was shot similarly to the clip of the uniformed children in the FE!N music video.
Moses apparently contacted Lisa’s company with this concern, saying he is giving them only until the end of the month to respond.
Netizens were divided on this topic. Some defended Gabriel Moses, saying that he is “rightfully mad” since “Lisa and her team blatantly copied” him.
gabriel moses (travis scott’s videographer) who shot the fein mv which lisa and her team blatantly copied, is rightfully mad since he (and the entire team) didn’t get any credits. this is honestly sick, she keeps copying black artists and styles but never gives them any credit. pic.twitter.com/KHtM3lJ7bc
— val (@theejenakgae) July 4, 2024
Gabriel Moses, who shot Travis Scott’s Fein MV, is crazy because lisa copied their mv without giving them a cr. Lisa continues to copying black artists in her cb after 3 years. She is not an artist, she is just copying again and again❌ pic.twitter.com/jbASRxhy3q
— sly (@aceitgirlsly) July 4, 2024
Good for Gabriel Moses he deserves better than his original work being turned into a cheap copy uploaded to vlogs and with adds on every website to farm views pic.twitter.com/yJtQyVGNL2
— Paolette 🌙 (@ColorPaolette) July 3, 2024
On the other hand, BLINKs took to X (formerly Twitter) to defend Lisa, saying that it is a common concept that Gabriel Moses does not own.
These kinds of sets or scenes are not invented by Travis Scott. Here’s a video explaining Lisa’s scenes, which means this type of scenes has been here for a long time https://t.co/fTm6gQmvdI pic.twitter.com/QyF11YrmZg
— ؘ (@kjstagram) July 5, 2024
Hopefully it is made up, coz that Gabriel Moses won’t win in his accusations.
It is a totally different creative output! Any professional can see that! Concept and style might look similar but it isn’t as similar as it seems.
— pinkdragonfly (@pinkdrgnfly) July 5, 2024
It’s funny because this type of editing in music videos is very common, Travis was not the first nor the only one to do it, in fact Kendrick Lamar also has this type of scenes, so your selective interpretation trick is not fooling anyone. pic.twitter.com/6SRdedkcgj https://t.co/vM32IK8uM2
— 𝒎. (@meoipinkss) July 5, 2024
They pointed out that if anything, the one at fault is not Lisa but the director of her music video: Henry Scholfield.
If you’re going to blame anyone for plagiarism blame the director of the video Henry Schofield for copying a concept/shot done by Gabriel Moses. Tho I’m sure he also got it from someone else. Paying homage is not plagiarism. https://t.co/KeDoIJMbvm
— DREADED SOKKA (@DreadedSokka) June 30, 2024
LLOUD Entertainment, Lisa’s company, has yet to respond to these claims.
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