In recent days, football star Lionel Messi has appeared in the MV From where I was born of Jack attracted the attention of the public. When the MV was just released, it was reported that the 9X vocalist spent 60 billion VND to invite Messi to participate in this project. However, on September 9, Jack’s side sent a press release to deny the rumor.
On the evening of September 4, businessman Pham Ngoc Quoc Cuong – who appeared in Jack’s apology post about the noisy use of the image of football star Messi in the MV. From where I was bornhas shared on his personal page about the incident. According to businessman Quoc Cuong, Jack mentioned filming and using for MV. At that time, he was frank: “How much money do you think you can ask Messi to play in the MV?”
When the noise happened, businessman Quoc Cuong said he regretted taking Jack to meet football star Messi. The businessman added: “I was too good but mistook the person for a wise and stubborn person, so now my responsibility is to be clean and clear so that everyone will understand and there is no speculation or fat. what’s on the internet”.
The fact that businessman Quoc Cuong directly spoke out about Jack’s noise quickly attracted public attention. Many people are not satisfied with Jack’s vague sharing about meeting Messi in Europe on the day of the MV release. Meanwhile, fans of the world’s top soccer star are upset that the male singer takes advantage of the image of a football star born in 1987 to gain views for the MV.
Even netizens flooded the Fanpage with more than 115 million followers and Leo Messi’s Instagram marked green to “denunciation” about Jack’s noise. Right under the first post of the international football player, a series of comments from Vietnamese netizens with content related to Jack’s use of the image of the Argentine football superstar to include in his MV. Besides, many accounts also share the link of the music video From where I was bornfor evidence, as well as questions about the rumor that Jack spent 60 billion dong to invite Messi to participate in the project, although the rumor was officially denied by Jack’s side. In addition, some netizens mentioned this incident in the hope that Messi “gives Jack a lesson about image copyright”.
Earlier on the afternoon of August 31, at the press conference to launch the MV, the media also questioned how Jack asked for permission to include Messi’s image in the MV. Because Messi is one of the players with the largest commercial value in the world today, the use of this star’s image in personal MV products is of great interest to many people. Jack shared at the press conference that in order to include Messi’s image in the MV, Messi’s representative said just not to mention national and political issues. The MV is also not commercial, does not enable monetization, and has no brand sponsorship. However, so far, the businessmen accompanying Jack are sharing a completely different story. Currently, the original singer from Ben Tre has not given any feedback.