โ BTS and the Grammys: Should Music Really Have Borders?
"BTS has arguably done more to globalize Korean culture than any award could confer. Their influence is already written into music history."
"The real win isnโt a golden gramophone. Itโs the millions of learners now studying Korean, exploring Korean culture, and discovering that great art truly knows no borders. And if youโre one of those learners โ youโre already part of that story."
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[NEWS] The New York Times about #BTS โค๏ธโ๐ฅ
โBTS, Possibly the biggest act in the world since Jackson, is perhaps the only Korean recording act with the freedom & leverage to spark a reckoningโ
โ The New York Times
Every artist, whether BTS or Bad Bunny, deserves access to the largest market without being filtered out or qualified. The solution isn't about getting rid of special markets or categories. Folk, for example, is a real thing, and if it benefits folk to have discrete awards and institutions, great. It's pop that needs to be examined, because pop is the biggest market and yet admission to it still seems largely subjective.
Artists and their managers should scrutinize record companies for the way they exclude artists from their pop departments. Labels and artists should challenge playlisters at streaming services and radio station programmers about how they wield the term "pop" for some but not for others. The Recording Academy should stop inventing new award categories, especially ones based on ethnicity, nationality or language, when people aren't asking for them every division separates its occupants from the larger, more profitable market. And if those Pop Performance awards or pop playlists cannot be defined musically or aesthetically, perhaps they shouldn't exist.
#ArtHasNoAliens @RecordingAcad
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"Their stance has sparked global discussions about inclusivity and the risks of creating categories that may unintentionally segregate rather than celebrate diversity" - Financial Express
RM and Vmin fight in LA but they were so drunk they didn't even remember why they were fighting๐ญ๐
๐จ I said "We've got work tomorrow, so let's wrap it up" and Jimin just went
๐ฅ Hyung, you shouldn't have spoken that way to Taehyung
๐ฏ Exactly, I was hurt too
๐ฑ And suddenly they all started sobbing uncontrollably
๐จ And I became a villain for that
and Yoongi was stuck being confused on the side ๐ญ