HAPPY ⁷

The rain pours even when I dance alone
By the time this mist clears
I'll run with my feet wet
So hug me then

[BTS Charts & News @btschartsxdaily]

[INFO] Supermodel Anok Yai attended and did a livestream at the #BTS concert at the MetLife yesterday! 💜

“All 7 I’m greedy”

[kath verá a BTS @jnfication]

El reconocido productor ganador del Grammy, Sleep Deez, reveló que habló con miembros de la Academia y que la idea inicial era usar a BTS como sujeto de prueba para la categoría de Pop Asiático y luego crear una serie de categorías específicas para artistas asiáticos:

"Hablé con alguien que trabaja en la Academia y me dijo que (que BTS ganara) sería una situación beneficiosa para los premios. BTS todavía estaba en el ejército cuando comenzaron a crear este premio. Y el razonamiento era que probablemente BTS sería considerado para las categorías más importantes con su regreso (...). La persona me dijo que el premio no se creó para BTS, pero que mentirían si dijeran que ser los primeros en ganar no sería el sueño de los Grammy. Porque si BTS gana primero significaría que otros artistas en el futuro querrían seguir el mismo camino y ganar este premio porque BTS ganó. (...) Y luego la intención era que más artistas quisieran este premio, (...) y eventualmente la categoría se expandiría a categorías más enfocadas en géneros musicales específicos (para Asia), tal vez incluso por país. Y mi respuesta..." fue: 'Entonces querías usar...'" "BTS como ratas de laboratorio". La persona dijo que no le gustaba ese término (...).

[Yoong⟬⟭na⊙⊝⊜🎀🐱⁷ @Yoonginapuppy2]

A SK journalist called BTS and HYBE “entitled” and reduced their decision to a power struggle—while already praising future groups from other companies that might win… or might NOT. Shocking🫪 Who could have seen that coming?
Anyway, here’s what I think: they are so desperate for even one minute of Western validation that, now that BTS is no longer providing clout for them—and it’s painfully obvious to the entire world that the rest of K-pop is NOT on BTS’s level—they will happily accept this xenophobic consolation prize.
And that desperation will keep them small. They’ll continue discussing “declining stocks and investment” in K-pop instead of fixing the mediocre groups they keep exporting—groups that embarrass themselves at international festivals and would embarrass themselves at the Grammys too, dragging that category even further into the gutter.

Meanwhile, BTS and ARMY will continue breathing a sigh of relief that they had nothing to do with it. 😃

[Rize⁷ @rize07addict]

[NEWS] Kim Oujoon, a prominent and influential South Korean journalist & political commentator who has shaped liberal political discourse in South Korea says "#BTS's Grammy withdrawal will remain a landmark in world cultural history for a long time."

"The Grammys see themselves as the most prestigious music awards with no fan-voting or even commercial success criteria, and yet they created a side door, just like MTV. This was basically saying, "Asia, come in through the side door. Separate but equal. The same logic that has normalized racial segregation in America for the past century."

"When MTV did this 7 years ago, BTS still attended despite the controversy. And after criticism, MTV nominated them in main categories outside 'Best K-pop'. But this time, in 2026, BTS said enough is enough and declared to the American mainstream music industry, "We're not using the side door anymore." And they refused."

"An artist from outside of America boycotted the supposedly most prestigious award in music and declared, "You are out of step with the times."

#ArtHasNoAliens
https://t.co/Y9P02Y9zl4

[⁷ @mygbebe]

Oh, BTS, look around you. You've started one of the most important conversation and movement, once again.

[Yoong⟬⟭na⊙⊝⊜🎀🐱⁷ @Yoonginapuppy2]

"When an institution doesn’t fully understand the art, does the artist still need the institution?"-Forbes

"BTS doesn’t need a Grammy — they already have the world."-NJ Review

"The rejection of consideration for the Grammy award after the group returned from hiatus with a chart-topping album is a significant statement."-Times

The Category is BTS! 🤌🏽🔴🌟

[Absent Ma'am @sleepinginsilk]

First Asian Musician to win Oscar — AR Rahman (no mentions)
Most streamed Asian Musician — BTS (no mention)
Most followed Asian Musician globally on Spotify — Arijit Singh (no mentions)
First Asian Musician to win a Grammy — Ravi Shankar (no mentions)

XYZ attended coachella tho

[BTS_official @bts_bighit]

[#오늘의방탄]
260802 BTS WORLD TOUR 'ARIRANG' IN EAST RUTHERFORD

#방탄소년단 #BTS #BTS_WORLDTOUR_ARIRANG
#BTS_WORLDTOUR_ARIRANG_NA
#BTS_WORLDTOUR_ARIRANG_EASTRUTHERFORD

[BTS Charts & News @btschartsxdaily]

OMG BANGTAN 🥹💜

[𝐒𝐨𝐚𝐡⁷🥢𓊝 @Yoon_kookie97]

Indian Today cooked Grammy & Zeena Koda with this😭😭

BTS never asked for the category to disappear. They never suggested other Asian artists should reject it. Nor did they dismiss the work of those who fought for its creation. Instead, they drew a boundary around themselves++

[BTS_official @bts_bighit]

[#오늘의방탄]
260801 BTS WORLD TOUR 'ARIRANG' IN EAST RUTHERFORD

#방탄소년단 #BTS #BTS_WORLDTOUR_ARIRANG
#BTS_WORLDTOUR_ARIRANG_NA
#BTS_WORLDTOUR_ARIRANG_EASTRUTHERFORD

[꩜ @urmisope]

"The most relevant point being that Asia is not a genre, it’s a continent composed of about 50 countries." — Rolling Stone

Go back to school .@RecordingAcad
https://t.co/ia9NLwUnTk

[𝐒𝐨𝐚𝐡⁷🥢𓊝 @Yoon_kookie97]

[Forbes] “BTS didn’t just skip an awards show, they named the actual question the Grammys have been dodging for over a decade: does this institution want to sort music by identity, or does it want to trust identity not to determine the outcome in the categories that matter most?+

[ɪ ѵ ᴜ ⁷ ⋆˚🪐.*･ @pjmIesviu]

"Nadie creó una categoría de Best European Pop Music Performance para Dua Lipa o Ed Sheeran" — FORBES

ESTA PARTE DE LO QUE DIJO FORBES, LO ESCRIBIERON POR TODOS NOSOTROS 👏🔥

ART HAS NO ALIENS
#ArtHasNoAliens

[ً @pearlytrivia]

fun fact: BTS is the FIRST and ONLY artist in history to occupy the entire Top 10 on the Billboard Global Excl. U.S. chart.

[RMORI𝄢 @RMZHRKIVE]

تعرفون ان المدير السابق لشركة Kakao اتهم بالسجن 15 عامًا بتهمة التلاعب والتضخيم في أسهم شركة SM وشراء جوائز حتى تضيفها كانجاز لفنانين الشركة وأن شركة SM نفسها يلي كانت تحاول تمنع ظهور بتس في برنامج American Hustle Life اهم البرامج لانطلاقة بتس كفرقة في السوق الأمريكي 😭😭

[dictator mbapbella @7adorablereps]

“Nobody created a “Best European Pop Music Performance” category for Dua Lipa or Ed Sheeran.”

- Forbes Magazine

#Grammys #BTS #ArtHasNoAliens

[BTS Daily Chile⁷ @BTSDailyChile]

ARMY descubrió que, en mayo de 2026, los GRAMMYs actualizaron silenciosamente la biografía oficial de BTS para agregar la descripción "artista de pop asiático".

Un mes después, el 16 de junio, anunciaron las nuevas categorías de Pop Asiático.

Otro antecedente que ARMY descubre @RecordingAcad

ART HAS NO ALIENS
#ArtHasNoAliens

© ameviil

[Pop Core @TheePopCore]

Forbes on the Grammys' new “Best Asian Pop Music Performance” category:

— “Nobody created a ‘Best European Pop Music Performance’ category for Dua Lipa or Ed Sheeran.”

[ᴮᴱ*Justin Seagull⁷*⊙⊝⊜ @JustinSeagullO7]

Sleep Deez, a well-respected producer who has worked with BTS, has confirmed via his inside source at the Grammys that BTS were, in fact, gonna be the guinea pigs/test dumbies/poster child for the "Asian Pop Performance" category.

They wanted to legitimize it as a "win-win" for both BTS and the segregation of Asian artists by the Academy. What they did NOT expect was that BTS would have self-respect/self-worth and thought they would be DESPERATE for western/Grammys validation. That is why you see them coke ranting on every social media platform.