The New York Times on the Grammys' new “Best Asian Pop Music Performance” category:
— “The Recording Academy should stop inventing new awards categories, especially ones based on ethnicity, nationality or language…”
"All this is doing is making the Grammys look like they don't know what they're doing. How can you marginalize the most popular pop band in the world?"
— Boston's NPR News Station
#ArtHasNoAliens#Grammys#BTS
The Korea Times ATE WITH THIS 🔥
- “The thing is that BTS is not merely one of the biggest k-pop groups. It has become one of the defining Musical acts of the 21st century, achieving a level of global influence comparable to the biggest international artists of any era”
Thank you for being there for @bts_bighit for children around the world. 🫶💜We love you ARMY!
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"Refusing Grammy consideration did not make the group disappear. It made the Academy explain why one of the world’s largest musical acts found its framework unacceptable."
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Forbes in their new spicy article:
“Ultimately, BTS’s legacy was never created by a nomination. It was built through stadiums filled across continents, records broken across markets, and a global community that transformed the relationship between artists and audiences.”
Javier Paniagua, composer, producer & Grammy voting member, supports BTS's decision to skip the 2027 Grammys.
He said "BTS is the most relevant pop group and artist in the world today, and shouldn't be placed in a separate category based on their origin and language."
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.
"The addition of these new grammy categories is not progress; it is tokenistic inclusion that dresses up white bias as recognition."
— Teen Vogue on the Grammys' new Best Asian Pop Music category.
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[NEWS] Three time Grammy winner Indian musician Ricky Kej speaks about the Grammys, BTS and the Illusion of Inclusion
“By creating geographically bounded categories like “Best Asian Pop” or “Best African Music Performance,” we aren’t fully integrating world music into the main stage and risk excluding diverse regions from the historically prestigious categories that carry the most weight. It inadvertently sends a message that international excellence is celebrated primarily within a designated corner”
"Another fundamental issue is that “global diversity” is still frequently viewed through an American-centric lens, focusing primarily on the vibrant diaspora within the U.S."
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