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[J⁷ We are Back @Jessssinghh]

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[Kaity⁷ ⊙⊝⊜ @KaityKT1230]

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[𝐴𝑠ℎ⁷ 🪭 @kthnoir7]

There’s a lot to unpack here, and I’m going to say it directly. I dont care if I get cancelled but this needs to be said.

For years, BTS were told they weren’t big enough, mainstream enough, or "Grammy material." Then they became one of the biggest acts in the world. They broke records, sold out stadiums across continents, topped charts repeatedly, and built a global cultural impact that few artists in history can match.

And when they became too successful to ignore?

The Grammys nominated "Dynamite" and "Butter"—both English-language songs.

Let that sink in.

The songs that got BTS into the major Grammy conversation were the songs that fit most comfortably into the Western industry framework. Yet BTS's discography is filled with critically acclaimed Korean-language music that has had enormous cultural and artistic impact.

Now we have a "Best Asian Pop Music Performance" category.

And before anyone calls that progress, let's ask the obvious question: why does there need to be a separate category at all?

If Asian artists are good enough to dominate global charts, sell millions of records, headline festivals, influence culture worldwide, and compete with every major artist in the industry, then they are good enough for the same categories as everyone else.

Inclusion isn't creating a separate lane after Asian artists prove they can win in the existing ones.

Inclusion is treating them as equals.

That's why BTS's lyrics in "Aliens" hit so hard:

"어쩜 그래 shameless
예의를 차려 we aliens
해는 동쪽에서 risin'
Aliens, aliens"

No matter how successful some artists become, there are still systems and institutions that treat them as perpetual outsiders.
And that's exactly why this conversation matters.
Because when BTS were impossible to ignore, the response shouldn't have been to create another box and place Asian artists inside it. The response should have been to judge them by the same standards as every other artist competing for the biggest awards in music.

ARMYs, we have a mission.

Talk about Arirang everywhere. Put it in AOTY conversations. Put it in ROTY conversations. Write threads. Make edits. Share analyses. Start discussions.

If we believe it deserves those nominations, then let's make enough noise that nobody can pretend it doesn't belong in the room.

They ignored BTS until they couldn't.

Let's make sure they can't ignore Arirang either.

[Epik High @EpikHighHQ]

WHO AGREES THAT THESE CONCERT TICKETING SITES ARE A JOKE?!

[J⁷ We are Back @Jessssinghh]

@iced_emotions @LetsBeGoodHuman These are so so cute!!

[Epik High @EpikHighHQ]

Epik High is coming to USA & CANADA 🤫

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[⦿ ☰ ☲ Fran⁷ ARIRANG ᥇𝕥ડ ꪗꫀꪖ𝕣 '26 @wanderingFranzi]

If anyone wants to hype on weverse. 🫂💜🫂

[번역하는 레전드⁷⊙⊝⊜ :🆂🆆🅸🅼 @BeautifulSoulB7]

#bts_ari̇rang_worldtour_lasvegas

어느 🇺🇸아미님의 글 (쓰레드 @/ifyouwereachild)

👱‍♀️"저는 청각장애인입니다. 보청기는 제겐 효과가 없어서 착용하지 않습니다.

제가 음악과 사랑에 빠지는 유일한 방법은 오직 가사와 기분 좋은 바이브를 통해서입니다.

​남준 #RM 에게 꼭 말해주고 싶어요.

저는 #BTS 를 알기 전까지 단 한 번도 콘서트에 가본 적도, 그 어떤 밴드를 좋아해 본 적도 없다고요.

저를 이 세계로 이끈 건 바로 'Blue & Grey'의 가사였습니다.

그 후 'IDOL', 'ON', 'Come back to me', 'Still Life', 'Nuts', 'Groin', 'The Astronaut', 'Into the sun' 같은 곡들을 만났고, 이 노래들은 제 영혼에 직접 말을 걸어왔습니다.

방탄의 가사는 ​초인지적이고 언어적이며, 끝없이 깊은 심연처럼 찬란하게 빛납니다.."

남준이에게...#방탄소년단 에게 이 글이 닿기를...

[🌟 jess⁷ @starryeyed_jv]

my husband made it on the big screen. IM DYING

[BTS Daily⁷ @btsdaily77]

BTS “Boyz With Fun” 2026 🇺🇸[FULL]

[🅃🄰🅉 ♡ㄥ @Zeroohclock_]

At the beginning of the tour when you all attacked BTS for not doing full choreography, none of you understood the point at all. We weren’t defending them just because we blindly support everything they do.

We defended them because choreography is exhausting as hell. Every single move, every technique, every second has to be timed, practiced, calculated, repeated until it drains them completely. And for what? So you can sit there entertained by the performance while they’re treated like machines built to satisfy you, running from one choreography to the next until they’re completely burned out?

This tour proved everything. They started genuinely enjoying the stage again. They started expressing themselves freely, acting like actual human beings instead of overworked robots trying to meet impossible expectations.

Now they’re laughing on stage, messing around, randomly throwing in little moves they still remember from old songs, interacting with ARMY, joking with each other..and THAT is BTS. THAT is what the connection between them and ARMY is supposed to feel like.

You know what was happening behind the scenes before? Endless exhaustion from doing multiple intense choreographies every single concert, over and over again through entire tours. So maybe start trusting their choices for once.

I hope they stay this happy and comfortable. If they feel like dancing, then dance. If not, then don’t. Their presence, their smiles, their energy, and the way they interact with us is already more than enough.

[French Army_C | ⊙⊝⊜ @CCjo7949]

Instead of turning cities into rivals maybe we can do what BTS has always taught us to do:

Encourage each other.
Uplift each other.
Carry the light forward.

Not as a competition. As a relay.

One city passes the flame to the next. One crowd sings, another answers. One purple ocean rises then another follows.

Every city will have its own voice.
Its own energy.
Its own chaos, tenderness, screams, tears, banners, accents, weather, inside jokes, and little miracles.

And that is beautiful.

Because the point was never to be identical.

The point is that, wherever BTS goes, love is waiting for them in a different language.

No city needs to become another one to be unforgettable.

We all bring something different to the table.

But we have one thing in common:

Our love for BTS.

That is the thread.
That is the bridge.
That is the family.

So let’s not declare little wars between ourselves. There is already enough of that outside.

Let’s make this tour feel like what it should be:

A chain of cities handing each other the light and saying:

“Your turn. Make them feel loved.”

City by city.
Light by light.
Song by song.

For BTS. Always.

[번역하는 레전드⁷⊙⊝⊜ :🆂🆆🅸🅼 @BeautifulSoulB7]

🇺🇸Translation for i-lovelies!
​I saw this post from a 🇰🇷K💎 on Threads and just had to 🇺🇸translate it to share with you all.
https://t.co/MmN2lzL8nj

It’s a long read, but so worth it!

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[rose⁷ @taessarect]

learn 'swim' with run bts!

[mina is seeing BTS @7rirang]

I KNEW IT. NAMJOONIE STAYED UP FOR THE CHART RESULTS. MY FUCKING BABY WE WILL GIVE YOU EVERYTHING YOU WANT DONT EVER DOUBT YOURSELF AGAIN YOU FUCKING HEAR ME???????????

[Beyond ARMY ⊙⊝⊜⁷ saw PIED PIPER and 뱁새 @beyond_ARMY_]

🇰🇷Korean-🇧🇷Brazilian father living in Brazil moved to tears as his daughter shows him “Arirang” during BTS “Body to Body” on #BTSLiveonNetflix.

“My Korean dad reacting to BTS’s ARIRANG song ‘Body to Body’ is the best thing you can see today.”

This moment feels especially powerful because it reflects a much bigger story: immigrant families carrying identity, memory, and culture across borders, oceans, and generations.

Brazil has the largest population of people of Japanese descent outside Japan, and it is also home to the largest Korean community in South America. That matters here. This moment speaks to the lives of immigrant families shaped by distance, memory, and inheritance — people who built new lives abroad while still carrying something deep within them that remains tied to home. For many Korean people, that is “Arirang.”

@ericnamofficial refers to part of this as a “third culture.” It is the idea that your parents come from one country, you grow up in another, and you end up living somewhere in between — shaped by both, but not fully contained by either. So how does an immigrant child bridge that gap? By listening to their parents, embracing where they come from, and learning how to thrive in the country where they were raised or born — carrying both identity and inheritance at once.

It is the story of so many immigrant children.

Taehyung said it in his Weverse Live on March 21, and Namjoon further echoed in the Netflix documentary BTS: The Return (https://t.co/XkkWKwjEx6): “Arirang” unites Korean people throughout the entire peninsula. It is about resilience, longing, loss, hope, love, and even resistance.
For Koreans, both 🇰🇵North and 🇰🇷South, whether you laugh, are sad, feel sorrow, or feel happiness, there is “arirang.”

And for BTS, as Namjoon said, “authenticity matters.” #BTS_ARIRANG holds true to that without a doubt. 💜

[aish⁷ ー人ー •᷄ɞ•᷅ ⊙⊝⊜ @minyo0n9i]

THE BEST NO.29 REMIX. I swear you won’t regret hearing it!!!!

[CKayy⁷ @Namjoons_carkey]

When did you become an army?

[(slow)𝓦𝓸𝓸𝓫𝓲⁷ ⊙⊝⊜ 🇦🇺 ⟭⟬ @BaseLineWoo]

I’m not on the timeline as much as I used to be these days. Life outside of ARMYing is asking more of me, and my bandwidth isn’t what it once was. It feels a little strange to admit that.

Still, I hope that everyone is truly enjoying what is the comeback of the century, the return of the BTS generation.

Even while keeping up mostly with official updates, not all admittedly, I can feel the scale of this moment. The excitement. The emotion. The sense that we are witnessing something rare and beautiful together. I hope ARMY are allowing themselves to fully live in it, to celebrate, to laugh, to feel proud, and to create memories that will last for years.

This is not just another comeback. A return of this magnitude, a group reuniting after military service with the whole world watching, is something we have never seen before. Not in Korea’s cultural history, and honestly, not on this scale ANYWHERE.

So please savour it all. Every moment. Every joy. Every bit of chaos, magic, and wonder that comes with loving BTS.

They need this. We need this. And maybe, just maybe, the world needs a moment of light like this too.

Let’s get it, ARMY 💜

#BTS_ARIRANG

[BTS Fanchants @btsfanchants]

A quick video runthrough of the site and watching a song

- change between romanised and Hangul lyrics
- turn translations off/on

https://t.co/pG8IAMytwU

#bts