MeryCore💜7👑BTS

Photograph, ex model, retouch, lector, draw, play guitar and more. I'm ARMY forever BTS everyday 🙏🍀💜

[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.

[번역하는 레전드⁷⊙⊝⊜ :🆂🆆🅸🅼 @BeautifulSoulB7]

#BTS_BodyToBody 🕺💃 by Song Hee-soo from the dance crew TURNS (featured on Street Dance Girls Fighter) and Director Song Hee-won.

​A collaborative dance performance blending the modern and the traditional, featuring a talented group of dancers.

🔗https://t.co/EojXyzdck9

#BTS

[AGUST D CHARTS @DataAgustD]

16 years ago today, at just 17 years old, #SUGA, then known as GLOSS, produced and composed “518-062,” a track commemorating the May 18 Gwangju Uprising, with “518” representing the date and “062” being Gwangju’s area code.

Originally created for his underground hip-hop crew D-Town, the song was made for a competition held for a festival honoring the 1980 democratic uprising in Gwangju. It was performed by rapper Nakshun before later being posted on Nate Pann.

[yoongi_augustd @__yoongiagustd2]

I was walking around aimlessly
Sow you in your eyes I lost my mind
My heart started beating faster
In that moment I knew I was going to fall

What I should do
Now i can't live
I want to be where you go
That is my place

[chandler ⅞ ⋆ ⊬ MISSES BTS ♡ @chandlerbingsz]

who let yoongi escape my pocket

[AGUST D CHARTS @DataAgustD]

Something was in the Tampa air… Yoongi wasn’t even clutching his shirt to hide his waist anymore 😭

[ٍ @detailsofym]

yoonmin core

[AGUST D CHARTS @DataAgustD]

SUGA’s silhouette against the lights in this 4K Fake Love fancam… ✨️

insane face card, unreal proportions, broad back doing numbers 🫠

[maia ✿ @jmnmusee]

i have nothing appropriate to say

[maryam @syubhoya]

you can see yoongi starting to panic

[GLISTEN @GLISTEN_J]

🥤 #지민 #JIMIN @BTS_twt

[kyo @selcagate]

this fucking insanity of a video

[⭑ @sugadooll]

a reminder that yoongi looks like this in 4k

[kin @sakinayoongi]

Yoongi saying goodnight in the most husbandable tone ever oh my heart 😭

[율리⁷ ∞♡♪ @julie_people]

his gaze... I'm on my knees 🫠🧎🏻‍♀️

[뽀 @ppo0309]

2.0 가장 좋은 안무는 이거지
슈가 공 던지는 안무 너무 잘하는것..

[sophie @thvchapters]

bts vocal line you will always be the blueprint

[reading⁷ @agustdreads]

see, sticking your tongue out because it's hot is a very normal thing to do. then again, sticking your tongue out and making it quake like a vibrator in front of sixty thousand people...is a choice that i respect.

do it again.

[프제 @309_zipp]

아 미친 민윤기 달방 직캠도 뜸 ……… 잠시만아

[kin @sakinayoongi]

This is such a heartfelt moment. So Jungkook couldn't get the water bottle box open, then Yooongi just immediately help him, bending down to do it himself. Yoongi is always taking the best care of his maknae. He's indeed the most attentive hyung 🥹