🐯: When I posted on Weverse asking people not to come looking for us outside our hotels, honestly, about 90 out of 100 people...
🐯: Even if ARMY happens to see us out on the street, they just pretend they haven't noticed us.
🐯: They seem to want us to make as many memories as we can in their country, so they simply act like they didn't see us and keep walking.
🐯: Some of them even deliberately avert their eyes when we cross paths. It makes us feel so grateful that we're the ones who end up saying hello first: “Hi, “Have a good day."
🐯: Sometimes we'll even shake hands.
🐯: Moments like that are so heartwarming. So we're the ones who thank them.
🐯: One time, we were even walking down the same street. We said, "Bye-bye," but it turned out we were both headed in the exact same direction, so that was pretty funny
my favorite thing about the surprise songs is that the tannies see that we really do listen to their music. not just the title tracks, not just the most recent album. all of it. the old stuff, the b-sides, every single song. i think that's really special 🥹
the way tannies got so giggly hearing yoongi say their name one by one just for yoongi to hit seokjin with "holly" this is exactly why nobody can outdo bangtan humor 😭
and notice how everything’s written in korean and there’s not a single english word in sight. they really said you wanna know what i’m saying, go ahead and translate it then
I was trying to figure out where I can donate in tablos name because that man has stood by the tannies since their rookie days so I want to do something tangible in his name does anyone know what charities he supports?
I don't think people fully understand the magnitude of this decision.
Some of the music industry's most respected producers, writers, engineers, and creatives worked on ARIRANG. A project built to the highest artistic standard. One producer even spoke publicly about hoping the album would receive Grammy recognition.
Then the Recording Academy introduced a category specifically for Asian pop.
And BTS chose not to submit.
Think about that. The biggest musical project of the year. One of the strongest commercial and artistic contenders. A project that could have competed across multiple major categories. It simply won't be in the race because the artists chose principle over prestige.
Moves like this don't happen often. When artists at BTS' level willingly walk away from the biggest stage in music, the conversation shifts because of what they refused to endorse.
for bts not to submit one of their biggest albums to the grammys this year is huge and i respect them for that. so much was poured into arirang and its message and i feel like it wouldn’t sit right with bts at all especially with the new category the grammys put out
#RM , #SUGA , #JHOPE , #JIMIN on Instagram Stories
"We have decided not to submit to the Grammys this year.
I hope that music can be heard and loved for its own sake, rather than being distinguished by region or language.
Thank you to ARMY and everyone who is always with us."