to anyone missing the point. this is them refusing to bown down to a institution that would rather create racially segregated categories than letting poc artists compete equally for the main awards
it’s so genius of them if you think about it. whoever wins that category will forever have to live with knowing that they only won it because bts didn’t submit. it’ll be an asterisk on the wikipedia page. the grammys viewership will tank. bts put out an album that smashed records everywhere. bts get to exist with their heads held high, as always, and don’t have to kowtow to a shitty system
two things were dangled in front of bts for the longest time. military exemption and the grammy. and in both cases they took the reins of the systems that tied them to exploitative schemes with the promise of a reward that was always just out of reach. hope they feel lighter now
BTS announces they will not submit their music for the 2027 GRAMMY awards, following the Recording Academy’s addition of an Asian-focused category:
“I hope music itself can be heard and loved rather than being distinguished by region or language.”
i love listening to namjoon speak english and listen for all the peculiarities in his speech that are grammatically 'incorrect' and think about what he's accidentally bringing over from korean and what else influenced his ingrained speech patterns and
Fun grammar tip I learned as a kid and never forgot: if you don’t know whether to use me or I, take away the other person/people in the sentence and see if it makes sense. For example, in this case, “my friend and me went to an art gallery” becomes “me went to an art gallery” which is grammatically incorrect