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BTS ARIRANG GLOBAL DOMINATION 🔥

[iAmTrent @am_trent]

Officially on a #BTSLOCKDOWN enjoy every moment of the massive BTS comeback and give our 100% focused support. #ARIRANG #BTSArmy #ARIRANGOutNow #SWIM #SwimOutNow 💜💜💜💜💜💜💜

[Governor Wes Moore @GovWesMoore]

Welcome to Baltimore, @bts_bighit!

[Moon⁷🪭🅐🅡🅘🅡🅐🅝🅖⊙⊝⊜BTS IS BACK @Tanniology13]

A famous Mexican ballerina dancer covered so many songs of BTS but this hits more than perfect with her super flexible body.🥹

https://t.co/aTCfWFRei8

[Moon⁷🪭🅐🅡🅘🅡🅐🅝🅖⊙⊝⊜BTS IS BACK @Tanniology13]

How beautifully a dance community covered "Body To Body" by BTS and portrayed South Korean culture in that!

https://t.co/55bBp70HT5

[BTS ⊙⊝⊜ @ThePopBase]

It is so insane to have The New York Time, which is one of the largest and most influential news outlets in the United States and one of the "Big Three" Legacy Newspapers calling out grammys for creating an Asian pop category and saying BTS is possibly the biggest act in the world since Michael Jackson. It's getting worse for #them 🤭

[정국 @koostrous]

this is the definition of being a once in a generation type of artists. i know a legend's pattern when i see one.

[san7̶ @lemongukk]

THE INSTITUTIONAL BLINDSPOT:

The @RecordingAcad are facing an identity crisis, even if they do not see it that way.

— "The Grammys were created for a music industry focused on Western production and audiences, a time when international music mostly stayed within its own markets. Back then, regional categories made sense because they matched how the industry worked."

— "That industry is gone. K-pop, Afrobeats, and reggaeton are not just regional successes looking for recognition; they are now mainstream, even though the Grammys still treat them as regional. Instead of broadening the idea of what is mainstream, the Grammys have just added more regional categories."

— "Having a Best Asian Pop category while Best Pop Album has no geographic label sends a message about hierarchy. Western pop competes without limits, while Asian pop is judged within its own region."

—Mason Jr. says the goal is to celebrate, not divide, but the structure matters more than the intent. The way the categories are set up shows what the institution really thinks is mainstream.

#ArthasnoAliens

[iAmTrent @am_trent]

@btsdaily77 This proves #ArtHasNoAliens

[BTS Daily⁷ @btsdaily77]

ARMY being the biggest, most beautiful, and most diverse fandom that could ever exist. 🥹

[Moon⁷🪭🅐🅡🅘🅡🅐🅝🅖⊙⊝⊜BTS IS BACK @Tanniology13]

Wanna know how racist Grammy and it's boot lickers categorize and evaluate this song now???????

[꩜ @urmisope]

I just remembered this when the former chief of Recording Academy called the grammys "rigged".

She said that mostly white males in those rooms make the decisions & manipulates the votes in favor of their picked artist instead of the deserving one.
https://t.co/vF99lmCP2j

[Pop Core @TheePopCore]

The New York Times on BTS:

— “But BTS, possibly the biggest act in the world since Jackson.”

[Ria⁷◾🌱🍅|| @__gaciria]

"Are the Grammys a global award?” “Is it the biggest night in music for all?” Or is it the biggest night in music for a select few?"

[chart radar @chartradar_]

The New York Times has crowned BTS as the biggest artist in the world.

[Pop Core @TheePopCore]

The New York Times on BTS' Grammy withdrawal.

“The largest Asian entertainment companies, with lots of new acts to promote, may not want to fight that system on principle. But BTS, possibly the biggest act in the world since Jackson, is perhaps the only Korean recording act with the freedom and leverage to spark a reckoning.

So will this be a moment where artists and entrepreneurs conspire to force the major institutions of this business to break its addiction to racism dressed up as demography?

Every artist, whether BTS or Bad Bunny, deserves access to the largest market without being filtered out or qualified.”

[iAmTrent @am_trent]

@TheePopCore @stapleskeri #ArtHasNoAliens

[Pop Core @TheePopCore]

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…”

[♡ @amlysbang]

— The New York Times

Every artist, whether BTS or Bad Bunny, deserves access to the largest market without being filtered out or qualified. The solution isn't about getting rid of special markets or categories. Folk, for example, is a real thing, and if it benefits folk to have discrete awards and institutions, great. It's pop that needs to be examined, because pop is the biggest market and yet admission to it still seems largely subjective.

Artists and their managers should scrutinize record companies for the way they exclude artists from their pop departments. Labels and artists should challenge playlisters at streaming services and radio station programmers about how they wield the term "pop" for some but not for others. The Recording Academy should stop inventing new award categories, especially ones based on ethnicity, nationality or language, when people aren't asking for them every division separates its occupants from the larger, more profitable market. And if those Pop Performance awards or pop playlists cannot be defined musically or aesthetically, perhaps they shouldn't exist.

#ArtHasNoAliens @RecordingAcad

https://t.co/hSzibHCS3V

[iAmTrent @am_trent]

@orul8ce #ArtHasNoAliens

[seeingbtsinamonth💜 @orul8ce]

The Mirror US article 👀👀

Grammys and the bullshit category still getting questioned by mainstream media lfg!!!🔥🔥🫠💀

Olivia Senior Digital PR Account Director at Go Up also noted BTS's decision will impact the inaugural year of the Best Asian Pop Music Performance category in 2027, which will be defined by their absence."BTS is one of the biggest music acts in the world, so their decision means there will inevitably be more scrutiny around who is nominated, who wins and, importantly, whether Asian artists are also being recognized elsewhere in the Grammy field."

"I also think it changes the conversation the Grammys probably wanted to have next year. Instead of the new category being discussed purely as a positive step for representation, every result is now likely to be viewed against the concern BTS has raised about separating music by region and language. That puts more pressure on the Recording Academy to show what the category looks like in practice…..The bigger test will be what happens outside that category," she concluded

https://t.co/tZdwC7meQY