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"Several media outlets described BTS's decision as one of the most significant public challenges to the Recording Academy's diversity initiatives."
TELL ME ABOUT IT LOL.
[Forbes] BTS Just Shined A Light On The Grammys’ Diversity Problem:
"The timing makes the statement sting. This was an act by a group at the height of its commercial power, telling the industry's most powerful institution that a new box built specifically to hold their music was not a gift."
"Consider Best African Music Performance, introduced in 2023 for the 2024 ceremony. The Recording Academy framed it as recognition of Africa's explosive global influence, from Afrobeats to amapiano. But it triggered a wave of backlash, not primarily about Tyla's win, but about the premise of the category itself."
"Recording Academy member and culture commentator Joey Akan has been the most direct critic. Akan argued African artists are not asking for a special room of their own; they are asking to be treated as equals eligible for the biggest stages, warning the category risks becoming a way to let "Africans fight themselves there" while the major categories stay out of reach. Ghanaian American singer Amaarae raised the same concern back in 2023, and OkayAfrica ran an op-ed arguing the category forces African artists to sound "ancestral, percussive, earthy" to even qualify, punishing anyone whose sound leans pop or global."
"The Academy keeps trying to engineer its way out of a problem that isn't a categorization problem. It's a trust problem, built up over decades of Album of the Year fields that skewed heavily toward white American pop and rock even in years when Black, Latin and Asian artists dominated the commercial conversation."
"Telling BTS that a genre submission does not prevent a general-category submission misses the point BTS is making. Their objection is not procedural. It's that the existence of a geography-coded lane, whatever its stated intent, signals where the Academy expects Asian pop to live. Nobody created a "Best European Pop Music Performance" category for Dua Lipa or Ed Sheeran. The absence of a mirror category for majority-white regional pop is the tell that these fields, however generously intended, are not applied evenly across the map."
#ArtHasNoAliens
#GeographyIsNotAGenre
https://t.co/CGvLUtAsP6
cada día PEOR, mayo de 2026, los Grammy actualizaron la biografía de BTS y los etiquetaron como “artistas de pop asiático”, confirmando lo ya dicho: que la categoría fue creada para mantenerlos fuera de las categorías principales, pese a su impacto global. esto es demasiado repugnante @RecordingAcad
É… Continuam subestimando o fandom que menos brinca em serviço
Armys descobriram que o Grammy atualizou a descrição do BTS em sua página em maio de 2026 para incluir no texto o destaque a “artistas pop asiáticos”, um mês antes do anúncio da nova categoria
Também descobriram que se você pesquisar “Asian” no search do site, apenas o BTS aparece
ART HAS NO ALIENS
#ArtHasNoAliens
Forbes on the Grammys' new “Best Asian Pop Music Performance” category:
— “Nobody created a ‘Best European Pop Music Performance’ category for Dua Lipa or Ed Sheeran.”
“it’s gonna be harder for smaller asian artists because of bts” so you believe the academy is going to punish all asian artists bc BTS refused to play along. and that’s the institution you wish to support and want to keep as the pinnacle of music recognition? ok LMAO