I saw this comment on Instagram about NamSeok being at the concert, and I feel the need to share it here because it was beautifully said. 👏💜
Credits to the owner of the comment.
— 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
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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
BTS ON IG
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 distinguishef by region or language. Thank you to ARMY and everyone who is always with us.
BTS' iconic performance of "Dynamite" at the World Cup Final Halftime Show caused the BIGGEST one-minute spike on Shazam since the closing ceremony of the 2024 Paris Summer Olympics.
Concert moments. Kick off the coverage of the BTS World Tour 'Arirang' at the Stade de France, featuring j-hope in custom designs by Pharrell Williams.