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.”
طفل برازيلي اشتهر لدى الشرطة بعمليات السرقة المتكررة لسنوات، وكان يُلقى القبض عليه في كل مرة، لكن يُطلق سراحه لأنه قاصر وفق القانون البرازيلي.
وفي يوم بلوغه 18 عامًا، قررت الشرطة مراقبته حتى قرر تنفيذ سرقة جديدة. ولحظة قيامه بذلك، قبضوا عليه مباشرة واحتفلوا بعيد ميلاده في الحجز، وسيحال لأول مرة إلى القضاء.
I told my chinese coworker friend who doesnt speak english very well that i was quitting today and she asked me what quit means while looking at me like this and i had to tell her it meant i was leaving💔
🎙️Kendall Jenner on Asap Rocky in a new interview:
Interviewer: Looking at your ex, A$AP Rocky and Rihanna now, happily married with kids... does it ever make you feel like you were the problem?
🎙️Kendall Jenner: "Not the problem, just the wrong timing. The hardest part isn't seeing him in love. It's realizing he was capable of giving someone else everything he convinced me he wasn't ready for. I wanted forever with him. When I talked about marriage and having children, he'd laugh it off or change the subject. That was the moment I knew our future didn't look the same. Watching him build that exact life with someone else stings, but it also gave me the closure I never got. Sometimes people don't reject the dream, they just reject it with you."
My coworker asked me to buy him a lottery ticket because he forgot his wallet.
That ticket ended up winning $2.4 million.
He called me screaming before I even got to work.
“I’ll split it with you,” he said.
The time and effort this Taehyung fanboy put into his outfit all to represent his country and showcase his love and appreciation for his bias. Taehyung recognized his efforts and loved his fit so much he not only gave away his jacket to him but also featured him on his IG story
If the Asian award was truly aimed at “promoting” Asian artists, they would’ve done so 10 years earlier, when bts was an emerging artist in the US.
Not after BTS made ignoring Asian success impossible, and NOT when they’ve outsold, out-streamed & out-stadiumed your biggest acts.
was watching some guy react to arirang after the grammy drama and he’s listening to the whole thing with Spotify lyrics (no translation) and he’s saying “I gotta check out the lyrics, I know they’re talking SHIT” when he reached the half point in aliens 😹
I needed to move a sofa.
I mentioned this to an American. He said, "You know anybody with a truck?"
I did not know anybody with a truck.
He looked at me with real concern. Not pity. Concern. The way you look at a man who has told you he does not have a name.
"You gotta know somebody with a truck."
I asked how one acquires such a person.
He said, "You just do."
This is the third time I have received that answer in this country. It is the answer to everything here. You just do. There is no process. There is only the eventual fact of having.
He said, "Ask Kevin."
I do not know a Kevin. He said Kevin like I should. He said it the way you say a shared uncle.
I met Kevin four days later. Kevin owns a truck. Kevin does not own a truck for himself. Nobody owns a truck for themselves. Kevin owns a truck for a fifteen mile radius.
Inside I said: THIS MAN HAS TAKEN A VOW. HE DID NOT ANNOUNCE IT. HE SIMPLY PURCHASED A BED AND ACCEPTED THE CONSEQUENCES.
Kevin arrived on Saturday. He brought the truck. He also brought a second man.
I had not asked for a second man.
The second man's name is Tony. Tony came because Kevin came. Tony did not know me. Tony did not ask what we were moving. Tony brought gloves.
They moved the sofa in eleven minutes.
I offered them money. Both of them laughed at the same time, which felt rehearsed and was not.
I asked what I owed them.
Kevin said, "Buy the pizza."
That is the price. That is the entire economy. The truck costs one pizza and the pizza is not negotiable and the pizza is also not expensive and everyone knows what size.
Inside I said: THE FEE IS FIXED ACROSS THE ENTIRE NATION AND WAS SET BY NO ONE.
We ate on the floor because the sofa was against the wall and none of us wanted to be the first to sit on it.
Tony told me his daughter plays soccer. I asked if she is good. He said, "She's aggressive."
I still think about that.
Three weeks later, Kevin texted me.
"You free Sunday? Helping Tony move a fridge."
He did not ask if I wanted to. He informed me of a fridge.
Inside I said: I HAVE BEEN CALLED UP. I DID NOT ENLIST. THE PAPERS WERE FILED ON MY BEHALF.
I went. I moved the fridge. I have no truck. I contributed only arms.
Afterward, a man I had never met asked me if I knew anybody with a truck.
I said, "Yeah, I got a guy."
I have a guy.
I am somebody's guy now, too. Tony has told two people about me.
He describes me as "the guy who's strong for his size."
I have never been prouder of a sentence in my life.