still thinking about the first time yoongi performed seesaw nobody expected the choreography and the second he started dancing the crowd went absolutely insane ICONIC 😭
When SUGA said "off-season" (오프기), he meant a temporary rest. The West twisted it into "hiatus", implying a permanent break.
Now, choosing not to submit to the Grammys is branded a "boycott."
They spin calm autonomy into Western drama. Learn Korean.
#BTS
OUCH.
"Each of the seven members posted the same brief statement announcing that the group would not submit its music to the Grammys this year, adding a hope that music might be heard and loved for what it is rather than sorted by region or language.
Big Hit Music asked that the statement be taken as written, and taken as written it is remarkable, because it asks for nothing. A boycott makes demands. This made none, set no conditions, named no grievance, and offered the Recording Academy no way to win them back. You negotiate with an institution whose judgment you still need. The one whose judgment you have outgrown, you simply inform.
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An award has no value of its own; it is worth exactly what the wanting of it is worth, and the wanting must be freely given. For five years the biggest band on earth gave it freely, showing up, performing, losing, returning, lending the ceremony the one asset it cannot manufacture, the sight of someone enormous still hoping.
That hope was always the Grammys' property more than BTS's weakness. It has now been withdrawn, without anger, without demands, in a statement short enough to fit on a phone screen, by seven men who knocked at a door for years and were at last, generously, offered a smaller one."
another thing abt aliens i love that it feels like the right time to mention is he enunciates the FUCK out of the korean words he says after that line 😭 it’s like when someone is exasperated after explaining sth 384747 times nd speaks really clearly so u get sth through ur skull
BTS spent years opening doors that weren’t built for them. now they have the freedom to decide which ones are worth walking through. bts are truly living legends.
What do you call a masked man with an AK 47 shooting unarmed civilians?
A terrorist.
But we are told that no, this is the police, and we must pay for the AK 47.