A Korean man was spotted in Mexico after the Mexico v Korea match singing BTS’ “Body to Body.” Mexicans immediately joined in, singing “Arirang” word-for-word.
The fact BTS worried people might reject something so precious to Korean history, only for the world to embrace it like this… 🥺🇲🇽💜🇰🇷
#mexico #southkorea #worldcup
No Fucking Way…. the idea of them doing this has been living rent free in my mind for weeks… like this is genuinely fucking me up, i’ve been dreaming of this 😭😭😭😭
"An out-of-touch Grammy voter who is unfamiliar with K-pop’s influence can feel satisfied in voting for BTS for best Asian pop and never have to think seriously about Arirang for album of the year."
EXACTLY.
Great article!
#OpEd: Writer Ayan Artan examines how the Grammys 2027 rules and categories, especially best Asian pop music performance, can be seen as part of a history of gatekeeping non-white artists from major award categories. https://t.co/LYn2t549EG
Tyler the Creator: “Half of me feels like the rap nomination was a backhanded compliment. Like, oh, my little cousin wants to play the game, let’s give him the unplugged controller so he can shut up and feel good about it.”
Timely as fuck. Full speech below.
the timing of a new “asian pop” category while a major asian act is having one of the most successful albums globally really exposes the problem: it’s segregation and not inclusion.
when non western artists are still underrepresented in major categories, it doesn’t feel like recognition for the asian music market, but containment. they deserve to win, but they cannot, so let’s give them a candy that excludes them a bit further. at least it looks pretty, right?
it’s unfortunate how the “how are you so shameless” line from aliens always hits.
yk what pissing me off even more is the fact that they only mentioned east asian music as a part of the nominees as if asia is limited to only korea japan and china 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 just a bunch of useless racists making excuses