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[🐻‍❄️⁷ @userbfIy]

“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

[Ashu⁷ @yoongishiibalme]

armys understood 🤝 cameraman understood
the assignment the assignment

[sab⁷ @btswantsbts]

they tried to rig the game but you cant take influence

[. @heididwrst]

@itswidissi @instagram @Meta oh since those two have account in this place, try both mention and message. they have to know.

[. @heididwrst]

@itswidissi keep reporting, widis! through instagram, if you can still login, and/or e-mail. explain to stupid @instagram and stupid @meta to stop suspending harmless accounts. artists i followed were victims of their stupid act.

[𝐒𝐖𝐀𝐍𝐊𝐘 @bigswankky]

This was exactly what Wizkid was trying to fight against!!

Why box people because of their region or color, it doesn’t make any sense. They are indirectly saying you people aren’t part of us but we will find somewhere to categorize you at where you belong.

[Alicia⁷ is seeing BTS on 8/6 💜💜💜 @aliciam1013]

@userbfIy The comments about how they can still submit for the other categories completely ignore the fact that the academy can still put them only in that one category if they wish.

[🐻‍❄️⁷ @userbfIy]

years of refusing to take criticism, and when an artist respectfully opts out, your members crash out. how pathetic 😭 @RecordingAcad

[MJ ⊙⊝⊜ @mj_alwayss]

https://t.co/5xDZ0Foxvj

Elle india opinion piece.

[𝐒𝐨𝐚𝐡⁷🥢𓊝 @Yoon_kookie97]

When Namjoon clocks , he clocks hard

[Livheartt⁷ met hobi | ㉧㉣㉣ | 🦢🤍 @Livheartt]

Sitting with family members talking about BTS vs grammys.

And a cousin of mine said, “i actually dont understand why it’s such a big deal. Just accept the award and move on. They want to give it to them right? So just take it.”

I’ll pause here to say that it made my blood boil to high heaven hearing that.

A little backstory. This cousin of mine is doing her phd fellowship in marine microbial something or other. She’s always been too prissy to explain it claiming we won’t get it anyway. A whole other issue entirely.

So I said to her, “you’re doing all this work for your phd right. You’re the best in your field. On the verge of a breakthrough. And you’re about to be awarded for your contribution. The Nobel Prize. Or the Crafoord Prize. Hypothetically. Wouldn’t that be an honour? Of course it would. Now, think about the fact that, just before they decide to honour you with that, *gasp* they realise you’re Asian and far beyond qualified compared to some of their darling non-Asian candidates that were a shoe-in. So in an effort, to placate you instead of giving you the award you were promised. They create a whole new one. Just to sideline you in there. The Asian Nobel Prize. Or the Asian Crafoord Prize. How would that make you feel?”

Her face contorted into this beautiful web of confusion. While all my other cousins around us who were also having this conversation with us went dead silent.

She then proceeded to say, “that wouldn’t make any sense. My field work as a microbial marine biologist should not be accredited to where I’m from. If my finding is a breakthrough, then it’s a breakthrough to all. Not just Asia.”

Me: exactly. And that is the point bts is trying to make. That their music and their contribution to the artistry of being musicians should not be accredited to the fact that they are Asian. Music is music. They are global artists. They are mainstream global artists. Sidelining them to secondary, segregatory categories is not acceptable. They should not have to stand for it. Just like how you would not stand for it in your field of work. Qualification of awards should be measured by merit. Not by geographical borders. And to add to what you said earlier. Why not just take the award. What message do you think that would send to the institution that are trying to normalise and camouflage discrimination as inclusion? It would just give them the leverage to keep doing it to others. To keep doing it to bts. So when is enough enough?”

Silence. By this point most of them either checked out of the conversation or just didn’t want to refute me further.

But at the very least I got them all pondering. And also got the prissy high and mighty one to stfu once and for all 😤 which was my end goal anyway. lol.

She’s never talking to me again I bet. A win is a win.

[🐻‍❄️⁷ @userbfIy]

bts work with and listen to musicians of all backgrounds and walks of life, and their music reflect that. but what they are and always will be is a group of 7 proud korean artists, and their actions reflect that too. if you can sit there and question that, go play in traffic. 👍🏿

[🐻‍❄️⁷ @userbfIy]

announcing that they not playing their sick game and not getting used by them, then getting right back to their sold out stadium tour. oh bts, you are living legends.

[dictator mbapbella @7adorablereps]

IG comment under #grammys post

[. @heididwrst]

YES

[ràe⁷ 𐙚 @uraehope]

Funny how bts wrote aliens and what grammys did was predictable.

[hope⁷ @winnttaebear]

HOW ABOUT WE STREAM AND CHART ALIENS RIGHT NOW

[hope⁷ @winnttaebear]

So please dont forget that, whether we get the Grammys or not, we already got what we wanted, and we got you, so that means we got everything.

[hope⁷ @winnttaebear]

SO PROUD OF YOU BTS

[vee @jimisite]

and notice how everything’s written in korean and there’s not a single english word in sight. they really said you wanna know what i’m saying, go ahead and translate it then

[nissa⁷ @mninissaa]

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.