m.🥢

[lily ☆ @mainlyguk]

it’s insane how in a couple of years kpop artists will start winning grammys bc of the new asian category and their fans will still look you in the eyes and say it wasn’t bts that paved the way and made it way easier for their favs to get global recognition… baby we made you

[mer @meroutro]

“asian category” it’s the same bullshit of a whole awards just for latin music

[🦦 @mimiweek]

i’ve stopped giving a fuck about this fuckass award when they said “bts aren’t eligible for best new artists cause they’re not new” but years later nominated sabrina carpenter eventhough she too, was not a new artist.

[k 🌙🎧🎸🎢 @sunflwerrmoon]

adding new categories so latinos and asians don’t win in the main categories… oh okay

[r @THEJILF]

oh arirang... your impact too big... your reach too astronomical... your bangtan too sonyeondan

[priya @jinkookswife]

not a single other kpop act deserves to be anywhere remotely near a grammy nom and bts outperformed the entire western industry this year therefore deserving main category noms like can everyone get serious quickly

[pedro @koolstfm]

quando o ato mais bem sucedido de 2026 é um grupo asiático é claro que eles criariam uma categoria para os colocarem numa caixa e os deixarem de fora das categorias principais. bts nao incomodou apenas fas de diva pop com arirang, ne? kkkkkkkk

[priya @jinkookswife]

the concept of outperforming drake and bruno mars and then getting put in a category with the inkigayo lineup

[🐻‍❄️⁷ 🇸🇳🇸🇳🇨🇦🇧🇷🇨🇮🇫🇷 @userbfIy]

anyway. arirang album of the year.

[RJ @rapjinnies]

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

[tan into the sun⁷ @taesl0ver]

bts you are bigger than grammys btw.

[m.🥢 @jimingoldrush]

the recording academy is at its core a racist regressive institution. full of white men that cannot see a non-american, non western, fully Korean act, not even signed with a western label win big at the Grammys.
they were so threatened by arirang they had to do this. disgusting!

[Pop Base @PopBase]

The GRAMMYs are introducing their first Asian category at next year’s ceremony.

Best Asian Pop Music Performance will recognise K-Pop, J-Pop, C-Pop recordings that feature meaningful use of one or more Asian languages.

[Gabs⁷ ♱ ☁️ @_GabsVersion]

> beyonce ganha pelo cowboy carter
> grammy cria uma categoria separando o country "tradicional" do country "contemporâeno"
> bad bunny ganha
> grammy cria categoria "melhor musica latina"
> bts comeback
> grammy ja cria uma categoria pra artista asiático

só não vê quem não quer

[#1 @myralists]

beyonce wins aloty. new country category drops. bad bunny wins aloty. new latin category drops. THE ACADEMY IS SMOKING METH

[sdl ٭ @_sdl93]

and congratulations BTS for paving another way for those nugu ass kpop groups.

[Rize⁷ @rize07addict]

They saw "ARIRANG" out-performing every single mainstream American Act release this year in both charts & critical acclamation and decided a separate lil corner for "these asians" is the way to go,, the shameless racism of the Recording Academy truely knows no bounds,,

[kat @kookyun]

It's actually insane how BTS became so big that these western award shows are making their own "kpop" and "Asian pop" categories just so they can discredit them

[krissy⁷ is seeing bts @HYYHOYA]

will they put olivia and bruno in there too or will this be only for bts 😁

[💭 @oceankive]

bts BEEN a threat to american music industry so ofc they gon try their hardest to separate them from main categories as long as the industry plants & mediocre white artists don't get snubbed

[sophie @thvchapters]

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.