🐨since we’re aliens to the music industry for america we dont know if there’s a place for us or not. grammys arent as hot 100 its not numbers we dont know what’s going on
they’ve spoken about the racism before & its so sad to see them go thru it again :(
award shows that added a kpop category:
VMAs (since 2019)
EMAs (since 2021)
AMAs (since 2022)
BBMAs (since 2023)
iHeartRadio Awards (since 2024)
Grammys (new)
look at when all of this started happening...but sure, kpop twt will tell you bts did nothing for the asian market lol
At first they weren’t mainstream enough. Weren’t global enough.
Then bts became the most successful global act across the board, breaking barriers, records, claiming longevity and relevance and still they weren’t “enough”. They were instead used for their reach, used for their name and their global fandom.
Now with Arirang, an album that has yet to reach its peak bc it’s quite literally peaking every single day, an album that has world-renowned producers who worked on it singing praises months after its release, an album about roots, identity, separation, overcoming adversity, resilience, reunion and legacy, an album only 3 months into its existence demanding the level of recognition that can’t be ignored.
So, what do they do to acknowledge it?
They create ridiculous categories in the name of diversity which to me feels like just a fancy word for exclusion.
“creating a new category just so bts do not win the main categories at the grammys”
the music industry keeps proving why BTS made aliens as an asian artist
I don't know if y'all noticed, but while doing one more night adlibs, Namjoon changed lyrics from "ain't nothing more than a dream, baby" to "ain't nothing more than a dream, my love" 😭😭😭
🐰 Please increase the volume of the 7th in-ear in the 2nd in-ear
🐯 Same here, please increase the volume of the 6th in-ear in the 2nd in-ear
🐹 Why are you guys increasing the volumes of your voices in MY in-ear?
LMAOO he can never catch a break 🤣
BTS has officially crossed 100 BILLION on-demand audio streams across all platforms, becoming the FIRST Group in history to do so.
— They're also the FIRST Asian Act and ONLY the 7th Act in history to reach the milestone.