Taehyung said he raised the idea of changing the way "today's bangtan" pictures are taken… he said the pictures should be more fun, the photos will be different from now on 😭😭😭😭😭
THANKS FOR THIS TAEHYUNG
across all 62 shows bts played for love yourself and speak yourself tours..... not one of them had paradise performed live.... and we get it 7 years later in the holy year of 2026...... this is too massive i feel SICK
paradise is my #1 song the one i wanted to witness live the most and i lost it to fuckass boston im cant do this anymore i cant even be angry im just grieving i need to jump
dropping the biggest bomb on a scrutinized industry, taking a stand against xenophobia and blatant segregation, and then going to be one with nature in the span of 24 hours is as namjoon as it gets
except for tablo from epik high, no peer of bts in k-pop supported bts today. an industry critic said that only bts could show this backbone and that k-pop has to bow down to the grammys. while bts wanted to protect the industry's pride, we learned that the industry has no pride.
I don't think people fully understand the magnitude of this decision.
Some of the music industry's most respected producers, writers, engineers, and creatives worked on ARIRANG. A project built to the highest artistic standard. One producer even spoke publicly about hoping the album would receive Grammy recognition.
Then the Recording Academy introduced a category specifically for Asian pop.
And BTS chose not to submit.
Think about that. The biggest musical project of the year. One of the strongest commercial and artistic contenders. A project that could have competed across multiple major categories. It simply won't be in the race because the artists chose principle over prestige.
Moves like this don't happen often. When artists at BTS' level willingly walk away from the biggest stage in music, the conversation shifts because of what they refused to endorse.