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[Music @Music]

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@bts_bighit’s Spotify Music Video for "Merry Go Round" is out now

[bangtan⁷ | ⊙⊝⊜ @archvofbangtan]

🐨: I always thought about a merry go round. During the military too, and even living this life, I kept imagining a merry go round I couldn’t get off of. To me, this feels like another “Spring Day.”
It’s a sad song, honestly. Probably the only song on the album that’s openly, unmistakably sad. “My life is like a broken roller coaster. But maybe I’m the only one to blame” Yeah… it’s my fault, right?

[ciph ৻ꪆ’s arirang @triptyciph]

BTS - ARIRANG | CRITICS OPINION & ACHIEVEMENTS
VISUAL POSTERS - LOAD IN 4k

ARIRANG is album of the year.

[vani⁷ @koostrous]

merry go round is about their military enlistment and the video of them being in separate rooms and all seven of them reuniting at the end with the members waiting for joon to come inside so they are finally complete and has healed

[taf⁷ @einsteiniumkonj]

ARMYs don’t want a Grammy because BTS need one. BTS have already achieved things most artists can only dream of. We want BTS to be recognized as artists—not reduced to “just K-pop idols.” They write, compose, produce, shape concepts, and pour an insane amount of care into music

[Vane is seeing bts🇵🇪 @Vantaeuwuu]

La teoría de que uno no encuentra a BTS sino que BTS te encuentra cuando más lo necesitas, es una teoría que no pienso soltar nunca

[mimi @yngi91]

bts needs to win the main categories AND the asian ones as they’re the most relevants even there but you’re not ready for this convo

[🥢BTSforever 2025 🐨🐹🐱🐿🐣🐯🐰 @ot7jackpolibts]

I very much agree. This song alone deserves grammy awards. @bts_bighit

[BTS Charts News @btschartsxdaily]

BANGTAN ARE INSIDE THE MERRY GO ROUND 😭😭😭

MERRY GO ROUND MV
#BTS_MerryGoRound

[varnellhill @varnellhill_]

I just hit my good friend who worked for and has ties to the Grammys…he’s not just on the voting board…He was on the submission board to choose who gets nominated…this could get interesting…I want to ask him some BTS questions…ARMY would yall watch?

[About Music @AboutMusicYT]

Recording Academy member, Adam Birson, discusses BTS at the upcoming Grammys:

"BTS ARMY should push them to win Album of the Year instead of being marginalized in the Best Asian Pop category. It's great for smaller artists to get recognition, but BTS is too big and important to get stuck in this trap."

[About Music @AboutMusicYT]

Recording Academy member, Adem Merter Birson, on BTS at the Grammys:

"I think they should settle for nothing less than Album of the year"

[Buzzing Pop @BuzzingPop]

Recording Academy member Adam Merter Birson says BTS should only be competing in the top categories at the Grammys:

“BTS ARMY should push for them to win Album of the Year, not be marginalized in a Best Asian Pop category. It’s great for smaller artists to get recognized, but BTS is way too big and important to fall into this trap.”

[Pop Core @TheePopCore]

Recording Academy member Adam Merter Birson on BTS at the GRAMMYs 2027:

— "BTS ARMY should make a push for ARIRANG to win Album of the Year and not be marginalized with Best Asian Pop Music category. I think it's great if smaller artists could get recognized, but not BTS. BTS is way too big and way too important of a group to be falling into this trap."

[María- Simply put, I Love BTS.💜💜💜💜💜💜💜🥰 @Maria_26596243]

Apologizing in advance because this isn’t how I usually post.
I’m venting.

Right now and, of course, I will respect whatever decisions the 7 make, I feel like they should completely skip the scammys and submit NOTHING.

Fck the scammys.

[María- Simply put, I Love BTS.💜💜💜💜💜💜💜🥰 @Maria_26596243]

THIS!!
💯
👇🏾

[𝐴𝑠ℎ⁷ 🪭 @kthnoir7]

There’s a lot to unpack here, and I’m going to say it directly. I dont care if I get cancelled but this needs to be said.

For years, BTS were told they weren’t big enough, mainstream enough, or "Grammy material." Then they became one of the biggest acts in the world. They broke records, sold out stadiums across continents, topped charts repeatedly, and built a global cultural impact that few artists in history can match.

And when they became too successful to ignore?

The Grammys nominated "Dynamite" and "Butter"—both English-language songs.

Let that sink in.

The songs that got BTS into the major Grammy conversation were the songs that fit most comfortably into the Western industry framework. Yet BTS's discography is filled with critically acclaimed Korean-language music that has had enormous cultural and artistic impact.

Now we have a "Best Asian Pop Music Performance" category.

And before anyone calls that progress, let's ask the obvious question: why does there need to be a separate category at all?

If Asian artists are good enough to dominate global charts, sell millions of records, headline festivals, influence culture worldwide, and compete with every major artist in the industry, then they are good enough for the same categories as everyone else.

Inclusion isn't creating a separate lane after Asian artists prove they can win in the existing ones.

Inclusion is treating them as equals.

That's why BTS's lyrics in "Aliens" hit so hard:

"어쩜 그래 shameless
예의를 차려 we aliens
해는 동쪽에서 risin'
Aliens, aliens"

No matter how successful some artists become, there are still systems and institutions that treat them as perpetual outsiders.
And that's exactly why this conversation matters.
Because when BTS were impossible to ignore, the response shouldn't have been to create another box and place Asian artists inside it. The response should have been to judge them by the same standards as every other artist competing for the biggest awards in music.

ARMYs, we have a mission.

Talk about Arirang everywhere. Put it in AOTY conversations. Put it in ROTY conversations. Write threads. Make edits. Share analyses. Start discussions.

If we believe it deserves those nominations, then let's make enough noise that nobody can pretend it doesn't belong in the room.

They ignored BTS until they couldn't.

Let's make sure they can't ignore Arirang either.

[isa @solmerv]

Just a bunch of dumplings in a microwave trying their best.

[Rish⁷ @cuntfortannies]

BTS RAPLINE.

[kat⁷🧸ྀི @thvdotjpg]

GUYS I GOT THE BTS OREOS TODAY AND MY TOTAL AT CHECKOUT WAS $6.13???