It doesn't get mentioned as much, but according to the Asian Pop Performance criteria, songs or "recordings" submitted for this category CANNOT BE SUBMITTED for another category.
The male host is correct in pointing this out; Grammy CEO (lied) omitted this from his statement.
BTS didn't even insult the Grammy awards like that,they did hint before that they might not submit Arirang lol why tf is grammys acting like bts is pressed or something when the real reason here is simply racism and xenophobia towards Asians?
I feel like bts themselves did not expect to set the academy and media world ablaze with this 😭😭😭😭😭😭 like we’re on day 3/4 of this and it’s still going
the grammy community defending themselves with "they can always apply for other categories" tells you EVERYTHING
bts has always applied for 3-4 categories (main ones) and they always gave them a nom in group/duo only to give the award to a COLLAB
Someone said that the Latin categories at the Grammys have a requirement that they must have 51% Spanish.
Which means that Brazilian artists (also Latin) who sing mainly in Portuguese do not qualify.
btw ARIRANG producers were hyping up the album everywhere & if they choose to submit the album for engineering/technical categories i won’t blame them. it's normal for them to ask for recognition of their hard work. so if we see ARIRANG submission, let’s not attack them please 🙏🏼
BTS really went out of their way and gave up GRAMMYs so Asian music including kpop to be respected only for fuck ass kpop to say "this is a bts issue" holy western validation hunger lmfaooooo
two things were dangled in front of bts for the longest time. military exemption and the grammy. and in both cases they took the reins of the systems that tied them to exploitative schemes with the promise of a reward that was always just out of reach. hope they feel lighter now
the members are allowed to have different relationships with social media and they don’t owe us shit.
jungkook, taehyung and hobi are chronically online and post more often. others post less. i’m sorry to break it to you but that is entirely their choice. assuming someone is depressed or heartbroken just because they aren’t posting is weird.
the same goes for overanalysing the lyrics and the title of the songs jungkook pick for his stories. people can listen to sad songs without going through a breakup. i listen to depressing songs, it doesn’t mean i’m heartbroken. i listen to Alien too, but that doesn’t make me an alien.