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[♡ @amlysbang]

— BTS's 'Declaration of Musical Independence'

"The current hot topic is the interaction between BTS, who have grown into the world's top music group, and the prestigious Grammy Awards."

"The Grammys announced the creation of a new "Asian Pop Music Performance" category starting in 2027. While the stated purpose is to officially reward successful Asian music, analysts suggest that the underlying message is, "Asian music, compete among yourselves here. Do not easily aim for the main awards."

Criticism even arose that this could lead to the ghettoization of the genre. Furthermore, the Grammys stipulated that Asian languages must be used meaningfully in the songs, and works recorded entirely in English would be excluded from this category. "

#ArtHasNoAliens

https://t.co/zjBDDJ5NLt

[miniboo 🐳🐱 ⁷ saw BTS ⦿ ☰ ☲ @jk_phoria]

Dynamite losing was not just a BTS moment.

It was a @RecordingAcad pattern showing itself clearly: when non western artists become undeniable, the room suddenly finds invisible standards. That is why the loss still gets questioned.

#ArtHasNoAliens

[miniboo 🐳🐱 ⁷ saw BTS ⦿ ☰ ☲ @jk_phoria]

BTS did not just expose @RecordingAcad once but repeatedly.

The years changed, the statements changed, the categories changed, but the same old system is still struggling with the same question:

How do we use global power without giving it equal respect ?

#ArtHasNoAliens

[Aynat⁷ | ᴬᴿᴵᴿᴬᴺᴳ ²⁰'⁰³'²⁶ ⊙⊝⊜ @BTSkiNoona]

The clock is ticking @RecordingAcad. We dont want ambiguous statements. We want action. Scrap the racist categories!

If you want to be the biggest stage in music, stop ghettoizing the stage. Otherwise you're just another local award show.

#ArtHasNoAliens

[♡ @amlysbang]

— The Grammys’ Asian Pop category: What’s next as the Recording Academy addresses controversy.

BTS' boycott triggered ripples through the voting body, which has signaled possible changes to the brand-new category in the weeks before balloting begins.

"BTS spoke, and — it seems — the Record Academy has been listening."

"There is no more time-tested solution for an organization dealing with a problem than "handling it later." At the moment, the Recording Academy has on their hands a new awards category that's been essentially invalidated by its top contender. The situation doesn't just hurt the Grammys, but also the potential victors. If the Academy follows through with handing out Best Asian Pop Music Performance, the winner could be perceived as having an asterisk next to their win. Perhaps the most likely outcome for the category is a big pause button and a vague promise to fix it in the future... once the stakeholders are consulted."

#ArtHasNoAliens @RecordingAcad

https://t.co/fxtf7045ZU

[ART HAS NO ALIENS, Carmen ⁷⊙⊝⊜⟭⟬⟬⟭ 💜🔍⍤⃝🔎 @cidorta]

@amlysbang This is what I have said multiple times. Since western media started reporting about the latest from the RA.

That last press release is literally a PR Stunt. Anyone with common sense knows this.

@RecordingAcad

#ArtHasNoAliens

[♡ @amlysbang]

Why revamp it now just days before the submission deadline? If the category was supposedly designed with good intentions, why wait until artists and audiences called out its flaws? At this point, the timing raises serious questions. What looks like a correction can also look like another attempt of sabotage.

#ArtHasNoAliens @RecordingAcad

[♡ @amlysbang]

Creating a category that effectively compartmentalizes pop music by an entire continent and then calling it "Asian Pop," as though that were a genre is an extraordinary misstep.

Asia is a continent, not a genre. And a category built this way is segregation rather than meaningful representation.

#ArtHasNoAliens @RecordingAcad

[Bangtan Streamers⁷⊙⊝⊜ @Bangtan7_Stream]

The one thing that isn’t mention, which the RA would have totally done, is BTS submitting to the Pop performance category just to get moved to the Asian Pop performance category. All in the guise of being inclusive. BTS said no to your box, @RecordingAcad
#ArtHasNoAliens

[ak ⁷ | VOTE BTS on VMAs @Bangtan_Caramel]

I hope you remove the category because its obviously xenophobic @RecordingAcad
#ArtHasNoAliens

[ruon🌻BTS Namjoon JHope ⁷ ⊙⊝⊜ @miniekootrash]

“the seeming disregard of Western or South Asian popular music demonstrates what should be obvious — that the Grammys are poorly positioned to be setting out what Asian Pop is.”
#ArtHasNoAliens @RecordingAcad

https://t.co/OiUW7pMwbp

[♡ @amlysbang]

— Developing: Grammys CEO Hints at Nixing ‘Asian Pop Music Performance’ Category As Fallout Continues

"After BTS announced they would not submit music for consideration for the Grammy Awards in February, the Recording Academy appears to be reconsidering its move to add an Asian Pop Music Performance category.

Only two months after the Grammy Awards announced a new category for Asian pop music, and weeks after BTS announced their withdrawal from consideration, Recording Academy CEO Harvey Mason Jr. released a statement that signals the institution might be changing its tune."

#ArtHasNoAliens

https://t.co/ymZBmh05Wh

[Aynat⁷ | ᴬᴿᴵᴿᴬᴺᴳ ²⁰'⁰³'²⁶ ⊙⊝⊜ @BTSkiNoona]

Due to streaming platforms, music consumption has become so decentralized that the @RecordingAcad can no longer impose its unilateral & unclear verdict abt what is good/bad music

Not everyone can make good art, but good art can come from anyone. Not just the West #ArtHasNoAliens

[miniboo 🐳🐱 ⁷ saw BTS ⦿ ☰ ☲ @jk_phoria]

Why does transparency scare an institution like @RecordingAcad that claims to be fair ?

If the standards are strong, show them.
If the process is clean, explain it.
If the voters are qualified & not biased, prove it.

#ArtHasNoAliens

[miniboo 🐳🐱 ⁷ saw BTS ⦿ ☰ ☲ @jk_phoria]

So @RecordingAcad wanted global credibility without global humility. That is why this backfired.

You cannot use asian music to look modern while treating asian artists like they should be grateful for whatever frame you build. #ArtHasNoAliens

[miniboo 🐳🐱 ⁷ saw BTS ⦿ ☰ ☲ @jk_phoria]

Mr. Harvey, public is criticizing @RecordingAcad coz this category exposes what the academy still lack: cultural literacy, trust, transparency & the courage to let non western music compete without shrinking it first.

You can not call that celebration. #ArtHasNoAliens

[♡ @amlysbang]

"The Grammy organization exists to serve all music people."

Then why does the institution have such a long history of artists of color and artists outside the Western mainstream having to fight for recognition? Adding more diverse voters does not automatically erase decades of structural problems. Representation in the room means nothing if the rules built inside that room still marginalize people. You need to "re-vamp" the entire organization itself!

#ArtHasNoAliens @RecordingAcad

[miniboo 🐳🐱 ⁷ saw BTS ⦿ ☰ ☲ @jk_phoria]

Bb wants charts to reflect popularity, until it comes from organized fans.

Spotify wants engagement, until it exposes unequal visibility.

Grammys want impact, until impact arrives without their permission.

Bro, just pick a lie and stay consistent.

#ArtHasNoAliens

[miniboo 🐳🐱 ⁷ saw BTS ⦿ ☰ ☲ @jk_phoria]

So @RecordingAcad knew how to find these communities when damage control started.

The real question is why that depth of consultation did not happen before the category was announced. Listening after public pressure is not leadership. It is cleanup. #ArtHasNoAliens

[𝐒𝐨𝐚𝐡⁷🥢𓊝 @Yoon_kookie97]

- The addition of these new Grammy categories is not progress, it is tokenistic inclusion what dresses up white bias as recognition

- The Recording Academy should stop inventing new award categories, especially ones based on ethnicity, language

#ArtHasNoAliens