jungkook after crying at the paris concert 🥹
🐰: i guess i was really happy in europe
🐰: ahh… *sighs* tsk…
🐰: i really wanna come back to europe soon
🐰: i already wanna come back
🐥: we were happy
🐰: i really loved europe
"When Western European artists sing in English, it is simply called pop music. When Asian or Latin artists achieve the exact same heights of success, there suddenly feels an urgent need to build a boundary"
The Mirror US article 👀👀
Grammys and the bullshit category still getting questioned by mainstream media lfg!!!🔥🔥🫠💀
Olivia Senior Digital PR Account Director at Go Up also noted BTS's decision will impact the inaugural year of the Best Asian Pop Music Performance category in 2027, which will be defined by their absence."BTS is one of the biggest music acts in the world, so their decision means there will inevitably be more scrutiny around who is nominated, who wins and, importantly, whether Asian artists are also being recognized elsewhere in the Grammy field."
"I also think it changes the conversation the Grammys probably wanted to have next year. Instead of the new category being discussed purely as a positive step for representation, every result is now likely to be viewed against the concern BTS has raised about separating music by region and language. That puts more pressure on the Recording Academy to show what the category looks like in practice…..The bigger test will be what happens outside that category," she concluded
https://t.co/tZdwC7meQY
WOAH 👏
"The hypocrisy becomes undeniable the moment you turn the lens toward Western artists. The Academy has never felt the urge to erect a UK Pop category for Dua Lipa, Ed Sheeran or Adele.
When Western European artists sing in English, it is simply called pop music. When Asian or Latin artists achieve the exact same heights of success, there suddenly feels an urgent need to build a boundary.
The problem isn't just adding or renaming categories every few years. It is that these tweaks do not happen in a vacuum.
If the Grammys actually reflected the real-world music landscape and commercial reality, maybe we wouldn't feel this way about a new category addition.
But right now, creating a side room while the main voting body continues to favour white, Western acts feels like a consolation prize. It is a token gesture designed to keep global audiences tuning into the broadcast while secretly maintaining the status quo.
Until those major categories offer an unbiased, accurate representation of music's true global breadth, creating sub-categories will remain what it has always been: exclusion disguised as diversity.
I am tired of watching global powerhouse artists being asked to express gratitude for secondary recognition. We know what a secondary seat looks like, and as BTS just proved to the entire industry, we are finally at a point where we can simply refuse to sit in it."
https://t.co/452wYtwrJK
WE ARE IN THE NEWS
"Another notable change in this controversy is the way the fandom responded.
BTS's fandom, ARMY, supported the members' decision by spreading the phrase "ArtHasNoAliens" on social media.
The song they chose is "Aliens," a track from their new album, "Arirang." "Aliens" is a song that uses the metaphor of an outsider to express the identity and aspirations felt while active as a Korean on the global stage. In particular, lines in the lyrics such as "Seven aliens, different from birth / Those civilians envy us" and "As you, with your ridiculously huge eyes, say..." were interpreted as a sharp message directed at the Western mainstream music market, sparking an outpouring of reactions that aligned perfectly with the recent Grammy boycott declaration."
https://t.co/pYN6dKPREu
“The Recording Academy should stop inventing new awards categories, especially ones based on ethnicity, nationality or language…”
— The New York Times on the new Grammys’ “Best Asian Pop” category.
#ArtHasNoAliens@RecordingAcad
📰🔴 NewYork Times:
"The largest Asian entertainment companies, with lots of new acts to promote, may not want to fight that system on principle. But BTS, possibly the biggest act in the world since Jackson, is perhaps the only Korean recording act with the freedom and leverage to spark a reckoning.
So will this be a moment where artists and entrepreneurs conspire to force the major institutions of this business to break its addiction to racism dressed up as demography?
Every artist, whether BTS or Bad Bunny, deserves access to the largest market without being filtered out or qualified."
#ArtHasNoAliens
@RecordingAcad