it’s so genius of them if you think about it. whoever wins that category will forever have to live with knowing that they only won it because bts didn’t submit. it’ll be an asterisk on the wikipedia page. the grammys viewership will tank. bts put out an album that smashed records everywhere. bts get to exist with their heads held high, as always, and don’t have to kowtow to a shitty system
imagine telling people “yeah I won my first grammy because BTS had the balls to reject discrimination in the music industry while I chose not to. Oh, and my trophy might as well have ‘bts charity' engraved on it.”
any when any other kpop artist submits and sides with this useless institution, even when they win and brag about being the first to win it, all they’ll actually be doing is making themselves look extremely stupid so we’re all good lmao
submitting to grammies to be put into all the stupid categories would be siding with this racist institution and do no good to neither the tannies nor any other juniors following in their footsteps—certainly wouldn’t be paving the way for asia.
i found this sooooo mad cute because you could tell how excited and happy he was to be running and to be running with jungkook! also how adventurous he is and how he wanted to include jungkook by both matching pace and by conversing. this clip SCREAMED of his love.