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So now Asian pop singers are the new transgenders, who have to compete in their own seperate category as it would be unfair to who???

I'm guessing they won't submit for the Latin Grammys either.

Yeah, they were pretty obvious about trying to "protect the white folks" on that one. I'm in Tennessee and I can't even begin to tell you the gnashing of teeth and wailing that went on in the local radio stations.

Oh, "European" automatically means "white" dontchaknow. ;) That's why there are also Gospel/Contemporary Christian Music fields, but nothing for other world faiths because that might lead to some Christofascist White Nationalists hearing brown and black people singing about someone other than Jesus.

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Gosh! But just think of what fun can be had if we had "best" categories for "Caucasian Pop" etc. Ok... Recording Industry is showing signs of diminishing intelligence...

They are doing this for an easy pivot to white focused category.

I may be becoming a BTS fan.

BRAVO!!!! Good for them.

They should have put them in the R&B category since their music is just recycled 90s R&B.

Damn straight.

This just strikes me as petty

Hasn’t there always been categories?

Very good 👍

Artists can still submit for the big “non-ethnic” categories too, the Grammys always have subcategories for genre I think maybe a K-pop designated award eqch year since it’s so prevalent now in the West would be more appropriate rather than making it solely about race however.

Grammies ceased to be relevant when they awarded “Best Metal Performance” to Jethro Tull in 1989.

Well I guess it has come full circle bc Black Americans have been dealing with people stealing their music Rerecording white people profiting off of it and actually winning over Black artist shut out of the Grammys American Music Awards and any other Awards in the US I guess now people see it

Dynamite and Butter were songs that BTS picked up by super American pop producers as a fun challenge to sing songs entirely in English for the first time. They are great fun but not representative of them as artists.

Whatever you say, observer of their work for less than a full minute.

The music industry loves categories and pigeon hole creating. It’s all marketing strategy … monetizing other peoples’ artworks. We don’t have to cooperate with industry business bullshit. Especially when it is divisive.

Blacks and Latins have had to pay the price of admission, why not you ‘lot? Unless you own the game, you can’t make the rules!

@neckarstar.com Ahaha weil die Amibands keine Chance daneben haben.

fair play to the bangtan boys,,

They don't want to be detained by ICE when they pick up their Grammy!

They are on ABC 2027 fyi

Guess where this stems from….

And they are correct.

Absolutely! WTF with this racism... I don't care what the people I listen to look like if I love the music. Good grief US, stop with this shit!

who?

I couldn't name you Grammy winners from the past 20 years.

Fair, Latino or Asian categories are their way to segregate the rest of the world so they can keep giving the awards to… western or just American artist

Is there an American category in the Korean Grammys?

I mean yeah the grammys are straight up segregating awards now, that shit is flat racist

Ta certo. A música deles é universal. Fãs no mundo inteiro apreciam. Acaba que da um rótulo pra uma coisa que não está mais segregada ao continente deles. Achei um ato de personalidade da parte deles.

If they sing in English what is the purpose?

Here’s their early hit all about defiance of being criticized/categorized

MAYBE THEY SHOULDN'T HAVE NAMED A CATEGORY AS 'ORIENTAL POP'.

Next is the White American category. Guaranteeing awards.

How ignorant and racist to lump all Asian bands into one category. America fucking sucks ass.

Hear, hear!

Aaaaaaaw, CRAP!!! I'm CRYING already!!!

Bye Felicia

BTS paved the way. They have written/produced over 400 songs with group and solo songs spanning genres including hip-hop, pop, rap, rock, and alternative. They are artists with integrity, always thinking outside the box, and they delight people from every continent. They are bigger than the USA.

It’s exactly what they did to the music of African American artists pigeonhole artists of widespread popularity into specific categories

i know what BTS is but wtf is a "gram my"?

BTS is correct.

Lmao they really said. Go ahead and try to get the ratings now. Side note. The weekend and Ariana G have had beef with the Grammys for this exact reason.

Creating categories by region is to undervalue the work of artists from other parts of the world; they are just as talented and have great sales.

Right, like, besides singing (mostly) in Korean, how is BTS different from any Lou Perlman group?

Just keep swimming. 💜

they want it ALL baby

In America people are categorized based on the color of their skin for every situation. Good for BTS! Their music should fall under a genre not where they are from. This group is international. Hopefully Spanish language artists will do the same. I hope BTS starts a revolution with this act!

Wow! 😳

K-Pop has become too popular?

The next time I care about what the Grammys do will be the first. 🤷‍♂️

also their last album was terrible so

that's exactly right, but by segregating the categories, they also made it racist

Oh fuck yeah. How dare black people dominate a genre that they fucking invented anyway.

Insane as in huge, btw, not mentally unwell. I went through secondary Beatlemania in the 90s and I have absolutely NO place to be pointing fingers. 😅

Remember when the first Hard Rock/Metal Grammy in 1989 went to…Jethro Tull? Good on BTS for this. The Grammys will find a way to make this insulting even if it wasn’t their intention.

based

Music is a language all its own. No need to understand the lyrics to enjoy it.

Is there a black people music category too?