BTS has made an announcement that they won’t be submitting any music for the 69th Grammy Awards.
On July 29, all seven members of BTS (RM, Jin, Suga, j-hope, Jimin, V, and Jungkook) concurrently posted the identical message on their respective social media accounts, stating, “We now have determined to not submit our music to the Grammys this 12 months.”
The members expressed their convictions, saying, “We hope that music will likely be heard and liked for what it’s, slightly than being categorized by area or language,” and added, “We’re grateful to ARMY and everybody who’re is at all times with us.”
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This determination is interpreted as a backlash towards the current announcement by the Recording Academy, which organizes the Grammy Awards, that it might introduce 5 new classes, together with Finest Asian Pop Music Efficiency. Whereas these classes are meant to guage music utilizing Asian languages resembling Okay-pop, J-pop, and C-pop, they’ve confronted widespread criticism from those that argue that this can be a pretext to isolate Asian music right into a separate class, successfully excluding it from competing in main awards (Basic Fields) resembling Album of the 12 months and File of the 12 months.
The 69th Grammy Awards will happen on February 7, 2027.
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