[World Now] ARMYs afflicted by the BTS award “Grammy is a scam”

Bulletproof Boy Scouts’Dynamite’ pushed for’Rain on Me’ in Grammy

The first Korean pop singer to be nominated for the American Grammy Award, the BTS’s award was eventually missed.

The recording academy, hosted by Grammy, selected Lady Gaga and Ariana Grande’s’Rain on Me’ as the winner of the’Best Pop Duo/Group Performance’ category at the 63rd Grammy Awards Premier Ceremony held on the 14th local time in the United States.

BTS was nominated for this category with’Dynamite’, which was released as a digital single in August last year.

‘Best Pop Duo/Group Performance’ is one of Grammy’s pop genre awards.

It is awarded to musicians who have achieved outstanding artistic achievements in pop vocals and performances in the form of duo, group, and collaboration.

There was an expectation that BTS could go beyond nominations and even receive awards, but in the end, they pledged to be next.

The first Korean singer’single stage’ at the Grammy Awards ceremony

Although they did not receive the award, BTS performed for the first time as a Korean singer at the Grammy Awards.

Those who performed jointly with rapper Lil Nas-X and others at the Grammy Awards ceremony last year were given the stage as official nominees this year.

The stage was pre-recorded in Korea.

Leader RM said in an interview with USA Today in the United States, “What we wanted more than nominations or awards was the (Gramy) performance,” and “Because we are a performance team, it was one of the final dreams of this journey to perform with our songs.” I said.

“We’re literally upset” by the mismatch of the award

However, it is also true that it is regrettable.

Foreign media reported the reactions of fans who regretted when BTS’s Grammy Awards were unsuccessful.

The Los Angeles Times reported that “BTS failed to win the Grammy Award, and the fan club’Army’ had an unpleasant expression.”

Reuters reported that “BTS hoped to be the first K-pop band to receive a Grammy Award, but lost to Lady Gaga and Ariana Grande.” It was broken”.

BTS’s’Armys’ on Twitter said, “We’re mad at what we said,” “It wasn’t that BTS lost the Grammy, but it was a Grammy. They criticized BTS for being discriminated against because they were an Asian group.

There were also fans who wrote, “Not that BTS needs Grammy, but Grammy needs BTS.”

On Twitter, the hashtag “#scammys,” meaning “Scam Grammy Awards,” was posted, followed by protests from fans criticizing the Grammy organizers.

In fact, it is true that BTS was a candidate who demanded a’out of the box’ choice for members of the recording academy, a traditional group in the mainstream music industry in the United States.

In the’Best Pop Duo/Group Performance’ category, boy groups from Anglo-American countries such as Backstreet Boys (2019) and Jonas Brothers (2020) have failed to win.

“‘BTS’, will be the driving force to expand the diversity of the pop music industry”

In recent years, the Grammy has been criticized for being insensitive to the changes of the times.

I was criticized for being stingy with genres such as artists of color and hip-hop and suffered a decline in credibility.

The pressure to expand diversity continues, and the Grammy has tried to respond to this, to some extent, by diversifying the race, gender, and genre of recording academy members.

The reason Grammy has been reaching out to BTS little by little in recent years is because they couldn’t ignore the change in their status.

In 2019, he was invited as an award winner in the’Best R&B category’, and last year, he set up on the stage as a joint performance performer.

This is why BTS’ actions will inevitably become the driving force behind the expansion of diversity in the mainstream pop music world as well as Grammy.

In a recent interview with Grammy.com, BTS Suga said, “There are so many artists who do good music other than us in Korea. Of course there will be more in the world.” It would be great if we could help a little.”

In an interview with the local media, Im Jin-mo, a popular music critic, emphasized that “the fact that you were nominated for the Grammy Award itself is the recognition of the American music industry.”

Finally, I quote some of the lyrics of’Dynamite’ and wish BTS’s future to shine even more.

“I’m diamond you know I glow up.

(I’m a diamond, you know it’s shining)

Hey, so let’s go!”

(So ​​let’s go!)