forever after that

The quote “meaningful use of Asian language” will forever send me because who’s going to judge that? Non Asians? And how are you going to judge if songs submitted has a meaningful use of the Asian language. Will you hire multilingual people with experience on the cultures? I doubt that. Which is funny because you never see them question if Grammy winning song abcdu y Gayle has “meaningful use of the English language”.

They’re boxing an entire continent with over 40 countries that speak different languages on a single category based on region and they don’t even care if it limits certain artists because there’s so many amazing songs done by Asian artists that is not in an Asian language because there’s a lot of countries that have English as one of their official languages such as Singapore. You can tell the category makes not sense and it was done with the propose of boxing artists to make space for their own people in established genre categories.

And I just read the whole thing that you can only submit to ONE performance category so if you submit your song to Best Asian Music, you cannot submit the song to Pop Performance, etc. Like, make it make sense? So, you are forced as an Asian to submit in that segregated category or give up the genre performances? And like, I’m not even joking it’s stated in the Billboard’s article.