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.

The Grammys didn’t create that “Best Asian Music” category this year to be diverse. They did it to continue boxing non English speaking artists but especially BTS, so they won’t have to nominate them in the main categories with the rest of their peers. This was the Grammys telling BTS they’ll give them a Grammy win but under their own boxed category. We give you the scraps and you are supposed to take them. They said no.

They’ve been doing this for years under the disguise of diversity. “Best Traditional Country Album” a new category introduced after Beyoncé won in the Best Country Album category because they couldn’t stand a non white artist redefining that genre. “Best African Music” being introduced in 2024 to keep Tyla away from other pop girls. And “Best Latin Song” being introduced for this year along with Best Asian Music after Bad Bunny right fully dominated all of the charts last year. And mind you, Brazilian artists cannot even submit their work for this category because the rules say it has to be 51% in Spanish, even when Brazilians speak Portuguese but are Latin people.

It was never about diversity. It’s about boxing and categorizing these artists when global music (or more like non English music) is becoming bigger each year and this is the only way they can keep their American/British peers safe in their space.

In BTS’ latest album ARIRANG, they have a song called Alien where they describe feeling alienated by the industry duo to their xenophobic behavior. Them creating this category when they released one of the biggest albums of the year is proving them right. At the end, this was the right choice.

Great of BTS for rejecting the Grammys full on and not play into their very tokenization game.

Have you seen there’s going to be another Cheetah Girls film?

As far as I am aware, Demi Lovato is an executive producer in this. So, I can see her having a small cameo but they are keeping it as the surprise for the actual movie. I think it’s smarter to have the Jonas in the trailer and not spoil Mitchie’s scene.

I read about the Cheetah Girls reboot although I don’t know if this movie will live up to the expectations. Regardless, I am excited for Leah.

“rigged for messi” lol what do you have to say now