#boycottmama

Texte original (Anglais) ici: http://utlove.tumblr.com/post/132280145031/why-you-should-be-boycotting-the-mamas-gdas-and

Concernant le Kpop, les spectacles de remise de prix de fins d’année sont devenus assez contestable. Certaines nominations pour certaines catégories n’ont aucun sens. Et le manque de quelques artistes dans certaines catégories est un peu décourageant, surtout quand ces artistes ont le mérite pour être nominés (voir les MAMA de 2013 où il manquait la danse poteau de After School dans les nominations de danse féminine, et aussi les MAMA de 2015 où il manque la danse vigoureuse de Dope par BTS dans les nominations du meilleur groupe de danse masculin.) Et il ne faut pas oublier combien d’importance la vote biaisée des fans a sur les résultats de ces supposés spectacles prestigieux.

Ce n’est pas une question d’un group x qui n’a pas été nominé, mais plus une question de changer le système entière de la distribution de ces prix. Au cours de plusieurs années, ça a été prouvé que les « experts » prenant la décision finale sont des personnes qui travaillent dans l’industrie des medias, qui n’ont aucune expertise dans les domaines de nominations.

 Pourquoi devrais-je boycotter si mes groups favoris sont nominés? Parce qu’il est très possible que vous serez éventuellement insatisfait des nominations de futurs cérémonies à cause du système biaisé. Mais, si vous êtes complètement à l’aise  de regarder ces cérémonies de fins d’années sachant qu’il y a des artistes essayant de gagner la vie par voie de leur music qui ne reçoivent aucune chance à cause de ce système, je vous invite à continuer.

C’est devenu une chose commune d’entendre dire « Je me fou de tout sauf les performances » en parlant des cérémonies de fins d’années. Cela démontre comment ces prix de distinctions sont devenus absolument ridicules. Il y a tant d’artistes méritants qui ne sont même pas invités à chanter, et qui ont encore moins de chance d’être nominés. Mais, l’on dit toujours « Il n’y a rien que l’on peut faire », « On ne peut pas changer le système ».

 Vraiment?

 Mais, nous faisons partie du système.

 La seule façon de faire changer le système est de faire comprendre aux personnes responsables de ces productions qu’il faut qu’ils changent leurs vielles manières. La seule façon que ça arrivera c’est si nous changeons. Nos attitudes doivent changer. Nos actions doivent changer.

 Nous pouvons changer le système.

 Si vous sentez que les prix de distinctions sont insignifiant et vous ne participez pas aux votes, tant mieux. Mais, moi, je pense que les artistes qui ont le talent et le mérite pour être reconnus devraient être reconnus.

Faîtes passer le message.

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 Les Starlights ont déjà boycotté et ça à fonctionner. Les Inner Circles sont en train de boycotter.

On n’a rien à perdre sauf une autre année de médiocrité.

 Comment vous pouvez aider

Faire des demandes à des sites comme NetizenBuzz, KPKF, Asianjunkie et Pann de traduire ce message en Coréen.

Demander à des blogueurs d’influence sur Tumblr de rebloguer le post le plus récent du compte « utlove ». Dites-les que ça concerne le système biaisée des cérémonies de fin d’année. Vous pouvez aussi trouver une traduction Chinoise de ce message, il sera utile s’il rebloguait cette version aussi.

 Merci pour votre temps.

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Forward:

Yearly music award shows are known to be pretty questionable. Some nominations for certain categories don't make any sense. And the lack of certain artists for some categories can also be pretty upsetting, especially when these artists have more than enough credibility to be nominated (see 2013 MAMAs and the lack of After School's pole dance nomination, or even 2015 MAMAs with BTS's hard-hitting dance "Dope" nowhere to be found in the best male dance group category). Not to mention how large of a chunk voting by biased fans plays into the results of these so called prestigious award shows.

It's almost common speech to say "I only care about the performances." This just shows how much of a joke the actual awards are. This is not to mention how many credible artists aren't even invited to perform, let alone be nominated for awards.

We are contesting the notion that popularity is what should matter in the end of the year award shows. Why should it? Why is there any harm in including unpopular artists in the line-up of performances? Where is the horror in having objective judges who look into the criteria of said awards on a serious matter from a wide range of artists?

MAMA's criteria of judges: "critics, journalists, album and concert affiliates, composer, songwriter and more from Korea, and Asian pop culture industry experts from abroad." Source. MMA has 0% expert panel voting in the main prizes (album, song, newcomer and artist of the year) and top 10 artists. Source. 29th GDA criteria does not state anything about any expert panel at all and instead say they count the volume of album sales. Source. SMAs include music sales and an "expert panel" in their criteria. Source.

There should be an appreciation for art, regardless of an artist's popularity or lack thereof. The music industry has made it so that artists that are disadvantaged in terms of popularity from the get go have little room to have their art spread. It is so difficult for artists to showcase their music on a wide-scale level because in every aspect of the industry they are hindered. From weekly music shows that run as popularity contests to the unforgiving media that alienates these artists to any large scaled shows due to insiders of influential companies behind the scenes.

We've chosen to boycott the end of the year award shows specifically due to the following reasons:

-Because these are wide-scaled events anticipated at the end of the year, if boycotted there will be a larger impact on the industry than any boycott one could do to weekly music shows (which is quite impractical as well) or even the wide-range of television shows with filtered appearances.

-Faults in the system are that much more apparent, again due to how prestigious these awards are deemed as, and are even recognized by K-Pop artists such as G-Dragon (refer to his lyrics at the 2014 MAMAs).

-The performances are always the same performances from artists everyone already knows of during weekly award shows. Variety is nothing these shows facilitate which just makes the industry seem stale. The nominees tend to be extremely predictable, and half the excitement seems to vanish just from that.

Why should I boycott if my biases are nominated? Well chances are in the near future you'll be dissatisfied with nominations because of the skewed systems these awards shows host. If you are content with the fact that artists who wish for others to listen to their art are being suppressed due to this system, then by all means continue supporting these shows.

Our Mission:

Our mission is to get the least amount of people as possible to attend these shows to get our purpose across.

-We want a variety of artists to be nominated and perform at the shows.

-We want experts who are actual experts in various areas of performance and music; composing, dancing, singing, rapping etc.

-We want to get rid of fan voting, or at least limit the percentage to which fans have any say in the outcome of the award distribution. This will not only limit the amount of fanwars, but will also allow for the awards to be distributed more objectively.

The only way the system will change is if the people who run these shows feel the need to change their age old setup. The only that happens is if we change. Our attitudes have to change. Our actions have to change.

We can change the system.

We all know life ain't fair, but why do we have to do nothing about the little injustices we see everyday in life?

If you feel like awards are meaningless anyway and you don't participate in award shows regardless, that's fine. You do not have to agree with our philosophy. But we strongly believe artists who have the talent and credibility to be recognized should be recognized.

Chinese translation here. French translation here. Spanish translation here. Tagalog translation here.

Starlights have boycotted and have been successful. Inner Circles are boycotting right now.

You've got nothing to lose but another year of mediocrity.

Spread the word.

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You can tweet or retweet this message here: https://twitter.com/Aquamaraqua/status/660343327728889856

Starlights have boycotted and have been successful. Inner Circles are boycotting right now.

You've got nothing to lose but another year of mediocrity.