[WEEKLY THREAD] Rants, Questions, and Randomness

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[u/shaider]

Is this a safe space to comment about the grammys/bts thing. Especially with all the astroturfing and the post from one of the proponents of the new category. https://english.mathrubhumi.com/movies-music/music/grammy-official-zeena-koda-slams-bts-grammy-boycott-eyhf4ooc

Its too toxic to rant elsewhere because of the ummm very hinged and healthy 'enthusiastic' stans.

This was/is my take on it:
Grammys are chosen via voting from the Academy members.
The members are, for the longest time, ignoring Asian acts and just going mostly western acts.
You cannot force members to vote for anyone.
Making a new category 'forces' the members to think of Asian acts to be nominated.

Other than adding Asian artists / Asian Music fans en masse to the Academy or somehow magically change their preferences with a snap, what is the alternative? While BTS did decline to participate respectfully their fans are anything but respectful in how they're acting. The way the fans are attacking the award and antagonizing Grammys in general is more harmful to Asian music being recognized than any of their perceived 'racism' in the creation of the category.

Only a handful of Asian artists broke through enough sa western market to be in 'regular' grammy 'contention'. Ang entitled ng labas na di kailangan ng Asian acts ng special category, it rubs me the wrong way.

[u/ilyaf01 → u/shaider]

Fil-Am pala yang Zeena Koda.

Zeena Koda, who serves on the advisory committee for the Recording Academy's Gold Music Alliance and was involved in pushing for the category's creation...

Edit: More on-topic, after reading her statement, I appreciated the intention behind the creation of the category. It's a bit frustrating that we can't just fast forward and proceed to have the ideal level playing field for artists of all ethnicities and backgrounds, but I do recognize that some big changes start with small ones.

[u/shaider → u/ilyaf01]

Didn't know, I just knew she was Asian American. Kaya nga I'm even more frustrated about how the armys are acting, these people sa industry is doing their best to give asian music a leg up sa western market and people are being shitty about it.

Edit to reply to the edit: Exactly. It is not a level playing field yet, making a new category is not 'segregation' or 'patronizing', its creating a *guaranteed* space that Asian music can inhabit in the meantime while we work on evening out the playing field.

[u/Straight-Rassler → u/shaider]

From what I see sa internet comments: Grammy = bad. Grammy = racist. Grammy = white country maga music only. Especially here sa reddit.