TWICE and Stray Kids Can Now Vote at the Grammys, So Good Luck to Everyone Else
the Recording Academy invited TWICE, Stray Kids, and JYP’s Park Jin Young to join as voting members. the girlies and the boys officially have a say now.
the Recording Academy sent out its invitations and JYP walked away with eighteen of them. eighteen. artists and executives, one label, one round. it's the group project everyone actually wanted to get picked for.
the names that matter: all nine of TWICE, all eight of Stray Kids, and Park Jin Young himself, all invited as VOTING members — meaning an actual ballot in who takes home a grammy. the label's CEO Jeong Wook and CSO Shin Hyun Kook came in as professional members, which is the category for the executive side of the house.
for scale, the academy extended more than 4,000 invitations in this round, so nobody's pretending this was a personal coronation. what it IS: a bloc of K-pop's biggest working acts now sitting inside the body that decides the outcome. that's structural, bestie. that hits different than a nomination.
to be extremely clear before the timeline spirals — this is a vote, not a trophy. nobody won anything today. they were handed a say in who does.
the culture spent a decade knocking politely on the door of an institution that's been running since 1957. this year it got keys. slow-burn takeover, fully in progress, no notes.
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Yeonjun Got His First 'Ice Cream' Trophy and the Solo Domination Just Won't Quit
6,920 points on the july 17 Music Bank, the first-ever win for 'Ice Cream,' and i-dle's 'Gimme Dat Love' left in the runner-up chair. MOAs, hydrate.
6,920. that's the number, that's the whole tweet, i will be repeating it into my pillow tonight. yeonjun walked onto the july 17 Music Bank and walked back off with the first trophy 'Ice Cream' has ever collected, and the confetti had the AUDACITY to fall in slow motion.
the other name on the board was i-dle with 'Gimme Dat Love,' which is not what i'd call a soft draw, bestie. that's a full group with a full arsenal against one man and a solo concept — and the one man took it. sit with that for a second.
a soloist win hits structurally different. there's no members to split the screentime with, no one else's fancam quietly farming your numbers, no group chant to hide inside. it's one person, one mic, one camera, and every single decision landing on him. he made it look like a hobby.
the rest of the episode was genuinely stacked too — MONSTA X's kihyun, sunmi, GIRLSET, RESCENE, AHOF and a whole parade of rookie acts all pulled up and served. gorgeous stages across the board. exactly one of them got handed a trophy.
MOAs, this is number one. the shelf is empty, the era is young, and the man is clearly not planning to stop at a single. start clearing space now.
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