On July 29, BTS, the biggest act in Asian pop music, posted on Instagram that they would not be entering the 2027 Grammys. One of these is “Best Asian Pop Music Performance.” While the Grammys claimed their new categories would be a reflection of the “extraordinary growth” across music, many music fans have expressed anger and disgust over “racist slop” and xenophobia the new categories seem to present. The Best Asian Pop Music Performance was created to recognize Asian music with “meaningful use of one or more Asian languages.” The wording of the new Asian Pop category creates issues for Asian music as a whole, as many Asian pop industries lean into creating multilingual lyrics.