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SIGN OUR PETITION HERE (1000+ Signatures right now)

 

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 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. 

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.

Spread the word. Sign our petition. 

Again this is not only for international fans. And it isn't limited to only boycotting voting. But it is also promoting a boycott of attending such events.

Feel free to translate this message into any language you like. I've already got a few translators working on this and the message will be heading to Tumblr soon.

If you agree with this cause feel free to tweet or retweet this message: https://twitter.com/Aquamaraqua/status/660343327728889856

 

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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. But, there's nothing we can do about it, you say. It is what it is. We can't change the system.

 

We can't?

 

But we are part of the system.

 

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.

 

If you feel like awards are meaningless anyway and you don't participate in award shows regardless, that's fine. But I strongly believe artists who have the talent and credibility to be recognized should be recognized.

 

Spread the word.

 

Again this is not only for international fans. And it isn't limited to only boycotting voting. But it is also promoting a boycott of attending such events.

 

Feel free to translate this message into any language you like. I've already got a few translators working on this and the message will be heading to Tumblr soon.

what makes you think kpop fans are going to boycott anything that doesn't benefit them solely? If companies like SM and TS/Stardom can treat their artists like shit and get away with it why would fans boycott a award ceremony?

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i don't vote anyways or care who gets awards. Just here for my fave's performances

 

edit: cackles maybe i should of read the entire thing first before commenting

 

 

If you feel like awards are meaningless anyway and you don't participate in award shows regardless, that's fine.

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what makes you think kpop fans are going to boycott anything that doesn't benefit them solely? If companies like SM and TS/Stardom can treat their artists like shit and get away with it why would fans boycott a award ceremony?

You never know till you try. Starlights boycotted and their needs were met.

 

WINNER fans are boycotting too.

 

Don't knock the idea down if you haven't even given it a chance to live.

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You never know till you try. Starlights boycotted and their needs were met.

 

WINNER fans are boycotting too.

 

Don't knock the idea down if you haven't even given it a chance to live.

 

Only one caused a significant change and only for their bias group so..

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But I strongly believe artists who have the talent and credibility to be recognized should be recognized.

 

I guess if other not-so-well known artists wins the awards, others are going to question incessantly... seems like that recognition these days should be gained through some other forms, unfortunately

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this is stupid because the MAMA's were never about the awards even back when it was called the Mnet Korean Music festival, it was always about the over the top performances.

 

and the Korean Music Awards/Golden Disk awards are actually the credible ones, everyone should know this by now.

 

And the funny thing is the MAMA nominations are  actually pretty good for first time in a very long time

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So what else is new? It's not worth boycotting anything. Plus BTS is nominated for boy group of the year and that's already a huge honor. Dope isn't even the best dance to come out this year, it's not even Bangtan's best dance.

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seems like you're a one man army so good luck~

Allkpop is a different story and Tumblr I have no doubts on that. But thanks for the support.

this is stupid because the MAMA's were never about the awards even back when it was called the Mnet Korean Music festival, it was always about the over the top performances.

 

and the Korean Music Awards/Golden Disk awards are actually the credible ones, everyone should know this by now.

 

And the funny thing is the MAMA nominations are actually pretty good for first time in a very long time

 

Please read the title. ^^

 

GDAs are about as credible as MMAs in all honesty. The problem with the KMAs is they don't address idols except for one or two categories but otherwise they are pretty credible which is why I didn't include them.

 

So what else is new? It's not worth boycotting anything. Plus BTS is nominated for boy group of the year and that's already a huge honor. Dope isn't even the best dance to come out this year, it's not even Bangtan's best dance.

 

I was using that as an example. Doesn't exempt from the fact that actual artists with credible criteria aren't even invited to perform let alone nominated.

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Allkpop is a different story and Tumblr I have no doubts on that. But thanks for the support.

Please read the title. ^^

 

GDAs are about as credible as MMAs in all honesty. The problem with the KMAs is they don't address idols except for one or two categories but otherwise they are pretty credible which is why I didn't include them.

GDA's are credible and respectable, all Korean artists know this.

 

There is zero problems with KMAs.

 

Stop being upset that your idol wasn't nominated for an award, it's immature.

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It is very hard to stop this and MAMA, GDA, MMA, and others know very well about this. They are smiling and laugh out loud at this while making a bank out of it. Most of the people are easy to be manipulated especially most of the KPop fans. It is a nature of competition between them too that make it harder to stop this all.

 

By the way, good luck to you. It is a good campaign though. I hope people will get something from this.

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