Producer Mike Dean was apparently irked when Kanye West’s album Donda — which he produced — didn’t win the Album of the Year award at Sunday’s Grammys, and seemed to take it out on BTS.
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He responded to a tweet from the Recording Academy that read:
Name a group ~smoother~ than @bts_bighit, we dare you. #BTSARMY #GRAMMYs pic.twitter.com/OYBNl7XJfk
— Recording Academy / GRAMMYs (@RecordingAcad) April 4, 2022
That single word (which he has since deleted) was enough to unleash the BTS ARMY, who descended on him en masse via Twitter.
Dean initially attempted to engage, mocking claims that BTS write “90 percent of their music,” and continued to dig in.
It’s funny to read so many armys saying BTS members write “90% of their music”, based on a statement made a BigHit employee. Hahahaha, there is no way BTS members have writen 90% of their music. Just check the writing credits of every single BTS album. In all of them are like
— MIKE DEAN! #MWA (@therealmikedean) April 4, 2022
9-10 credited songwriters per song… why would a company like BigHit spend so much money in so many songwriters who only do the “10% of the job”?
— MIKE DEAN! #MWA (@therealmikedean) April 4, 2022
A classic
— MIKE DEAN! #MWA (@therealmikedean) April 4, 2022
Hahaha. The industry is a joke
— MIKE DEAN! #MWA (@therealmikedean) April 4, 2022
After a while, the relentlessness of the ARMY apparently became too much, and Dean responded with an all-caps apology to BTS:
OK. SORRY TO BTS. JUST FUCKING TROLLING.
— MIKE DEAN! #MWA (@therealmikedean) April 5, 2022
He ended by admitting he was “mad about album of the year and made a post I shouldn’t have made”:
Ok folks. I was mad about album of the year and made a post I shouldn’t have made. My gf just made me feel bad for it.
— MIKE DEAN! #MWA (@therealmikedean) April 5, 2022
