{"id":118611,"date":"2024-06-24T13:19:36","date_gmt":"2024-06-24T20:19:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/?p=118611"},"modified":"2024-06-24T13:19:50","modified_gmt":"2024-06-24T20:19:50","slug":"a-us-record-executive-sparks-outrage-with-an-inappropriate-comment-about-bts-jimins-muse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/a-us-record-executive-sparks-outrage-with-an-inappropriate-comment-about-bts-jimins-muse\/","title":{"rendered":"A US Record executive sparks outrage with an inappropriate comment about BTS&#8217; Jimin&#8217;s &#8216;MUSE&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>US Records<\/strong> executive Ray Kurzeka sparked outrage after making a comment that ARMYs deemed inappropriate on his social media about &#8216;<strong>MUSE<\/strong>&#8216;, the new solo release of <strong>BTS<\/strong>&#8216; <strong>Jimin<\/strong>, and now fans are demanding answers about what happened.<\/p>\n<p>While serving in the military, the K-Pop idol will be releasing his second solo album, with the release date set for July 19. His fans have taken to social media to request proper purchase channels from <strong>Big Hit Music<\/strong>, <strong>Universal Music Group<\/strong>, and <strong>Geffen Records<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>However, their request was not answered; instead, Kurzeka, who currently holds the position of vice president and head of streaming at Geffen Records, posted on his social networks &#8216;<em><strong>song of the year<\/strong><\/em>&#8216;, followed by a link to a song by <strong>Gracie Abrams<\/strong> featuring <strong>Taylor Swift<\/strong>, generating dissatisfaction among ARMYs.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-118613\" src=\"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/BTS-Jimin-would-be-discredited-by-his-own-distribution-team.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/BTS-Jimin-would-be-discredited-by-his-own-distribution-team.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/BTS-Jimin-would-be-discredited-by-his-own-distribution-team-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/BTS-Jimin-would-be-discredited-by-his-own-distribution-team-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/BTS-Jimin-would-be-discredited-by-his-own-distribution-team-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Geffen Records is in charge of the <strong>distribution of HYBE&#8217;s albums<\/strong> and music in the United States. That&#8217;s why BTS fans expected to find information related to Jimin&#8217;s new release; however, they found Ray Kurzeka&#8217;s publication ignoring ARMY&#8217;s request and discrediting the Asian talent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US Records executive Ray Kurzeka sparked outrage after making a comment that ARMYs deemed inappropriate on his social media about &#8216;MUSE&#8216;, the new solo release of BTS&#8216; Jimin, and now fans are demanding answers about what happened. While serving in the military, the K-Pop idol will be releasing his second solo album, with the release [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2817,"featured_media":118614,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2264,16],"tags":[49,931],"class_list":{"0":"post-118611","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"category-kpop","9":"tag-bts","10":"tag-jimin"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2817"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118611\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/118614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}