The truth is out: the Brits are officially the most boring, predictable music awards show this side of the
NME awards. The Brit nominees were announced to the anxious and oh-so-eagerly awaiting public on Tuesday. Threats like
‘Coldplay’,
‘Take That’ and
‘The Verve’ have been bandied around the awards time and again, year after year; 2009 is no stranger to them either. There’s no doubting that these bands have made a musical impact in the past and that they deserved to win. But do
Coldplay need to win six times? Take That, seven times? It’s great if these bands are consistently good (although some of them
aren’t) but how lacklustre; how uninspiring! Where are the
DJs, the hip hop artists, the unsigned acts? Where is the controversy, the rock n’roll and the fresh, challenging new talent? The UK simply
does have more to offer than this. It’s a brilliant concept to have awards that celebrate home-grown talent because often innovative musicians from the UK get overlooked by international shows. However, it’s probably fair to say that the Brit Awards no longer bring us innovative talent to admire; more like stagnant water for our music industry to drown in.
Thankfully, interest comes in the form of our golden girls:
Adele, Duffy, MIA and
Estelle - artists that have given us something new to think about of late. Perhaps the only other Brit Award worthy of note is the Critic’s Choice Award:
Florence and the Machine, Little Boots and
White Lies have all created a spark of curiosity recently. Let’s just hope that the music-loving British public will have the guts to dig a little deeper into the UK scene, scratch away the surface and unearth something that perhaps
wasn’t so obvious, but is equally as brilliant.
If you would like to decide for yourself, check out the nominees:
The Brit AwardsPippa Moore
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