Quelle surprise, Coldplay and Duffy dominate this years BRIT Awards. Other predictably mundane nominees include Adele, The Ting Tings and Alexandra Burke. Sorry, but it’s way too tedious to list the nominees category-by-category, if you have any sort of interest the full list of nominees can be viewed here. The Killers, Kings of Leon and MGMT are all over the international nominees categories… God, even typing this is boring me… while Elbow and Fleet Foxes provide the ‘look, we’re so hip-to-the-beat’ factor.
There are a few welcome additions, mainly in the categories of Best British Female (MIA) and Best British Male (Ian Brown, Paul Weller), with PetShop Boys receiving well-earned recognition with the Outstanding Contribution to Music award.
Who cares?
For the non-cynical: I apologise for my tired old Coldplay-bashing and droning on about how ‘mainstream’ the nominees are. But let’s get this straight, I am not anti-’mainstream’ (although I do hate that word). I’m just becoming increasingly fed-up with how the likes of the BRITs don’t even bother look beyond their limited horizons. Nominate Coldplay and Duffy by all means, they’re not my cup of tea but there’s no denying that they’re both incredibly talented acts, but why nominate them in 8 categories between them? Surely that’s just lazy? Surely someone else deserves a look-in? There are a wealth of talented British and International acts out there that are more than worthy of sharing the limelight with some of these nominees. Kings of Leon and MGMT both turned out chart-topping albums last year (I’ll keep my opinions on Only By The Night to myself for the sake of staying on course) and The Killers are, well, The Killers, but why was every single act nominated in the Best International Group category from the States? Has ‘International’ become synonymous with ‘American’ ? Why not look further afield? This is what irks me, not the lack of talent on the nominees part.
The awards will be doled out on the 18th of February and will be broadcast live from 8pm on ITV for anyone who’s vaguely interested.
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