A Big Rant At The Brit Awards

I saw the Brits the other night and what a load of rubbish it really was. I mean what was it all about?

With a huge amount of electro artists and a even bigger amount of listeners in clubs etc why is there no category for best dancey type music?

Who on earth was some of the artists? Was it me or were they playing the same old type of tunes that the Artics have done?

It has been done so leave it alone!

Respect to Kayne however...I will have no word said against him.

Rihanna was bold to go with a mix of umbrella and it worked well No award.

As a side note, The Klaxons are not Nurave (Drums and guitars with some keyboards in there...wow. How revolutionary). They are just a poor version of Linkin Park. Sorry but they are. Why the UK can't produce a decent Linkin Park clone is beyond me, but there we go.

Then you had an artist that was A Britaward student...and they won best ground breaking artist? Why? Because she was a student of the makers of the award? No, that would be skeptical but......

And how depressing is her music?

Every time I go onto that show (I am a sucker for punishment) I get the feeling that they are flogging a dead horse. Foo Fighters are cool, there is no doubt but Best International Group and Album? Is that all they could find?

Mika...why? He is slightly different, happy and jolly but so what. Songs should be if you are singing about the happiest time of your life. And no one should win an award if they go that high.

I am getting quite tired of the same old commercial music that comes out and gets rehashed. If it is not commercial, they don't want to know. If it is not in the charts they don't care. If it is not a CD then don't look at us.

But my biggest rant is this:

Why on earth do they have Paul McCartney on when he has over £500 million (half of which he hasn't donated to Live8, take note Bono who is also similarly loaded) is up on stage playing the most annoying tune "Hey Jude"? It is only annoying because he plays it all the flipping time. Did he say thanks to Lennon?

If it was me I would have the Brits, there is a place for them, but I would give awards to truly justifying artists. How on earth can someone from the Britschool have an award when there are huge Internet artists that have been far more successful by themselves without any help?

Why have Paul McCartney when they could easily devote 30 mins to unsigned artists? The Internet vote on the artists that they would like to see live?

Why do we promote artists who are making stacks of cash, where is the incentive for the unsigned to do well and to be noticed when they don't even get recognised?

If a BoyBand go up against a group who did their own tunes and lyrics then the boyband will win because of the boybands fan base and the commercial aspect of the awards...justice will not be done.

Why does the Brits focus so much on pop? Why not have 4 award shows for BritRock, BritElectro, BritDownload and BritPop?

The smaller award shows don't get the TV audience, so their artists don't get the maximum exposure that they deserve.

It is not all the Brits the Grammys have the same problem. I applaud though the Country Music Awards, separate awards that attracts big audiences and TV and has the same Kudos when you actually win an award.

I just think it is about deserving and proper voting. I know who I wanted to win but because I don't buy some teengirl mag or listen to an ageing format = radio then my vote will never be cast.

Is it my fault? No.

The people who determine who votes don't see me as a buyer, don't see me as a proper voter. If they can't get the vote forms out to me then it is their fault. They just believe it is the same old audience of 5 years ago and use the same advertising format.

It is a tall order but that is the problem with the Brits, its too open to a too wide audience. You can't capture everyone who is needed to vote.

They say "we advertised on Kerrrang Rock Music Channel"...yeah well Kerrang plays Eminem, how is that Rock? The Rock magazines on the other hand would be glad of the exposure and would tell the award people who actually was any good!

Chop the Brits up into 4 separate awards, hit the right voters and give the artists who deserve an award one...only then will the music industry figure out that they are not dying.

There are crap artists on the Brit awards because all the best ones are getting downloaded :) those are the ones that have done it themselves, have a really cool sound that hasn't been interfered with, and I have the biggest repect for them and I would give everyone of them an award.