After dumping gendered classes final yr, the BRIT Awards landed controversy for an all-male Artist of the 12 months shortlist this yr.
It was one other massive night time for Harry Kinds on the BRIT Awards over the weekend. The previous One Path band member picked up 4 gongs, approaching the heels of his massive Grammys night time final weekend.
Kinds landed all 4 BRIT Awards for which he was nominated (Pop/R&B Act, Track of the 12 months, Artist of the 12 months, and Mastercard Album of the 12 months). He gained two of six nominations on the Grammys (Greatest Pop Vocal Album and Album of the 12 months).
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His “Harry’s Home” album was a controversial Album of the 12 months win on the Grammys, as was his remark, “This does not occur to folks like me fairly often.” The singer got here below hearth for making that assertion as a white male, a demographic that has dominated the class over the many years.
“I am very conscious of my privilege up right here tonight,” he mentioned on the BRIT Awards, per Selection. He went on to acknowledge the large controversy of that ceremony, the all-male Artist of the 12 months shortlist. “So that is for Rina [Sawayama], Charli [XCX], Florence [+ the Machine], Mabel and Becky [Hill].”
Final yr, the BRIT Awards did away with gendered classes, but it surely did not end in something near gender parity in one of many night time’s greatest classes.
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Different classes did have girls represented and there have been feminine winners as effectively, together with indie rock duo Moist Leg (Greatest New Artist and British Group), Becky Hill (Greatest Dance Act), Beyoncé (Greatest Worldwide Track and Worldwide Artist of the 12 months) and woman group Flo (Rising Star).
Kinds additionally took the time to acknowledge his roots and thank some folks with out whom he would not also have a profession, beginning together with his mom.
“I wish to thank my mum for signing me up for ‘X Issue’ with out telling me,” he mentioned. “So I actually would not be right here with out you.”
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He went on to thank “Niall [Horan], Louis [Tomlinson], Liam [Payne] and Zayn [Malik] as a result of I would not be right here with out you both.” Kinds was put into One Path with them on the fact competitors present again in 2010.
They rapidly went on to dominate the world, turning into one of many greatest boy bands in historical past earlier than occurring an indefinite hiatus in 2015. Subsequently, the 5 members have all pursued profitable solo careers.
Different winners on the 2023 BRIT Awards had been The 1975 (Greatest Rock/Various Act), David Guetta (Producer of the 12 months), and Child Harpoon (Songwriter of the 12 months).
