Lewis Capaldi predictably took home more than one award at a Brits night that nevertheless rewarded innovative talent, from Billie Eilish to Dave and Tyler, the Creator
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The row about female representation at the Brits was rumbling on unabated in the lead-up to the awards ceremony. The most recent contributions included best group nominees D-Block Europe complaining that music remains “a man’s game – what’s the head of every label?”, while Piers Morgan gamely attempted to blame the situation on transgender people. A variety of presenters and award-winners subsequently mentioned it, from Paloma Faith to Foals, and presenter Jack Whitehall made a surprisingly cutting joke about it: “In the spirit of sustainability, the Brits have been recycling all sorts of excuses for why there were so few women nominated.”
But there’s a sense in which the actual winners of the 2020 Brits represented an attempt to convince the public it was all very much business as usual: nothing to get upset about here, kindly move along. The kind of unscripted events that made last year’s Mercury prize ceremony genuinely interesting for the first time in years – Slowthai brandishing an effigy of Boris Johnson’s severed head; one of Black Midi running full pelt into a grand piano with a sickening thud, then attempting to style it out while visibly in great discomfort – were noticeable by their absence.
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