Lily Allen is not happy with this year's BRIT Awards nomination list and took to her Facebook to air her thoughts about the lack of diversity on the list.
The British singer
went on a bitter rant online slamming "music industry figures" for
ignoring unsigned talents. She slammed people who "work at major labels"
for ignoring some artists in the grime and rap scene, and instead
focusing more on their own signed musicians.
The singer was responding to an opinion piece entitled: "No grime at the Brits? No change there," on the Guardian website, which weighed in on the recent nominations… writing:
"The Brit awards’ blindness to black British talent goes on, as
incredible years for Skepta, Stormzy and Lady Leshurr are shunned for
music Alan Partridge would approve of."
Lily wrote on Facebook:
"'The
voting academy consists of 1000 music industry figures', and here lies
the problem, music industry figures don't necessarily care about music,
they mostly care about themselves, they vote tactically for their labels
artists to win or so that their competitors at other labels DONT.
"Awards
mean £££ and promotions. i don't think music industry figures (or
people that work at major labels) even look at artists as artists when
it comes to voting for these things, the artists represent their teams
their a+r people, managers, mds, pluggers etc.
"Skepta
JME and Stormzy are all unsigned artists, who would gain from them
winning anything? In fact them being nominated or even winning poses a
direct threat to 'music industry figures'. Imagine if Skepta or Stormzy
won , who would they thank in their speeches, who's ego would get
massaged?
"No music industry figure or
current model music industry can benefit from any of the artists in this
article being nominated, the artist could benefit immensely that's for
sure this is an example music industry figures throwing artists under
the bus for personal gain and it's not a culture , it's a religion."
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