The organisers of the BRIT Awards have announced that this year’s bash will take place, and be televised live, on February 20th. This is good news for two reasons – firstly it’s live so you won’t know the results while watching it, and secondly it’s not on bloody Valentines Day like last year. Now all they need to do is sort out the voting.
The pedestrian nature of the nominees is the biggest problem with the event now that they’ve decided edgy presenters like Russell Brand, and live televising is the way forward. Remember those years that Annie Lennox won Best Female without releasing a record. How does that happen? Who votes for this mediocre stuff?
Actually, I know the answer cos I voted for a few years. Anyone who is a member of an music industry body can vote, which means people at record labels, in publishing and some retail. So you’d think that there’d be loads of quirky stuff on then, but two things get in the way: the fact that the people at the top of the industry are old and they’re self interested. Clearly a public vote would just have Westlife walking off with the awards so how to correct it? Simple – stop people voting for their own acts which will end block voting.
Right, sorted. Next stop electoral reform in Zimbabwe.
Kendall
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