The BRITs: What A Load of Fucking Rubbish

Scouting For Girls, Duffy, the Ting Tings... all acts that in years to come, popular music historians will doubtlessly be RAVING about. Brilliant acts. NOT.

The nominations this year are a bit of a travesty, really. Not only do Scouting For Girls have 3 nominations (might be more... can't be arsed to check), but Duffy and Coldplay lead with 4 'noms' apiece.

The only salvation is the fact that 'wild cards' Santogold and M.I.A. have been nominated, although, let's be honest, they're not going to fucking win. It'll be like when Bat For Lashes was nominated but didn't win because Mika was too busy picking up every fucking award going.

The BRITs aren't always 'wrong', though. In the past they've nominated Kate Bush and Björk for their fantastic contributions to music during the year, where other mainstream media outlets have ignored them. In fact Björk has won the 'Best International Female' Award 3 times (more times than any other artist!).

That still doesn't excuse the fact that, not only do the BRIT awards now celebrate mostly graduates from the BRIT school, but also the fact that they often get it very, very 'wrong' and will undoubtedly continue to do so for years to come. Does anybody remember the year when the Darkness triumphed? The who-what-know?

It raises interesting questions about whether the winners should be the most popular from the past year, or the people who are most likely to be remembered in future years for their brilliant music-making thus sparking up a debate between the 'of their time' and the 'timeless' and which is more important.

Clearly, none of this matters, because any Awards junket thingy that chooses to nominate Scouting For Girls for ANYTHING, deserves to fester in the pits of hell for all eternity.