Brit Awards 2009. Review, and Winners List
The Popular British Awards for Music. What's it All About?
Feb 18, 2009
British band U2 kicked off the Brit Award ceremony, with a performance of their brand new single, “Get On Your Boots”.
Great Live Music at the Brits
Some spectacular live acts followed, including Coldplay, Take That, Kings of Leon, Girls Aloud, Duffy, Estelle and The Ting Tings in a collaboration, and 2009’s Outstanding Contribution to Music Award winners, Pet Shop Boys.
Brit Award Winners
British Male Solo Artist: Paul Weller
British Female Solo Artist: Duffy
British Breakthrough Act: Duffy
British Group: Elbow
British Live Act: Iron Maiden
British Single: Girls Aloud
Mastercard British Album: Duffy
International Album: Kings of Leon
International Group: Kings of Leon
International Male Solo Artist: Kanye West
International Female Solo Artist: Katy Perry
Critics’ Choice: Florence and The Machine
Outstanding Contribution to Music: Pet Shop Boys
Producer's Award: Bernard Butler (for his work on Duffy's debut album, Rockferry)
Michael Jackson's Controversial Performance
The Brit Awards have been entertaining millions for the last three decades. The show has given birth to some memorable events: Jarvis Cocker ruining Michael Jackson’s live performance with a stage invasion at the 1996 Brit Awards, because, said Jarvis Cocker, “Michael Jackson sees himself as some kind of Christ-like figure with the power of healing… I just couldn’t go along with it anymore.”
The performance in question showed Michael Jackson dressed in a white robe, and held in a crucifixion-style position, while children and a rabbi showed a desire to touch him.
Oasis' Liam Gallagher Invited To Fight
And then there was the Brit Awards 2000, where singer Robbie Williams rather stupidly invited Oasis’ Liam Gallagher to a televised fight, ending the tedious request with, “Are you gonna do it, or are you gonna p**sy out, ya f***in’ wimp?”
The Brit Awards - their Place in Music
The Brit Awards, like other typical music awards shows of its kind, does have a place in the world of entertainment. The artists who win awards, and those who are nominated, are quite often deserving of the attention they receive.
A Simple Musical Celebration
Having said that, the whole affair should be taken with a pinch of salt. There will be many much-loved singers, bands, and albums from the year in question that will go unnoticed. But these lesser known musicians will always have their armies of followers, to whom commercial awards shows mean very little. And they’d be right to be so unconcerned by such hollow shenanigans.
Music is a Part of Life
Surely, music is a large, varied part of life, and its place in people’s hearts is unique in the most moving way.
Awards shows like the Brits – although they don’t necessarily speak for the millions, they remain a welcome celebration and discussion of what is popular in the world of music, sparking angry disappointment in some, and approving cheers in others. And that, if not much else, is the point it stands to serve.
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