Brit Awards: 'Ignoring ethnic talent ' or 'cheeky fun'?
Broadcaster Edward Adoo and Radio 1 and 1Xtra presenter Clara Amfo, discussed whether the Brit Awards is representative.
It's the Brit Awards on Wednesday 23rd, where the music industry gets together to decide who's been making the best music in the past year.
The names have changed over the years but the categories havenβt. 38 years after the first Brit Awards we still have "best album" but not "most downloaded track" or some way of recognising that we listen to music in a different way now.
Sarah Montague spoke to broadcaster Edward Adoo, who has accused the award ceremony of ignoring ethnic talent; and Radio 1 and 1Xtra presenter Clara Amfo.
"Itβs not representative, its very safe, itβs watered down...itβs the Brit awards, it needs to represent people who are British, over the years itβs been a bit classist, they havenβt had any or much ethnic representation,β said Edward Adoo.
"The Brits still has its place...it's a bit of cheeky fun, it's quintessentially British in that I donβt think it takes itself too seriously,β said Clara Amfo, Radio 1 and Radio 1 Extra presenter.
βIt is very white and very middle class and that isn't completely indicative of whatβs going on in the charts at the moment" she added.
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