The Brit Awards came to a dramatic close last night when Adele was cut off from a speech to make way for an exclusive Blur performance.
Adele was thanking fans for her Album Of The Year award when comedian and host James Corden was forced by producers to step in, prompting her to show a middle-finger in offence.
Blur went on to perform an 11-minute closing set, having received an Outstanding Contribution To Music award. It was the longest closing set in the history of the awards.
The Brit Awards, held in London, recognises excellence in British music. Among the winners were Foo Fighters for Best International Group, acoustic guitarist and rapper Ed Sheeran who bagged several awards including British Breakthrough artist, and Coldplay who took Best British Group - the seventh of their career.
See Adele "flip the bird" at the show producers in this video:
Brit Award winners list:
British Female Solo Artist: Adele
International Male Solo Artist: Bruno Mars
British Single: One Direction - "What Makes You Beautiful"
International Female Solo Artist: Rihanna
British Male Solo Artist: Ed Sheeran
British Group: Coldplay
International Group: Foo Fighters
British Breakthrough Act: Ed Sheeran
International Breakthrough Act: Lana Del Rey
Mastercard British Album Of The Year: Adele - "21"
Adele is relevant. Blur are not. Their live performance was poor, they didn't need to play three songs and they got cut off anyway.
Adele earn't her way onto that stage for her acceptance speech, Blur just turned up cos the Brits gave them an award that they didn't really do anything to get. Plus their speech was boring and too long.
I don't really listen to much Adele but thought she deserved better (even though she's had a hell of a lot of awards recently)
She had every right to flip the bird. I mean, if they were running late and Blur had to play Song 2 or something really short, sure, by all means. But to cut her off early for a 3 song-11 minute set? What the shit? Extremely irrelevant. That's like having when you hold the door for someone to be nice and a bunch of Fuckheads take advantage and run through and you're stuck there for a good five minutes like a moron and are late for wherever you were going.
She had one of the biggest awards of the night. You don't cut her off for petty bullshit. 11 minutes was not that absolutely necessary to cut a short speech off for.
It always amazes me how Blur is probably one of the least important bands in America, yet in Britain, they are like gods or something. Same with Oasis.
It always amazes me how Blur is probably one of the least important bands in America, yet in Britain, they are like gods or something. Same with Oasis.
Plenty of great bands never really broke America, Slade comes to mind, its not really surprising
It always amazes me how Blur is probably one of the least important bands in America, yet in Britain, they are like gods or something. Same with Oasis.
Yes because America is the epicentre of the whole world and all us little troglodyte countries around the outside aren't entitled to our own culture.
America gave the world Country and Western... Id rather listen to Blur. (Actually I would rather drill my own head out than listen to C&W)
Music is respect, and tv is a industry; if she can't suck it up and realize tv can cut her off then she has a longgg way to go to be a respectable artist. Plus the bird is just unneeded..famous people think they can do anything and it won't have the same impact as a normal person..
It always amazes me how Blur is probably one of the least important bands in America, yet in Britain, they are like gods or something. Same with Oasis.
you coudl say the same about the thousands of Country singers America has, or the legions of hip-hop artists that don't make it overseas. Or you could point at continental Europe and look at all the thousands upon thousands of singers and bands there that will never have a record played on the radio in either Britain or America. Or go to Japan or australia, or wherever else.
Culture does not start and end with one country. Never has, never will.
As for the Brits - meh. The real story was how twatted George Michael was, and how shite and phoned-in Blur's performance was. Adele? Who really gives a shit any more? She's a top-class example of over-exposure and it's already become a given that if she's nominated for an award she's going to get it. Not to mention that she's not a very good public speaker and her acceptance speeches at other times often have gone on too long, been generally inane and pissed much of the industry off. It' s okay for her to bet cut off once.
Poor girl couldn't indulge her own ego. It's a sad moment... Anyway, the exact same thing should be done to all the other narcissistic "stars" out there that use every opportunity to masturbate on stage. But a lot sooner so we don't have to see any of those pathetic award shows.
why was she getting an award for the album anyway? sure she has a good voice, but she has a team of real musicians to write the music, they deserve the award as much, if not more than she does
go james ;D
Oh come on, that could have been a nice innocent wave to people, just the way the cameras caught it and her hand moving made it look like she was sticking the middle finger up. At school everyone was talking about it like she had done something major. This is just pathetic. Slow News Day
Oh come on, that could have been a nice innocent wave to people, just the way the cameras caught it and her hand moving made it look like she was sticking the middle finger up. At school everyone was talking about it like she had done something major. This is just pathetic. Slow News Day
Seriously, we're calling a middle finger drama now? What the hell is wrong with people these days. Grow a ****ing spine.
Not to mention that she was totally in her right.
She had plenty of time to hold her speech, but instead basked in a wave of applause, then flipped the bird. I can see why she'd be offended, but the big moment of the night was Blur. I'd choose Blur over her sappy squealing any moment of any day.
It always amazes me how Blur is probably one of the least important bands in America, yet in Britain, they are like gods or something. Same with Oasis.
Yes because America is the epicentre of the whole world and all us little troglodyte countries around the outside aren't entitled to our own culture.
America gave the world Country and Western... Id rather listen to Blur. (Actually I would rather drill my own head out than listen to C&W)
Chill out son. No need to bash.
But give credit where credit is due. America also gave the world jazz, blues, rock and roll, and soul, amongst others, but I digress.
Even if Blur received the "outstanding contribution to music award" the producers shouldn't have cut off adele's speech. It can wait a minute or two. And really? An 11 minute performance? I'd get it if it were prog but if its three songs, suck it up and play one less. But hey, thats just my opinion.
She had plenty of time to hold her speech, but instead basked in a wave of applause, then flipped the bird. I can see why she'd be offended, but the big moment of the night was Blur. I'd choose Blur over her sappy squealing any moment of any day.
Nice to see that Adele isn't letting all this success get to her head. "WHO THE FUCK IS BLUR LET ME FINISH MY SPEECH!"
I realise she was barely allowed to talk but it's not like this is her first award and she really had anything new to say. She really handled it like a top class prick.
I find Adele an interesting case, a full figured girl in the charts which MTV and the music industry makes sure it is reserved for the thin and the attractive autotuned voices where others write the song and make sure the voice is right and they provide the image.
The Brits had very little in the way of true talent in reality, the winners are usually the same sort year after year
Now that I come to think of it, why does the best single/album award go to the artist who performs it. One Direction definitely DIDN'T write their award winning single, so why are they getting the award? What is the award for, if not the actual writer of the song? They should get credit as the artist but the songwriter should recieve the reward. Maybe this would actually encourage people to write they own music.
I dont get it. She just won the award for the best british album of the year. Im assuming that is the highest award since it was at the end. Give her all the time she needs, dont "kanye west" her speech! Blur has not been relevant for the past 15 years why the hell do they get 11 minutes and Adele, the biggest name in music right now, gets 30 seconds for winning the best award? Someone answer this for me because im stumped
In fairness, she did go "Thank you [pause for 15 seconds] Thank you [pause for 15 seconds] Thank you [pause for 15 seconds]" before actually starting her speech. If she'd have got on with it she wouldn't have been cut off.
In fairness, she did go "Thank you [pause for 15 seconds] Thank you [pause for 15 seconds] Thank you [pause for 15 seconds]" before actually starting her speech. If she'd have got on with it she wouldn't have been cut off.
+1
Also, this completely tips the boat for me, in terms of respect for Adele. Yes, she's a huge star at the moment and her album has sold tons of copies, but you aren't the friggin' queen or anything. You get a limited amount of time and if you sit around enjoying the sustained applause, sure you're going to lose speech time.
The sheer fact that she had the audacity to flip off the crowd, which likely contained a fair amount of children, porves that she already has a bloated ego. She can't take her goose voice and shove it.
British Female Solo Artist: Adele
International Male Solo Artist: Bruno Mars
British Single: One Direction - "What Makes You Beautiful"
International Female Solo Artist: Rihanna
British Male Solo Artist: Ed Sheeran
British Group: Coldplay
International Group: Foo Fighters
British Breakthrough Act: Ed Sheeran
International Breakthrough Act: Lana Del Rey
Mastercard British Album Of The Year: Adele - "21"
Critics' Choice Award: Emeli Sande
British Producer: Paul Epworth
Outstanding Contribution To Music: Blur
They cut her off 42 seconds in. 28 of those seconds were applause, leaving only 14 seconds for free speech to Adele, which I find ridiculous since it's the biggest award of the night.
I'm pretty sure the producers could have waited 30 more seconds for Adele to wrap things up, considering most award speeches are at least 45 seconds.
Okay she could have done a lot more talking the first 30 seconds I'll admit but ouch that was just rude, cutting her off. She's been like 20% of all the music I've heard on the radio the last year. And she actually takes part in the writing of the songs, and she's not famous for skimpy outfits.
I really hope Blur made a big impact in Britain that no one else is aware of, cos I haven't heard any Blur since I heard the only song by them I know in Singstar nearly 10 years ago. Yeah, the woo hoo song.
Ah well I guess they had their reasons, no one's fault really that they were running late.
This really, really, really annoys me. So she didn't get to finish her speech - fine, that's bad, it was album of the year. But she's already won loads of awards and given the same speech so many times, we don't actually need to hear it again. Not least because she's incredibly overrated and doesn't really deserve all these awards, but that's another issue. I'd have a lot more sympathy for her if she wasn't completely undignified and responded by flipping the bird, and so on. It was NOT the biggest award of the night, Lifetime Achievement was. I saw some idiot on Twitter going on about how winning Album Of The Year is a once-in-a-lifetime thing. Well, I don't doubt Adele will win it again, as others have won it multiple times in the past, and Lifetime Achievement is genuinely a one-time award. Like every other year, last night was about Blur, the Lifetime Achievement winners. People being annoyed at Blur are stupid, they didn't choose the running order of the show. I've also seen people whining about how Blur 'wasted time with a really long acceptance speech'. This is horse manure. They gave a relatively short speech for the award they'd won, I've seen people in the past go on for ages. Furthermore, it was better to hear from them anyway, they've been off the radar for years and it was good that they got chance to thank their fans properly. Adele's already thanked her fans a million times in the last few weeks. In short, people getting worked up over this baffle me, it was a perfectly reasonable situation and Adele acted like an egotistical knob. As usual.
Weak! this is drama? ok she get cut off over blur, the show must go on but at least they should let her finish also it not shocking that she filp the bird,everybody have thier times, even Adele, she won the biggest award of the night, but she won tons of other awards and moth likely she will said the same speech as she did at the Grammys, she should more talking too but Blur is not that big, thier little known in america, I think thier not in a Rock Band dlc yet.
I'm sure I remembered reading an interview where Adele moaned about taxes, I mean seriously, 20 gazillion albums sold and that.
On topic, Blur have contributed so much more to music than Adele and whereas blur will always be legends, Adele will probably be gone in 5 years.
Good I'm glad she flipped them off. We don't know if she will ever have another hit, I'm not her biggest fan, but people like her and in this day and age of a downturn economy and music industry she is a bright spot. She deserved her moment in the sun. They shouldn't have cut her off.
while everyones moaning about egotistic stars stars waisting time on stage id like to commend ed sheeran for goin out there in an element shirt and jeans saying a couple of thanks and playing music, he gained respect from me yesterday!
People actually got awards they deserve in the BRITs? Wow, my faith in human kind is now slightly higher from the ridiculously low point it was before. Well done Blur!
ok cheap jokes aside, I just watched the vid and I swear she was probably told she had 45 secs to 1 min to do her speech and chose to just stand there for a good chunk of it.
"International Male Solo Artist: Bruno Mars
British Single: One Direction - "What Makes You Beautiful"
International Female Solo Artist: Rihanna
British Male Solo Artist: Ed Sheeran "
Makes me feel sick, though.
In the aftermath there was tea and bisects everywhere!
Bisects? xD
Weird image in my head now, but the intended comment is a funny image too!
Anyway- I couldn't care less for the awards, but yeah, Adele deserved better. At least she's made fame through writing her own songs rather than skimpy/weird outfits...
Hmm, if she hadn't waited for so long to start speaking, taking in the cheers and applause of the adoring crowd, she wouldn't have been cut off. But **** it, I thought "Worship Music" by Anthrax should have got that award for shear riffage alone.
It always amazes me how Blur is probably one of the least important bands in America, yet in Britain, they are like gods or something. Same with Oasis.
Yes because America is the epicentre of the whole world and all us little troglodyte countries around the outside aren't entitled to our own culture.
America gave the world Country and Western... Id rather listen to Blur. (Actually I would rather drill my own head out than listen to C&W)
America is the epicenter of the world music and film wise and anyone saying otherwise is probably some dumbass who wants to look cool on the internet
Not much a fan of both Adelle and Blur.. but how would you feel if you got cut off while you are speaking? Putting each other's cultural norms aside. If you didn't get offended, you may need to have your brain checked. I would not say that what Adelle did was right. It's just everyone had different ways to express our dislike/disgust to certain situations. We're all human beings after all.
It always amazes me how Blur is probably one of the least important bands in America, yet in Britain, they are like gods or something. Same with Oasis.
Yes because America is the epicentre of the whole world and all us little troglodyte countries around the outside aren't entitled to our own culture.
America gave the world Country and Western... Id rather listen to Blur. (Actually I would rather drill my own head out than listen to C&W)
America also gave the world the Blues, in other words the basis for all rock music
It always amazes me how Blur is probably one of the least important bands in America, yet in Britain, they are like gods or something. Same with Oasis.
Yes because America is the epicentre of the whole world and all us little troglodyte countries around the outside aren't entitled to our own culture.
America gave the world Country and Western... Id rather listen to Blur. (Actually I would rather drill my own head out than listen to C&W)
I think its a fair statement. You'd think blur and oasis would've been bigger in america than they were. I can tell you 3 songs by Oasis and 1 song by blur and all 4 of those songs were absolutely huge when they came out and i've played all 4 in bands and people still love those songs. After they came out though, you just didnt hear them anymore. Really not sure why, it just didnt happen.
Just for the record, Adele is an incredible singer, Blurhave tons of great songs (just because us in america were lapping up matchbox twenty and hootie and the blowfish doesn't mean Blur aren't great) AND OASIS IS THE BEST BAND OF THE 1990's. Who cares if the gallaghers can be dicks, at least they didn't blow their self-important little head off like Cobain. As far as I'm concerned, everything b Nirvana, while good, leaves a bad taste in my mouth now knowing the lead singer was a selfish imbecile who committed the most selfish, pathetic act a human being could possibly do. Oasis makes you want to throw your arm around your friend and sing those big choruses at thr top of your lungs, and so does a lot of Blur. That's what Britpop was about, and I'm American so im not biased.
It always amazes me how Blur is probably one of the least important bands in America, yet in Britain, they are like gods or something. Same with Oasis.
you coudl say the same about the thousands of Country singers America has, or the legions of hip-hop artists that don't make it overseas. Or you could point at continental Europe and look at all the thousands upon thousands of singers and bands there that will never have a record played on the radio in either Britain or America. Or go to Japan or australia, or wherever else.
Culture does not start and end with one country. Never has, never will.
As for the Brits - meh. The real story was how twatted George Michael was, and how shite and phoned-in Blur's performance was. Adele? Who really gives a shit any more? She's a top-class example of over-exposure and it's already become a given that if she's nominated for an award she's going to get it. Not to mention that she's not a very good public speaker and her acceptance speeches at other times often have gone on too long, been generally inane and pissed much of the industry off. It' s okay for her to bet cut off once.
I mean, I wasn't trying to get into a culture debate. I was just saying it's weird. A lot of British artists in any medium are well known here, it's weird that two of the biggest weren't. That's all I was saying.
Also, if you think Country and Western is the only original American genre, you need to do some research.
She got up 6 times to speak at the Grammys and was probably up on stage for her other award at this show, not to mention countless other awards she has probably won for the album. What more could she possibly have to say? Give it a rest Adele... you're not as important as you think you are.
why was she getting an award for the album anyway? sure she has a good voice, but she has a team of real musicians to write the music, they deserve the award as much, if not more than she does
go james ;D
She writes or co-writes all her songs and plays guitar, bass, piano, celesta. I think she is a real musician. A lot of albums get recorded with session musicians and thats not a bad thing. An example would be Robert Plant's solo albums.
Maybe if she didnt waste too much time going "Thank you" *heavy breathing* "thank you very much" *heavy breathing* "Thank you" *heavy breathing* "thank you very much" *heavy breathing*
It always amazes me how Blur is probably one of the least important bands in America, yet in Britain, they are like gods or something. Same with Oasis.
Yes because America is the epicentre of the whole world and all us little troglodyte countries around the outside aren't entitled to our own culture.
America gave the world Country and Western... Id rather listen to Blur. (Actually I would rather drill my own head out than listen to C&W)
You've neglected one of the most important genres of music the blues, which originated in the American South. Without the blues, rock and roll would have never been created, you're welcome.
It always amazes me how Blur is probably one of the least important bands in America, yet in Britain, they are like gods or something. Same with Oasis.
Yeah In new zealand everyone onlly knows like one one song by blur, which is song 2
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