Elsewhere It Was Less “Banger After Banger” & More “Clanger After Clanger.”
But There’s Great Potential For Great Improvement Next Year.
So Hopefully Things Will Get Better…
Meantime Cat Burns Killed It With A Supremely Strong Yet Cool And Relaxed Confident Performance. She Was The Cat That Got The Cream!
Presenting The BRIT Awards For The Second Consecutive Time, Mo Gilligan, 34, Was Disconnected On The Night. He Looked Smart (Arugably Overdressed) But The Constant Disconnect Was Too Much To Ignore And Just Became A Huge Bore. It Got To The Point Where One Had To Wonder – Who Exactly Is He Hosting This Event For? Much Of The Time It Seemed Like Himself And A Group of Invisible Friends. It Was Less Banger After Banger And More Clanger After Clanger. And It Wasn’t Big And It Wasn’t Clever. We All Know Can Do Better. Because He Has Done. His Documentary Black British & Funny Was Excellent. And The Ensemle Format of The Masked Dancer/Singer Suited Him.
Not All Successful Entertainers Are Suitable For All Entertainment Gigs. And This Year’s BRIT Awards Is A Perfect Example of That. It Turned Out To Be A Sad And Disappointing Top Ten of Mis-hits At The BRITs 2023 Available On ITV.X
@Harry Styles Received Great Loud Applause From The Audience At The End of His Performance of ‘As It Was’ Which Opened The Show. Yet Mo ImmediatelyAsked Them To Show Him Some Love As If They Hadn’t Just Already Done That. It Felt Disconnected. He Didn’t Seem To Be Reading The Room Even Though He Was In The Room And Suppossed To Be Professionally Comanding It.
“We’re Live From The O2 In London And For The First Time Ever We’re On A Saturday Night. Can I Get An Oi Oi! The Tables Are Back In Full Effect And You Never Know We’re In South London So We Might All End Up In A Chicken Shop.”
What?! Why?! Stereotyping Much? Isn’t That What We Are Asking Certain Sections of Society To Stop Doing?
Introducing White Irish Footballer @Declan Rice (Who Was Presenting An Award Alongside @Jodie Turner Smith) He Said “He Might Actually Be The Nephew of Uncle Ben Himself…”
Again, What?! Why?! After The Police Brutality Murder of George Floyd Mars Food Group, The Makers of The Now Defunct Uncle Ben’s Rice (And Other Uncle Ben Products) Stopped Branding It As Uncle Ben’s Because It Was Widely Condemned As Racist And Based On Historical Stereotypes. It Was A Big Deal For Such A Corporation To Make Such A Move, Internationally Reported And Very Much Welcomed. So That Comment Was Frankly Ridiculous And Exposing. Mo Clearly Hit A Cultural Bum Note There.
In September 2020 Mars Food Group Re-branded The Now Defunct Uncle Ben’s Brand (Including Uncle Ben’s Rice) To ‘Ben’s Originals’ In The Wake of Calls For Social Justice Reform & An End To Racial Stereotyping
Attending The BRITs To Present An Award @Stanley Tucci Is An Italian-American Hollywood Actor of Huge Entertainment Proportions (Even If He Is A Seemingly Modest & Mild Mannered Man) Who Was Sitting At A Table Minding His Own Business And Whom Mo Described As Having “Just Joined” Him. It Didn’t Look Like That To The Audience Who Could Not Help But Notice The Stance of Tucci’s Friend Who Was Sitting Right Next To Him. There Were Lots of Awkward Looks All Round All Night In Actual Fact Which Can Be Seen On Screen If One Watches Back And Takes An Honest Account. Available On ITV.X
A Matt Hancock Joke Was A Tired Stumbling Bumbling Mess Followed By A ‘Mo’ Mojito Cocktail Joke Which Was Also A Miss. A Magnum Is A Strong Jamaican Tonic Drink But Mo Didn’t Bother To Explain That To Audience Nor Stanley As He Adopted A Curious Diction And Said He Was Going To Make One For Stanley. So Again Who Was He Presenting To?
To Maintain & Further Grow His Fanbase And Help Effect Genuine Integration Within The TV Industry With Sustainability He Needs To Bring A New Audience In – Not Keep Locking Other People Out By Self-Satified, Complascent And Arrogant Insider Jokes. Nobody Would Like Being Subjected To “Private-Jokes” And Excluded If They Were In A Room Full of Mensa Members For Instance And Being Treated As Though They Were Unintelligent. It Was A Missed Opportunity To Blend Cultures Skillfully And Respectfully! Inclusion Is Not A One Way Street. (For Instance One Reason For The Success of Stanley’s Excellent Series A Taste of Italy Is The Fact That He Explains To The Audience Exactly What He’s Eating And Drinking, It’s History And The Ingredients And Brings The Audience Along With Him. Available On BBC iPlayer). We Know Because We Watched It (Time & Again & Loved It).
Cat Burns Performed Her Single ‘Go’ Live With Orchestral Accompaniment And Was Worldclass @catburns
Gratuitously Showing Off Posing With A Glass of ‘Something’ In A Fine Looking Spirit Glass Gilligan Mis-Introduced @Lewis Capaldi As Sam Capaldi. Afterwards (As Last Year) He Had To Make Another Self-Inflicted Apology. It Seemed Dismissive As He Hurriedly Remarked “It Just Goes To Show How Strong The Drinks At The BRITs Are”.
However He Was Seemingly Undettered As He Swaggered With A Glass Of Something Again Imploring A Departing Harry Styles Back To The Podium In An Act Surplus To Requirements In Which He Urged Harry To Imbibe A Pre-Staged Shot of ‘Something’ (From One of Two Different Coloured Shot Glasses). Harry Obliged But Seemed Keen To Hightail It Out of Dodge As Quick As Poss (Even Having The Class To Clear Away The Pre-Staged Shot Glasses). At Least This Time Gilligan Wasn’t Swaggering By Wastefully Pouring Perfectly Good Brandy Away On The Floor (Something He Has Previously Being Filmed Doing Before At A Totally Different Awards Event At A Different Time).
Later He Declared “No I’m Joking. It Just Sounds Good For TV” After He Momentarily Give False Hope To Young Entertainment Wannabes By Declaring His DMs Open For Job Applications. This Was Not Clever Post The Me Too Movement Nor During A Cost of Living Crisis. It Was Crass. And Again, It Was Uncalled For.
The Cringe Just Kept Coming. He Introduced @Ellie Goulding And “My Good Friend” Tom Greenan. Greenan Subsequently Awkwardly Asked Ellie If The Boobs Were Her Own In An Awkward Moment (For Which Later Apologised And Said Regretted). She Was Wearing A Black, Backless, Strappy, Iron-Clad Style Top, With A Moulded Built In Bra, Which Accentuated Her Chest. Mo Is Not Responsible For @TomGreenan’s Behaviour But It Was All Part of A Horrible Disconnect That Just Kept Clanging.
Then For Reasons Unknown Mo Kept The Stereotypes Going By Inciting The Barely 20 Somethings, First Time Group Winners of The Rising Star Award, Female Harmony Group FLO, Into Petty And Very Public Theivery of Glasses And Cutlery. It Was Totally Unnecessary And Totally Unfunny. And Showed A Total Lack of Leadership & Guidance, Exemplary of The General Thoughtlessness That Typfied The Night.
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