Brit Awards 2012 blog: the good, the bland and the controversy
Brits 2012 were marred by blandness and the Adele cut-off that lit up Twitter.
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So comes to pass another night at the Brit Awards. As standard fare these days, the Brits follows a fairly basic formula of a couple of good performances, some truly bland and one media-hyped event or ‘controversy’ that goes viral within hours of the show finishing.
2012 Brit Awards was an evening of banal banter between awards. James Corden had the briefest flashes of comedy gold, but his hosting gig this year was really just a series of dull segues lumbering from one table to the next. And I don’t say lumbering to be harsh or poke fun at the nation’s sweetheart, I say it because that's what it felt like. Lumbering without purpose. It wasn’t until his gleeful swipe about Harry Styles’ penchant for older ladies that he really came alive again. The thought of the One Direction singer - or any man - falling prey to Denise Welch was so utterly terrifying that I found myself laughing in blind hysteria.
Then we got to the moment that everyone is talking about. Twitter exploded from the moment James Corden began to interrupt Adele and you knew that THIS was going to be the Brit Awards 2012 ‘controversy’. Being yelled at through his earpiece to stop Adele and make way for Blur’s 11-minute set, James Corden cut off what promised to be a heartfelt and genuine speech from Adele on what it meant to win the best British album award. The producers had their way.
Blur aren’t divas and nor are they ungracious. They would have waited a few more seconds to start their performance, so the blame lies with the broadcast’s producers, who likely started to sweat at the very notion of upsetting the advertisers. The Brits have overrun before. This isn’t a new concept. Why then did they feel the need to stop Adele’s speech? In the time it took Corden to interrupt and apologise to her, she could have finished and said her goodbyes before exiting the stage with her dignity intact. Instead, she was interrupted, embarrassed and shown the door.
Despite her successes in the night, Adele was shown such little respect and courtesy that she had little recourse other than to make a point of it. She showed incredible restraint by giving them the middle finger. I would have given them both.
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