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Brits 2014: The nominations
It's considered bad luck to not have your Christmas decorations down by the time the Brit Awards shortlist is released, so let's hope your tree is packed away.
Moving a large pile of baubles to one side, let's see what we've got this year.
Katy Perry, Ellie Goulding, Bruno Mars and Bastille are all going to play the event.
In totally unconnected news, Katy Perry, Ellie Goulding, Bruno Mars and Bastille have all been nominated.
For some reason, they've produced a shortlist for Critic's Choice, even although they announce the winner of that prize at the same time as the shortlist - so, congratulations Sam Smith; bad luck to Chloe Howl and Ella Eyre. Especially to Chloe Howl, who must be wondering why critics have favoured Sam Smith's plodding-about-in-a-dead-mans-coat over her work. It's like a fun fair losing out to a domino table.
Smith presumably helped through his work with Disclosure, whose name ripples through the shortlists alongside that of Bastille. It's actually quite positive to see this - two names that I don't think you'd have been able to predict having such resonance this time last year.
Elsewhere it's business as usual: Lady GaGa, despite her only having done a shit record last year. Pink, despite her not having done any records at all. Bruno Mars, despite him being Bruno Mars.
That godawful One Direction One Way Or Another record has somehow been picked as one of the best singles of the year.
It's unclear what's more surprising - that Olly Murs is considered to have made one of the best singles of 2013, or that - if we accept this as a fact - he's not considered to be one of the best male solo artists of the year.
Anyway, here's the slim pickings that some poor sods will have to weigh against each other in full:
British Male Solo ArtistThe Kings Of Leon. Nobody actually likes the Kings Of Leon, do they? They just exist to pad out this sort of thing.
David Bowie
Jake Bugg
James Blake
John Newman
Tom Odell
British Female Solo Artist
Birdy
Ellie Goulding
Jessie J
Laura Marling
Laura Mvula
British Group
Arctic Monkeys
Bastille
Disclosure
One Direction
Rudimental
British Breakthrough Act
Bastille
Disclosure
Laura Mvula
London Grammar
Tom Odell
Critics' Choice
Sam Smith
(Winner)
Chlöe Howl
Ella Eyre
British Single
Bastille - 'Pompeii'
Calvin Harris/Ellie Goulding - 'I Need Your Love'
Disclosure ft AlunaGeorge - 'White Noise'
Ellie Goulding - 'Burn'
John Newman - 'Love Me Again'
Naughty Boy ft Sam Smith - 'La La La'
Olly Murs - 'Dear Darlin''
One Direction - 'One Way or Another (Teenage Kicks)'
Passenger - 'Let Her Go'
Rudimental ft Ella Eyre - 'Waiting All Night'
British Album of the Year
Arctic Monkeys - AM
Bastille - Bad Blood
David Bowie - The Next Day
Disclosure - Settle
Rudimental - Home
British Producer of the Year
Ethan Johns
Flood (Mark Ellis) & Alan Moulder
Paul Epworth
International Male Solo Artist
Bruno Mars
Drake
Eminem
John Grant
Justin Timberlake
International Female Solo Artist
Janelle Monae
Katy Perry
Lady Gaga
Lorde
Pink
International Group
Arcade Fire
Daft Punk
Haim
Kings of Leon
Macklemore & Ryan Lewis
Now, time to try and shove tinsel into a tube.
1 comment:
Out of those nominated, "White Noise" is the best single I think (though "Waiting All Night" and "La La La" are probably better in "universal number one" terms).
Would sort of like John Newman to win best British male solo artist (remember when the word "solo" was absent from those categories, so Mick Hucknall and - most notoriously - Annie Lennox could win despite not having released any official solo records at the time, and often despite also being in the Best British Group?), if only to piss off the post-Blairite New Establishment types who will, obviously, all be backing one horse in that category.
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