RARE?! Are you serious?

You can't swing Ellie Goulding in a Record Company lobby without hitting a multitude of Singer Songwriters. EVERY year there's some boring man with a guitar nominated that's just the same as the boring man with a guitar that was nominated the year before.

James Bay is generic and uninteresting, he is the definition of a cookie cutter artist.

On the rare occasions that I've seen her live performances she has an Acoustic Guitar like James Bay often does.

The amount of artists who don't write their own songs out weighs those who do by a large amount

Of course, this is all heavily ironic considering boybands such as HomeTown would struggle writing their own names, never mind a song

(or, y'know, One Direction or anybody else nominated of that ilk)

Which performances? I've never seen her play a guitar, do you mean a male/female playing a guitar in the background? I wouldn't call that the same

well I'm pretty sure she doesn't play the guitar in any of her songs but yeah that's besides the point. it's not really about "who's more boring?", it's about the lack of knowledge for diverse artists The Brits carries, and James Bay completely ignored the question and went for a cheap snipe because he's nominated himself

Where's the proof of your claim? Go on. Show me.

Lily writes her own music, if that's the point you're trying to get at

Even if Lily did play the guitar (which... she doesn't), there literally aren't any other women for her to compete with in that market? Yet if you look at the men, you've got James Bay, Ed Sheeran, Jack Garratt, Passenger, Hozier, Jamie Lawson... and that's before you've even left the UK and Ireland/got onto bands

Is Passenger still a thing?

nope, thank christ

(not forgetting George Ezra, Jake Bugg, Damien Rice, Tom Odell, Ben Howard...)

True that a lot of her performances that I've seen are getting helped from background Music with Guitar playing.

Out of interest as I've had nobody answer me yet on it, are some of you just against Guitar players? Because I really like a J-Rock Group called Ling Tosite Sigure, and I'm thinking that if by some weird reality that they did win Best International Act at The Grammys would people just call the lead singer an AGWG? Because I've even seen people like Hozier and George Ezra (who I happen to class as decent) get called boring and WGWG in a negative way just because they dare to play the Guitar.

Just goes to show that these acts are as manufactored as your typical X Factor winner, they get dropped after one album to make room for the next generic man with a guitar.

Is the point that people just don't like guitars or is it that people don't like the boring generic "indie" songs that they play with it

Because I thought it was the latter

Yeah that happens with most music artists, background music.. Or are they supposed to humm the song themselves whilst singing? :laugh:

Indie is never generic.:nono::joker:

"White girl with a guitar" =/= "white girl who sat near a guitar once"

exactly, as I said before it's all generic, BBC Sound of The Year-type crap

There are White Girls With a Guitar out there.

They're normally in Rock Bands though like PVRIS.

Also shouldnt the likes of Little Mix be recognised more after proving time after time they are talented and have had hits all over the world? They are the ones who have missed out the most

I like indie music but artists like James Bay aren't indie, they're pop artists masquerading as indie hipsters whose careers have a shorter shelf life than a carton of milk.

And Lily Allen isn't one of them

aka jake bugg

If Little Mix won a Grammy for talent then I'm gonna have to.

Yeah that's what I meant with indie being in quotation marks haha

For a second I thought people just really hated guitars

You mean the same Little Mix who are nominated for two awards at the Brits?

(and yeah I love indie music but you know, decent indie music)

But they are talented :shrug: they are great singers and performers

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IF CARLY RAE JEPSEN ISN'T EVEN NOMINATED FOR BEST INTERNATIONAL FEMALE THEN FOOK THE FOOKIN' BRITS

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2 awards nobody cares about? They have been shunned from Best Group, Best Single and Best Album in which they should have been nominated

I wish other people thought like you and Dezzy though Jake.

I swear there are some people out there who want anything remotely Rock, Indie, or Folk to be either James Bay'd (Popped up to the max) or completely destroyed altogether.:bawling:

Are they not up for Best Single? wtf Black Magic deserves to be there it was one of the best singles last year

tbh

I think it's like best video and something else they should defo be in best group

They're up for Best Single, yes

Hardcore rockers Babymetal will live on past the hate don't worry :clap1:

I actually like the song in a guilty pleasure sort of way, but imo the only one that can sing is the one playing the Guitar, the others are just being treated like pieces of meat.

Pretty much.