Lady Gaga swept the pool with three awards, Dizzee Rascal wore a tux, Liam Gallagher was chasing Class As, and it wouldn’t be the BRIT Awards without a little bit of Robbie Williams.
Dressed in white lace and three feet of platinum hair, Lady Gaga picked up three gongs – best International Female Solo Artist, International Breakthrough Act, and International Album for The Fame. She also performed a stripped-back version of her song “Telephone”, which she dedicated to her friend and regular fashion-collaborator Alexander McQueen . Then, reverting back to full Gaga-mode, she busted into a techno version of “Dance in the Dark” with energetic jazz walk, crazy vogueing and genuflecting to a silver effigy of herself dressed in the infamous McQueen “lobster” shoes. Quite moving and at the same time rather ridiculous. Jackpot, BRIT Awards.
Jay-Z won the award for International Male Solo Artist and performed “Empire State of Mind” with Alicia Keys. Crazy. Almost as CRAZY as the duet between Dizzee Rascal (who won for British Male Solo Artist) and Florence Welsh (the winner of the big one – best British Album for Lungs). Together they performed “You’ve Got Dirtee Cash” – a mash-up of “You’ve Got The Love” and “Dirtee Cash” accompanied by a chorus of harps. Genius.
Kasabian won the award for best British Group and definitely won the award for biggest group of Cockheads.
In other Cockhead news, Oasis won best BRITs Album of 30 Years for their massive selling 1995 record What’s The Story (Morning Glory). Darling Liam accepted it on behalf of the now-dissolved band throwing the award into the crowd (“we’ve got the best fans in the fucking world”) and backstage asking the press: “Now can we go and take loads of Class A drugs?” Oh LiLi. PLEASE form a new band post haste. Rock ‘n’ roll won’t be the same without an entertaining geezer like you.
Other winners were Lily Allen for British Female Solo Artist, The Spice Girls won BRITS Performance of 30 Years (Ginger and Scary accepted the award – looking surprising hot), and the Outstanding Contribution to Music went to Robbie Williams.
That’s why we love the BRIT Awards – lots of spectacle, a few scandals, some rad performances, and of course then there’s Robbie – charming the pants off everyone: long live the queen.
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