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Little Mix have a bone to pick with the BRIT Awards after noticing a lack of female nominees in many of the award show’s categories, and they’re letting their voices be heard.
What’s up guys, it’s Sussan Mourad here for Clevver News, and leave it to the group of powerful ladies that is Little Mix to call out the 2020 BRIT Awards for a lack of ladies in the show’s main categories.
The 40th annual ceremony went down last night in London’s O2 Arena and while many celebs were getting excited about the performances and their potential new pieces of hardware, Little Mix was partaking in a bit of activism.
Just before the ceremony began, Leigh-Anne Pinnock took to the group’s official Twitter account, where she first praised the award show for their diversity, writing, “Whose excited for the @BRITs tonight? So good to see the genre diversity with some influential grime artists nominated.”
However, there was just one thing missing…
She went on to add, “But there are so many female bosses who aren’t up, come on @brits where’s the ladies at? So many are smashing it right now! Ladies we see u! Leigh x”
Some of the major categories, like New Artist of the Year, Album of the Year and Group of the Year each didn’t include one single female artist nomination, while Song of the Year was also male-dominated with Mabel’s “Don’t Call Me Up” being the only non-featured female nominee.
But Little Mix wasn’t the only group to notice the lack of female inclusion.
English rock band Foals also called out the award show during their acceptance speech for Best Group.
The band’s frontman Yannis Philippakis thanked fans for their votes, along with their label for allowing them total artistic freedom.
It wasn’t until the end of their speech where he mentioned that the group is looking forward to seeing more women dominating next time around.
Seems like this was a popular opinion of the night, do you agree?
I’m really curious to hear which female performers you guys think deserved to be nominated in these categories, so be sure to share all shout it out in the comments below.
Little Mix did seem to be in great spirits throughout the evening, as last night marked four years since their first ever BRIT performance where they sang their hit “Black Magic.”
Since then they’ve undoubtedly come a long way as this year they are set to embark on tour, as well as a headlining spot at the British Summer Time festival in London, AND they’re also launching their own talent-finding show called “Little Mix: The Search” set to air on BBC One.
We’ll be seeing a lot more of these ladies, so get ready for all the glory to come! Honestly, personally, I cannot wait to see even more Little Mix on my feeds and timelines!
Until then, I gotta hear all your thoughts on Leigh-Anne’s tweet calling out the BRIT Awards! You can also check out more Little Mix news right here… like when they SHUT DOWN A TV Host for slut shaming them!
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