Playing music that is as smart as it is successful, Brit winners made articulate calls for artist development \u2013 while host Jack Whitehall was brilliantly risky<\/p>\n
The Brits has long been in the business of underlining success; upsets and shock wins aren\u2019t really the point. If they seemed moderately more exciting in 2025 than in years past, that\u2019s partly because Jack Whitehall is a better, riskier, funnier host than anyone else offered the job in recent years \u2013 he mocked Stormzy for his promotion of McDonald\u2019s, made a joke about amyl nitrate and called Coldplay \u201cthe musical missionary position\u201d \u2013 and because 2024 was a vintage year for mainstream pop, dominated by music that was characterful and<\/em> hugely successful.<\/p>\n If Charli xcx \u2013 and producer AG Cook \u2013 hadn\u2019t been lavishly rewarded for her agenda-setting album Brat, you would have wondered what had gone wrong: likewise Chappell Roan, whose ardent emotion both in and out of the recording studio makes her one of pop\u2019s most cheering recent developments: she responded to her two awards with acceptance speeches that called upon the music industry to offer more long-term development support to artists \u2013 a theme also picked up on by Myles Smith, winner of the rising star award \u2013 and shouted out the trans community and sex workers.<\/p>\n Continue reading…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Playing music that is as smart as it is successful, Brit winners made articulate calls for artist development \u2013 while host Jack Whitehall was brilliantly risky The Brits has long been in the business of underlining success; upsets and shock wins aren\u2019t really the point. If they seemed moderately more exciting in 2025 than in … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34784\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}