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Lily Allen has joined the choir of critics hitting out against this year's BRIT Awards nominees, slamming them for ignoring grime artists and generally 'not caring about music'.
Stormzy had previously spoken out to say what a 'shame' it was that the awards were lacking in grime nominations after it had been such a strong year for the genre, and now the 'Not Fair' star Allen has agreed - standing up for the likes of Stormzy, JME and Skepta.
“The voting academy consists of 1000 music industry figures, and here lies the problem, music industry figures don’t necessarily care about music, they mostly care about themselves, they vote tactically for their labels artists to win or so that their competitors at other labels DON'," she wrote on a now-deleted Facebook post, reports Fact.
She continued: “Awards mean £££ and promotions. i don’t think music industry figures (or people that work at major labels) even look at artists as artists when it comes to voting for these things, the artists represent their teams their a+r people, managers, mds, pluggers etc…Skepta JME and Stormzy are all unsigned artists, who would gain from them winning anything? In fact them being nominated or even winning poses a direct threat to ‘music industry figures’.”
Speaking of his disappointment, Stormzy said: "It was such a great year for grime and underground music... I thought maybe this year it might get celebrated. You know when you've got that little bit of hope and that little bit of faith, and then they didn't. I thought it was such a shame."
The BRIT Awards are set to take place on 24 February, and the nominations are dominated by the likes of Adele, James Bay and Years & Years.
