January 21, 2010
updated
Susan Boyle posts
Piers Morgan on Brit Award snub
Anyone heard of Amy MacDonald?
Nope. Me neither.
Folks in US – how many of you can name any contemporary female British recording artists?
But she’s so well known and so well-spoken at the wise age of 25 she can declare that Ms Boyle is not good advertising for British music and doesn’t deserve to be nominated for a Brit award.
Just what the UK press and the Brit Awards people think. So, by extension, they are insulting all the folks in the UK who made Ms Boyle’s the top-seller in the UK, something Ms MacDonald cannot claim.
Here are Ms MacDonald’s quotes. Note that she “feels really bad” for Ms Boyle because she “has some problems” and that it’s “not right” for “someone like that” to have “this life thrust upon them”.
MACDONALD: [emphasis added]
Susan has sold a phenomenal amount of albums- so you could ask, ‘Why shouldn’t she be nominated for a Brit?’
But she hasn’t changed anything musically or creatively and it wouldn’t be a good advert for British music if what we thought deserved awards in the music industry was a woman singing covers. Lily Allen would be a deserving winner.
Seems her comments don’t apply to the UK boy band up for an award, whose claim to fame is X Factor.
And Ms Boyle’s interpretation of “Who I Was Born To Be,” an original song written for her by songwriter/recording artist Audra Mae?
MACDONALD I feel really bad for her because I think she has been exploited and the people behind her don’t really care about her.
Nor does she or her fellow UK artists or the UK press. How bad could she possibly feel to speak these words? Words Ms Boyle has access to?
MACDONALD: You can tell she is really fragile and being mobbed wherever she travels around the world.
And it seems “this life” is ok for the unenlightened:
MACDONALD: She has some problems and it is not right for someone like that to have this life thrust upon them.
A quick goggle reveals why Ms MacDonald might not want her fellow Scot, who has “some problems” and is “fragile,” to be nominated for a Brit Award. She never has and she writes her own songs.
AFTER being snubbed in her home country by the Brit, MTV, Q and NME Award shows…
MACDONALD: I always say the best reward for me is having great fans and I totally stand by that, but it does feel nice to be recognised. I’ve been left out of awards shows for so long and this makes it even more special.
I totally get the point of covering songs and why folks think Ms Boyle does not deserve it. Valid points even if it’s hard to believe. And they are free to voice them. It’s the language they use that has to stop. It’s wrong.
