2023's gender-neutral Brits shortlist is an affront to women in music

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2023's gender-neutral Brits shortlist is an affront to women in music
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When the Brit Awards announced they would be getting rid of the gender split for Best Artist and Best International Artist, did they mean they would be dispensing with women artists altogether? ✒️ _emilybootle BRITs

Despite efforts to be more inclusive, this year’s nominations reflect an industry living in the pastHarry Styles has been nominated for Best British Pop Act and Best Artist

When the Brit Awards announced in late 2021 that they would be getting rid of the gender split for Best Artist and Best International Artist, did they mean they would be dispensing with women artists altogether? You’d be forgiven for assuming so after aOf the 10 nominations across arguably the two biggest categories – Best Artist and Best Album – there is one non-male, or non-male authored, nomination .

It hardly needs saying that such a clear imbalance might be understandable if there were, in fact, no women to nominate. Yet the absences are glaring even to those with only a vague interest in pop music.

, since the mid-2010s. It’s not just a question of commercial success, either: in 2021 Little Mix won Best Group – the first all-female band to win in the history of the awards, including unquestionably era-defining bands such as Girls Aloud, Sugababes, All Saints and Spice Girls . Are the Brit Awards hopelessly out of touch, or do they reflect the real tastes of the British public? This year’s list makes the answer unclear: ignoring the misogyny for a moment, it is in some ways a predictable A-team of super-hyped songs and artists, and in others a bizarre miscellany.

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