Brit on Brit Awards

Yesterday they distributed Brit Awards awards. The names of the winners by the avalanche went through the media, which will increase the sale of their albums and increase personal capitalization. In reports and articles about the ceremony you will not find the names of the losers - but a pity, because this is a much more interesting plot turn than the predictable celebration of bestseller and their authors.

One of these losers, if not victims, on Brit Awards should recognize the star of the 80s of George. Not only is his last year’s album “This is what i do” -in fact, the first after a 20-year pause-did not fall into any of the nominations. The reporters illuminating the ceremony did not like the radical makeup, in which the George battle walked along the carpet. They considered it tasteless that the Crisan Singer painted brutal bruises instead of ordinary blue shadows and multi-colored spots. The newspapers ridiculed the battle of George, shocking the public with his outfits and images since 1982, when he became famous. “I am a victim of fashion,” the singer joked, who had ceased to drink alcohol and drugs several years ago, and smiled in the cell stipally. But, probably, he was deeply wounded that his rather witty find was not appreciated. After all, from the age of 10, he believed that Makeup was his calling, and in the 1980s, when the “new romantics” shone and MTV rattled, his talent recognized the world.

The Frickian sense of fashion that George broadcasts the whole career is a whitened face, blurred eyebrows with an arc, predatory arrows, blue shadows in the half-face, ribbons in the dreadlocks, extravagant hats-now not in honor. They do not pay money in stores for this - neither in music nor in clothing. Especially men. In the yard, the time of conservative values ​​and conservative style. This is noticeable both in the current laureates of Brit Awards and their outfits. At the tops of charts-the reconstruction of rock and roll, Brit Awards in the hands of its diligent imitators: Arctic Monkey S , Bastille and Bruno Mars. All of them are in leather jackets, all of a small stature, on their heads - rocaby coks.

A similar hairstyle among the current favorite of musical criticism is Sam Smith, who received Brit Awards in the Critics Choice nomination. It is funny that Smith resembles a hemoleon of George’s fight in his youth. Not only in a voice, but also outwardly - and even admits that he first put an earring in his ear under his influence. But despite the fact that in the disco-souul of Sam Smith, the pulse of the gay-disk of London beats, he dresses strictly in black so as not to stand out.

The fiery androgyness and the homosexuality of George’s combat, which can now be seen in the clips of Culture Club , at best, seem ridiculous. It is curious that the George’s battle went precisely because he decided to try on the Mashcht Rock-n Rollene style-for the sake of this he took off the unchanged grotesque hat, put the Coca and portrayed the final. In the performance of a man who performed on stage in a female kimono and received a deadline for chassing a prostitute handcuffs to the battery, it looks as sacrilege as dancing on the amvon. For this now, in the era of conservative values, they can really beat.

Documents shot by the BBC Channel on the youth of the George fight

The George fight yesterday was easily escaped. However, in his life, abundant by excesses, like his outfits, there were much more complicated moments. Looking at the award ceremony from the auditorium, the singer, whose contradictory figure influenced the perception of male and female sexuality in society, could console himself with the thought that he still had a chance to get Brit Awards for his contribution. After all, this is partly thanks to him on the stage of the ceremony translated throughout the world, men kiss . Then he-like his idol, the first pop-Androgin David Bowie -will probably send Sam Smith in his own way in the female kimono.