BRIT Awards are contemplating now not utilizing gendered classes

The BRIT Awards are apparently contemplating becoming a member of the Grammys in axing gendered classes. In accordance with a report from The Solar, the change inside the BRIT’s categorization may probably are available time for the 2021 ceremony.

In accordance with an nameless assertion issued to The Solar, the BRIT organizers need be extra accommodating to non-binary artists, making the elimination of gendered classes a precedence.

A supply inside the ceremony group defined, “Bosses are listening to adjustments occurring within the business. The classes will evolve within the coming years.”

The choice comes a bit greater than every week after Sam Smith introduced that their most well-liked pronouns are they/them, which introduced gender fluidity to the forefront of the business. They got here out as non-binary earlier this 12 months.

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“I’ve determined I’m altering my pronouns to THEY/THEM,” Smith tweeted earlier this month. “After a lifetime of being at conflict with my gender I’ve determined to embrace myself for who I’m, inside and outside.”

Some, like Good Morning Britain host Piers Morgan, have argued in opposition to the gender-neutral format. “The entire level of getting the gender classes is to make it honest and equal, now we’re going the opposite manner and that apparently is progress,” Morgan stated. “I feel it’s a load of nonsense.”

Nevertheless, because the BBC notes, historical past doesn’t at all times bear that out. Because the Grammys merged Finest Male Pop Vocal Efficiency and Finest Feminine Pop Vocal Efficiency in 2012, the award has gone to girls 5 occasions and males thrice. Equally, the MTV Music Awards modified Finest Male and Finest Feminine prizes to simply Finest Artist in 2017, with trophies since then going to Ed Sheeran, Camila Cabello, and Ariana Grande.

Regardless, if the BRITs do implement the adjustments, it gained’t be this 12 months. “We are able to 100% affirm that there might be female and male awards within the UK and worldwide classes in February 2020,” reps for the awards instructed the BBC. Nonetheless, they added that 2021 will certainly see “vital adjustments” involving “extra music and a few class adjustments.”