Raye’s indisputable triumph at the Brits proves the old gods can be toppled
“What is actually happening right now?” said Raye, collecting her third gong of the night while coming to the realisation that the 44th Brit Awards were essentially morphing into a tribute evening to her. Even for those of us who hadn’t battled through years of music industry underappreciation and suppression – as this irrepressible London singer, songwriter and producer has done – the Brits 2024 were a somewhat out-of-body experience.
It wasn’t because during her opening routine, fooling 2 million viewers at home into believing for a split second that the show’s producers had actually invested enough money into the production to invent bullet time from . Nor was it the surreal image of necking a shot from her shoe. It was the moment
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