Styles' comments in his Grammy award acceptance speech, 'This doesn't really happen to people like me very often', sparked a chorus of disapproval.
Harry Styles was the big winner at the Brit awards, winning all four categories he had been nominated in.Styles dedicated the artist of the year award to a list of female singers.
"I'm really, really grateful for this and I'm very aware of my privilege up here tonight," Styles said in his acceptance speech, dedicating the artist of the year award to a list of female singers. After his Brits win for best album, Styles said he was "so, so proud to be a British artist out there in the world".A statement on the Brit Awards' website said the gender-neutral categories had been introduced so artists were judged "solely on the quality and popularity of their work, rather than on who they are, or how they choose to identify."
"A key factor is that, unfortunately, there were relatively few commercially successful releases by women in 2022 compared to those by men.""Of the 71 eligible artists on the longlist, only 12 are women. We recognise this points to wider issues around the representation of women in music that must also be addressed."
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