All 2020 Brits performances reviewed by The Guardian

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Mabel

Like Dua Lipa a couple of years back, she papers over some slightly ordinary vocals in Don’t Call Me Up with a ridiculous amount of dancers, and chooses to mime the chorus – perhaps wise given she doesn’t consistently nail the top notes in the verses. She shows off some admirable core strength as she is held aloft for the climax, but I can’t help but feel this tune is a 7/10 jam that you happily nod along to at 11pm in the club while teenage boys circle nervously around girls who actively disdain them, but you wouldn’t exactly go wild to it at peak time.

 

Lewis Capaldi

Someone You Loved is a really powerful piece of writing, for its total melodic logic, a top line modulating through relatively stoic resolve before deciding, nope, I’m really sad about this breakup actually. This is a relatively muted performance of his power ballad, lacking the full snot-encrusted, ice-cream quaffing, ugly-crying holler that he often gives it. Perhaps that’s a result of him have lessons to bolster his vocal strength – as he told our Alexis last year, he was basically making up singing as he went along, just going hell for leather on everything, and shredding his vocals chords as he did so.

 

Lizzo

The Brits lives for a medley. Lizzo emerges at the centre of big lengths of chiffon like a queenly spider, but is quickly down among some twerking dancers. Her ability to flip around a high ponytail while not throwing off her mic skills is quite astonishing, even if it does get her slightly out of breath. Some random bloke in the crowd even gets to get on the mic as she goes down into the crowd, dispensing ladles of her infectious charisma to all and sundry. Truth Hurts segues into Good as Hell into Juice into a snatch of Cuz I Love You. Buttocks vibrate at high amplitude. “Thank you,” she mouths to the crowd. “BITCH!”

 

Billie Eilish

This is the live debut for No Time to Die, Billie Eilish’s theme for the James Bond film of the same name – a real coup for the Brits. Her brother Finneas plays brooding piano – quite the musical theme of this year’s ceremony – and Johnny Marr plays substantial, malevolent guitar licks, including an exceptionally Bond-style imperfect cadence at the end. Hans Zimmer, Bond score composer, conducts the orchestra. But despite the pedigree surrounding her, Eilish is utterly riveting. Her vocal control, swooping between breathy depth, lung-busting mid-range notes and expertly swooping top range is immaculate, but then a lot of blue-chip singers can do that. 

 

The full article talking about all the other performances: https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/feb/18/brits-2020-all-the-performances-reviewed

[Azor Ahai 18,861]

What is a blue chip singer?

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1 minute ago, Azor Ahai said:

What is a blue chip singer?

blue-chip = of high quality/ denoting companies or their shares considered to be a reliable investment, though less secure than gilt-edged stock

[MaryJaneHolland 77,348]

Mabel is still doing DCMU? Didn't she already perform it at the BRITs?

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Just now, MaryJaneHolland said:

Mabel is still doing DCMU? Didn't she already perform it at the BRITs?

Her @Trillion Reasons moment.

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15 minutes ago, FfFfFfFF said:

Her @Trillion Reasons moment.

Who's that girl.mp3