BBC slammed for Alicia Keys singing about New York for London's New Year

[River 117,655]

Reminds me when I attended MIKA's concert in Monaco Monte Carlo and he sang Grace Kelly there and the song is literally mocking her, their dead princess, mother of their prince, it felt so weird and out of place..

English speaking singers sometimes thinks that in a different countries the people don't understand them so they can sing anything without consequences and it's pretty wrong.

and one last thing to prove my point...

In the 90s the American singer Gillette performed in a Brazilian KIDS show her song "I don't want a short DIC man" without using the censored version herself "I don't want a short short man", it's in the spoiler.

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[bionic 50,107]

10 minutes ago, River said:

Reminds me when I attended MIKA's concert in Monaco Monte Carlo and he sang Grace Kelly there and the song is literally mocking her, their dead princess, mother of their prince, it felt so weird and out of place..

English speaking singers sometimes thinks that in a different countries the people don't understand them so they can sing anything without consequences and it's pretty wrong.

and one last thing to prove my point...

In the 90s the American singer Gillette performed in a Brazilian KIDS show her song "I don't want a short DIC man" without using the censored version herself "I don't want a short short man", it's in the spoiler.

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The song Grace Kelly isn’t mocking her is it

[Karl 3,424]

She was great, better than Craig David last year... I applaud the BBC for using an international artists rather than a British artist, most of them are garbage. As for her singing ESOM, well it's her biggest hit so of course she's going to sing it? Do people want her to sing God save the Queen or something? 

[Summerboi14 807]

3 hours ago, GovernmentHookah said:

Lmao Fergie is not from the UK 

What?

[Better Day 5,766]

2 hours ago, Susanalbumparty said:

 

Ahh the old xenophobic hatred of the English. Now it makes sense. Some old wounds will never heal i guess...Too bad.

Get over yourself. It is not xenophobia. It was a joke! End of! 

[Susanalbumparty 68]

7 hours ago, TheAlexer said:

Lol You really think xenophobia against colonizers exists

 

Anyway let her sing what she wants and let us abolish nations all together starting with the UK

Xenophobia against the English people exists. Not very bright are you?

[Hyoha 1,613]

What do big black cocks have got anything to do with it?

[dynamite 59,927]

1 minute ago, Hyoha said:

What do big black cocks have got anything to do with it?

[TheAlexer 1,343]

41 minutes ago, Susanalbumparty said:

Xenophobia against the English people exists. Not very bright are you?

Of course the english are truly the most oppressed people on this planet

[Peroxide555 587]

I’m surprised she didn’t do something different with the song... London also has two syllables, she could have just as easily changed the lyric.

[Rat Boy 43,595]

Yes @dynamite immediately phoned the BBC to complain after it aired. 

[djparky 262]

Dear lord...get a life.. 

[jezze0410 393]

I wouldn't get mad about it--I love Keys as an artist--but I do think it is perfectly valid to want or even expect the British taxpayer-funded British Broadcasting Corporation in the UK's de facto official countdown show to champion UK artists on such a platform. The BBC runs the annual young musician of the year award, as well as many other admirable programmes that support and promote British artists of all backgrounds, races, and genres; would it have been that difficult to get one or more of them to perform instead? 

I know she isn't a BBC artist, but imagine Ayanna Witter-Johnson getting such a platform