Queen guitarist Brian May slams Brit Awards for eradicating gendered classes
By ANI
LONDON: Brian May, the guitarist for the British rock band Queen, has excoriated the Brit Awards for its resolution to scrap gendered classes, describing the “frightening” transfer as “a decision that has been made without enough thought.”
According to The Hollywood Reporter, earlier this week the Brits scrapped 4 awards together with male solo artist, feminine solo artist, worldwide male solo artist and worldwide feminine solo artist, in favour of two gender-neutral classes, that are the artist of the 12 months and worldwide artist of the 12 months.
Organizers mentioned the change was to reward artists “solely for their music and work, rather than how they choose to identify or as others may see them” and was a part of the occasion’s “commitment to evolving the show to be as inclusive and as relevant as possible.”
Speaking to a newspaper at ITV’s Palooza occasion in London, May took purpose on the organizers of the UK’s greatest music awards for giving into the woke tradition as he noticed it and even instructed that Queen, and even the late Freddie Mercury, would have struggled within the present local weather.
“It’s a decision that has been made without enough thought. A lot of things work quite well and can be left alone,” mentioned May.
“I get so sick of people trying to change things without thinking of the long-term consequences. Some of these things are an improvement, some of them are not,” he added.
Referring to cancel tradition, May felt there was an “atmosphere of fear everywhere because people are afraid to say how they really think,” earlier than including, “I think so many people are feeling, ‘Hang on, this isn’t quite right.’ But they don’t dare say anything. Eventually, there will be some kind of explosion.”
The veteran rocker additionally spoke at size about his former bandmate Freddie Mercury and the way the band would wrestle to be related as we speak for his or her lack of range and the way such issues should not matter.
“Freddie came from Zanzibar, he wasn’t British, he wasn’t white as such – nobody cares, nobody ever, ever discussed it,” May mentioned.
Speaking additional about Freddie, he continued, “He was a musician, he was our friend, he was our brother. We didn’t have to stop and think: ‘Ooh, now, should we work with him? Is he the right colour? Is he the right sexual proclivity?’ None of that happened, and now I find it frightening that you have to be so calculating about everything.”
As per The Hollywood Reporter, he added, “[Queen] would be forced to have people of different colours and different sexes and we would have to have a trans [person]. You know life doesn’t have to be like that. We can be separate and different.”
