Brit awards 2011: Rebrand gives manufactured pop the elbow

Musicians apparently allowed to vote alongside record company executives and industry figures for the first timeThis year, we are reliably informed, the Brits seeks to reposition itself. After years of selling itself to the public largely on the unscripted incidents of the past – Jarvis Cocker's stage invasion, John Prescott's dousing and so on – while rather disingenuously doing everything in their power to ensure nothing of that kind ever happened again, the BPI is playing the "all about t...

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