Time  I had a rant about music.  The other evening - I think it was on BBC News - we were treated to a few clips of the `artists` who have been nominated for this year`s Brit Awards, which are due to take place next month.   I didn`t quite catch the name of some of the nominees or, indeed, the titles of their `songs` but I was a bit flummoxed, if not perplexed, by the fact that it was just about impossible to understand what they might have been `singing` about.

Now this year the Brit Awards are hailed as being the most diverse ever - no problem with that as every section of our society has the right to express themselves as they wish through their music and other art forms.  But being an old school kind of guy who was brought up in the days when songs were songs and music was music, I find it a bit difficult to understand not only the lyrics (if indeed that is what they are) but also the delivery which, to be inclusive and diverse, resorts to indecipherable mumblings in a streetwise accent, lots of arm waving and an assumption that anyone who knows anything about music will automatically know what they`re on about. 

Among the nominees for best single of the year are:-   

• 220 Kid & GRACEY - Don't Need Love
• Aitch & AJ Tracey feat. Tay Keith - Rain
• Dua Lipa - Physical
• Harry Styles - Watermelon Sugar
• Headie One feat. AJ Tracey and Stormzy - Ain't It Different
• Joel Corry feat. MNEK - Head & Heart
• Nathan Dawe feat. KSI - Lighter
• Regard & RAYE - Secrets
• S1MBA feat. DTG - Rover
• Young T & Bugsey feat. Headie One - Don't Rush

Well, at least I`ve heard of Harry Styles (I think) but Young T & Bugsey feat. Headie One and their other chums in this line-up leave me baffled.   There are other equally imposing lists for other nominations - best album, best newcomer - things like that, but you get my drift.

It`s all a long way from when the Brits started all those years ago.  In 1977, for example, the Album of the Year was `Sgt. Pepper`s Lonely Hearts Club Band` and the Single of the Year was Queen`s `Bohemian Rhapsody.`  Ten years on and the Album chosen was Dire Straits` `Brothers in Arms` and the Single for 1987 was `Everybody wants to Rule the World` from Tears for Fears.  All very comprehensible, all very enjoyable, all still classics of their time and all very musical.    Here`s a reminder of how things used to be:-

 

Thank you for the music...