Charli XCX - real name Charlotte Emma Aitchison
Over the weekend, you had The Brit Awards at the O2 Arena in London and The Oscars at The Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. In case you were not aware of this, The Brit Awards are concerned with popular music. In a previous post, I wrote about Kendrick Lamar's "best song" award at this year's Grammys. The "best song" at The Brit Awards went to Charli XCX for "Guess" - featuring Billie Eilish.
Here are the opening lyrics of "Guess":-
You wanna guess the color of my underwear
You wanna know what I got going on down there
Is it pretty in pink or all see-through?
Is it showing off my brand new lower back tattoo?
You wanna put 'em in your mouth, pull 'em all down south
You wanna turn this shit out, that's what I'm talking about
Pu-pu-put 'em in your mouth, pull 'em all down south
You wanna turn this shit out, that's what I'm talking about
And here are Charli XCX and Billie Eilish performing this winning song on video.
The Oscars Ceremony was screened live on ITV over here in Great Britain. I didn't have the stamina to watch it all but I stayed up till 2am and saw half the show. The whole event appeared slick and well-choreographed.
I had to wait until this morning when I woke bleary-eyed and discovered that "Anora" was the big winner. It's not a film I have seen and I do not plan to make a special visit to the cinema to watch it. To tell you the truth, the theme does not appeal to me and the fact that the word "fuck" is used 479 times in this film is something that I find distinctly unappealing.
Admittedly, I belong to a generation of Britons that witnessed the condemnation of Alf Garnett's occasional use of "bloody" in the sixties sit-com "Till Death Us Do Part".
Warren Mitchell as Alf Garnett
How far we have come since then.
By the way, "Till Death Us Do Part" directly inspired the American TV sitcom, "All in the Family" with narrow-minded Archie Bunker to some extent mimicking the Alf Garnett role.
Finally, today sad news surfaced about the death at 73 of the Scottish artist Jack Vettriano. From humble origins on Scotland's east coast, he came late to Art but gradually developed his own style of painting and made a very good living from it. His exotic surname, Vettriano, was his mother's maiden name. He adopted it long before he became famous.
Below - "Uneasy Meeting" by Jack Vettriano:-
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