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24th February 2016
11:29am GMT

Rihanna is performing on these shores for the first time in a long while, she's not going to disappoint. I guarantee every man, women and beast in the room will be transfixed.
There are always plenty of naysayers about the event, maybe it is 'full of suits fit enough for Alan Partridge', but I think we should keep an open-mind. There are plenty of creative minds to keep the arena buzzing.
Rarely does a year go by without being truly entertained by a superstar, Madonna took a tumble for us last year...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4C58lLNO6Q
My mouth was still open in shock when Kanye West arrived to steal the show with an amazing, provocative performance of 'All Day' featuring half of the UK's grime and rap names, which we all thought would open the mainstream door for grime music, but nope. None of them have been recognised this year.
Why the suits would shun the likes of Skepta and Stormzy after the year they've had is beyond me, it's blind ignorance. #OscarsSoWhite springs to mind.
Not to mention a dozens of other acts who deserve to be recognised.
But this doesn't mean we shouldn't celebrate the British artists who are up for gongs. Nominees Foals, Florence Welch, Adele, Coldplay, Jamie xx and James Bay bring joy to millions around the world through music.
So I'm embracing it (and crossing my fingers for a gangly, bespectacled man to bare his bum).

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