Following on from The FA deciding no black British footballers have ever been better than at least 17 white ones, the Brits decide that over the last twelve months no-one black has released anything good music-wise. To such an extent that "Urban" now includes 18 year old white girls from Devon.
There's been some hand-waving about this to the effect of it being something to do with the "Radio 2 effect" -- something that's used to explain Jamie Cullum and Katie Melua having a career, too. It makes Terry Wogan the nation's No. 1 tastemaker, according to the Guardian.
If it wasn't for the fact Austrian radio makes this seeming daring and forward-looking, I'd despair.
Anyway, Joss Stone, the Devon girl, has seen the sunny side of this by saying "I'm so glad people are getting past that colour thing"...
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