Harry Styles Acknowledges His ‘Privilege’ After Controversial Grammys Speech

Final week the “Watermelon Sugar” singer’s excessive from profitable the Grammy for Album of the 12 months was knocked down a couple of pegs after making an off-putting remark throughout his acceptance speech.

“This doesn’t occur to folks like me fairly often,” Types mentioned after profitable essentially the most coveted award of the evening for “Harry’s Home.” The road rapidly sparked backlash on-line as a result of, effectively, the Grammys rewards white males with accolades fairly repeatedly.

So when Types received Artist of the 12 months on the BRIT Awards on Saturday, he appeared to course-correct by being as humble as attainable.

In his speech, Types garnered cheers from the viewers for thanking his mother and his former One Route boy band members for his or her position in his journey towards acquiring yet one more statue of validation.

He then topped off his speech with somewhat harm management (video above).

“I’m actually, actually grateful for this, and I’m very conscious of my privilege up right here tonight,” he concluded earlier than shouting out a couple of female-identifying artists who have been snubbed for the award, like Rina Sawayama, Charli XCX, Mabel, Florence + the Machine and Becky Hill.

Types’s shoutouts have been in reference to a different controversy that he had nothing to do with. In 2021, the BRIT Awards eradicated gendered classes to raised embrace nonbinary and gender non-conforming artists. However the award ceremony confronted backlash this 12 months when all of the nominees for its Artist of the 12 months class have been males.