Harry Styles thanked One Direction and also called out male privilege as he accepted the Artist of the Year award at the 2023 BRITs
, paid homage to those that got him to this point, and acknowledged that while the awards ceremony was working to be inclusionary — going gender neutral a year ago — it ended up with all-male nominees for its Artist of the Year category.X FactorX Factor
without telling me, so I literally wouldn’t be here without you,” he said. “I want to thank Niall, Louis, Liam, and Zayn, so I wouldn’t be here without you, either. Thank you so much. And I’m really, really grateful for this.” He added: “I’m very aware of my privilege up here tonight,” he said. “So, this award is for Rina [Sawayama], Charli [XCX], Florence [Welch], Mabel and Becky [Hill]” — all of whom were shut-out of the category this year.
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