The Hello singer picked up the most coveted award of the night – British album of the year – for 25, as well as winning British female solo artist, best British single and scooping the global success award.
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The ever -honest Adele, couldn’t help but slip out a few swear words during her speech, to which Brit presenters Ant and Dec apologised to viewers.
“Not bad for a girl from Tottenham that don’t like flying”, said the singer while accepting her global success award. “We love you and we thank you”, Oldman said.
Adele is now the biggest and most profitable artist signed to the label, which last week won a court battle against Kesha when she tried to leave their roster because she claims she was raped and drugged by producer Dr Luke – allegations he denies.
“This is all for you peanut, I love you so much”.
“Everything he represented as an artist is, and always will be vital and incredibly present”, said Lennox.
Adele’s recent work has been applauded by fans and critics alike, and it is for that reason Adele went into this year’s Brit awards basically knowing she would win at least a couple of awards, comments BBC.
Adele has seen “25” – her first album in nearly five years – top charts around the world, though her performance at last week’s Grammy Awards was unsettled when a microphone fell into a piano during the tender song “All I Ask”. This is all for you peanut, I love you so much. “Black British singer Laura Mvula said she would not attend the ceremony, citing the lack of diversity, and “#BritsSoWhite” was trending on Twitter.
Adele closed the ceremony with a rendition of “When We Were Young”, performed before a backdrop of glittering panels resembling one of Yayoi Kusama’s mirrored “Infinity Rooms”.
The show also offered a tribute to the late David Bowie through a performance by Annie Lennox and Lorde who sang Bowie’s “Space Oddity” and “Starman”.
As she stood on stage with her Best British Female Solo Artist gong, she ended her speech by saying: ‘I’d like to take this moment to publicly support Kesha’.
The medley by Bowie’s band that followed at the BRITS was set off perfectly by New Zealander Lorde, seen by Bowie as the future of music, who looked overcome at the end of “Life on Mars”.
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“You know when you’ve got that little bit of hope and that little bit of faith and then they didn’t”, he told BBC Radio 1.
