Sabrina Carpenter and Charlie XCX’s Brit Awards Performances Obtain Backlash; 825 Complaints Registered

A whopping 825 complaints over the 2025 Brit Awards have been filed with the UK media watchdog Ofcom. Based on BBC Information, the complaints particularly focused the music ceremony’s performers, Sabrina Carpenter and Charlie XCX. 

Folks didn’t recognize the Espresso singer’s raunchy efficiency and criticized the Pace Drive singer for sporting revealing outfits. Aside from performing, Charlie was an enormous winner of the night time, sweeping music 5 awards in main classes. 

Paradoxically, her outstanding achievement wasn’t the subject of dialogue amongst netizens or the headlines of media retailers, it was her see-through black costume. Nicely conscious of the uproar she’s been inflicting along with her scandalous outfit selections, the 365 singer addressed it at one level throughout the ceremony. 

“I heard that ITV have been complaining about my nipples. I really feel like we’re within the period of ‘free the nipple’ although, proper?” she advised the viewers on the Brit Awards final weekend. 

Carpenter, who bagged the worldwide artist award, carried out a medley of her hits Espresso and Mattress Chem. She additionally added the British marching anthem Rule Britannia into the combination. She had her background dancers costume as royal safety and stored the theme of the present purple, an homage to the UK. 

Nonetheless, her sensuous efficiency gathered important outrage. One Ofcom spokesperson advised the outlet that they’ve been assessing the complaints “to resolve whether or not or to not examine.” However, the watchdog usually obtained complaints over the Brit Awards for one purpose or one other. 

In 2020, it was rapper Dave’s efficiency that generated over 300 complaints. A lot of the complainants alleged that the rapper’s present was racist in opposition to white individuals. The complaints have been rejected by the watchdog later. 

Equally, in 2018, the goal was Kendrick Lamar, and in 2015, it was Kanye West who confronted the warmth over alleged use of offensive language and racial discrimination.