"Hi y'all!" Joss Stone makes jaws drop at The Brits. Photograph: Dave Hogan/Getty Images
What the hell has happened to Joss Stone? Her presentation of last night's Best Male Award provided the Brits with the only genuine instance of the car crash TV we were promised. In case you didn't see it (and you can check it out here) 19-year-old Joss, from Dover, strutted on stage in a psychedelic mini-dress and bright purple perm, then enquired "How's it goin'?" in not a merely mid-Atlantic, but broad American accent. Striding around like she owned the place, Joss then paid toe-curling tribute to Robbie Williams ("for what he's goin' through") and then attempted to upstage Amy Winehouse, who'd been on just before, by singing a couple of lines of Rehab. The stunned audience silence said it all.
The other shock of the night was Oasis. Liam Gallagher's voice sounded shot to pieces, no? Totally unable to sustain a note, with the search-and-destroy attack of his prime now missing presumed dead, his performance was absolutely tragic to witness. My companion on the sofa assured me that Liam's live vocals have been this bad since about 2001. Can this really be the case?
