{"id":1167,"date":"2022-10-19T05:53:56","date_gmt":"2022-10-19T05:53:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2022\/10\/19\/mercury-prize-2022-winner-little-simz\/"},"modified":"2022-10-19T05:53:56","modified_gmt":"2022-10-19T05:53:56","slug":"mercury-prize-2022-winner-little-simz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2022\/10\/19\/mercury-prize-2022-winner-little-simz\/","title":{"rendered":"Mercury Prize 2022 Winner: Little Simz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The ceremony for this yr\u2019s Mercury Prize <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stereogum.com\/2198934\/mercury-prize-postponement-2022-queen-elizabeth-death\/news\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">was postponed<\/a> on the final minute after Queen Elizabeth II died just a few hours earlier than it was set to happen. It was rescheduled for tonight, and the winner of the award \u2014 which is given out to the perfect British or Irish album of the yr \u2014 was introduced: Little Simz\u2019 2021 standout <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.stereogum.com\/2158982\/little-simz-sometimes-i-might-be-introvert-review\/reviews\/album-of-the-week\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Generally I Would possibly Be Introvert<\/a><\/em>. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Little Simz beat out a shortlist area of 11 different nominees that included Fergus McCreadie\u2019s <em>Forest Flooring<\/em>, Gwenno\u2019s <em>Tresor<\/em>, Harry Types\u2019 <em>Harry\u2019s Home<\/em>, Jessie Buckley &amp; Bernard Butler\u2019s <em>For All Our Days That Tear The Coronary heart<\/em>, Pleasure Crookes\u2019 <em>Pores and skin<\/em>, Kojey Radical\u2019s <em>Cause To Smile<\/em>, Nova Twins\u2019 <em>Supernova<\/em>, Sam Fender\u2019s <em>Seventeen Going Below<\/em>, Self Esteem\u2019s <em>Prioritise Pleasure<\/em>, Moist Leg\u2019s self-titled debut, and Yard Act\u2019s <em>The Overlord<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.stereogum.com\/2160258\/arlo-parks-wins-2021-mercury-prize\/news\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Final yr\u2019s winner<\/a> was Arlo Parks.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script>\n  !function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s)\n  {if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\n  n.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};\n  if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';\n  n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\n  t.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n  s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window, document,'script',\n  'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n  fbq('init', '514545615712257');\n  fbq('track', 'PageView');\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/>[ad_2]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] The ceremony for this yr\u2019s Mercury Prize was postponed on the final minute after Queen Elizabeth II died just a few hours earlier than it was set to happen. It was rescheduled for tonight, and the winner of the award \u2014 which is given out to the perfect British or Irish album of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1169,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1167","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1167\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}