The Brits have reflected the stultifying stasis that mainstream UK music was plunged into at that pivotal point when the fame/obscurity divide became untraversable for most – especially those that didn’t already sound like what was already being paraded around that far-off golden circle . In 2021 Raye fought back against the misogynistic major label system, which was preventing her from releasing her debut album My 21st Century Blues .