Morrissey has written a long rant against the Brit Awards calling the event "bogus" and suggesting that the awards are handed out "to a lot of shrivelled young souls who have not earned it."
Writing on true-to-you.net, the singer said: "It is one of those moments not unlike the hourly BBC News, where the elite decide what it is that the people want, and then slyly attempt to weave it into populist culture."
Morrissey also says that "the object of the Brit Awards is to create the impression of national consensus as they award pop artists of untested stature or value with bogus awards that, it is slyly implied, have been dictated by you, the objective listener.
"The Brit Awards do not ask the public who they would like to see receive awards - for that would be to risk too much, yet the fierce insistence is that artists are rewarded for their prominence in the previous twelve months because, after all, "it's what everybody wants."
"Thus, for 2015, we have MacDonna, who had a quiet 2014 (but who is quite usefully about to release her new album!), yet here she is again promoting her frightening career on the Brit Awards even though her music has not ever said anything at all about British life."
Morrissey has never won a Brit award. This year's Brits ceremony takes place in London on February 25.
