Friday, November 19, 2004
Thoughts of the Pops
Because of the BBC's annual guilt-a-thon and opportunity for newsreaders to dress up as ladies, Children in Need, Top of the Pops found itself demoted to BBC2 this week. They decided to take advantage of their lower profile by putting out what is quite easily the dullest show we've sat through in a long time. Not only was egotistical fuckwit Chris Moyles co-hosting, but we had a line-up that included Lost Prophets aka the Busted it's OK to hate, Blue, Usher and Alicia Keys doing their godawful duet and Maroon 5 with their comedy Jamiroquai kareoke stylings. The highlight, as far as the producers were no doubt concerned, was that they had Eminem who performed Just Lose It on a boat. There was no reason for this as far as we can see, other than to distract attention from the fact that it was a performance with all the edge and excitement of a uniformly grey sphere, but still, it was on a boat and you don't see that everyday. Unless you're a sailor with an Eminem live DVD that is.
U2 were at number one. How depressing, yet strangely appropriate.
