Top of the Pops Year In Review 2023. In 53 minutes the BBC gets one thing right through all it gets wrong as a content creator. It unintentionally clarifies, why it is no longer worthy of a hefty licence fee. 53 melancholic minutes . It was like watching old paint dry The buzz and unscripted fun filled visual thrill of The Top Of The Pops format of yesteryear Probably goes against The BBC’s current woke agenda. An absence of a well lit , cool looking live studio filled with young musicians and joyous audiences a memory of the past . The implications in the tittle. The BBC are more then happy to collect a huge licence from struggling families . Only to wet slap them with a scripted( dogmatic) formula that permeates all of their output, these days . Where the BBC,s own ethos of institutional entitlement and public unaccountability. Glares through as a sign off on all that they do . Dr Who could be another case in point . They must be spending a hefty chunk of the tax budget on getting RTD back . So that he can concoct his old script formulas that were relevant and in tune to Britain 15 Years ago. The BBC being stuck in a certain strand of the past but not in a good way . The BBC seemed to have failed to harness new talent in the interim , because that would fly too far from their dictators paradise. Disempowerment of its audience seems to be the prescription of the day . Anyway ! Getting back to Top Of The Flops 2023, there was also no focus on who’s making the charts these days. I wanted to know ,who the new comers to watch out for in 2024 , are likely to be. It appears the millennial researchers and the older overpaid enablers , have not bothered to do any research into what Top Of The Pops was about . The clue being in the name , but adding 1 and 1 together to get non , appear to be virtues at todays BBC. Evidently it’s the stuff of what promotions could be made of. The show was like a dull revival of; The Old Grey Whistle Test . Pop geriatrics Elton John , Take That and Kyle all took centre stage . The footage of Elton and Kyle was re -used from other events that had taken place earlier in the year . horrolicks era Elton kicked things off , with a song that last was a hit when Hilda Ogden was a house hold name and he was in the closet . Warbled out to an audience full of affluence at Glastonbury. Which has now become a sort of swan song for rich rock stars . There was no immediate chart rundown or immediate exposure for todays pop stars. I experienced this to be a waste of my time . I’m not a fan of modern music but I would like to understand and ascertain, the look and sound of todays chart toppers . The BBC is supposed to educate and inform all viewers apparently. As someone who has lost touch with the contemporary charts I was looking forward to seeing who is Top Of The Pops these days .Yet again the BBC chose to cheat viewers and it’s own remit . With a misleading description and terrible content . By focussing on performers who peaked a long time ago . They are robbing up and coming artists of much needed mainstream exposure and sales recognition. No wonder younger people are not racing out to get guitars or synth,s to the same degree they were back in the 80s . ( btw what does BBC stand for these days ?, because it sure as heck isn’t British Broadcasting-Co) To add insult to the tele visual injury of a great legacy , the presenter was unkempt and consistently unintelligible. ( unless your living in London) But seemed to fulfil lazy BBC quotas . Which have nothing to do with a talent for the job at hand. In retrospect and apparently by many accounts there might be much to be said about the likes of Peel who can’t defend or explain themselves anyway . Against the grain of BBC driven cancel culture . But the man was great at his job engaging in his patter and clearly invested in modern music . The BBC tend to only invest in bot like presenters these days , individuality and colourful characters perhaps deemed inappropriate by todays computer says No managers . The contrast between then and now was certainly brought home in 53 futile minutes of publicly funded fodder. Seems old hippie sell outs and a few benefactors of middle class nepotism from Gen x dominate the BBC board and management these days . They make a good tax funded living out of adding 1 and 1 together to get non . On everything barr their wage packet.
