In the good old days, a pop star from the 60s 0r 70s would have a few hits and have their time and be gone. It was the proper way of things.
OK, every now and then a relic from the sixties would pop up on Pebble Mill at One or one of those horrible Dennis Norden ‘Where Are They Now’ type shows. Usually sporting a ridiculous mullet to look ’80s’ and singing a bastardised synth ‘re-recorded’ version of one of their 60s hits. Other than that, they would vanish, and usually for good.
However, early 2000s pop singer, Sophie Ellis Bextor appears now to be everywhere. But, for what reason, I am struggling to grasp.
First of all, her ‘prime’ and her hits were at least 20 years ago. Secondly, she was always pretty crap anyway. Substandard disco, beloved by chavs and pooves.
But, she has recently appeared a lot on our television screens. This may be because of the cheapo BBC. For the New Year’s Eve celebrations on TV, did the BBC get a bit of modern and currently big and trendy pop fluff, like Taylor Swift or Dua Lipa? Someone to ogle while festively drunk? No, the BBC went to the bargain basement and spent the minimum on Bextor and got her to headline their show. She was (briefly) big two decades ago, for fuck’s sake. She should have been headlining in a St Alban’s pub on New Year’s Eve, not on national fucking television. Bloody hell, it’s like Twinkle (minor 60s pop singer) topping the bill New Year’s Eve 1985. Absolutely small time and laughable. Who will be headlining on the BBC New Year’s Eve 2025 Right Said Fred? Jive Bunny? Chesney Hawkes?
The BBC were once the big cheese in TV broadcasting. Now – apart from their woke lunacy – they are a joke. Doing things on the cheap, aiming low and paying end of the pier acts for what are supposed to be star studded events.
Nominated by: Norman