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Wheeling out the hasbeens
Why aren't Britain's teenagers rioting?
Simply Minds, Rick Astley this week, Madness recently, and plenty of others from the 80s. This was the music I was into in the 80s when I was a teenager. If in those days Saturday evening prime time TV had passed off old nobodies from the mid 50s as entertainment we'd have been outraged
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Maybe TPTB think this music suit best the audience? I don't know. Last year there was Years and Years who are kind of young and contemporary right?
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With a few exceptions modern music isn't up to much, the revival of many of these old bands and singers is filling a void.
If you noticed, the 2012 London Olympics also relied on 80s and 90s music when British acts filled many of the top places in the world's charts. |
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Perhaps 'Britains Teenagers' are either watching the other side or (more likely) catching their Saturday Night entertainment somewhere else?
Either way the music on the show matches the older demographic and I doubt anyone watches Strictly for cutting edge music.... |
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They really do do some bottom of barrel scraping in acquiring these 'performers'. I don't know any of them, 'cos I is v. old, but the first one tonight was just dreadful (not quite as bad as Boy George last year, or Rod Stewart, but close.)
The second one was OK, I guess. |
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Why aren't Britain's teenagers rioting?
Simply Minds, Rick Astley this week, Madness recently, and plenty of others from the 80s. This was the music I was into in the 80s when I was a teenager. If in those days Saturday evening prime time TV had passed off old nobodies from the mid 50s as entertainment we'd have been outraged ![]() |
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I always imagine Dave Arch and the band sniggering in the background.
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It's nice to see old timers getting a chance to shine.
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Do 'young' bands want to go on strictly, though? Strictly Come Dancing isn't exactly edgy, is it?
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Why aren't Britain's teenagers rioting?
Simply Minds, Rick Astley this week, Madness recently, and plenty of others from the 80s. This was the music I was into in the 80s when I was a teenager. If in those days Saturday evening prime time TV had passed off old nobodies from the mid 50s as entertainment we'd have been outraged ![]() |
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I always imagine Dave Arch and the band sniggering in the background.
![]() ![]() Dave Arch seems far too nice to do that!
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Yes, let's have Kanye West effing and jeffing next week, followed by Chainsmokers, and then Drake. That'll go down really well.
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Twenty years ago people were obsessed with the swinging sixties, probably quite rightly, then ten years ago there seemed to be this thing about punk, and now there seems to be this thing about how great the 80s were. It's just a generational thing and in ten years time we'll be told some great lie about the 90s.
I'll stick with the 60s and 70s myself thank you. |
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I just don't mind either way really. Of course there are performances I don't like and others I really do. I felt sorry for Boy George last year because his voice was obviously suffering, I think it's better now. I was surprised not to have minded Rick Astley tonight, I've never really liked that Simple Minds song.
My favourite ever Strictly performance was last year as it happens, by someone contemporary: https://youtu.be/gOD9K9LHK2w |
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I thought the producers had been Rick Rolled
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Give me the hasbeens anyday, even when they're murdering their own songs like Jim Kerr did tonight
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well in the 80s it was called "Calling out the heroes" not "Wheeling out the hasbeens". I'm sure they were big in Japan.
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You had Olly Murs on, he's current.
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Why aren't Britain's teenagers rioting?
Simply Minds, Rick Astley this week, Madness recently, and plenty of others from the 80s. This was the music I was into in the 80s when I was a teenager. If in those days Saturday evening prime time TV had passed off old nobodies from the mid 50s as entertainment we'd have been outraged ![]() Or Simple Minds even. ![]() Anyway they've got a new album out so it's just the usual promotional stuff, at least they didn't the usual dancer accompaniment. |
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More 80s please.
Would love to see Dave Gahan do strictly, I reckon he'd be pretty good. |
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Having just come back from holiday with friends and their teenage daughter, please stick to the music they are having. Today's teenagers love music that all sounds the same, it's only the fact we could see the name of the artist playing that made us realise it wasn't all by the same person/group
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I assume it's part of the 80's revival which apparently is doing the rounds at the moment.
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I would rather not have the "celeb doing a turn" at all.
But if we have to have them then someone at BEEB Towers should be checking that they are up to it. That band at Blackpool should be thoroughly ashamed of themselves for that inept unmusical display. |
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It's nice to see old timers getting a chance to shine.
Simple minds were simply dreadful! |
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I was overjoyed to see UB40 - the proper UB40 with Ali Campbell as lead singer on ITT. Even I will get up and dance to them
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