Sounds Like Friday Night

Last night saw the first in a new BBC show called "Sounds Like Friday Night" which is supposed to be the modern day equivalent of Top of the Pops. As regular readers of this blog will know, I don't think Top of the Pops would work anymore due to the nature of the charts, but thought I'd give this a go to see what they've come up with.


Each week they have  guest presenter and this week was Jason Derulo who opened with a song that's currently going down the charts, not very Top of the Pops like so far.


This was followed by a sketch with Dave Grohl where presenter Greg James tried to get him to do BBC voiceovers. It was supposed to be funny, but it wasn't at all.


The next song came from Charlie Puth which is currently going up the charts, but it seemed like a long time since we heard any music by this point. There was a mini interview with him before his song and he seemed very disinterested.


Straight after they started interviewing Jessie Ware on another stage, it looked like a song was to follow but it was obviously too soon as they went to another pointless feature of Jason Derulo playing basketball whilst being asked questions.


Then Jessie Ware did a song which currently sits outside the Top 40. Then came a Kurupt FM feature which initially didn't know if it was supposed to be a piss take or not, but it was merely a feature to promote their YouTube video.


It finished with yet song from Jason Derulo, an acoustic version of a song which charted 2 years ago, apparently a world exclusive.


So basically there was just 4 songs, 2 of which was from the same artist and the rest of the show was just a load of filler crap. Quite frankly I would rather have a shorter version of Top of the Pops, it was an absolutely terrible show. I know it may be targeted at people considerably younger than me, but I just don't see how this can work with the youth of today.