final poll reminder

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

We've now had a flood (well, a steady current) of top 20s for the poptimists poll, but there's still time to get yours in: send me it today (to leagueofpop@gmail.com) and it'll count.

Countdown starts tomorrow :)

P&J poll prediction thread, 2009

[koganbot]

The Voice's P&J issue comes out "the week of January 18th," but since magazines don't count days and weeks the same way we do, I'm not sure if that's next week or the week after. Anyhow, I'm starting this prediction thread because my ear's not been to the critical grindstone this year, hence I want to know what you think. I'd like to say that I have no idea what will win, but I do have an idea actually, and it's that the one prestige band that anyone is saying much about are Animal Collective; so I'll predict them to top both the albums and singles list, unless "Empire State Of Mind" runs stronger than I expect. Previous winner TVOTR had no album this year; multiple winner Kanye West had no album, either; multiple winner Bob Dylan had two albums, but they went remarkably unremarked. I believe that those two and the Animal Collective were the only three albums released this year, actually.

As for singles, "Poker Face" goes top five and "Bad Romance" goes top ten, or maybe it's the other way around (depends how many people got a chance to view the "Bad Romance" vid before they voted; personally, I find her voice grating on that track, though it did make my top hundred). I think "You Belong With Me" goes top ten, but I'm not fingering the critical wind well on it - am I overly pessimistic in not putting it top five or ridiculously optimistic in even thinking it's top twenty? "The Fear" goes top ten. And there are always two or three r&b or hip-hop tracks that achieve ubiquity and critical respectability, the way "Single Ladies" did last year, but I'm not actually hearing any except "Empire State Of Mind." (Pitbull? Seriously? Respectability? Pitbull?) Stuff that could land anywhere: "Boom Boom Pow," "I Gotta Feeling," "My Life Would Suck Without You," "She Wolf," "Please Don't Leave Me," "3," "Russian Roulette." I assume they finish in that order relative to each other, but clueless as to where they place in relation to the slew of indie tracks I'd not heard that always show up.

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