The History Of Jop Part 20 AKA Hangin out the passenger side of his best friend's ride

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Today we're gonna poll like it's 1999. Nine ticks from twenty-six singles.


[Poll #868997]


1998: Joptimist Judgement

1. Music Sounds Better With You (41 votes)
2. Ray Of Light (36 votes)
3. Doo Wop (That Thing) (35 votes)
4. Intergalactic (34)
5. The Rockefeller Skank (33)
6. Celebrity Skin (31)
7. Torn (28)
8. History Repeating (25)
9. You Get What You Give (23)
10. The Boy Is Mine (22)

So Lex was right, and Aaliyah did get diddled :(

Comments

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

I love 'No Scrubs' but 'Bills Bills Bills' is MUCH better.

(really any objection I have to 'No Scrubs' is not anything about its sound or anything - more that it goes on a tad too long. 'Silly Ho' is the better song off Fanmail.)

[lockedintheatti.livejournal.com]

I don't understand how none of the three Destiny's Child hits from that year (Get on the Bus, Bills Bills Bills, Bug a Boo) made the list - I think they are their finest moments and easily worthy of inclusion here, although still not as good as No Scrubs.

Although it still annoys me that the mix of the song they stuck on the album missed out Left Eye's rap, which is one of the best bits.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

All those three are so obviously at the centre of turn-of-the-century r&b that it does seem odd to see them overlooked - but then maybe as a teenage girl group DC didn't have the instant credibility necessary for critics to have seen this at the time. I think all three of those are better than 'No Scrubs', in fact either 'Bills Bills Bills' or 'Bug-A-Boo' would have won this in a canter for me.

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

i recall g.marcus bein disdainful abt DC's "corporate midriffs" somewhere round this date -- i actually love the phrase "corporate midriffs" but the critical sentiment strikes me as um problematic

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

yeah TLC were more obviously 'feminist' which rockcrits approve of, less prone to getting their midriffs out. Corporate midriffs = BRILLIANT and actually a great description of them; why anyone would think this is bad I have no idea.