The History Of Jop Part 22 aka I apologise a million times

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

To celebrate all meeting up in the year 2000, the Pazz and Jop singles poll jumped in scale from a Top 25 to a Top 40 - 42 in this case, thanks to ties. You therefore get FOURTEEN big picks - use them wisely.


[Poll #871746]


1999: Poll Over Jops Out Of Time

1. ...Baby One More Time (43 votes)
2. No Scrubs (41)
3. Genie In A Bottle (38)
4= Got Your Money (34)
4= My Name Is (34)
6. Rendez-Vu (26)
7= Steal My Sunshine (24)
7= Beautiful Stranger (24)
7= Praise You (24)
10. Believe (22)

Comments

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

Eminem definitely paved the way for a lot of people - British people who had previously mostly listened to rock by white people OR pop by white people - to get into hip-hop and r&b - I mean I am definitely ashamed of this but even though I'd liked scattered hip-hop singles pre-Eminem, it was only after loving Eminem that I started buying hip-hop albums, getting into hip-hop as genre as so on. This isn't only due to subconscious prejudice on the part of the consumers though, a large part is due to the rather overt prejudice of Eminem songs getting blanket coverage in the mainstream meeja which v few black rappers had received.

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Aha! The Lex has put what I wanted to say in much better words. Eminem (and Outkast, actually) got played on Xfm/MTV2 (which I watched round my friend S's house) so they became absorbed into my sphere, whereas Nelly etc were confined to Radio 1/MTV Base and hence weren't on my 'alternative' musical radar at all.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

crucially Eminem succeeded in penetrating the worlds of British middle class teenage boys in the Home Counties - these and their successors are now the people buying 50 Cent and Sean Paul rekkids. HURRAH.

[koganbot]

I'd be kinda surprised if this hadn't happened already w/ Dre and Snoop and 2Pac; Em (and DMX and M.O.P., I bet) maybe were doing it for a slightly later generation. The teenboys were probably ahead of the critboys in this.

I'm guessing from tickage that M.O.P. did better in Britain than in the U.S. I heard it here on a promo mixtape but never on the radio. Was prob'ly too rock for the hip-hop/r&b stations.

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Well, poor Javine sampled it for that song she did.