The History Of Jop Part 26 aka You leave me broken shattered I lie

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2004 is now THREE YEARS AGO (sort of) - our possibly penultimate pazz and jop ponderations will let you relive that golden or otherwise era. You get THIRTEEN from thirty-eight picks: Alicia Keys "You Don't Know My Name" and the Yeah Yeah Yeah's "Maps" turned up last time so are omitted this.


[Poll #902705]


Poptimism Of Times Past - 2003 Edition

1. Crazy In Love (43 votes)
2. Milkshake (37)
3. Cry Me A River (35)
4=. Ignition (Remix) (31)
4=. Hey Ya! (31)
6. Move Your Feet (30)
7=. Hurt (27)
7=. I Luv U (27)
9=. In Da Club (24)
9=. Danger High Voltage (24)
9=. Rock Your Body (24)
9=. Pass That Dutch (24)

This scientifically confirms my empirical findings at the work Xmas party viz that "Crazy In Love" is much loved again but that people are bored of "Hey Ya". This one will run and run.

Comments

Re: My Pazz & Jop singles ballot 2004

[koganbot]

Madonna gets attention because she's Madonna: her first album got to number 8, every album since that wasn't a soundtrack went top 5, usually 1 or 2. But she doesn't get nearly the airplay she used to.

Kylie'd hit in the U.S. 13 years before "Can't Get You Out Of My Head" w/ "I Should Be So Lucky" and "Locomotion," but nothing in the interim. And the fact that she hasn't been able to break through with a followup may prove my point. ("Love At First Sight" did OK, other stuff does well on the club and dance airplay charts, which as I said barely register nationally.)

I wouldn't say that Girls Aloud have absolutely no chance, but their sound isn't getting played on hip-hop/r&b stations (six years ago those stations were a bit more open; Bloodhound Gang and "Blue Da Bee" got r&b play as novelties, for what that's worth), and it's hard for a dance act to cross Top 40 without any particular constituency. Shakira can do it because she owns the Latin charts and gets automatic play on the video stations.