The History Of Jop Part 27 aka She got one of your kids got you for 18 years

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

And now - the final* Pazz and Jop poll. 2005 - seems like it was yesterday eh?

You have thirteen ticks across 39 boxes - the holdover from last year that I left out was "Galang", if you're interested.


[Poll #904749]


*or potentially penultimate, but I suspect the discussion of the New Times PJ poll will be along the lines of the JP one i.e. poll-free.

2004: Joptimists Verdict

1. Toxic (52 votes - offhand I can't remember anyone ever getting more, and certainly the 91% is huge)
2. Take Me Out (43)
3. What You Waiting For? (38)
4. Chewing Gum (37)
5=. 99 Problems (36)
5=. Galang (36)
7. Heartbeat (33)
8. Drop It Like It's Hot (27)
9. Yeah (Usher) (26)
10. Somebody Told Me (25)

And that's it. If anyone has any ideas for flagship poll series I will take them under consideration!

Comments

The ballot I left you for

[koganbot]

1. Kelly Clarkson "Since U Been Gone" (RCA)
2. Rich Boy "Get to Poppin'" (Zone 4/Interscope)
3. Ashlee Simpson "La La" (Geffen)
4. T. Waters "Throw'd Off" (So So Def/Virgin)
5. Deana Carter "The Girl You Left Me For" (Vanguard)
6. Miranda Lambert "Kerosene" (Epic)
7. Foxy Brown f. Sizzla "Come Fly With Me" (Roc-A-Fella)
8. Pharrell Williams f. Gwen Stefani "Can I Have It Like That?" (Star Trak/Interscope)
9. Ciara f. Ludacris "Oh" (LaFace)
10. Daddy Yankee "Gasolina" (V.I.)

December of 2005 was when I rediscovered myself as a critic, taking stock of the year and writing a lot of the stock-taking down on the rolling country thread (where I ended up writing about pretty much anything). None of that stock-taking made it into this Top Ten, "Gasolina" fending off all challenges, but I felt I'd made my way into serious caring. Also into serious joking: "Madonna - I love the single, hate the rest of it. Lindsay Lohan - I hate the single, love the rest of it. (Isn't this what fundamentalists urge us to do: hate the single but love the singer?)" [Did underrate "Confessions Of A Broken Heart" for the sake of the joke. It was more the video I was having issues with. Good discussion between me and Anthony in regard to the vid: starts here, then scattered throughout.]

Re: The ballot I left you for

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

I'm surprised 'Gasolina' didn't make it here.

No time to read the thread on Lohan but I loved the single and the video and the rest of it - the video in a wtf-is-she-doing-way, but really that's Lohan's entire appeal right now. What did you hate about Madonna?

Re: The ballot I left you for

[koganbot]

Madonna: too few tunes, so every song would start with a gorgeous drift and get my hopes up and then drift to dullness (w/ only two or three exceptions, though I did like the New York/dork song that lots of people thought was the album's one clinker [though didn't think much of that rhyme]). I'd actually voted Stuart Price back in 1999 (Les Rythmes Digitales) so had expectations. Also not in love with her mature, warm voice, which is dull butter or something. (Which hasn't stopped me voting her singles at times: "Frozen," for instance. But my last Madonna love was for Breathless and Truth Or Dare.)

Re: The ballot I left you for

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

I think the turning point was Evita, for which Madonna took singing lessons for the first time (IIRC) - or at least the first time since she'd become famous. I've been disappointed by a lot of what she's done since.

Re: The ballot I left you for

[justfanoe.livejournal.com]

It's a testament to what a great year for country 2005 was that "The Girl You Left Me For" -- which would have contended for #1 best country song many years -- might not even be in my top 5 of 2005.

Re: The ballot I left you for

[dickmalone.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I agree about the Madonna. I kinda wish someone else had produced it and then Stuart Price came in and did an album-length remix. He seems to work a lot better with pre-existing material.