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

Re: Wait a minute, this is too deep, too deep

[koganbot]

Yes, excellent phrasing, excellent performance, not sure why I didn't care (but there was so much more to tick anyway); but also it's a ballad, and even good ballads only hit me about 1 in 10 times. Wasn't really taken by the main melody, though the track works pretty well as mood. But also, I way prefer the teen Mariah, breaking from the gate in 2001 and 2002, and she managed to pull off three or four ballads then that I did love, most especially "Can't Let Go," even more especially the live version on Unplugged. That song - I don't know how she did it - has all the melisma and showoff that she was doing then (and that somehow never detracted from the emotion) yet also had a small, poignant float to it, as Ciara's "Oh" did in 2005. (Fascinating that I feel this way, given how different a singer Mariah is from Ciara.)

Re: Wait a minute, this is too deep, too deep

[koganbot]

I feel that in order to get with modern r&b, Mariah's had to subdue herself. So maybe the perfect phrasing is the problem.