A Year In Pop: January Round-Up

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Here's the top 10 for last month based on "any good at all" ism. I'm going to try a little poll experiment to see if thinking about ranking and worst provokes any more interesting debate or results. Maybe it will, maybe it won't. Reissues excluded.

1. The Gossip - Standing In The Way Of Control
2. Amy Winehouse - You Know I'm No Good
3. Kelis ft Cee-Lo - Lil Star
4. Just Jack - Starz In Their Eyes
5. Fall Out Boy - This Ain't A Scene It's An Arms Race
6. Jarvis Cocker - Don't Let Him Waste Your Time
7. Mika - Grace Kelly
8. Guillemots - Annie Let's Not Wait
9. Jojo - Too Little Too Late
10. Klaxons - Golden Skans

[Poll #922510]

Was it a good month for pop music?

Comments

[justfanoe.livejournal.com]

I ticked Just Jack in it's poll, but voted it worst this time. The difference is I had never listened/paid attention to the lyrics in the original poll.

Jojo the best by pretty far on this, even if it is a few months old in America. January always sucks for pop music.

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Jojo is definitely the most divisive - 4 bests, 4 worsts so far.

[koganbot]

katstevens's shift to pro-JoJo may be screwing up my theory, and I don't know everyone's sex here, but in January I noticed a definite gender difference on who likes and who dislikes JoJo: boys like, girls dislike, my tentative explanation being that girls are more likely to hear JoJo's high-pitched prettiness as something icky, a path not chosen, whereas being a JoJo-type isn't even an option for boys, so it's less of a threat. (Don't know how such reasoning would work in the larger culture, where girls are considered by boys to have cooties.) (Also, maura's vote against JoJo is one of her few recent Poptimist opinions that contradicts the idea that she and I have near identical taste in current music. Did you see how we lined up in the Poptimist 2006 History Of Jackin' Jop Poll?)

[koganbot]

Poptimist boys like JoJo, Poptimist girls dislike JoJo, that is. I'm sure on Radio Disney and such it's mainly the girls going for JoJo.

IT'S RAINING JUST LIKE IN MY HEART

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

JoJo's appearance on Popworld endeared me to her greatly (Alex & her were having a slumber party). Once I stopped finding *her* annoying, I was able to appreciate the song properly. It's very very catchy, and I like the way she practically stamps her feet in the video because she is singing so hard.