Pazz & Jop predictions thread

[koganbot]

I really have no clue this year. Remember that last year "Rehab" beat "Umbrella," so these people are not to be trusted, but also it was clear that the four tracks likely to compete were going to be "Umbrella," "All My Friends," "Paper Planes," and "Rehab" (which was the order they finished on Idolator).

Anyway, being clueless, I think Santogold could win both album and single, but then I also think Beyoncé could win single, since she always polls high in that category (though I don't like either "Single Ladies" or "If I Were A Boy" as much as "Crazy In Love" and "Baby Boy"). As for albums, something awful like Fleet Foxes or something that I'm ignoring like TV On The Radio will probably place high, and beyond that I can't think of any. Well, Kanye will place, but I don't know where. Scooter won't place. I really don't know about Ne-Yo - not top 10, I don't think. Vampire Weekend? As for singles that do well on poptimists, "Closer" could get in the top 20, "No Air" I don't know, probably top 40. "American Boy" will do reasonably well, "Wearing My Rolex" will probably be lucky to get top 40. "A&E" will do well. Lil Wayne is the wild card, since his album ought to place top 5, and I'd guess the same for "A Milli," but I really don't know. There's probably some mainstream respectable prestige item like last year's Plant & Krauss that I'm not remembering. And a lot that have slipped my mind.

Comments

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Paper Planes had an official video made for it by the time I ran the Poptimists Top 40 at the start of last January, whether or not it had been released 'as a single' then I dunno. My comment at the time of last poll was "Another surefire Top 95 hit for MIA!" which somewhat underestimated the power of film trailers.

It feels like an 07 thing for me too, because I listened to the album so much last year. But it also feels like an album track, so 'feels like' doesn't matter much for me. Agree that its wider cultural impact has definitely been this year.

I think year-of-impact is getting increasingly smeared anyway: I've seen the Robyn album on a lot of lists this year.

[chuckeddy.livejournal.com]

You're seeing it on lists because Robyn was literally released in the U.S. in 2008 (which was the first year that I, and lots of other U.S. critics I'm sure, actually heard it.)

Lost in the mail

[koganbot]

Xhuxk, I sent you the 2005 version of the Robyn album back in 2005!

Robyn's "Be Mine!" also went top 40 this year in Britain, for the first time. (So did Robyn's "Who's That Girl," which I actually voted for.)

Re: Lost in the mail

[lockedintheatti.livejournal.com]

I find it very bizarre that album has been live for four years now, I can't think of any other album that's ever done that

Re: Lost in the mail

[chuckeddy.livejournal.com]

Frank is right about him sending me an earlier version of the Robyn album three years ago (as I remembered as soon as I left the house this morning, after I'd typed that comment above.) I didn't listen to it much then, though. And when it came in the mail early this year, it still *seemed* current. And *other* U.S. critics no doubt heard it for the first time this year. (Bottom line is, if you like something enough, and listen to it enough, you're perfectly justified in using whatever excuse you can to consider it current enough for your top ten, if you want it to be there.) (I didn't think Robyn was good enough, though I did like it. If I'd liked it more, I would have had no qualms voting for it, despite Frank's old CD burn version.)