My ilX ballot, 2010: Crowded at the top

[koganbot]

Here's my tracks and albums ballots for ilX's 2011 poll. Difference between this and the other polls I do is that in this one we can only vote for tracks and albums that have been nominated. Of course, we can nominate a whole lot ourselves, but I deliberately nominated a mess of country tracks I knew I wasn't going to have room to vote for, since I wanted to vote a lot of things that would get votes from someone else too. Also, this way I got to vote for several tracks from 2009 that were nominated by others.

We were instructed to copy and paste our votes directly from the final list of nominees, as "syntax is of utmost importance" (I understood the reason for that instruction perfectly, recalling how back in Pazz & Jop 2005 the Voice poobahs failed to add together votes for Robyn's "Be Mine!" and Robyn's "Be Mine"). So here are my lists as pasted, including my vote for "Jamie" Johnson. (I'd've had the opportunity to vote for Jamey Johnson under tracks, but what was nominated there wasn't nearly as good as "Poor Man Blues," "Cover Your Eyes," "Lonely At The Top," etc.)

Tracks:
Selena Gomez & The Scene - Naturally
Roach Gigz - Pop Off
little big town - little white church
Girl Unit - Wut
After School - Bang!
m.i.a. - born free
E.Via - Shake!
2NE1 - Try to Follow Me
Far East Movement - Like a G6
the-dream - abyss
Sunny Sweeney - From A Table Away
Lee Brice - Picture Of Me
Daddy Yankee - Vida En La Noche
Daddy Yankee - La Señal
Flynnville Train - Sandman
Hurts - Wonderful Life
Juelz Santana - Mixin' Up The Medicine (ft. Yelawolf)
Yelawolf - Mixin' Up The Medicine (ft. Juelz Santana)
ke$ha - we r who we r
Gil Scott-Heron - Me and the Devil
Taylor Swift - Mean
Tinie Tempah - Pass Out
IU - Good Day
Ke$ha - TiK ToK
Martina McBride - Wrong Baby Wrong Baby Wrong

Albums:
The-Dream — Love King
Marina & The Diamonds — The Family Jewels
Taylor Swift — Speak Now
Rihanna — LOUD
Daddy Yankee — Mundial
Diddy-Dirty Money — Last Train to Paris
Jamie Johnson — The Guitar Song
Roach Gigz — Roachy Balboa
2NE1 — To Anyone
Yelawolf — Trunk Muzik
Various Artists — Shangaan Electro: New Wave Dance Music From South Africa

Speaking of Jamey Johnson, I went into The Guitar Song convinced I was fed up with Jamey's gravel-voiced, lonesome-embattled populist shtick, and I still kind of am, what with lonesome embattled populism being contradictory, self-serving bullshit, and gravel voices being run into the dirt, and I don't see how anyone can consider this guy one-tenth as original as the Taylor Swifts - of which there are one - that he's supposed to be the great incorruptible alternative to. But in the listening I was once again able to relax into his cheerful grimness, in fact think overall he made the grimness even more cheery and exuberant this time than last, the bitter urges towards vengeance being especially enthralling. Good ole deep-dark shtick.

By the way, I do think that Keith Whitley's life pretty well refutes the message of his "Lonely At The Top," covered by Jamey as track one of The Guitar Song ("It may be lonely at the top, but it's a bitch at the bottom"; turns out it was a bitch at the top, too).

If you yourself want to vote, you've got through Friday to do so (see instructions).

Comments

[askbask.livejournal.com]

Have you written any words about Roach Gigz anywhere?

[koganbot]

No, I haven't, at least not that I can recall. Not yet.