Another Year In America January 8, 2009

[koganbot]

"Just Dance" is at number one. TAKE THAT, SUCKERS!

Beyond that, the happening news is...

Nothing. For the second week in a row, no new tracks crack the U.S. Top 40. Only a re-entry from Taylor Swift and a re-entry from O.A.R. In fact, only two new tracks in the Top 50, Ne-Yo's "Mad" and Miranda Cosgrove's "About You Now," the latter being a nasally dull sing-songy cover of the Sugababes tune. Cosgrove's previous single was an inferior version of Amy Diamond's "Stay My Baby." She's the star of Nickelodeon's tweeny sitcom iCarly, and I guess she's found her niche in draining the pleasure out of good European pop music.

Comments

[justfanoe.livejournal.com]

I'm still assuming that "Closer" is going to make it and suspect "Blind" as well, but who knows.

[koganbot]

Yes, I forgot "Closer"! And I was "Blind" to "Blind" (which is tolerable, I suppose, though I think poptimists fave* Mika would do the vocals far better).

[koganbot]

Still not sure these would beat the ones I predicted, though I think "F Ur X" is more a hope than a prediction. Among forty-one people, it's possible that any of my last three and these two didn't get more than one vote. (Well, duh Frank, obviously at least two of them didn't get more than one vote.)

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

'F Ur X' was my no.18 - all of my 6-20 list were pretty close together, it was only really my top five that whacked me round the head with utter utter amazingness song-of-the-decade bizniz, the others were merely 'awesome'. But remember I only voted for tracks released as singles that I heard first in 2008, so there might be startling omissions in my list (eg Paper Planes).

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

'F Ur X' was my No 30 but on any given day it could easily have been top 10. I don't ever remember having such difficulty ordering my list before - usually a vague order sorts itself out fairly easily but literally my entire top 50, apart from the top 4 or so, could be rearranged and make just as much sense to me.