Year-End Critics' Polls 2012

Adam Lambert? lol internet street teaming much?

1. Adam Lambert, 'Trespassing'

Well, he does know a thing or two about popularity contests. By the looks of it, former American Idol winner Adam Lambert organized his fans to stuff the ballot box to make Trespassing the top vote-getter in our Readers' Poll. Upon its release, Rolling Stone gave the album four stars, with Rob Sheffield noting that Lambert sang the mix of "tinsel disco-club sleaze and leather-boy love ballads" like he was "Zeus in a thong." Ladies and gentlemen, we have a winner.

Adam Lambert? lol internet street teaming much?

Hope yr keeping an eye on that ilx poll Johnny

i like how they act like they're going to disclaim responsibility for the outcome and then mention their super-positive review

imagine if they could do that to the Pitchfork poll

Zeus in a thong = Maggie Smith in Daisy Dukes

Van Halen and Rush's street teams are none too shabby either.

what do you call a street team that's been at it for 30 years? wheelchair team?

Forgot about that Van Halen album already. "Ta-too, ta-too, ta-too!"

i judge all tracks countdowns by the placements of "losing you" and "everything is embarrassing" with respect to one another

also for those bemoaning general lack of "springsteen" (like me), rolling stone put it on their list last year (which made me laugh because i had never heard the song before so i just assumed it was written for the sole purpose of guaranteeing coverage from rolling stone)

Every tracks countdown that doesn't have "Adorn" at #1 is utterly confusing to me.

I may violate my no-singles-from-top-ten-albums rule (which I do once a year) for "Adorn."

i judge all tracks countdowns by the placements of "losing you" and "everything is embarrassing" with respect to one another

They sound like almost exactly the same (good) song to me

i just bemoan the fact that NO trax list so far has recognised "matte black truck", wtf is wrong with people

I try not to overlap albums and singles top 10s too much but usually there's at least 3 or so -- this year only 2 (Miguel and Future)

Alfred i kinda enforce that rule on myself too but i think theres generally a clear mental line between voting for a song that was your favorite song on a record you liked and a song that was a big single that transcends the record and stands alone

just got my P&J ballot e-mail btw

google search results for "matte black truck" + kalenna: approx 54,100

google search results for "losing you" + solange: approx 1,130,000

I try not to overlap albums and singles top 10s too much

if it's just a ballot of 10 i try to stick to the no-overlap rule ruthlessly. several contenders this year though - miguel (for "do you...", obv), carly rae (was not expecting the album to be so strong) and weirdly nicki, whose album is in my top 5 but who made SO many singles-i-jammed-as-singles-incessantly in 2012 ("stupid hoe", "pound the alarm", "the boys", "come on a cone", "starships" AND WHAT, and that's not even counting the actual best song on the album "gun shot")

google search results for "matte black truck" + kalenna: approx 54,100

google search results for "losing you" + solange: approx 1,130,000

― Jesus, the Total Douchebag (DJP), Thursday, December 13, 2012 9:43 PM (9 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

;_; ;_; ;_; ;_; ;_;

for reeeaallll this is such an injustice, at least dawn gets SOME props

try hanging out with shitty indie bands kalenna :(

this is my first year having spotify for this process, looking forward to being able to blast through the tracks nominations without any hassle

just got my ballot too

maybe "matte black truck" is cool but i was too freaked out by her lips and had to stop the video.

oh god, Jessie J did that with the "Do It Like A Dude" video and that is probably the number one reason why I detest her

it just looks diseased

i AM annoyed that kalenna only made a "teaser" video for half the song - the full song is essential because it completely changes midway through but i guess she couldn't be bothered to finish the video? she did the same for "go to work". bad media strategy kalenna.

Miguel will most likely make both my album and song list, though "Arch n Point" remains my miguel single of choice.

it just looks diseased

― Jesus, the Total Douchebag (DJP), Thursday, December 13, 2012 4:50 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yup! i was like i can stick with this for less than two minutes but turns out i couldn't.

this is the full song without the weird lips!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVKncaDUxeY

"Matte Black Truck" (Rampaging Herpes mix)

(I do like "Matte Black Truck" but I can't help but feel that it would be much more at home in 2002 than 2012)

thanking u lex

just got my P&J ballot e-mail btw

― some dude, Thursday, December 13, 2012 2:41 PM (18 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

they're probably sending 'em out to all same people as last year?

i assume so, don't know how much effort has been made at updating/expanding address book but they usually seem to start w/ the previous year's pool

*awaits ballot*

try hanging out with shitty indie bands kalenna

Solange's last name is Knowles, don't know if that means something but I think it might

it seems to mean more than it did last time

Kalenna is related to Canadian PM Stephen Harper tho.

"Losing You" is a better overall song/performance than "I Decided"

About 557,000 results (0.23 seconds) for "i decided" + solange

ugh no xp

hmm i don't rep for "i decided" particularly but no way is the torpid dullness of "losing you" better than "sandcastle disco" or "t.o.n.y." or "would've been the one"

I don't even particularly like "Losing You" all that much and think it's being overpraised but at least it isn't wholly repellent and awful

when everyone was freaking out over "I Decided", I seriously thought half of ILX had gone deaf

all solange praise makes me feel like i'm taking crazy pills

What kind of pharmaceuticals you getting in Baltimore

I will say though, Solange's version of "Stillness Is The Move" is great

I tried out the genre of "I ~see through~ this naked emperor b/c i am a superior listener so let's pop-psychoanalyse all the people who don't" posturing when it first came out, and I was underwhelmed then, and in 2012 it just seems really tired and old in my opinion... It's all just reconstituted whining from old ILM threads, only fit for solitary parlour games amongst sad rapidly aging young men who don't get invited to dinner parties.

― Tim F, Thursday, 13 December 2012 15:14 (6 hours ago) Permalink

great post fight the bullshit ilm 2012 \m/

I like some Kalenna OK but don't like "Matte black truck" at all at all

Didn't realize I was still on the P&J mailing list! (Haven't voted since 2007.) Could probably throw together a list, but I'm not an "active" "critic" and would prefer not to sully the waters.

Did you get a ballot last year?