It's POLL For You -- ILM artist poll #103 -- JANET JACKSON (voting open until July 24, 2020)

also i totally wanted to vote for 'what's it gonna be' but wasn't sure if it counted, so ultimately did not. i didn't care for that busta album, so bought the 12" and that was literally a piece of vinyl that i wore out. because of the odd time signature and super punchy drums, i used it a lot for fun beat juggling tricks while djing, in between just playing it for listening purposes; both copies i had of the 12" ended up basically unlistenable through all of the surface noise.

voted!!

:D

21 ballots in. More, more, more!

Austin, I am totally accepting votes for "What's It Gonna Be?!" if you want to revise.

Finalising my ballot now. I've decided that the following tracks on 20 y.o. are jams (though none of them broke into my top 40), almost all near the end of the record:

1. Daybreak
2. Take Care
3. Enjoy
4. Do It 2 Me
5. Love 2 Love

daybreak, take care, and do it 2 me are all so awesome. i ended up voting for the first two in my expanded ballot

Top five jams on Discipline in rough descending order:

1. Rock With U
2. 2nite
3. Can't B Good
4. Let Me Know
5. Rollercoaster

I don't think "Can't B Good" has been mentioned in this thread? It's awesome.

I ended up voting for 69 tracks, being the number I felt Janet herself would have chosen.

Just to balance the scales I voted for 25 tracks almost all singles

:D

and no one could fault you

<3

Austin, I am totally accepting votes for "What's It Gonna Be?!" if you want to revise.

― Get the point? Good, let's dance with nunchaku. (Eric H.), Saturday, July 25, 2020 4:57 PM

omg i'm totally going to do this! i need to add another song as well after going back and relistening to some of the more recent stuff as well. ty!

okay, resent my revised ballot. expanded to 30 songs.

With the latest spate of ballots, the #1 and #2 songs have swapped places!

i feel like i have very little idea what's a likely #1 just because there's so many possibilities

Lets Wait Awhile with a bullet

I voted pleasure principle

the top of my ballot of was very rhythm nation heavy. but that's still not giving away much.

Would just like to say that although I’m not voting in this poll, I’m following everything with great interest and enjoyment.

I like to be thorough in these things, and there’s no way I’m suspending my regular listening habits (which is 95% current stuff, and I like it that way) to partake in this or any other *interesting* artist poll, much as I’d like to in theory.

Looking forward to the rollout, and it’s true: The Best Things In Life Are Free!

Ulysses, can you resend your ballot? Not sure I got it.

i think i signed it "forks"... just re-sent!

23 ballots in and there's still a lot of jumbling around in the order, even in the top 5.

excitement brewing!

voted! went with the original 40, but could've basically listed every existing Janet song

certainly the greatest of the 103 artists ever polled on this website

Voted!

breastcrawl, i feel your pain at wanting to keep up with new releases but it's good to pause that sometimes.
Really enjoyed having this as a listening project.

Three more ballots to add to the spreadsheet but I am leaving the window open until I get a ballot from DJP tbh.

Think I’ll try to get one in before end of day

Have been having some fun speculating on the age of each ballot submitter as they come in. Generational differences are making these results a bit more surprising than I anticipated.

old ladies still love Control

uggghghg I have my list of songs but it is SO challenging to order them because I just love everything?????

forks, it’s not a pain to me, and it’s not really that I feel a pressure to keep up either. it’s just that there’s so much good music coming out all the time, and I enjoy wallowing in it, which includes ending up in the occasional rabbit hole. I have bouts of revisiting or (re)discovering older stuff, but these are never planned and never last very long. it wasn’t always this way, but it is now, and like I said, I like it that way.

I'll try to get a ballot in today

breastcrawl: Far be it from me to tell anyone how they should listen! I get into long listening jags myself where I disappear into niches, genres, eras or artists, so i dig it.

Just to make sure I haven't missed anyone's ballots, here's my list of participants thus far:

clemenza
gospodin simmel
Tom L.
BradNelson
Kitchen Person
technopolis
krewki
justfanoe
uberweiss
evol j
erasingclouds
or something
cryptosicko
Gavin, Leeds
monotony
ufo
Alfred, Lord Soto
forks/ulysses
Austin
VegemiteGrrl
Tim F
mostly lurkin'
dbs
geoffreyess
Nourry
bunny slopes
Stevie D
Eric H.

If you gave me a ballot and don't see your name above, hit me up.

so, after jamming nothing but janet the past week or so, i'm ready to officially start the rhythm nation political party. who's with me?

LET'S GO

MINNEAPOLIS!

is it too late? if not whats the ultimate cut off?

Ok I just sent one in xp

If I were to do my ballot for the 00s album reboot today I wd absolutely include All for You. 'Masterpiece' is def a word that came to mind a few times while I've been listening to it over the past week

it's definitely better than its reputation.

I'm going to say the ultimate official cut off is tonight at midnight so that I can hopefully roll out the poll next week.

(If any stragglers come in overnight though, I'll still include them.)

thanks!

'Masterpiece' is def a word that came to mind a few times

that's the only word for it :)

ballot submitted.

And received!

And with that and no other ballots submitted overnight, I hereby officially declare this poll closed!