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

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!

funny how time flies!

oops

DJP, if you think you can get it to me by the end of today, I'm happy to include it in. (Same goes for everyone, really, but after that I need to get the graphics in motion.)

whoops now!

lol i sent a late one just now

I should mention that 135 songs have gotten at least one vote, which means about half of them will end up on the 77.

this poll is gonna rule.

― Totally different head. Totally. (Austin), Saturday, July 25, 2020 1:19 PM

i'm so excited

when's launch ETD?

can't wait

Aiming to start with the sidebar polls on Monday, followed by four days of tracks.

Alright, final tally of ballots for the tracks portion was 33. We are now final-chimes-of-Rhythm-Nation-ringing-out closed for new ballots. Sorry not sorry.

MINNEAPOLIS!

C'MOOOOOOOOONNNNNNN

lol I am so bad at this

sorry Eric, I did intend to vote but somehow couldn't get my shit together

Based on some of what you've been stunting for upthread, I think you'll be more or less cool with the results as they are.

Mostly more tho.

currently jammin "when i think of you" in stater bros, it's a sign!

Control: The Remixes always reminds me of this snippet in the Faith-era Rolling Stone interview with George Micheal;

"How do they get that sound?” He is driving down London’s Piccadilly, turning heads in nearby cars as he marvels at the thunderous bass on the Janet Jackson remix album that’s playing on the CD player in his black Mercedes sedan.

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/george-michael-seriously-80896/

Control: The Remixes

oh hey there's an album of peak era janet that i've never heard.

(looks up details)

it was never released in america ò_ó

and oh hey, the "cool summer mix" absolutely fucking slays.

i could have been jammin this heat for the last twenty three years if i didn't live in merckah, but whatever, this is fine. i guess.

ò_ó

iirc it's on American spotify now tho, along with a ton of other Janet remixes

lmao it's almost twice the length of the album itself

Holy shit, y'all, Spotify has remix "singles" for Rhythm Nation, Miss You Much, Escapade, Alright, Come BAck To Me, Black Cat, Love Will Never Do, and State Of The World that are ALL album-length as well (like 45-75 min)

can't wait for this

It's The Pleasure Princi-POLL -- ILM Artist Poll #103 -- JANET JACKSON Results Thread