It looks like our Jackin’ Pop poll has really caused those alt-weekly weenies at Village Voice Media to get all worked up: First we find out that our poll editor, Michaelangelo Matos, has been banned from the Minneapolis/St. Paul City Pages–the paper where he began his career; and then we receive the following spirit-crushing email from a tipster, who claims it was sent from one of the chain’s music editors, in the hopes of steering VVM writers to Pazz & Jop, and away from Jackin’ Pop:
Village Voice wants us to vote, as Idolator is going to compete with us head-to-head on the Pazz and Jop poll. I’m not allowed to vote in the Idolator poll, and while you do not have to be exclusive to Village Voice, I do encourage you to be exclusive to us and not participate in the Idolator poll.”
Such “Hey guys, come on now” wording is pretty funny, especially since we’ve already been told that VVM is telling ALL of its employees–even if they don’t write about music–they’re not allowed to vote in our poll anyway. Good going, supposed champions of the free press! To get revenge, we plan to not patronize the porn ads in the back your magazines for the next week. You have no idea how much that’s gonna cost you.
P.S. Weenies!
Earlier: Time To Raze The Village: Announcing Idolator’s 2006 Jackin’ Pop Critics Poll
UPDATE: Don’t forget, if you want to be considered for the poll, send your info to matos@idolator.com by 8 p.m. EST.
Oh, Village Voice. You have nothing to worry about. There is no shortage of freelance writers ready to exclusively reveal how much they loved the Hold Steady and My Chemical Romance records this year.
Who do I talk to at VVM to request that my previous years’ ballots in Pazz & Jop be removed and factored out of the tabulations?
I think I get it now–VVM is not some bungling, Machiavellian bunch of twits, solely intent on destroying a New York institution as fast as they possibly can. They’re an HILARIOUS PARODY of bungling, Machiavellian twits, making a comment on the irony of corporate-indie media.
No one could possibly make every single wrong decision without meaning to. That’s too close to being right.
How completely fucking pathetic and embarrassing. Are they in high school or something? What a bunch of Heathers!
Sidebar: I have never understood one bloody Christgau column in all the years I read V V. Not one. Yes, I know he’s gone now. Just had to get that off my chest.
And in the end, all this hubbub only serves to make the new poll all the more jackin’ popular! Oh, the HIGHRONY
The only vaguely smart thing New Times coulda done is to ignore your guys’ poll, and how lame that they ban Matos from writing for them?
Maybe it would be a good idea for writers to continue to vote for VVM, but… nominate the absolutely worst records for VVM, and then submit “actual” choices to Idolator? It would have interesting results.
Not that *I* would ever do this, I mean I’ve been voting for Paz/ Jop since ‘88, and that fact alone has gotten me laid in 43 states in this great Union of ours!
i meant to say “pazz and jop” and wrote “vvm” — serves me right for only having two cups of coffee instead of four today, sheesh!
laid in 43 states
Which were the recalcitrant seven?
oh. i’ve never been to those states before, of course!
(ba-dum-bum).
Blacklisting? Yeesh! That seems…exorbitant.
:-)
Dear Village Voice Mediocre:
You don’t ban the Matos. The Matos bans you.