Entertainment Weekly becomes one of the last of the major print media outlets to weigh in on 2007 with its lists of the 10 best and five worst albums of the year as the Boss Supermans Soulja Boy, Paul McCartney unexpectedly pops up like a Whack-A-Mole among Radiocade Firehousesystem (betcha can’t guess which list), and 50 Cent gets sandwiched between OneRepublic and Good Charlotte. (Worst fanfic ever.)
THE GOOD: Thanks, EW, for pointing out the following Soulja Boy line that had somehow escaped me until this afternoon: ”Booty meat in my face, even when I be talkin’.” Booty meat! That’s so awesomely gross. It might turn me off asses* even more effectively than that Bangers And Cash cover.
THE BAD:“Now infamously troubled, Amy Winehouse risks a total eclipse of the art.” Can’t decide if that deserves boos or kudos, really.
THE WHAAAA? Did Jennifer Lopez really “[bomb] by playing the hottie card with dance-pop tunes even Ashley Tisdale would’ve dismissed as too shallow” because Brave didn’t offer “the kind of album people want to hear from a celeb of her stature… at least a smallish window into her soul”? Something makes me think that if she’d gotten the hooks right on those shallow dance-pop tunes the buying public wouldn’t have really given a shit about being denied a peek into her inner life.
The Best
01. Bruce Springsteen - Magic
02. Amy Winehouse - Back To Black
03. Arcade Fire - Neon Bible
04. Radiohead - In Rainbows
05. Miranda Lambert - Crazy Ex-Girlfriend
06. M.I.A. - Kala
07. LCD Soundsystem - Sound Of Silver
08. Paul McCartney - Memory Almost Full
09. Betty Lavette - The Scene Of The Crime
10. Lupe Fiasco - The Cool
The Worst
01. Soulja Boy - Souljaboytellem.com
02. OneRepublic - Dreaming Out Loud
03. 50 Cent - Curtis
04. Good Charlotte - Good Morning Revival
05. Jennifer Lopez - Brave
The Best (And Worst) Albums Of 2007 [Entertainment Weekly]
* Yeah, probably not.
“Now infamously troubled, Amy Winehouse risks a total eclipse of the art.”
when did EW become Stereogum?
actually, nevermind. there’s only one bad pun in that sentence.. if it were stereogum there’d be at least 4..and a panda bear reference.
@DHMBIB: EW took advantage of the fact that with a weekly deadline they can do their EOY issue later than every other mag and slip in a late 4th quarter release; thus Lupe gets the Kanye spot.
@GovernmentNames: Good point, but am I the only one wondering why I seemed to have missed the “Graduation is not really all that good” bandwagon?
TS: Being a Lover of the Booty Meat or Being a Vagitarian?
@DHMBIB: I didn’t like it as much as the other two Kanye records. I think I actually missed the Broke Phi Broke skits.
Something makes me think that if she’d gotten the hooks right on those shallow dance-pop tunes the buying public wouldn’t have really given a shit about being denied a peek into her inner life.
No doubt Curtis wouldn’t be on the worst list if it had tight hooks and beats too. I was never partial to 50 but America was. WTF happened to all the 50 love?
@rhythmchyc: WTF happened to all the 50 love?
People wised up.
Nothing could turn me off asses.
@Ned Raggett:
Aww, poor Magilla Gorilla.
Rrr…Timbaland tricked me into buying the OneRepublic album. It is not TERRIBLE compared to some terrible. It is just boring. Dang it. And yes, I don’t care if it is lame to like “Apologize”, I do.
You owe me, Timbz.
I actually thought that Good Charlotte record was …erm…somewhere between “good” and “very good”, perhaps. Not among “the best”, for sure, but surely not among “the worst” either.
And “Keep Your Hands Off My Girl” rocks.
There, I said it.
Also, interesting that the extremely mainstream EW left Kanye off the “best” list.