“Entertainment Weekly” Votes Bruce For <s>Album</s> Man Of The <s>Year</s> Decade

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.