Welcome to DAY 2 of the BEST OF 2011 ..half-way CEREMONY!
On the 31st, we started Day 1 of the ceremony, with 'Easy A' winning Best Movie, 'Friday' receiving Best Viral Video, upcoming performers the Black Eyed Peas taking home Best Band/Group, and the first two Best CD's were revealed- Jennifer Lopez's 'LOVE?' and Natasha Bedingfield's 'Strip Me', and not only that.. Panic! At The Disco joined us with a performance of their latest single, 'Ready To Go (Get Me Out Of My Mind).'
Today we will be covering the following:
Best Shows: Top 3
Best Male Artists: Top 3
Best Single Cover
Best CD's: #8 and #7
Plus.. JESSIE J performing not one- but TWO songs!
The category BEST SHOWS will be announced shortly! Stay tuned.
This is a last-minute, just-added, brand-new category to the festivities. If I could do movies, why not do shows too? I don't watch TOO much television.. mostly just Disney Channel, as well as a few shows on the more popular channels like FOX.
3. Good Luck Charlie: Season 2
Most of you may take a big, long 'UGGGGHHHH' at any Disney show being on the list, but since I've loved and watched every Disney Show since 1998 or so, it doesn't seem like this will be the last Disney Channel program to appear on any of my mid- or end of year lists. At the preview of this that showed up early last year, I wasn't sure if this would be a good show at all, and could be the first one that I actually DIDN'T like. Then once the first episode came out a week early on iTunes for free, I decided to give it a go, and it was actually one of the best series premieres I've ever seen. This is one of the best families on television, they are all hilarious and there isn't a character that is bad or unimportant. It's random, it's silly, it's Disney and it's possibly the best show on DC at the moment.
2. The Voice: Season 1
Not even half-way into the season, 'The Voice' has heavily surprised me. After being an 'American Idol' fan for quite some time, the last three seasons (including the one that just ended), have bored me to death- and caused me to not watch (except for last season where I watched a good amount of the time, but was disappointed in the end result.) The plot is amazing, the judges are talented, some of my favorite artists (besides Blake), and they are also funny, but also give great advice and tips to their artists. I love how they are also coaches and not just judges, and how many differences it has to AI, making it look like the best show on Earth. Even my family loves it.. my mom, who hasn't watched American Idol since like.. season 4, watches every episode of this show, as well as my sister.
1. Glee: Season 2
Anyone who is even .0001% surprised at this should kill themself.
There's just so many things I could say about this show. I could write as long as a book on how great this show is just like I could for how amazing GaGa is. In this season, more characters, drama, and plots are added in. Though a few episodes were a bit bad in the episode department (Rocky Horror, Comeback, Night of Neglect,) and a few in the song department (Grilled Cheesus, Funeral), 'Glee' still maintains it's spot as my #1 favorite show of all time without a doubt. The song choices are better, the songs are better, though a few episodes are lacking in the certain qualities season 1 brought us, there were still plenty of amazing ones- including 'Audition', 'Britney/Brittany', 'A Very Glee Christmas', 'The Sue Sylvester Shuffle', 'Silly Love Songs', and 'Blame It On The Alcohol'.
For the second award of Day 2, let's go to the BEST SONG COVER!
This is the second out of three 'extra' categories, with only one winner per award. But before I reveal the winner, let me give a few hints on who won this award.
Hitting over a million first week album sales for her 3rd effort, this artist smashed my charts in 2009 with her second album, and if I were to have finished my 2010 year-end list, she would've been #3. She's talented, funny, beautiful, and had a funny, but short, role in the #2 best movie of last years' list...
Taylor Swift- 'Mean'
This single cover is magnificent. I love the well-done, painted cloudy skies in the back, as well as the mountains. I love how it actually goes with the song title also, it's also very different and not just some random pose with the title put somewhere on the picture. I love her expression, as well as the guy with her. The colors of the font, as well as the font itself, go with the photo very well and she looks adorable in this cover. I also adore how she based parts of the music video for this track on this. I see not one single, tiny flaw with this spectacular cover.
We are now in the middle of Day 2.. let's move onto our next award, BEST MALES!
So far in this year, not many male artists have been dominating the charts. Actually, only 5/24 of the Billboard Hot 100 #1's have been males, 4 of which are from one of these people.
3. Bruno Mars
Cracking it onto the 'Best Newcomers' 2010 end-of-year list in the top 5, Bruno Mars has accomplished a lot in not just that year, but is continuing his success into this one. Though 'The Lazy Song' may not be as big as his first two singles, it comes pretty close, and his album is still maintaining good sales. Last year he had 2 smash singles on his own, and two more smashes on his back when he loaned his voice to Travie McCoy's 'Billionaire' and B.o.B's 'Nothing On You', and now he has one smash on his own, and if he picks the right single next (or any single at all), he could repeat his chart domination from last year.
[IMG]http://webnews.textalk.com/upload/article/bild/2/437476/cee-lo-green-****-you_s.jpg[/IMG] 2. Cee Lo Green
As if being on 'The Voice' wasn't good enough, and topping my Best Songs chart in 2010, his album 'The Lady Killer' surprised me greatly. I didn't expect to like it, due to the heavy influence on 'oldies' type of music, which I don't really like much of. At first listen, I hated it besides the three singles, and then second listen- somehow it grew on me, and I only disliked two songs. Then after tons of listens, I got into the two songs I didn't like and now I love the album as a whole. Also during my obsession of his album, I realized his talent in singing & performing that I hadn't noticed during his Gnarls Barkley days, which made me love him even more. He's also a really funny, creative, and cool person.
1. Chris Brown
Chris, Chris, Chris.. what can I say about this talented man? His dancing is amazing, his singing, his performing, etc. As if his first two albums weren't good enough, he released the underrated 'Graffiti' in 2009 during a hard period in his life, and then this year put the icing and cherry ontop of the cake with the, in my opinion, LEGENDARY 'F.A.M.E.' album. This era has been great, with his performances and singles.. and it's not even over yet! He is truly an amazing musician and I'm glad that he is doing great this time around and people are starting to forgive him & forget about his past and focus on what he does best.
The final FULL award of Day 2, Best ATRL Games, coming up soon!
And to complete Day 2.. we continue our BEST CD's category with #8 and #7!
On Day 1, we revealed the first two albums in this category- #10 is Jennifer Lopez's 'LOVE?' and #9 is Natasha Bedingfield's 'Strip Me'. Who will take #8 and #7?
8. Nicki Minaj 'Pink Friday'
Though it was released in November and is outside of the 'Results Recorded' dates, I only basically loved the album until just this year. At first, I only liked maybe 1 or 2 songs.. I was heavily disappointed after being in love with 'Check It Out'. Then suddenly in January, I decided to give it another try. When I did this, I suddenly grew to love a lot of the songs, and now I only dislike three of the tracks, but liking 15 out of 18 is still really great. I'm glad I gave this a second chance because this expanded my love for Nicki very widely & gave me a better liking for rap/hip-hop.
Top 5:
5. Moment 4 Life (ft. Drake)
4. Super Bass
3. Check It Out (ft. will.i.am)
2. Last Chance (ft. Natasha Bedingfield) 1. I'm The Best
7. Panic! At The Disco- 'Vices & Virtues'
An amazing album, there's not much to say about it since most of the songs are pretty much the same, but it's not a bad thing- since they are all amazing. I think that the song 'Ready To Go' alone is good enough to get the album to top 10.
Top 5:
5. Let's Kill Tonight
4. Hurricane
3. The Ballad of Mona Lisa
2. Memories 1. Ready To Go (Get Me Out Of My Mind)
To end off Day 2.. let's go to someone who may not be PERFECT, but inspires others to STAND UP for WHO THEY ARE.. here she is, with not one- BUT TWO songs..
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JESSIE J!!!
Thanks for viewing Day 2, stay tuned for the next set of awards!