Abstaining from Region 1 as usual:
REGION 1
Puff Daddy vs. Jay-Z
Coolio vs. Will Smith
REGION 2
Oasis vs. Sublime
Meatloaf vs. Alice in Chains
REGION 3
Janet Jackson vs. Michael Jackson
LL Cool J vs. Metallica
REGION 4
Mariah Carey vs. Hanson
98 Degrees vs. NSync
Hey, if he’s not gonna use his region 1 vote, I wanna use it!
REGION 1
Puff Daddy
Will Smith
REGION 1
Puff Daddy
Coolio
REGION 2
Oasis
Meatloaf
REGION 3
Janet Jackson
LL Cool J
REGION 4
Hanson
98 Degrees
REGION 1
Puff Daddy
Will Smith
REGION 2
Sublime
Meatloaf
REGION 3
Michael Jackson
LL Cool J
REGION 4
Mariah Carey
NSync
Region 4 was extremely hard. I hate them all so much. But eventually I went with Mariah because she was more shrill and NSync because I remember some of their songs and 98 Degrees has slipped out of my memory into oblivion.
Listening to Sublime is like jabbing ice picks in your ears, except with ice picks the pain is over quicker.
REGION 1
Puff Daddy
Coolio
REGION 2
Oasis
Alice in Chains
REGION 3
Michael Jackson
LL Cool J
REGION 4
Mariah Carey
NSync
I hate Sublime because every goddamn radio station I like listening to plays the same three songs by them over and over and over and over and over…
Jay Z
Will Smith
Sublime
Meatloaf
Janet Jackson
LLCoolJ
Mariah Carey
98 Degrees
Me too.
That song really is terrible, isn’t it? Always makes me cringe if I can’t change the station. It’s not even the prison rape part at the end (which is especially cringe-worthy.) It’s the totality of the hamfisted lyrics, and I just can’t not hear them, as much as I try to avoid listening to the actual lyrics of pop songs in general.
REGION 1
Puff Daddy vs. Jay-Z
Coolio vs. Will Smith
REGION 2
Oasis vs. Sublime
Meatloaf vs. Alice in Chains
REGION 3
Janet Jackson vs. Michael Jackson
LL Cool J vs. Metallica
REGION 4
Mariah Carey vs.** Hanson**
98 Degrees vs. NSync
Somehow I’ve managed to live my life without ever having heard that song. I just looked up the lyrics. My hatred for Sublime has just reached new levels.
Puffy
Coolio
Oasis
Alice in Chains
Janet Jackson
LL Cool J (two of the three acts on here I like were matched against each other)
Mariah Carey
NSync (totally unfamiliar with both)
The line about her only family being her … actual family, sans mother, is just terrible. I think it’s the lyrics that I hate most about Sublime. They’re the only group on this list that I genuinely never want to hear ever again.
REGION 1
Puff Daddy
Will Smith
REGION 2
Sublime
Alice in Chains
REGION 3
Janet Jackson
LL Cool J
REGION 4
Mariah Carey
98 Degrees
Puff Daddy
Coolio
Oasis
Meatloaf
Janet Jackson
Metallica
Hanson
98 Degrees
REGION 1
Puff Daddy
Coolio
REGION 2
Oasis
Meatloaf
REGION 3
Michael Jackson
LL Cool J
REGION 4
Hanson
98 Degrees
And that noise you heard 13 and a half hours ago? That was the horn sounding on this round.
Next round of voting will be up shortly.