Best Movie of 2010
Inception
Is this a surprise? I'm sure nearly everyone had this one in mind. Everything that Christopher Nolan touches is gold and I look forward to more masterpieces in the future.
Best Album of 2010
Kanye West- Twisted Dark Fantasy
C'mon this is hands down an easy choice. Kanye came back in 2010 with a blazing fury. Sure Eminem had a dope album, so did Bruno Mars and Ceelo Greene, Linkin Park also played on loop on my deck for a bit, but Kanye takes this one. Not only is it G.O.O.D. music but in a sense its art in music. That's something thats rare these days.
Video Game of the Year
Starcraft II
This was a tough one. 2010 was definitely a great year for games. Surely I could have picked the usual picks; COD Black ops or WoW Cataclysm, but Starcraft II is my choice. It brought me back to appreciating RTS and has taken me away from the MMO treadmill... well sorta... hopefully it will permanently.
Best Artist of 2010
Kanye West
I hate to sound like i'm all up on his .... but really he had a great year. Lets look outside of what he has done from just the great 13 tracks on his album. Besides if I were to select "Best song of 2010" it would have to be "Runaway" as #1 with Linkin Park's "catalyst" as #2. Pre-release of his album for about 2 months straight, Kanye released FREE downloads to his fans on twitter. A lot of these songs were tracks not on the album but still very well could have been as they were solid tracks. I'm talking tracks with big-name cameos such as Jay-Z, Le Roux, Alicia Keys, Beyonce, etc. and all for FREE for his fans! Next... lets take a look at not only his creative artsy videos, but his performances as well. His MTV VMA, SNL, etc etc performances were so well put together and extremely well coordinated. You can tell he didn't just walk up 5 min on stage before the cameras started rolling and just sang. Taylor Swift tried to hit the public with another attack on Kanye at the VMAs but when the world saw West's performance I think they realized that it was check-mate....
Best Breakthrough Artist
Katy Perry
Ok ok so she might have debuted in 2009, but to me she really broke through in 2010. I didn't really like her much when she came out but through the horrible pop music of the likes of Ke$ha K.P. really shines. Hell she even won Maxim's hottest female of the year award, which has nothing to do with my choice, or does it o_O . no really... it doesnt.... Anyhow, what many don't know is that Katy can actually sing really well outside of her pop music genre, check it out:
Biggest Disappointment of the Year
Cliff Lee
No not Lebron James, although realistically it really should be... not Brock Lesnar losing his title, not BJ Penn losing to Frankie twice..... its Cliff freakin Lee signing with the Phillies... he pulled a "Lebron" and took his talents to Philadelphia after the nation thought he was committed to joining his friend CC Sabathia with the Yankees.... now the future doesn't look good for my Yankees next year but we'll see...
and that wraps it up! Kind of short this year but I'm looking forward to what 2011 will bring. Have a safe and Happy New Years everyone!
