Thoughts: NME Nominations

So the nominations for the NME awards were announced on 25th January 2010, and I couldn't help but notice the nominees for the Worst Album category. The poor folk whose work has gone unappreciated are:

Green Day – 21st Century Breakdown
Lady GaGa – The Fame
The Jonas Brothers – Lines Vines Trying Times
U2 – No Line On The Horizon
Arctic Monkeys – Humbug

Something concerned me when I read this. While I am sad/cool enough to know the name of the latest Jonas Brother album, I had assumed that the readers of NME were not of the same persuasion. So how did they know? I can understand them knowing the name of the Lady Gaga album, or any of the other rejects. They are everywhere. But the Jonas Brothers are not as forced upon into our lives as the other nominees. Especially Gaga. She's everywhere!

Do a lot of NME readers have nine year old sisters who got the gift of Disney for Christmas? You would have thought they had forgotten the name of the album they bought back in December by now. Are there a lot of parents that read the publication who are forced to listen to the same album again and again and again? Even so, it's not like the name of the album is repeated in every song. Therefore, I am only left to assume that the voters of these awards dislike the Jonas trio (which is perfectly normal I would imagine), and so actively sought out the name of the album so they could vote for it, which is a little sad. Or they just wrote "that Jonas Brothers crap", which is just really chavvy.