![My Own Private 2008: Hey, There Were Actually Some Really Good Parts! [Year-end Analysis]](http://cdn.elbo.ws/posts/1433836_lg.jpg)
When 2008 started, I was sure it was going to be awesome. "It's going to be two-thousand- great ," I told anyone who would listen, ignoring the various signs (MTV ringing in the New Year with Tila Tequila, hints of economic collapse , etc.) that things wouldn't exactly go as planned. Or even be much good at all. But at least there was music to help the seemingly endless parade of bad news plod along a bit more jauntily, right? THE GOOD: Getting back into R & B full-throttle thanks to Ne-Yo, Erykah Badu, [...]