Video: Michael Jackson Superbowl

It's undeniable: the highlights of the year are always good for a nice, bust-out-the-smiles kind of story. But really, you wouldn't be into popular music if you didn't have a distinct sense of morbidity and cynicism. And you couldn't be a morbid cynic if you weren't at least a little fascinated by the mire into which the year in music, on more that one occasion, has sunk. With that in mind, Melophobe offers you the totally subjective, probably biased, quite certainly non–peer reviewed, Top 10 Lowlights of the Year in Music . And while we did sort of rank [...]