How to deserialize json string NOT to List<object> in c# -

i'm working vk.com api, in particular json string:

{ "response": [338775, {"aid":108787020, "owner_id":2373452, "artist":" moby", "title":"flowers", "duration":208, "url":"https:\/\/cs1-50v4.vk-cdn.net\/p3\/c762273870cc49.mp3?extra=t9i-rmkslahkhe8jtouuzbtzqkfve9mj_q-tpmohxphtfhazqweybf4lqroy64xlx9auzakwvlo4pecsfihywm53wmdwvcbazvt5jlibz9x8ag","lyrics_id":"6060508", "genre":22} ] } 

i have class parsing data:

public class albumresponse     {         [jsonproperty("artist")]         public string artist { get; set; }         [jsonproperty("title")]         public string title { get; set; }         [jsonproperty("duration")]         public string duration { get; set; }         [jsonproperty("url")]         public string url { get; set; }     } 

and list deserialization:

public class vkalbum {     public list<albumresponse> response { get; set; } } 

than use

var album = jsonconvert.deserializeobject<vkalbum>(responsetext); 

but doesn't work (a first chance exception of type 'newtonsoft.json.jsonserializationexception') because of "338775" after "response". how can deserialize without using

 public list<object> response { get; set; } 

instead of albumresponse class?

a primitive json sanitation disposal. not elegant code, i'm sure can take here.

responsetext = regex.replace(responsetext, "[\t|\r\n]", ""); if (responsetext.indexof("response\": [") != -1) {     int start = responsetext.indexof('[') + 1;     int end = responsetext.indexof(',', start);     responsetext = responsetext.substring(0, start) + responsetext.substring(end + 1); } var album = jsonconvert.deserializeobject<vkalbum>(responsetext);