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The official Christina Aguilera thread; New album in 2018
Topic Started: Jan 8 2008, 04:23 PM (22,171 Views)
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So much better than the horrid Oprah performance. This actually makes me want to go out and buy her album -- deluxe edition of course.
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Yeah it really is a great performance! She looks fantastic and sounded excellent. She's definitely upping her game!

That light-up vagina at the end... :lmao:

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Damn! Was she singing Bionic live or was it lipsynched? I couldn't see...

The entire performance was :clap:
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I love that bit in Bionic where she sings those really high notes. No idea if it was lipsynched or not, but it sounded so cool. Wish that bit was in the studio version of the song.
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good performance i guess. and the high-pitched bit of 'bionic' sounded lypsynched to me.
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Jun 7 2010, 11:42 AM
good performance i guess. and the high-pitched bit of 'bionic' sounded lypsynched to me.
Yeah I doubt that was live. It sounded too perfect. I really liked it though.
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4 out of 5 for the album from today's Metro:

Classic pop music has always been about image reinvention, from David Bowie to Madonna – but in these information-overload times, the pressure for stars to revamp has become increasingly intense.

Take Christina (previously ‘Xtina’) Aguilera. She has evolved considerably since graduating from US variety TV show The Mickey Mouse Club and amassed a shape-shifting back catalogue (most intriguingly, the 2000 festive stomper My Kind Of Christmas), but she’s returned from maternity leave to face pesky comparisons to upstarts such as Lady Gaga.

So here’s Aguilera’s response: on fourth album Bionic she swats away the competition with high-gloss hooks, bombast and her most electro-charged material to date.

Bionic wisely wires up Aguilera’s high-drama vocals to various brilliant songwriters and hot names, including Sia, Linda Perry, Tricky and MIA (on the bouncy beats ’n’ bass of Elastic Love).

In fact, there’s so much going on that this spiky succession of tracks doesn’t always flow smoothly as an album.

What it does feel like is the raw material for an extravagant concert, much in the same way its double-pack predecessor, 2006’s Back To Basics, really exploded into life on stage.

More than ever, Aguilera proves her expertise at deftly fulfilling musical fantasies, whether it’s the breathy allure of Sex For Breakfast, the queen bee outbursts of Vanity or her bump-and-grind showdown with Canadian saucepot Peaches on My Girls.

It’s true that a mechanical precision pulses beneath this raunchy veneer and you don’t always get heart with Aguilera’s electro-soul, but what you do get is a sharp jolt of startlingly pneumatic pop.

http://www.metro.co.uk/music/829576-christina-aguilera-pumped-return-of-the-bionic-woman
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1 out of 4 from the Chicago Tribune:

For the last decade, Christina Aguilera’s career has been as much or more about marketing as it has been about singing. It’s a shame, because as pop-machine creations go, Aguilera has genuine chops as vocalist, and far greater upside than just about any of her peers in the late-‘90s teen-pop invasion.

On her 1999 self-titled debut album, she distinguished herself from the Britney/Backstreet Boys pack with a rangy voice that belied her youth (plus, “Genie in a Bottle” was a fetching single). After that, her career has taken a series of curious turns. Her albums have moments that live up to her promise, but are weighed down by ill-advised concepts, garish over-singing and off-putting celebrations of self (or even more off-putting complaints about just how tough it is to be Xtina).

Her 2002 album, “Stripped,” confused growing up with stripper-pole come-on’s, and “Back to Basics” (2006) tried to turn her into a swing-era throwback who claimed she worshiped Etta James and Aretha Franklin, but then over-sang so much that it’s clear she hadn’t learned a thing from those icons. Now comes “Bionic” (RCA), which presents her as … a robot?

Actually, futurism is all the rage lately. Lady Gaga, Rihanna and Janelle Monae are all doing variations on sci-fi themes and sexy android characters. Besides working with producers who have defined mainstream radio pop the last decade (Tricky Stewart, Polow Da Don, Linda Perry), she enlists edgier collaborators, including M.I.A. and her coproducer, Switch; Berlin-based feminist provocateur Peaches; dance-punk trio Le Tigre (including riot grrrl icon Kathleen Hannah); and Santigold producer John Hill.

The idea is to reinvent Aguilera as a techno-age diva, which means folding her voice inside uptempo dance music and glitchy electronic textures. As she declares on “Not Myself Tonight”: “I’m doing things I normally don’t do.” OK, sounds interesting so far; by making the singer’s prodigious voice less of a focal point, “Bionic” puts the emphasis on the production, the sound, the sheer audacity of upsetting expectations.

The strategy is most successful on “Elastic Love,” in which the electro beats – conjured by Hill and Switch – propel Aguilera through a psychedelic arcade of sound effects. It would’ve been fascinating to see how far a full-blown collaboration might’ve taken her, but Aguilera spreads out the songwriting and production credits in search of more hits, most of which come off as flimsy gimmicks.

Even by the standards of her first album, which catered to the teen market, “Bionic” is juvenile. “WooHoo” approximates dancehall reggae and distorts her voice while she spouts, “Licky, licky, yum-yum, what a great guy!”

The focus on beats ensures that these tunes will sound even sillier off the dancefloor. She dispenses fashion tips (“Don’t let the clothes wear you!”) while recycling Madonna’s “Vogue” on “Glam.” She sings in Spanish and moans a lot while demanding “Get naked!” on “Denudate.” “I Hate Boys” is the kind of trite glitter-disco the Spice Girls might’ve dispensed. And even the vaunted Le Tigre/Peaches combo platter on “My Girls” fails to ignite.

Sandwiched between the dance tracks are a handful of ballads that allow Aguilera to flex her vocal muscles. These songs have a tacked-on quality, as if they were afterthoughts designed to sate those Aguilera fans who would complain about all the sci-fi dance tracks. But, really, does the world need another over-emoted power ballad like the Linda Perry-written and produced “Lift Me Up”?

Desperation takes hold as “Vanity” wraps up the album. Strutting like a Pussycat Doll, Aguilera intones: “Let us not forget who owns the throne.” A child’s voice answers: “You do, mommy.”

Sarcasm? Don’t bet on it.
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Apparently "I Hate Boys" is the next single in the UK, not "WooHoo".
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Jun 7 2010, 09:40 PM
Apparently "I Hate Boys" is the next single in the UK, not "WooHoo".

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Jun 7 2010, 10:07 PM
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Apparently "I Hate Boys" is the next single in the UK, not "WooHoo".

:wtf:
I'd say they have no idea what to do with this album now. so they'll chuck out any old shite.
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Apparently "I Hate Boys" is the next single in the UK, not "WooHoo".

:wtf:
I'd say they have no idea what to do with this album now. so they'll chuck out any old shite.
i love how your new avatar is promoting her new single :drama: :vomit:
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Jun 7 2010, 10:56 PM
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Jun 7 2010, 10:07 PM
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Apparently "I Hate Boys" is the next single in the UK, not "WooHoo".

:wtf:
I'd say they have no idea what to do with this album now. so they'll chuck out any old shite.
i love how your new avatar is promoting her new single :drama:
Vagtina needs all the help she can get! :sadalexz:
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Darren Hayes sticks up for Xtina on Twitter!

darrenhayes: Xtina at the MTV movie awards. Amazing performance. Not sure why so much hating on the new project. At least she's committed (and talented!)
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Jun 7 2010, 11:31 PM
Darren Hayes sticks up for Xtina on Twitter!

Not sure why so much hating on the new project.
so everyone hates it!?!?

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that hot performance made me all hard and horny

not toniiiiaaaaaaaaaghhht :drama:

vaginaflashyheartina i love u
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It really was such a strong performance. Great visuals too!

If only she had made a properly great album instead of a fustratingly patchy one. Sillytina!!
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