rainbow1199 wrote:
mariahfan150 wrote:
carlos b fly wrote:
allthewayray wrote:
Gospelartist03 wrote:
Oh and not to mention her little venture into Spanish music and Christmas album before doing a sophomore album was a huge mistake and loss of
momentum while britney and others were raking in with albums and tours.
I think Xtina is so much smarter than Britney. I like both, but Xtina made sure to show everybody she can take her carreer in any
direction, while Britney only took it to one level. That's fine with me, but I admire Xtina more.
Also, I don't think someone has to stick to one style for years. Xtina (and Madonna) are true to theirselves. If I look at my cd's there are
soooo many different kinds of music I like: gospel, country, retro, soul, r 'n' b, pop, etc. If I were a singer I would follow my heart and
make different kinds of music. Lots of singers stick to one thing because they are succesful with it, not because they don't like other styles...
I love it when a singer shows his/her creative site and does what he/she loves to do at that moment in time. Making music with lots of stars is more
about "what is a hit, what sells, what does the public want to hear" than "this is what I love right now".
I'd classify Christina as 'smart' only if you consider her last two albums selling very little at all as something of intellectual merit. In
that case, she's a bonafide genuis.The far less intelligent Britney is still managing consistent album sales and single hits, not to mention packing
out venues worldwide with her current tour. Britney may be slightly mental but at least she dosent try and make herself something she isnt.
Christina's new personalities/genre's have done nothing but divide her fanbase with such erratic styles.
Exactly. Madonna is smart/business savvy. Christina is not. I disagree about Madonna claiming her change of music 'the real her' every
time.
With 'Bedtime Stories', Madonna said, "I wanted a lot more of a R&B feel to this record. "The idea going in was to juxtapose my
singing style with a hardcore hip-hop sensibility and have the finished product still sound like a Madonna record. I began the process by meeting with the
hip-hop producers whose work I most admired. It was important, if I were to use a variety of collaborators, that the end product sound cohesive and
thematically whole. I wasn't interested in the variety pack approach." According to Danja, Madonna wanted 'Hard Candy' to still be
dance/pop, but with some R&B influences.
I do enjoy that Madonna doesn't try to spew the "this is who I really am" bullsh!t that Christina does every album. She more or less admits
it's just an image change, rather than start up with the whole "Oh, well, when I was a kid this was the music I really liked" or whatever the
excuse is. She also generally doesn't try to make the music what it isn't (i.e. when Christina tried to pass off 'Back to Basics' as legit
30's jazz).
Thats why I dont mind Madonna going disco or urban, New Age or whatever. Everytime she has done so it comes across as remarkably natural. She dosent take on a
new personality. Its just something she's playing with. With Christina, you get her literally trying to rewrite herself personality and all. The Stripped
era, where she suddenly had that fake ghetto accent and was "yo, yo" in every interview was beyond cringe.
One album later, she's suddenly playing with the genre she's 'always loved' and talking about all the women of that genre she's always
loved. If she could just do a Madonna and say - "I want to bring some more urban sounds into my work" rather than suddenly reveal her sudden hoodrat
past I would take her more seriously and less the fake, pretenious performer she is.