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dru27

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Jun 4 10 7:05 PM

They're stupid for placing the generic, mainstream tracks on the regular album rather than the deluxe tracks.

Little Dreamer is sooo beautiful.

The only tracks i hate are: Glam and to some extent I Hate Boys.

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Jun 4 10 8:40 PM

thebigham wrote:
carlos b fly wrote:
kevo2002 wrote:
With all the US promo, alternatively she's not coming to the UK at all. Which is odd because if any market was going to like that kind of stuff it would be the UK.


For sure. America hasn't been into Christina since 2002 really.

I disagree:

Soundscan:

Back To Basics Christina Aguilera 342,608 #1 9/2/06

Ain't No Other Man was a big hit.   


Good for you - but I disagree.

Europe has been Christina's only reliable market since 2002. If you define a hit by a song crawling into the Top 20, then free falling, a 'hit' then she's done well. And your also easily pleased. Since Stripped, the only region that has shown any reliable sense of love has been Europe/UK. As proven by the very mediocre performance of NMT, which wasnt great but better than its dismal US performance.

So no, America isnt a reliable market for her and hasnt been for years.

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Jun 5 10 5:58 AM

carlos b fly wrote:
thebigham wrote:
I disagree:

Soundscan:

Back To Basics Christina Aguilera 342,608 #1 9/2/06

Ain't No Other Man was a big hit.   


Good for you - but I disagree.

  

  
  

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Jun 5 10 6:59 AM

kevo2002 wrote:
OMG now that I've noticed it I can't help but hear the lyrics of Glam as


Let's get CLOWN
don't let the clothes wear you
Let's get CLOWN
it's all in how you move

Live it work it breath it work it CLOWN

It totally sounds like Clown, listen

I am so writing a parody to this, it's so perfect for it


OMG I totally thought she was saying CLOWN . I didnt understand your post just now, only when I thought 'where the hell does the title of the song come in' it HIT me



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Jun 5 10 8:16 AM

am I paranoid, or does she use a lot of lyrics that are sort of connected to Mariah?

'often imitated, never duplicated'

'love me or leave me, take it or leave it'

'Clown' ok, that's Glam



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Jun 5 10 10:19 AM

AMG Review of Bionic

Stephen Thomas Erlewine of All Music Guide has reviewed Bionic.  He has reviewed all of her albums:


4.0 of 5.0 stars - Christina Aguilera
2.0 of 5.0 stars - Stripped
4.5 of 5.0 stars - Back To Basics
4.0 of 5.0 stars - Bionic


Subtlety not being part of Christina Aguilera’s vocabulary, she trades the retro-swing of Back To Basics for the future-pop of Bionic, receiving assists from a roster that reads like a who’s-who of progressive pop in 2010:  M.I.A., Le Tigre, Peaches, and John Hill & Switch, known for their work with Santigold.  But like the half-cyborg/half-diva illustration of the album cover, this revamp is only partial. Aguilera hedges her bets by adding a ballad from old friend Linda Perry, gets Tricky Stewart to produce a trio of cuts, drafts Polow da Don and Focus... to produce some heavy and slow R&B, respectively, letting enough air into the machines to reassure hesitant fans that she hasn’t abandoned her roots. All this hesitancy means that for as many risks as it takes, Bionic doesn’t feel daring. Apart from the stuttering opener of the title track and glassy chill of “Elastic Love,” notably the two Hill & Switch productions, this never delivers the future shock it promises, but that’s not necessarily a bad thing, because the robot-diva hybrids are often interesting even when they stumble, as they do on “WooHoo,” its incessant title loop piercing like a dental drill. Exhibit A in Xtina’s curious tin ear for sex, “WooHoo” doesn’t work as temptation, not when the chorus come-on is “licky licky yum yum,” but her crassness is no longer alienating as it was on Stripped; it’s simply part of her persona, just like her shameless narcissism, showcased on the closing “Vanity,” where she gets her kid to confirm that she’s the greatest of them all. This triumphant self-possession comes so naturally to Christina that it’s hard not to wish that she acted so boldly throughout Bionic, letting the entirety of the record be as distinctly odd as its best moments. Frankly, the deluxe edition of Bionic does suggest what the album could have been: it’s supplemented by four bonus songs that are wildly imaginative, whether it’s the clattering, chanting “Bobblehead,” the cool synth glide of “Birds of Prey,” the perfect new wave pop of “Monday Morning,” or Sia's mournful ballad “Stronger Than Ever.” In their place on the album proper are competent, relatively colorless club odes to fashion and fabulousness and Perry's boring inspirational “Lift Me Up,” songs that play to Aguilera’s persona without inhabiting it. The rest of Bionic -- not just the hipster flirtations and Sia’s trio of richly ruminative AAA ballads, but the tracks directly within Aguilera’s wheelhouse, like Tricky Stewart's wildly successful, slinky “Desnudate,” and the sultry slow burner “Sex for Breakfast” -- find Christina not playing to expectations but simply acting as a natural diva and is all the more compelling for it.


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Jun 5 10 1:13 PM

^A mess. Christina just can't seem to ever judge her material appropriately. She's got no connection to one she's singing and the onlytime she ever does aanything different is when she is colour-by-numbers copying someone else (See whole Bionic album).

Compare her to Toni Braxton, who I've been listening to a lot lately. The woman never oversings, and always judges her material perfectly. She's sexy when she needs to be, sad when she needs to be. Rather than this wailing mess.

CLOWN. DOWN WITH IT.



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Jun 5 10 1:15 PM

LikePhoenixFromTheAshes wrote:
kevo2002 wrote:
OMG now that I've noticed it I can't help but hear the lyrics of Glam as


Let's get CLOWN
don't let the clothes wear you
Let's get CLOWN
it's all in how you move

Live it work it breath it work it CLOWN

It totally sounds like Clown, listen

I am so writing a parody to this, it's so perfect for it


OMG I totally thought she was saying CLOWN . I didnt understand your post just now, only when I thought 'where the hell does the title of the song come in' it HIT me
Especially at 3.06 in the song  It REALLY sounds like Clown more the Glam



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Jun 5 10 5:33 PM

NhWxMaN wrote:
I heard the bonus tracks.  They are better then many of the album tracks... except for I Am (Stripped) and Bobblehead ().  I really like Stronger Than Ever.

I totally love Birds of Prey. Now that's the direction she should be in.
  

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Jun 5 10 6:51 PM

jasp17 wrote:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FkowFbt0pZk

Beautiful (the irony, ha) @ Storytellers.
This is absolutely horrible, dreadful, unlistenable.

3 things:

1. I've never listened to that song in its entirety before today.
2. I'm not sure why I just did.
3. I had no idea Clowntina had that many people willing to sit and listen to her for that long.


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Jun 5 10 6:59 PM

'Beautiful' is such a boring song. And the video is so contrived.



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Jun 6 10 3:52 AM

kevo2002 wrote:
'Beautiful' is such a boring song. And the video is so contrived.
THANK YOU. I've always found that song extremely overrated. I actually like The Voice Within better.



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Jun 6 10 6:06 AM

mariahfan150 wrote:
kevo2002 wrote:
'Beautiful' is such a boring song. And the video is so contrived.
THANK YOU. I've always found that song extremely overrated. I actually like The Voice Within better.

Of course you do. It's 'Hero' with a few changes 



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Jun 6 10 1:04 PM

I can't believe Bobblehead has a sound that sounds like a 1 minute fart 


 - Can you belt for that long?
 - Sorry, no, but listen to this fart, I even recorded it so special it is

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Jun 6 10 1:54 PM

kevo2002 wrote:
mariahfan150 wrote:
kevo2002 wrote:
'Beautiful' is such a boring song. And the video is so contrived.
THANK YOU. I've always found that song extremely overrated. I actually like The Voice Within better.

Of course you do. It's 'Hero' with a few changes 

Right.



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Jun 6 10 2:06 PM

The clown has a performance tonight at MTV


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