Christina Aguilera - Bionic

Am I the only one who's excited for the new Xtina Aguilera album? Back to Basics was a bit self-indulgent at parts, but I think the 1st disc is a certified classic and the second disc has some great moments ("Save Me From Myself" is one of her best songs, easily). Anyway the new album sounds really interesting, here's the confirmed list of people she's working with:

Sia
Ladytron
Tricky Stewart
Le Tigre (!!!!!!!!!)
Claude Kelly
Focus
Linda Perry
DJ Premier
Goldfrapp

We should be hearing a first single within the next month or so.

i'm actually really excited

I knew you would be! Are you excited for Whitney too? September 1st!

I'd be more psyched if she did something with Switch

Focus

i'm going to choose to believe this is the 70s rock band

I'd be more psyched if she did something with Switch

wow totally - did you ever hear the switch remix of that p diddy/xtina joint? 'tell me'? IMMENSE

i'm excited to hear this but also fully aware that it could go either way. back to basics only had a handful of cuts which are worthwhile (though those ones are VERY worthwhile) and 'keeps getting better' was rubbish.

Yeah "Keeps Getting Better" was embarassing... I wish she would stop working with Linda Perry, she's a total hack.

and yeah Switch would be really interesting!

did she ever do stuff w/premier besides ain't no other man? that was classic

also, there's rumors that she's covering Ladyhawke's "My Delirium" for the album.

yeah Primo produced most of the first disc of Back to Basics.

wow totally - did you ever hear the switch remix of that p diddy/xtina joint? 'tell me'? IMMENSE

I am listening to it right now and uh YES

the acappella breakdown is one of the most WHOA things i've ever heard

I knew you would be! Are you excited for Whitney too? September 1st!

― Monday Nite Tranny Party (The Brainwasher), Monday, June 8, 2009 7:31 PM (14 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

i did not know about whitney! hells yeah!

ever since i heard about ladytron, i was really looking foward to this.

sometimes i get a really big craving for "back to basics" even tho it's so schtick-y

random stream of that rmx - http://musicvideobase.rightinpoint.com/p-diddy-ft-christina-aguilera/stream_64656.html

"I DON'T EVEN - KNOW - YOUR - NAME!!!"

Basically, I am at the point where I want Switch to work with everyone.

Except Whitney, who is hopeless and done.

I don't know if she's "done" but stuff like this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KaClIF1ehQ

doesn't give me much hope lol

oh shit, lol

yeah it's pretty sad isn't it? lol

Okay guys it's been confirmed that she's working with Switch! And Diplo! WOW!

listening to that Switch remix right now, it would be great if she could get a track like that as a single.

oh that's sweeeet

Damn when is this coming out?

so much more excited about xtina working w/ switch than ladytron/le tigre

album pushed back to 2010 but she's working with M.I.A & Santogold now

and some other hip people

jeez.

mmm

she lookin good lately

The album is called Bionic now, the first single is a song entitled "Glam" produced by Tricky Stewart and written by Christina and Claude Kelly. Single should be out soon, album due out in March. I'm hype!!

!!

did u see her at the Golden Globes last night?! She looked amazing.

http://www.celebrity-gossip.net/images/photos/christina-aguilera-gg-2010.jpg
prettyyy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7kguPpzR3U

hmmm...........

holy shit

it's like she's been doing nothing but studying Lady Gaga and The Knife/Fever Ray

and unsettling porn

thinkin more of rated-r

loving it

wow that is v beautiful

except Christina said the videos are not hers

that dress looks like her bra popped out

whale sharks are cool

is it really not her? pity if not

I like it but how do we know it's her?
(x-post)

nobody knows if it's her, but signs point to it being her... and her reps would deny it, I mean it's supposed to be a "secret" viral marketing campaign so being all "YEAH GUYZ ITS HER" would kind of ruin it now...

this is definitely her tho:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cH9dxgjrk9o

very nice ballad.

it's pretty expensive looking and big league to be somebody that everyone thinks is christina aguilera but isn't

daaaamn

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wtHCKCBarE

it isn't goldfrapp? that seems more likely

would mute spend that much

The production sounds like what I expected from Rated R. Sounds like Xtina is on the right track with her production team and readying herself to snatch the crown back.

omg that 2nd clip

lady gaga is my guess

i would be stupid pleased if xtina put out an album of icy electro but doesn't seem likely imo

Why don't you think it seems likely? She seems the type to be able to sense a trend gaining momentum.

seems a little subtle for gaga

i would be stupid pleased if xtina put out an album where she doesn't sing

Why don't you think it seems likely? She seems the type to be able to sense a trend gaining momentum.

― you gone float up with it (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, January 26, 2010 10:56 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

do you remember "keeps gettin better?

this is the woman who made this vid:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xB7pQpNx-F4

and while the music doesn't match up, her love of cool fucking out-there videos does. so excited if this is her. so excited for whoever it is if it isn't.

oops, i forgot to link it!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xB7pQpNx-F4

imagining how pissed off she would be if everyone thought this was christina ag. makes me hope it is goldfrapp.

something very amniotic about those clips. makes me think it is xtina. why would goldfrapp be doing this at the same time that their proper, and v different, album campaign has just kicked off?

exactly. no way is this goldfrapp (who would never dirty her face up). really does look like xtina's face in the 2nd clip anyway.

i want to hear what her new vocal style is like

http://stuff.sonybmg.de/Image/Christina_Aguilera/Promo_Album.jpg

too obvious it'd seem. Or really really stupid.

I think it is christina - really looks like her around the 0:29 mark in the second vid.

if this is what pop music in the 2010s is going to sound like then i think we're in for an interesting ride

http://stuff.sonybmg.de/Image/Christina_Aguilera/Promo_Album.jpg

well gosh

it could be her out of The Veronicas

Kerry Katona

nobody else would do a huge viral campaign like this or have any real reason to do so...it's got to be xtina, goldfrapp wish they could leave the coffee table to make something that interesting

LOLOTM

also there's no way someone with a zillion albums under their belt could be behind this...it's too alive

someone who writes their own albums i mean...obv xtina has a good few records

if this is all legit I would liken this to xtina's pinkerton

It's not exactly out of the blue considering the collaborators she has picked either.

http://stuff.sonybmg.de/Image/Christina_Aguilera/Promo_Album.jpg
http://www.timboucher.com/images/mulholland_drive_bum.jpg

no

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrcQ1oZC9M0

the music in the videos is just so far removed, and the content of the videos is so inacessible and weird, that i'm stillhaving a hard time believing it

my sister said that its prolly abt her "rebirth" as an "artist"

cant wait for the poppy post-flop album as well

dude, it's totally her.

http://community.livejournal.com/ohnotheydidnt/43423777.html?#cutid1

III. The video names.

This was the one that sealed the deal for me: If you add up all of the numbers before a decimal and attach a letter to its corresponding number (A=1, B=2, C=3, etc.) you’ll notice that each video has a distinct message:

Prelude 699130082.451322 = (38.17) = (CH.AG) = CH. AG.
9.1.13.669321018 = I. A. M. CH.
9.20.19.13.5.723378 = I.T.S.M.E.C.

Oh, so that's the explanation for Lost.

Christina was inspired by the great risks these guys took:

http://www.8notes.com/wiki/images/Head.jpg

nobody else would do a huge viral campaign like this or have any real reason to do so...it's got to be xtina, goldfrapp wish they could leave the coffee table to make something that interesting

― I see what this is (Local Garda), Thursday, January 28, 2010 6:12 AM (7 hours ago) Bookmark

dude you've now used 'dinner party music' and 'coffee table music' as disses within the last few days, are you playing criticism cliché bingo???

these videos and images aren't *that* weird imo, also you'd think they'd up the weirdness of the viral stuff over the final product....

nobody else would do a huge viral campaign like this

disagree!

yeah the first artists who sprung to mind were lady gaga and fever ray (as dan compared this to upthread)...

anyway the obvious reason i thought it was xtina, which seems to have been pretty much proved now, is that she's at exactly the right stage of the promo cycle - lady gaga's just released an album, the knife and goldfrapp have just kicked off promo campaigns for v different works, xtina has a new album just around the corner that we haven't heard anything about yet, apart from these virals. it pretty much has to be someone decently well known with an album release date close enough that people know about it...

It does occur to me that a lot of this imagery would also be in line with Tomorrow, in a year; currently listening to that STREAMING IN ITS ENTIRETY ON THE KNIFE WEBSITE to see if it matches the music in these viral videos.

Yeah it really doesn't match the music though D

dude you've now used 'dinner party music' and 'coffee table music' as disses within the last few days, are you playing criticism cliché bingo???

these videos and images aren't *that* weird imo, also you'd think they'd up the weirdness of the viral stuff over the final product....

yeah shame on my lack of thought but basically if i thought of a more interesting way of saying dinner party or coffee table music it would still mean loosely the same thing...goldfrapp are fucking boring come on admit it

NEVER!

*commits seppaku*

haha, fair enough. i'm not a particular fan of goldfrapp but i do think their whole aesthetic is well put together, actually one of the least visually boring bands i can think of

bear in mind LG always thought Massive Attack were boring iirc.

i'm not a particularly huge goldfrapp fan and a lot of the time they are boring, but they have too many straight-up great songs for me to dismiss them totally...

Felt Mountain has aged nicely imo

yeah, I don't really get the visceral dismissal. Never particularly cared for the rest of their output, but Felt Mountain remains pretty amazing.

its funny tho how christina has always seemed like britney + time lag and i always felt like britney stumbled upon her great moments in this haphazard and lol chaotic way but christina always feels like shes desperately trying to shape a career, and while i do think this looks awesome, if its her "blackout" its pretty funny that britney fell flat on her face into a psychotically brilliant album basically by being too drunk and fucked up to do anything else and christina seems to desperately have to construct this career sinking artistic album. you know. if it is her. and its good. and weird. manny farber etc.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yAI5_YXNqI

another one! This thing is losing momentum. they really should just come out with it.

D.A.E.D.I.A.G.F.I.A.C

I did it wrong lol

m.a.n.d.r.a.g.o.r.a.c

still don't know if I did it right

the Popjustice forum posits that it's Margaret Berger. It kind of looks like her and sounds like her...ish. More likely than Xtina though, it doesn't look like her and all and I don't believe that she would have another blonde actress star in her viral videos.

will believe it's xtina until i hear otherwise

I was thinking it looks less like Christina in this new one but idk. I like the music (vocal sounds similar to the tune of Royksopp's 'Sparks').

m.a.n.d.r.a.g.o.r.a.c

indeed

man in drag? or aguilera, c

mandragora is the scientific (or whatever it's called) name for mandrakes

the c doesn't really fit, but then again the last number is formatted differently so maybe it's something else

http://i46.tinypic.com/4ihngo.jpg

those bottom teeth don't rly look the same

her bottom two teeth are a bit higher than the rest, while mystery woman's are about the same height. However I don't think you need to go that far to tell, because the person just doesn't look like Christina at all.

Why is that still with Xtina's name on the Sony website, though?

someone found where the picture it was posted, it was uploaded to the server and posted in a blog entry or something where they were speculating about who it could be.

(i have no idea how i know all this, i didn't realize i had been following this so closely)

there's some perspective distortion going on w/ the videos so I wouldn't think too much abt proportions and trying to parse who it is/isn't based on them. At this point I think I'd be bummed if it WASN'T Xtina

dudes, these videos look expensive as fuck, wtf people thinking the a bunch of Pfork Festival bands would blow an enormous wad of cash on this

guys, it's totally Deadoorian!!!!!111

i feel i'd almost bet my house on it being xtina...tho i do not own a house.

your House 12" collection?

i like those odds!

am i the only one not bored w/ thi=s yet?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9EcQmW1OPHk

rong link

http://www.youtube.com/user/iamamiwhoami#p/a/u/0/UxC4zMCwefo

so the right link.

This is being drawn out too long. By the time it's revealed no one's going to care.

yall realize that it's some random european chick & not xtina right? ok

That last vid. was the least awesome of the lot imo.

Even if it isn't xtina, I genuinely think most of the music is awesome and am super intrigued to know who it is.

do tell xp

http://community.livejournal.com/ohnotheydidnt/44971850.html

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okay is that post locked? Anyway it's about 99% proven that iamamiwhoami is Jonna Lee. She's scheduled to be at SXSW so I imagine all will be confirmed by then.

yeah looking at pictures of JL w/o black paint on and comparing the two suggests that it's her. Oh well. LE TIGRE!

disappointing, kinda hilarious that we are still talking abt this on the christina thread tho

also who is jonna lee

someone awesome, apparently

I gathered as much but pix of her seem to show her as some singer songwriter vs. someone profoundly assm or contemporary

which confuses me

http://www.christinaaguilera.com/images/christina.png

um

Congratulation xtina

lol u think ur badu

tbf if this lady got gil scott heron to produce the whole record i would accept that cover completely

lol wut

so were the virals her? that cover says so.

they are absolutely not her at all and I cannot see how you could link that cover with those videos either

love it.

What the fuck is this whole "In two days we will make an announcement about an announcement (about a single that was due to be released a month ago)" bullshit?

http://i44.tinypic.com/24oota9.jpg

produced by Polow, written by Ester Dean... premieres on Monday.

i don't get why they made a big deal about premiering the lyrics (who even does that?) when the lyrics aren't particularly notable. devil horns & tail is a bit dohhh too. still looking fwd to it obv.

Devil horns? Is she on some kind of student pub crawl or something?

pretty lame cover

brainwasher's pic otoh fucking bangs

they are absolutely not her at all

this confirmed either way yet?

i like the cover

i can no longer see the pic above so repost

http://i56.photobucket.com/albums/g192/rrawn/christinabioniccover.jpg

produced by Polow, written by Ester Dean... premieres on Monday.

― The Brainwasher, Thursday, March 25, 2010 9:46 AM (9 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

omg written by ester dean! i am really so excited about this

for me that cover is like julie andrews meets daryl hannah from kill bill

i think everyone knows that i pretty much hate modern xtina but i'm intrigued by this new single

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_7RYbx9lclJA/SdKw_ZU2BtI/AAAAAAAABJc/aSAXvJTy5Lk/s400/kookoopromo01.jpg

modern xtina

?

wouldn't it technically be bi-o-nic?

So this song, it is not bad!

Not bad... but not great either.

i like it a lot. very her, in a good way

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7Y1tK2ivkA

after all that build up, its just a tacky dance video.
not impressed.

wait, Christina Aguilera did a tacky dance video??????

STOP THE PRESSES

is it 2 obv 2 say she's swagger jacking gaga?

I think it's fairer to say ppl forgot what she was like while she was gone and Gaga stepped into the void

wait, Christina Aguilera did a tacky dance video??????
STOP THE PRESSES

ha.
i guess i just expected a little bit more given the build up.

I think it's fairer to say ppl forgot what she was like while she was gone and Gaga stepped into the void

^^Yes. Also, I thought she was working with Ladytron and trying to soften that voice of hers? The song is flat, but I actually like the video. It makes more sense than the dreadful "Telephone" or "Video Phone" clips.

i don't think that video has much to do with gaga, xtina's going to the source and just reprising old madonna videos. such a boring song/video

http://papelpop.com/papelpop/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/xtina-madonna4.jpg

etc.

such a boring song/video

yeah... :(

still holding out for the album though as apparently this song was done at the last minute was a label-forced single...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mAHUzC9szL4&

♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥

she's fantastic

ok this album turning into cat power's the covers record was a unexpected :DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD for me.

surprised no one's post this d-_-b

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BiEAy1LoOTk

HEY IT'S A NEW NICKI MINAJ ACCENT

two or three more and we can make a poll

chris-tin-ararara
a-gui-lerajaja

(try singing this to bad romance, you know which part I'm talking about, just try it)

NMT video is alright and prob 'sexier' than any of Gaga's to date (albeit in v unsubtle lurid sense). Mind you I thought she looked kinda terrible in the 'Dirrty' vid (tho that's still her best single imo).

it's kind of hard to be in a grimy fetish video and not look terrible

it's kind of impossible for aguilera to not be sexier than gaga

there's that, too

that WooHoo song should all be like that small choral-like intro

i agree but then it wouldn't be about getting your woohoo licked. so empowering.

i don't dislike "woohoo" but "you lost me" is def the standout of the leaks so far - pity the quality of the leak is ass

oh shit "Woohoo" is great

ok i actually love "woohoo" - derivative but of about 5m other things so it's all good, and i LOVE nicki's latest weird shivery voice

also

ALL THE BOYS THINK IT'S CAKE WHEN THEY TASTE MY--
YOU DON'T EVEN NEED A PLATE, JUST YOUR FACE, HAA--

it reminds me of something that could have been on Stripped, which is the ultimate compliment

idk about you guys but I still love "You Lost Me" a lot

it's kind of impossible for aguilera to not be sexier than gaga

^^^^ this. i was in a burberry store in an airport a few years ago, and a saleswoman was speaking with me. somehow we got on the topic of christina aguilera, at which point -- in a heavy russian accent -- she offered this opinion: "christina aguilera is a slut."

i promptly left the store.

thing is i don't even think Xtina is especially sexy (sexual, sure, but that's another thing), but no matter how robotically distant and calculating she comes off, Gaga will always be ten times moreso

http://www.theprophetblog.net/preview-three-new-tracks-from-christina-aguileras-bionic

they sound really... not good.

the fake Santigold track is just sad. I thought she was working with Ladytron on most of this....what gives?

"I hate boys"? oh wow, this is a piping hot mess.

leaked

and fer crying out loud can't someone change the thread title

hmm

duuuuuuude

re "elastic love" M.I.A. much? uhhhh

i guess i appreciate the energy of these tracks, i think she really believes in this one

this is all hitting me very hard

dud :(

moving along now

argh

accidentally clicked an Idolator link trying to track down "Elastic Love"

i really liked it

i think

Elastic Love works for me. I thought the whole album was supposed to sound like this? Instead, she gives us the sonic equivalent of Showgirls.

That Idol performance was pretty stunning imo.

("You Lost Me")

"you lost me" is great - on one listen this album seemed like a bit of a mess, and most of the uptempo tracks horribly dated, but it has a few good moments, mostly the ballads and "woohoo".

why is her voice autotuned on 'you lost me'

it is a commentary on loss

heh ;)

Predictably, I like the ones with the collaborators I already like - Elastic Love, My Girls, the Sia ballads and the Ladytron goth-trance one. I sense there was a massive boardroom freakout about thus stuff, hence the shit that sounds like cookie-cutter Pussycat Dolls pop. A lot of the bonus tracks should have replaced humdrum safe bets on the main disc.

"elastic love" and "sex for breakfast" are the keepers off of this one for me... overall I'm pretty disappointed but I'll give it a few more listens

yeah and "you lost me" of course

Sex for Breakfast? Really? Pure Flight of the Conchords.

sex for breakfast is ok. i would consider not skipping it if it came on shuffle. most of the material on this album is unfortunately very weak. i feel like her performance of "you lost me" on idol might as well have been a speech to 'the general public' re: the fate of her career for the next few years because there is very little chance this album is going to have even one successful single. "woohoo" is its only shot and that move doesn't seem particularly fruitful thus far.

well "sex for breakfast" reminds me of "loving me 4 me" which is my favorite xtina song, that's why I named it

it struck me as kind of robin thicke

not bad. i still feel like she's experimenting with other ppl's styles tho.

that's always been the issue with xtina though, she doesn't really have her own musical identity

insomuch as that is a "problem", I mean I guess her great voice is the 'constant' throughout all of her stylistic shifts

wasn't as much of a problem until these last 2 albums. and her voice is "great" but it can get annoying, or grating. i love her high register though.

like, "back to basics" and this just seem to be so obviously coveting somebody else's steez, that it's just kind of odd.

i would say "stripped" was very much christina.

not bad. i still feel like she's experimenting with other ppl's styles tho.

she made this into a real strength on stripped, i think - the mastery of a different distinct, contemporary style for each single felt like a real statement of intent, and enabled her to do some really interesting image-shifting stuff too. and the styles were subordinate to her own charisma, whereas here it mostly feels like she's trying to be other people as well as cop their styles.

^ otm

anyone else getting a "the love below" vibe from this? like the narrative progression from a night out,to relationship, to breakup, etc?

ok so i pretty much love "woohoo", "you lost me" and "sex for breakfast" and think the rest of the main album is embarrassingly dumb/dated trash, but why the fuck was this amazing piece of new wave disco relegated to bonus track status???

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCi5R13U-ug

(another bonus track, "birds of prey", is pretty good too)

i agree, i was pretty shocked. like, most of the non-bonus tracks are unlistenable and don't even deserve to be on the album at all. that one is actually really good. i don't know who in their right mind decided to make it a bonus track as if it were an afterthought.

yeah, that's a jam. haven't fully processed the album proper, but it's easily better than a lot of what made the cut ("lift me up" and "glam", for instance).

not myself tonight remix set the club on fire this wknd. undersold this album.

which remix?

couldn't tell you. it was thumpin and fast, and that melody sped up just a little bit sounded totally crazy and classic.

sounds interesting, i'll check a few out and report back!

yes please do!

Irving has some things to say:

lots of christina inquiries. you lost me is one of the greatest performances ever by a female singer. help make it a hit! see the video about 12 hours ago via web

christina fans. burlesque will blow your minds. just be patient about 12 hours ago via web

please be patient . you will see christina everywhere as soon as movie promo starts. she is working nonstop finishing music for the movie about 3 hours ago via TweetDeck

lol

I discovered this album last year, and thought it’s so great… yes, kind of corny at points, but in a way that’s fun/enjoyable to me. I didn’t know any of the Discourse around it from the time (Perez Hilton and all that), so it was cool just to get into the album without any of the baggage. (I’ve never been a Christina fan, and tried listening to all her other stuff after this, but it’s the only one that really hits for me.)

why the fuck was this amazing piece of new wave disco relegated to bonus track status???