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

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???