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Christina Aguilera through the years

post #1 of 34
4/19/10 at 5:03pm
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Christina Aguilera is someone who I've always thought was capable of more than what she puts out. I think she really tries to be an artist, but doesn't often succeed. She goes for sentiment and her lyrics can't be read on multiple levels the way someone like Fiona Apple's can (The on-the-nose lyrics of a song like "Oh Mother" illustrate this pretty well). She's good at putting energy into uptempo tracks ("Dirrty," "What a Girl Wants"), but unless the song is about something that actually happened to her, she's not especially skilled with her phrasing in ballads and other more emotionally heavy tracks.

I'm really hoping that Aguilera's new album (where she collaborates with le tigre and M.I.A.) will be more innovative than what she's put out in the past.
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post #2 of 34
4/19/10 at 5:14pm
My penis has always liked her way more than my ears have.
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post #3 of 34
4/19/10 at 5:50pm
Ain't No Other Man was a great pop song. She gets a pass just for that. And for often being a stone cold fox.
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post #4 of 34
4/19/10 at 5:56pm
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post #5 of 34
4/19/10 at 5:58pm
I really liked her skanky "wearing panties, chaps, and bikini tops" era.

Well, my penis did. My brain thought it was pretty retarded.
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post #6 of 34
4/19/10 at 5:59pm
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My penis has always liked her way more than my ears have.
Lol, I just made damn near that same comment in the Taylor Momsen thread.
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post #7 of 34
4/19/10 at 9:34pm
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My penis has always liked her way more than my ears have.
This could be applied to most female pop singers. They've got to be attractive or half the population won't ever have a reason to talk about them.

I don't care for her music, but at least she can actually sing, and isn't 100% a product of post-production like a lot of these "divas".

Oh and yeah, boobs.
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post #8 of 34
4/20/10 at 4:39pm
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She looks so beautiful when she doesn't cake on 20 pounds of make-up.
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post #9 of 34
4/21/10 at 12:48pm
In college, I was friends with someone who went to high school with Xtina. Her nick name in school was Stinky Snatch. True story.
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post #10 of 34
4/21/10 at 1:16pm
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Her nick name in school was Stinky Snatch. True story.
Should I ask why? Mmmmm...
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post #11 of 34
4/21/10 at 1:21pm
She got caught shoplifting Limburger cheese.
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post #12 of 34
4/30/10 at 3:13pm
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Aguilera's new video
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post #13 of 34
4/30/10 at 3:33pm
lol lady gaga

What a Girl Wants is still king of the Aguilera videos in terms of fappage.
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post #14 of 34
4/30/10 at 4:48pm
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Christina Aguilera is someone who I've always thought was capable of more than what she puts out.
A whole week and no one's touched that line? What, are we maturing or something?
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post #15 of 34
4/30/10 at 5:20pm
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The more things change, the more they stay the same.
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post #16 of 34
4/30/10 at 8:43pm
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lol lady gaga

What a Girl Wants is still king of the Aguilera videos in terms of fappage.
yes yes the marie antoinette interlude yes
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post #17 of 34
4/30/10 at 10:06pm
Beyonce is an Of Montreal fan. Aguilera is collaborating with Le Tigre.

Next year, Scott Walker will be tutoring American Idol contestants. They'll be covering his early and modern material. Some young kid will ask him what his songs are about, and he'll hand him a cold, flabby piece of meat to punch rhythmically, in accordance with the vocals.
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post #18 of 34
4/30/10 at 10:59pm
I've always been a big fan of her music, though she has GOT to stop with all the runs in her songs. We know you can sing, honey, but when you wail away like a seal in heat and flail your hand around like Mariah Carey, you look like you're trying to be a diva instead of just being one.

My main issue with her is that she tries so hard with her videos and shit to stand out, when all she needs to do is open her mouth and sing to stand out. She blows her contemporaries out of the water vocally. Her problem is that she came onto the scene after Britney, and has bitterly stood in her shadow in terms of popularity ever since. She can try to play it off, but I can hear the bitterness in some of her interviews when Britney is mentioned. By constantly switching up her image from teen queen to filthy nasty diseased-looking trollop and back again, it makes her look less like a Madonna-esque figure reinventing herself and more like a lost little girl, one with no clue about who she is as an artist or person, playing dress-up and seeing which outfit gets her the biggest cookie from Mommy.
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post #19 of 34
5/1/10 at 2:14pm
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EW: Gone totally (Lady) Gaga, Madonna, or just desperate for relevance?
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post #20 of 34
5/1/10 at 3:30pm
Or referencing the title of the song? Way to dig deep there, EW.

There are a few shots in there that directly reference Madonna (and some clearly allude to Lady Gaga and I think a few are even Gwen Stefani-derived), so I'm thinking all of the lifts are pretty deliberate.

Not a huge departure for her, but I'll still take it over Gaga.
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post #21 of 34
5/1/10 at 3:52pm
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Her videos never seem to have very strong story-lines for some reason.

http://www.christinazone.com/videos/
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post #22 of 34
5/2/10 at 3:45pm
Pretty boring for a huge comeback hit after four years.
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post #23 of 34
6/9/10 at 9:10am
And the boring continues. Call it a major failure.

Three of the first four songs are quite catchy, but everything after that is really boring material. No killer ballad this time and it's pretty funny that a moan track named "Sex for Breakfast" gets followed by actual baby talk of her spawn.
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post #24 of 34
6/15/10 at 7:48pm
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VH1 Storytellers performances
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post #25 of 34
6/15/10 at 7:57pm
Listened to a few tracks from her new album out of curiosity. Not impressed. Xtina proves that it doesn't matter how great of a voice you've got. If the songwriting is boring and static, your vocal prowess means very little in the pop world, hence why she's always played second fiddle to Britney Spears. Sounds like she's trying too damn hard...again.

EDITED TO ADD: Xtina could only wish she could record something as sexy, modern, and fresh as Britney's Blackout or Circus. Or even In the Zone.
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post #26 of 34
6/15/10 at 8:35pm
A friend bought it and we had a listen on a long drive. It's terrible. She's trying way too hard and not trying hard enough simultaneously. She's pushing her sexuality into your face to the point that it stops being provocative and starts being trashy and uncomfortable to listen to. The lyrics are lazy, stupid, and uninvolving. There's not one catchy hook to be found here. "Lift Me Up" is the best track because she gives the "this is how much I like to FUUUUUUUUUCK!!!!!" shit a rest and shows off the voice that made her famous in the first place.
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post #27 of 34
6/15/10 at 8:42pm
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I kind of like "Bobblehead." It's nothing special lyrically, and subject of the song is territory already covered by Pink, but it's catchy.
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post #28 of 34
6/15/10 at 11:57pm
She just mutilated the National Anthem at Game 6 of the NBA Finals by doing all those ridiculous runs.
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post #29 of 34
6/16/10 at 4:06am
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She just mutilated the National Anthem at Game 6 of the NBA Finals by doing all those ridiculous runs.
Yep. Heard it on the radio. It was like the club version of the "Star Spangled and Smacked Azz". Classy.
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post #30 of 34
6/16/10 at 4:57am
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Listened to a few tracks from her new album out of curiosity. Not impressed. Xtina proves that it doesn't matter how great of a voice you've got. If the songwriting is boring and static, your vocal prowess means very little in the pop world, hence why she's always played second fiddle to Britney Spears. Sounds like she's trying too damn hard...again.

EDITED TO ADD: Xtina could only wish she could record something as sexy, modern, and fresh as Britney's Blackout or Circus. Or even In the Zone.
Her song Candyman is great and I'd put it up against any of Britney's recent output.
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post #31 of 34
6/17/10 at 9:56pm
She just mutilated the anthem AGAIN.
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post #32 of 34
6/17/10 at 10:18pm
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Or referencing the title of the song? Way to dig deep there, EW.

There are a few shots in there that directly reference Madonna (and some clearly allude to Lady Gaga and I think a few are even Gwen Stefani-derived), so I'm thinking all of the lifts are pretty deliberate.
Yup.



I think it's pretty hot personally.
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Her song Candyman is great and I'd put it up against any of Britney's recent output.
YES. Hot.
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post #33 of 34
6/17/10 at 10:32pm
This album is going to go copper. It is utterly unremarkable in every way.

I'm a big Xtina fan from back in the day, but she has no direction and no vision. There's a reason why record companies like to keep their artists in check, and this is the reason.

No more four year breaks for her. Who the hell does she think she is, Sade?
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post #34 of 34
6/18/10 at 6:13pm
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Jezebel: Will the real Christina Aguilera please stand up?
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