6/13/2023 0 Comments Christina aguilera cd bionicBut even that’s better than “Vanity” this is the song you’d get from mixing Lady Gaga and Ke$ha and represents the worst aspects of Aguilera’s career: brain-dead corporate songwriting, overwrought sexualization at the cost of substance. Referring to the female genitalia as “woohoo” when you’re not 12 is cringe-inducing and makes you question the depth she’ll go for mining a hit. Instead, even with brightly layered production from the likes of Polow Da Don, the lyrical styles made famous by the two female MCs are a massive step down for someone with the sheer vocal fury of Aguilera.īad impersonations seem like musical paradise when compared to the assaults against mankind that are “Woohoo” and “Vanity”. ripoffs, respectively), the tracks themselves aren’t weak. Whether it’s the relatively harmless (“Desnudate” features a chorus ripped from a Pitbull song, vocal style and all) to the embarrassing (the title track and and “Elastic Love” are like Santigold and M.I.A. In an attempt to further reinvent herself, Aguilera went all chameleon and recorded songs that sound just too familiar to a select list her management created in order to give her album an edge in the sales column. The lack of direction stems from a bad case of Madonna fever. But in Bionic, the problem is that with so much going on, not even the listener knows what to glean or where Xtina’s really headed. From virginal teen to crazed sexpot to mature R&B throwback goddess, the only consistency in her discography is the lack thereof. In my experience, the arc of her career is one you can plot nearly perfectly on a line graph. Aguilera (along with Jack Johnson, but that’s for another time). By extension, I was all too familiar with the work of Ms. I once dated a girl who loved Christina Aguilera.
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