Christina Aguilera's New Album to be Released Aug. 15

[tpeezy101]

:: Christina Aguilera Goes Back To Basics, New Album Due August 15th
Paying tribute to the music that inspired her, pop icon Christina Aguilera will release her third studio album, Back To Basics, August 15th on RCA Records. A modern take on vintage jazz, soul and blues from the 1920s, ‘30s and ‘40s, the album is wildly inventive with a throwback style creating a sound that’s gritty and raw. Back To Basics reunites her with producer Linda Perry as well as creating new collaborations with producers such as DJ Premier.

The sexy first single, “Ain’t No Other Man,” produced by DJ Premier and Charles Roane, is set for release on June 12th. It will be world-premiered on the MTV Movie Awards on June 8th.

“This is a concept album that follows a bold, set vision,” stated Aguilera. “The touchstones are Billie Holiday, Otis Redding, Etta James and Ella Fitzgerald.... what I used to call my ‘fun music’ when I was a little girl.”

Back To Basics utilizes an orchestra, choir, string quartet and jazz horns, as well as techniques that offer a vintage sound and sensibility. “I Got Trouble” incorporates a scratchy blues feel, while “Candy Man” recalls the tight harmonies of all-girl groups from the ‘30s and ‘40s “Save Me From Myself” is an emotionally naked, raw-sounding song dedicated to her husband. “Thank You,” dedicated to her fans, features DJ Premier splicing bits of “Genie In A Bottle” with fan voicemail messages. Also sure to appeal to Aguilera fans is the risqué song “Nasty Naughty Boy” (which has a ‘20s burlesque feel) and the club track “Still Dirrty,” assuring her fans that she’s “still got the nasty in me, …still got that dirty degree…still got that freak in me.”
-posted 5/10/06

source: christinaaguilera.com

 

[psylockespears]

Still Dirrty!!???? LOL stupid bitch

Even tho i reckon fans and the public want "Dirrty" X-Tina not Ella Fitzgerald Christina....Hmmm im really interested in seeing what its gonna sound like,and what impact it will have.Lookin forward to it

 

[tpeezy101]

"Still Dirrty" is a collaboration she did w/ Nas. I think it has something to do w/ his album called "stillmatic" which was a sequel to "illmatic."

 

[Yeehaw]

I don't understand why she keeps pushing back the release of the the album, last time I heard was April, and now August?

Anyways, this is my most anticipated album this year, can't wait to hear what it sounds like.

 

[Kuja]

Still Dirrty!!???? LOL stupid bitch

Even tho i reckon fans and the public want "Dirrty" X-Tina not Ella Fitzgerald Christina....Hmmm im really interested in seeing what its gonna sound like,and what impact it will have.Lookin forward to it

I agree, so far, I can't say I'm interested in the least, and I own all of her previous albums. Same goes for Brit.

 

[evilest]

It could be good, but it could also be a radical shift that alienatesw fans. But then no-one will know until it's heard.

 

[iflookscouldkill]

I'm excited, the clip I heard of "Ain't No Other Man" sounded awesome

 

[ross_1986]

I'm excited, beucase it's gonna different than anything else at whatever time it's out. I can't wait to here the first single.

 

[tpeezy101]

I don't understand why she keeps pushing back the release of the the album, last time I heard was April, and now August?

Anyways, this is my most anticipated album this year, can't wait to hear what it sounds like.

She never really gave a date. Any dates you heard were purely rumor. The only thing Christina said was "spring." Which the first single comes out June 12, and is premiered at the Movie awards on the 8th, which is still Spring.

I wouldn't be worried about her alienating her fans. She said it would be a throwback to that era with a MODERN EDGE!!!!

 

[Chosen]

Looking forward to that, thanks for the heads up!

 

[MetaKnight]

Honestly im not excited bout this album at all.

 

[Love_chair]

thats cool that her albums coming out soon hope its good

 

[JesseNYC]

Yuck I never liked her, she always came off as a Britney wannabe, and Britney is a Madonna wannabe.

 

[Gemini_Valley]

Goodness. Lets not start the dated Brit-Brit vs. Xtina debate. There's enough room for both to coexist within the same music genre. Besides, everyone is a throw-back to someone else's days.

Anyways. . . I'm looking forward to her new album.

 

[tpeezy101]

UPDATE!!!

Christina Aguilera's New LP: Some Jazz, Some Hip-Hop Soul ... And Some Burlesque
05.17.2006 6:54 PM EDT

Saucy singer goes old-school bluesy — but don't worry, there's plenty of sex appeal.
Christina Aguilera in the June 2006 issue of GQ
Photo: Michael Thompson

Christina Aguilera is mighty jazzed about her forthcoming "retro" album — which she previews in GQ's June cover story. "Aguilera 3.0," as the magazine calls her, has turned into a "Jazz Age Broadway-baby songbird," and to prove it, the singer is planning a tour of jazz clubs to promote her concept album, Back to Basics.

"In the end, it's really cool to just follow a set vision," Aguilera told the mag. "I think it makes for a better product."

To hear Etta James — a legendary R&B singer who called Aguilera both a friend and "a great little singer" — tell it, the young vocalist will have no problem holding her own in such venues as New York's renowned Blue Note. "For a young girl like that to be singing real songs? I mean, she's headed for the pop market, but she can do everything. She's like somebody that was born at another time. An old soul."

According to the magazine, Back to Basics begins with a spooky 1920s carnival fantasia, with producer Linda Perry playing a carnival barker promising thrills and chills: "Welcome to the greatest show ... greatest show on earth!" Then the orchestra sweeps into an Abbey Road-esque chord progression as Aguilera's alto soars.

The album next reveals a throwback hip-hop-soul sound that uses a string quartet, horns and jury-rigged recording techniques to evoke a vintage sound and sensibility. To attain the scratchy blues sound in "I Got Trouble," producers used a bass-drum mic with fabric muffling it, and had Aguilera record the vocal when she had a cold. To get her voice even more raw for "Save Me From Myself," Aguilera drank whiskey and recorded up close on the mic, "with no ad-libs, no nothing," according to the singer.

"That's so not like me," Aguilera told the mag. "No effects, no reverb — and I'm a reverb queen. Every scratch, every little imperfection is there."

Getting that musically naked was possible due to the singer's trust in Perry, which developed during sessions for Aguilera's 2002 LP Stripped. "I would never be able to be as open with anybody else," Aguilera told GQ. "I think we push each other to go places that we wouldn't normally go."

The notoriously wild singer is still drawn to sassy material, such as Back to Basics's club track "Still Dirrty" ("Still got the nasty in me/ Still got that dirty degree/ Still got that freak in me") and "Naughty Naughty Boy" ("Now you better give me a little taste/ Put your icing on my cake"), the latter of which has a '20s burlesque feel (see "Christina's New Split-Personality Album Is Mature And 'Dirrty' "). Other songs include "Candy Man," which recalls the tight harmonies of all-female vocal groups from the '30s and '40s, and "Thank You," which features DJ Premier splicing bits of "Genie in a Bottle" with fan voicemail messages.

"It's been a long process making this album — I'm extremely detail-oriented, so I had to really take time with it," Aguilera said. "It's a big album. I recorded enough for a double CD, but fit it into one so it's affordable to everyone."

http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1532003/05172006/aguilera_christina.jhtml?headlines=true

 

[LoveMen]

eek!

 

[tpeezy101]

^hahaha, i doubt you coudl be a bigger fan than I. lol.

 

[Okayyy]

Yuck I never liked her, she always came off as a Britney wannabe, and Britney is a Madonna wannabe.

Fuck off BITCH! Christina is NOT a Britney wannabe! And fuck Madonna! (No offense madonna fans)