Re: Aguilera: Bionic [Spring 2010]
Lol! I love that "I'm OK" video, where she's clearly exploiting her "domestic abuse" situation in order to turn a profit. Boo hoo, Christina. Pretty odd that, for an autobiographical song, she couldn't even write it herself. Hmm...
She actually co-wrote it with Linda Perry. The story goes that, during their first few meetings, Linda wanted Christina to open up more on the album, so she put her in the booth, and Christina sang the song in only one or two takes. While singing, she was emotional and started to cry (you can actually hear her voice cracking on the track). I don't think anyone is going to call Christina a profound songwriter anytime soon (she's had alot of help from different people throughout her career); but she does bring honesty and emotion to the songs to which she needs to bring them. That, to me, is what a real artist does.
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"exploiting her situation in order to turn profit"?? What the hell? Domestic violence (especially witnessing it as a child) has a huge affect on you as a person, and she expressed that personal experience in a song (uhhhh, that's not unheard of, after all). I'm sure there are plenty of people who are thankful to her for being so honest because hearing someone else's account and knowing they're not alone in that experience helps them heal themselves. It wasn't a single, there was no video, and the first time she even performed it for people was at the Storytellers concert (probably because the song has a very heavy backstory and that's pretty much what that specific show is all about) - so I don't see how she's exploited anything.
And nope, I don't detect a whiff of emotion in her voice. She sings that little tune the same way that she sings her brilliant lyrics about her vag tasting like assorted baked goods.
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wow....I seriously don't know what to say to this.
I actually think alot of the bashers in this thread would be singing a completely different story if she'd decided to do an album of all ballads, because it's clear those are the songs where she blows pretty much everyone away. But because she took her "pop princess" image from years ago and did a modern twist on it by doing more upbeat, fun, silly songs, people consider it forced or insincere, which is totally missing the point of the album.
Also, nobody ever said she had a great management team behind her. Maybe the choices of singles to put out have been wrong ones and maybe her record company is making mistake after mistake promoting this project - but that's happened throughout the history of music. You can't really blame the artist or say that they're the one fucking it up, because their hands are really tied in that situation.
