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| Underwood Taking 'Beautiful' To The Next Level With 'Danger'/ - Jul 2003 | SHE left the sinking Bardot ship in 2001 and unlike most popstars, she has managed to keep her head above water.
Katie Underwood has signed a record deal with Transistor Music to launch her solo career.
For her debut song Danger, which will hit the airwaves from August 11, Underwood has teamed up with Australian producer Shane Monopoli, who recently returned from the US and the UK working with Justin Timberlake and Christina Aguilera's producer Guy Roche.
In the UK, Monopoli teamed up with Craig David's producer, Ignorants, and in Australia he has worked with her old Bardot pal, Sophie Monk... |
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| What a Girl Wants Is to Be a Star--and Herself - Jul 2003 | She's talented, driven and misunderstood--and always has been. She's a sex symbol, a lightning rod for controversy and an unusually outspoken star. She rode the boom of teenybop pop to stardom but has always belted out evidence of a more intricate talent--and a more complex life.
Tune in to E!'s intimate two-hour special Christina Aguilera, premiering Sunday, July 20, at 8 p.m., to get the inside story of this sensation's early years and rise to fame. |
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| Community Group Goes To Bat For Teen - Jul 2003 | While many students are hitting the malls to shop for their back-to-school wardrobes, Kayla Sansone has a more immediate goal in mind. As a special guest of Christina Aguilera, the Cranberry teenager has been searching for the perfect outfit to wear to the pop diva's concert Monday at Mellon Arena, Uptown.
When Aguilera found out that Sansone, 13, is an avid fan, she arranged for Sansone to attend her concert and meet with her backstage.
"I was speechless when I was told I would meet her," said Kayla, who has been diagnosed with stage IV alveolar rhabdomyosarcoma, a rare and aggr... |
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| Mandy Moore's Nonblond Ambition - Jul 2003 | | Mandy Moore released her first record, "So Real," in 1999, the world was a blonder place. Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera led the field of cheerily debased female teenage video superstars. And even the Oval Office scandals of the time had the light, bouncy rhythms of a blond cable sitcom — "Sex and the Nation's Capital" — although admittedly one that, being the result of reality and not casting, starred a brunette. |
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| Nylon Magazine Article - Jul 2003 |  Christina Aguilera has freckles. You probably never knew this, because she covers them with makeup. "I'm glad you didn't notice them," she says, smiling and gazing into her merlot in a Beverly Hills hotel bar. "I never really like my freckles to show—it's my own thing."
Freckles aren't the only thing Aguilera's uncomfortable exposing. Talking to her is an elaborate game of bait-and-switch: After every personal revelation—about her abusive childhood, her politics—she dives behind a smokescreen of neat evasions and polite replies. It's what makes her confounding as an artist... |
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| Aguilera Eyes Up Movie Role - Jul 2003 | Pop vixen Christina Aguilera is poised to play a scheming mistress in an American TV movie - marking her first venture into acting.
The Beautiful singer is set to join acting stalwarts Robin Givens, Farrah Fawcett and Melissa Gilbert in the small screen adaptation of Jackie Collins' raunchy novel Hollywood Wives: The New Generation.
And the pop star - who's often been criticized for her saucy image - has reportedly refused to portray a "sweet" character in the film for American network CBS, preferring instead to be cast as a villain.
A movie source says, "It's true Christina... |
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| Pop Duo Sheds Bubble Gum Aura - Jul 2003 | The boy next door got a famous blond girlfriend and did you know what. The girl next door squelched her sweetness and went vamp.
Justin Timberlake and Christina Aguilera - "Justified and Stripped," as they call their double-headliner tour this summer.
Once Mouseketeers, they're all grown up now.
That's giving a whole cadre of young girls license to flaunt what they haven't yet got, for teenage girls to swing what they just got - and for moms and dads to provide many of the rides to the St. Pete Times Forum, where the duo played Monday night.
Girls floated into the arena bearing ... |
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| Mouse Club Roll Call - Jul 2003 | Justin Timberlake and Christina Aguilera are in town tonight to strut their stuff and give what might be Orlando's flashiest performance of the season.
The concert will reunite Timberlake and Aguilera with Orlando, where the two met in 1994 as new cast members of the latest version of theMickey Mouse Club show. Britney Spears was part of the same group. All three have since rocketed to pop superstardom.
Together, they form a strange triangle. Timberlake and Spears flirted with commitment, were rumored to be engaged, then had a messy breakup. There were more rumors of Timberlake's post-Britne... |
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| Slick Justin-Christina show no Mickey Mouse production - Jul 2003 | Justin Timberlake was 5 years old when Run-DMC reinvented Aerosmith's "Walk This Way" and ushered rap into suburban living rooms in 1986. Like many other white kids of his generation, he grew up with hip-hop culture, and it has impacted him profoundly.
Emancipated from the boy band *NSYNC, at least temporarily, he is free to engage his inner Michael Jackson, his inner Brian McKnight, his inner Biz Markie. At the New Orleans Arena on Tuesday, Timberlake spent long moments suspended above the front rows on the tip of a crane, doing his best human beatbox. Clad in an Adidas jacket, th... |
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| Aguilera And Timberlake Perform Duet - Jul 2003 | Pop diva Christina Aguilera, 22, is to perform a duet with former 'N'Sync boyband member Justin Timberlake.
The pair who have already signed up to tour the States this summer, now say they plan to work on a song that they could perform together.
Insiders say they have talked about re-working Rock Your Body from Justin's solo album Justified which topped the UK charts earlier this year.
Christina, often referred to as 'bad girl Britney' after Justin Timberlake's former girlfriend Britney Spears, had a UK No.1 with her single Beautiful.
Depending on the results, the pop stars say more duets ... |
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| David Lee Roth Sees Danger Ahead For Christina Aguilera - Jul 2003 | | Blender magazine asked Van Halen’s former frontman David Lee Roth if he felt any younger stars embodied the spirit of Dave-ness. "Someone like Christina Aguilera is a work in progress," Roth replied. "She’s trying to sharpen herself while in the public eye, and that’s always a difficult prospect. I don’t think she’s going to do it. I see a lot of trouble there. I see an unhappy little gal who didn’t really figure out who she was before she came under the microscope."... |
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| Timberlake's Return Rocks The Pyramid - Jul 2003 | How fast they sprout.
Just a few short years ago, Memphis idol Justin Timberlake was reveling in teen stardom with his mega-million-selling band 'N Sync.
Now he's said bye, bye, bye to all that. Timberlake is on his own and confidently so, as he proved Friday at The Pyramid in a double bill with another pop icon meeting adulthood (awkwardly) head on, Christina Aguilera.
Dubbed the "Justified and Stripped" tour after the singers' current solo albums, Friday night's show drew 12,753 people, a mostly young and female crowd that wasn't quite the sell-out one might have expected giv... |
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| Xtina Talking About Herself N Stuff - Jul 2003 | Aguilera is currently on tour with her old friend and Mouseketeer colleague Justin Timberlake, and despite a gruelling schedule, she says touring keeps her happy.
"I love performing," she says. "That's when it all comes together, all the hard work you've done in the studio. Especially with this album -- with me getting to do my own material, and putting on my own show from my own perspective, making it as personal as some of the lyrics on the album.
"It's a really theatrical show," she adds. "It's almost like seeing a play -- it gives you a mixture of many dif... |
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| Aguilera, Timberlake Talents Shine Through Glitz - Jul 2003 | Somewhere along the way, someone convinced Justin Timberlake and Christina Aguilera that a tour with both of them had to be filled with hightech glitz and Vegas-like effects -- as if the whole thing had to wipe out an audience's memory of anything that came before.
Anything like, say, Britney Spears? So much for calling it "Justified and Stripped."
Actually, the amazing thing about the co-headlining extravaganza that Justin and Christina brought to Tampa on Monday night wasn't the staggering amount of effects or mindnumbing production values, but the fact that their respective talen... |
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| The Cost Of Attending A Concert - Jul 2003 | Thousands of Mid-Southerners rocked and rolled at the Pyramid Friday night. But some say the price to party is just too much! It's the RISING cost of entertainment, and just where the money's going.
Hometown boy Justin Timberlake and Christina Aguillera are performed for thousands of Mid-Southerners inside the Pyramid. Screaming fans cheered them on. A spokesman for the Pyramid says it sold more than 12-thousand tickets for the concert and it has the seating capacity for over 16-thousand.
For this concert, fans paid anywhere from 32-dollars up to $64 and that doesn't include parking. They p... |
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| Top 10 Most Desirable People - Jul 2003 | Univision has named their 10 most desirable people. They are as follows:
1. Thalia
2. Jennifer Lopez
3. Shakira
4. Juanes
5. Ricky Martin
6. Paulina Rubio
7. Luis Miguel
8. Christina Aguilera
9. Aracelis Arambula
10. Britney Spears... |
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| Pop Star Duo Showing Signs Of Growing Up - Jul 2003 | Much could be learned about modern post-adolescence at the Justin Timberlake and Christina Aguilera Justified and Stripped concert. First and foremost: Girls still mature much faster than boys.
Sunday at the Compaq Center, both the 'N Sync star and the pop princess were given 90 minutes to present a case for career viability. Now that the turn-of-the-century infatuation with taffy-pulled teen tunes has lost steam, why should we still care?
The answer, for better or worse, is that both have found more personal, mature personas.
Timberlake now can blend the melody hooks, choreography and stag... |
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| VIVA Comet Awards Nominations - Jul 2003 | Nominations for The VIVA Comet Awards will be held on August 15th in Germany, and up for best international act are: Christina Aguilera, Robbie Williams, Blue, Jennifer Lopez, and Shania Twain. Nominated for best newcomer are t.A.T.u., Evanescence, Avril Lavigne, Panjabi MC, and Gareth Gates.
Check out all the nominees : http://www.viva.tv/5857.php... |
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| Conan O'Brien Jokes About Britney, Christina & *NSYNC - Jul 2003 | | "He said as his final joke, "Britney Spears is the news everyone" (Audience whoops and hollers) "Thats right she has now admitted that she is no longer virgin in 'W' magazine.... and meanwhile Christina Aguilera has also admitted she is no longer a virgin in 'Duh' magazine." He also had his famous SAT analogies on her. "Britney is to losing her virginity to Justin Timberlake as, that's right, *NSYNC is to losing their virginity to Justin Timberlake."... |
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| Hilarie Burton Won Over By Christina After Initial Snub - Jul 2003 | TRL co-host Hilarie Burton spoke with CosmoGIRL magazine about how she was initially miffed at Christina Aguilera after getting snubbed on her first assignment with MTV as a contest winner at the VMA's, only to have the singer apologize when they later met.
"When I was on the red carpet at the VMA's as a contest winner, Christina Aguilera and Britney Spears wouldn't stop to talk to me," Hilarie explained. "You can actually see them blowing me off on camera! The next day on TRL, when Carson asked me about it, I said, 'Whatever, they didn't win anyway.' But my bosses thought it ... |
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| Who Should Date Justin Timberlake? - Jul 2003 | In the July 2003 edition of Girlfriend Australia page 115, "Who Should Date Justin Timberlake?" is one of the "We asked- you answered!" question. Here are the result:
Britney Spears 24%
Christina Aguilera 19%
Kylie Minoque 10%
JC Chasez 9%
Dannii Minoque 4%
He should stay single 34%... |
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| Christina on being defined by a lot of words - Jul 2003 | Christina on being defined by a lot of words nowadays; dirrty, beautiful, stripped...
It wasn't really planned that way... but I don't know... The next single is called "Fighter"! [laughs] But you know, I think it's good to keep it simple and straight to the point. I hate songs that have long titles. Plus I wanted the name of the album to pretty much reflect how I felt about getting rid od all layers upon myself emotionally to make such a personal record. This time around I wanted to show ppl the real me.... |
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| Beyonce Loves Christina - Jul 2003 | Beyonce's top 10 songs acording to MTV LA
10-Eminem - Lose Your self
09-Thalia - I want you
08-Kelly Rowland - Stole
07-Christina Aguilera - Dirrty
06-Jay Z - Stop
05-Nelly - Work It
04-Christina Aguilera - Beautiful
03-Jewel - Intuition
02-Cold play - Yellow
01-Christina Aguilera - Cant Hold Us Down... |
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| Juicy Christina Aguilera Quote - Jul 2003 | | We love a juicy Christina Aguilera quote, and here's a new one. She says, "I'm not naive enough to sit here and say I've never tried... you know... drugs. But I found out they weren't for me. I mean, I really found out."... |
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| Dolly Hot 100 - Jul 2003 | Yup, it's Hot 100 time. Vote for your fave singer, actress, rapper, rocker and whoever you think is hot enough to be number one. Then there's only one thing left to do, log on to Dolly's website and vote away.
To vote, all you have to do is to go to http://www.ninemsn.com.au/dolly and then follow the links to the Hot 100 page. So vote now for your fave! *coughCHRISTINAcough*... |
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| Christina ghettoes a whole new look - Jul 2003 |  Pop babe Christina Aguilera looks really fit as she cooly shoulders a giant ghetto-blaster - and even in '80s gear manages to look dynamite.
Christina, 22, wears a naff-chic retro kit - a lilac bodywarmer, footie shorts and knee-length white socks - for her new video.
The film sees her parading through New York for an ultra-stylish shoot by director David LaChappelle.
An insider on the set said: "David is the guy who directed the video Dirrty and is sure this will make people sit up and take notice too. It is full of bright colours and yellow cabs."
The video is for the new singl... |
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| Get physical - Jul 2003 |  Get physical
Christina’s palms show a deep physical energy – she’s a very tactile person and she loves sex. She has a deep thumb which tells us of her open-mindedness and curiosity. Her padded finger tips aren’t pointed, so she’s a list-maker and strives to accomplish much in her life.... |
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| Justin & Christina: Hot & Heavy? - Jul 2003 |  Summer’s hottest tours
Justin & Christina:
Hot & Heavy?
How these two make beautiful music together
Back in January, Christina announced, “Me and Justin are going to go out, and it’s going to go out, and it’s going to be such an amazing thing!” Of course, she was talking about going out on tour, but it didn’t take long for rumors to swirl about a possible budding romance between the two singers.
So, is the hottest ticket in town turning the headlines into a hot item? Xtina was quick to put to rest any speculation that her relationship with J was anything more than professional: “Jus... |
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| Christina Aguilera Dirrty Diva - Jul 2003 |  Christina Aguilera
Dirrty Diva
She’s half Ecuadorean, but is she really Latina enough? We know there’s been plenty of flap over the is-Christina-just-posing issue, so here’s our take. When she debuted in 1999, record label pushed her to change her last name to something less, shall we say, ethnic. Most Americans, the music execs feared, would get tongue-tied and turned off by having to pronounce “Aguilera.” A teenager at the time, the young singer stood up to the powers that be and said no way-then proceeded to record Mi reflejio, which includes the Spanish version of her megahit “Genie in a... |
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| Best female? - Jul 01, 2003 | The Disney Channel Kids Awards voting has just begun for their 2003 awards...
The ceremony will take place on September 20th, and be broadcast on the channel the next day.
There are several categories to vote in, and Christina has been nominated in the 'Best Female' category.
She's already had 3 big hit singles from her Stripped album, and there's likely to be at least 1 more single before the end of the year.... |
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| Justin And Christina Impressive At SBC Center - Jul 01, 2003 | Pop singers Justin Timberlake and Christina Aguilera brought their disparate skills together for a dynamic and impressive Saturday night that won the packed house at SBC Center.
The kids, the ones on stage, had come to prove they were all grownup and rocking on all cylinders. They succeeded, though there were some uneven spots.
Timberlake exploded on stage at 9:45 p.m. with a thunder wave of horn-powered R&B rhythms that set the energy level for the evening — all high all the time.
He opened with "Rock your Body," an excellent choice. The familiar melodic grooves and dance inte... |
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| Young Stars Show Grown-up Stuff - Jul 01, 2003 | On their latest CDs, Justin Timberlake and Christina Aguilera, both 22, reached for a more mature sound and lyrical outlook. He's looking to get beyond the gooey/sugary teen pop of 'N Sync, and she's trying to establish herself as a gosh-darn real adult with, of course, issues -- and to shed her kewpie-doll image.
This is working commercially: The coheadline tour nearly filled the American Airlines Center on Thursday night, and the crowd wasn't just giggly 12-year-olds and their frazzled moms. Twenty-something women (most with bare bellies and low-slung pants) and young couples came out in dr... |
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| Aguilera's Concert An Emotional Rollercoaster - Jul 01, 2003 | After the shuttle ride from hell (apparently there are no driving laws in Las Vegas and medians are just there for show), and a quick switch from the Hilton to the Hilton Grand, I collapse in my room, already exhausted from either the heat or the intense feeling that I am in an amusement park for adults. I have been sent to interview Christina Aguilera for her portion of the "Justifed and Stripped" Tour.
At this point I am still awaiting a call from RCA (Christina's label) telling me exactly when and where this alleged meet and greet will be taking place. I have, however, already he... |
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| Lil' Mo Dissmisses Christina Aguilera Diss - Jul 01, 2003 | | Lil' Mo wrote on her website today and talked about dissing Chritina Aguilera. She said, "Hey Y'all, it's ya girl Lil Meezy checkin' in with ya. All is well with me and the family and in case y'all didn't know, I am on the Rock the Mic tour. It is OFF the Chains so if we come to your city and you get the chance please come thru and check it out, you will not be disappointed. Last but not least, I would like to dispel any RUMORS you guys have been hearing about a so-called dis to Christina Aguilera. That is totally untrue, and all my TRUE fans know that I don't get down like that. My words... |
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| Aguilera Gets Keys - Jul 01, 2003 |  CHRISTINA AGUILERA is branching out with a collaboration with ALICIA KEYS.
Keys has co-produced the track Impossible, a big piano ballad, for Aguilera's upcoming album which she says will include "pimped out vocals".
The pair spent several days at New York's Electric Lady Studios last month putting down the track, which is produced by the Crucial Keys team of Alicia and her partner, Kerry Brothers.
According to MTV.com, Aguilera said: "I like the piano," when she heard the slow, chord-driven track Keys devised to complement her big voice. "Now I gotta learn how t... |
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| Frankie Muniz Dreams Of Going Home To Christina While Shooting 'Banks 2' - Jul 01, 2003 | LONDON — Sure it was horridly early in the morning, but Frankie Muniz was all smiles. And why shouldn't he be? Not many 17-year-olds get to visit England to make a sequel to their last movie. And even fewer kids can look forward to maybe throwing a barbeque with Christina Aguilera when they get home.
"I live in a pretty celebrity-filled area," explained the "Malcolm in the Middle" star, who just bought his first house but hasn't had a chance to settle in. "Christina Aguilera lives right up the street, Halle Berry, Leonardo DiCaprio, Tobey Maguire. Keanu Reeves just b... |
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| Justin & Christina CD Available Exclusively At Target - Jul 02, 2003 | A new track by Justin Timberlake called "Why, When, How" and a new track by Christina Aguilera called "That's What Love Can Do" are featured on Justin & Christina--a new CD currently available exclusively at Target stores.
The CD also includes two remixed tracks from each of the artists. Aguilera offers "Beautiful" and "Fighter" remixes and Timberlake contributes "Rock Your Body" and "Cry Me A River" remixes.
Timberlake, currently with Aguilera on their Justified & Stripped tour, told LAUNCH that recently he's learned to app... |
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| Aguilera Falls In Love With Monkey Lamp - Jul 02, 2003 | | The Dallas Morning News reports Christina Aguilera checked into Hotel ZaZa last week the night before her big American Airlines Center with *NSYNC star Justin Timberlake, where she fell in love with the French-style monkey lamp in her hotel suite. She asked ZaZa management to name its price. It did, and the lamp has now joined the 'Justified and Stripped' tour.... |
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| Briefly: Christina Aguilera and Justin Timberlake - Jul 02, 2003 | Target stores are offering an exclusive six-track CD that features new songs by Christina Aguilera and Justin Timberlake, who are currently on the road together.
The disc includes the new Aguilera song "That's What Love Can Do" and remixes of "Beautiful" and "Fighter." Rounding out the set is the previously unavailable Timberlake song "Why, When, How," and remixes of earlier releases "Rock Your Body" and "Cry Me a River."... |
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| Christina Aguilera to tour Australia - Jul 02, 2003 |  Christina Aguilera is on her way back to Australia.
This will be the second visit for the popstar but her first tour. BMG Managing Director Ed St. John confirmed the tour but dates are yet to be announced.
He also kept the promoter details under-wraps but said it was one of the promoters in the room at the time. Both Michael Gudinski of Frontier Touring and Michael Coppel of Michael Coppel Presents were at the BMG function. "It is one of the Michaels" Ed said.
Christina is about to release a new song in the USA. The song "That's What Love Can Do" is a newly recorded, pre... |
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| Jason Mraz Becomes Jason Timberlake - Jul 02, 2003 | Jason Mraz is well known for slipping in a few bizarre covers into his setlist. On this tour he is doing Christina Aguilera.
"We've actually started doing some Christina Aguilera as well as some NAS.I just throw in random pop tunes. I can be Jason Timberlake" he tells Undercover News.
With a major US tour coming up with the likes of Bon Jovi and Liz Phair Jason says he isn't game to perform a song from someone he is touring with. "That is something I have never done with an artist I am on tour with" he says. "Do we play an old Liz Phair tune or slip in a classic Bon ... |
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| Christina monkeys around - Jul 02, 2003 | Some poor schlep in Christina Aguilera's entourage is now looking after the monkey lamp. The "Dirrty" girl checked into Hotel ZaZa last week the night before her big American Airlines Center show with Cameron Diaz 's new boy toy, Justin Timberlake.
Xtina (her manager, music-biz powerhouse Irving Azoff, tells me that's the cool shorthand for her name) fell in love with the French-style monkey lamp in her ZaZa suite. She asked hotel management to name its price. It did, and the lamp has now joined the "Justified and Stripped" tour.
Dallas proved to be a spot where Christi... |
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| Does she think her butt's better than Kylie's? - Jul 02, 2003 |  Christina Aguilera showed exactly how she lures fellas onto the dancefloor at London club Sketch recently!
The raunchy superstar beckoned record producer Pharrell Williams up from his seat and then offered him her pert bottom to fondle! It was almost identical to the moment at the Brits when Kylie Minoque thrust her butt in direction of Justin Timberlake's mitts - except Christina chose to bend right over for her rear-end offering.
Her Dirrty display didn't impress Pharrel's girlfriend, Jade Jagger! But we reckon it was just a case of some friendly flirting that got a little out of hand beca... |
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| Christina offers a new tune, Chilis extend tour - Jul 03, 2003 |  A new CHRISTINA AGUILERA track, "That's What Love Can Do," will be featured on a new six-song sampler available from Target. The set also features songs by her tourmate JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE.... |
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| Piping Up - Jul 03, 2003 | | Songbird Christina Aguilera is causing a ruckus in her new Beverly Hills neighborhood -- and her neighbors love it. When she's in town, Christina keeps her pipes in tiptop shape by doing vocal exercises late at night. I asked one of her neighbors if it bothered them. "Not at all," she said. "We open our French doors and listen. It's like a free concert in our bedroom!"... |
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| Who are these girls? - Jul 03, 2003 | Is it us, or do stars change images these days at warp speed? Madonna was always the mother of re-invention, but at least she took a couple of years between selves.
Christina Aguilera sports a dark hairdo and a fuller physique on her recent tour.
AP
This week we're seeing new wow photos of Britney Spears in W magazine. When we last left her, she was a girl, not yet a woman. Now look at her. In black rubber.
And also arriving this week are Christina Aguilera's hot new Versace winter ad campaign photos, appearing in the August Interview. They were taken just months ago, when she was a r... |
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| Christina Aguilera Talks About Her Image Change - Jul 04, 2003 |  July 4— How did Christina Aguilera, the sweet-faced teen whose first hit was for a Disney cartoon, turn into the semi-naked temptress bumping and grinding in her new orgy-like video, "Dirty"?
Her answer is simple: "I'm growing up, just like everybody does."
Aguilera rocketed to the top of the pop music world in 1999 with Reflection, the theme tune for Disney's animated film Mulan. (Disney is the parent company of ABCNEWS.com.) Her self-titled first album sold more than 12 million copies and won the Grammy for best new artist.
She was celebrated by fans across the wo... |
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| How did Justin Timberlake and Christina Aguilera survive their fickle teenage fo - Jul 04, 2003 | OK, we're confused: Justin Timberlake and Christina Aguilera are selling millions of CDs? And drawing thousands and thousands of people to what Rolling Stone has officially told us is the sexiest tour of the year?
What year is it, anyway?
After all, as we all know, teen pop stars come and teen pop stars go - and usually quickly.
One day you've got 14-year-old girls screaming at you and adorning their bedrooms with your photo, and a year or two later you're a trivia question at a beer bash, old news as your former fans get out of high school and discover new favorites.
But no, it really is ... |
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| 50 cent Reigns on First half of 2003 - Jul 04, 2003 | | Christina's "Beautiful" placed 8th as the Most Listened to song in airwaves for the first half of 2003. |
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| Christina obtains its better position in the stops of Italy - Jul 05, 2003 | | Stripped" went up this week of rank 59 for the 16 in sales of records of Italy. The maximum position that Christina had obtained in this country was rank 17, but with this new result, "Stripped" obtained to surpass the old mark of Christina. If it waits that for the next weeks the COMPACT DISC enters in Top 10 and with this it will have to obtain to gain the platinum record certificate, since so far it obtained the gold record certificate.... |
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| Early Christina Recordings Hit Stores In August - Jul 05, 2003 | Christina Aguilera has taken off her gloves and ceased legal sparring with Warlock Records and its affiliates, allowing for the release of "Just Be Free," an album that contains demo tracks the singer recorded when she was 14 and 15 years old.
Last week, Aguilera, who filed suit in May and was subsequently countersued, reached a settlement with Warlock, Platinum Recordings and JFB Music; as a result, the LP will be hitting stores on August 21.
However, even though Aguilera -- who says the music was never intended to be made public -- has given up her fight, she isn't exactly giving... |
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| Mandy Moore Shows She Knows How to Deal - Jul 06, 2003 | | "Mandy presents a very positive image," Seventeen's Morgan says. "She's the young, smart girl. Readers admire her fashion sense. Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera have such a big superstar vibe that they seem untouchable, and the life they lead is so different from the average girl's. Mandy is someone our readers would like to be friends with. She gives off a girl-next- door vibe. She's not pretentious." |
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| Losing their credibility along with their clothing - Jul 06, 2003 | Pop life has become a game of Beat the Clock. At a tenuous bend in their careers, Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera are scrambling to grow up before their ex-teen (or X-tina) stardom renders them has-beens. (So far, Aguilera has succeeded; the verdict on Britney is out until her next album.) That's to be expected. No one stays a child star forever.
More unsettling are the antics of Jewel and Liz Phair, who seem determined to regain their '90s star power by jettisoning artistic cachet to gamble on the same ephemeral celebrity that teen-pop icons are working so hard to outgrow.
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| Christina should stop playing with that skanky hose - Jul 06, 2003 |  Christina Aguilera
Los Angeles, Calif.
July 6, 2003
Dear Christina,
How are you? I am fine.
Right, like you care.
I came across an item in your hometown newspaper, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, and it compelled me to correspond, as this item filled me with angst, bathos, possibly pathos, evident ennui, and definitely excess stomach acid. I'll come right to the point.
What is this stuff with the hose?
I know it's probably a long story, but I've got time. I'm writing to you, after all.
Your latest music video, the paper says, has been deemed too explicit for MTV, which is, frankly, a stag... |
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| Justin Timberlake- Christina Aguilera - Jul 07, 2003 | All signs that teen pop music is at its expiration point proved obsolete Saturday night at Savvis Center, where Justin Timberlake and Christina Aguilera teamed up and strengthened the genre's weakening pulse.
To the delight of a nearly full house of screaming fans, Timberlake and Aguilera, separately, left dazzling impressions once the final song, Timberlake's "Like I Love You," faded along with the night's healthy supply of fireworks and flames, confetti showers, etc.
Both artists performed appealingly flashy sets of about 75 minutes each that often relied heavily on superficial... |
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| MTV demands Aguilera cover up - Jul 08, 2003 |  Christina Aguilera’s new video, Can’t Hold Us Down, has been censored by MTV because, say executives, the singer shows too much flesh.
The video was shot by celebrity photographers David La Chappelle, who was ordered to tone it down, although Aguilera was said to be “livid” at the order.
An Aguilera spokeswoman told the New York Post: “She doesn’t say that a male performer would get away with it, but she does feel that there are double standards.”
The video will air now that La Chappelle and Aguilera have made the required changes.
An MTV representative told the newspaper: “MTV has a stand... |
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| Aguilera Fuming at Video Edit - Jul 08, 2003 | Pop vixen CHRISTINA AGUILERA is furious at music channel MTV for axing a scene from her latest video - because they deemed it too raunchy.
The saucy shot, in her promo for CAN'T HOLD US DOWN, shows her groping a garden hose - and the sexy singer is reportedly accusing the channel of sexism after they cut it out of their broadcast.
A spokesman says, "She says a male would have got away with it. She thinks there are double standards and is upset MTV has censored her."... |
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| Justin's bad behavior - Jul 08, 2003 | When Justin Timberlake and his entourage showed up at the Yerba Buena bowling alley last month for a few sets of 10-pin, the high-pitched and high-paid cutie reportedly tried to get out of paying. Instead, he offered to give staff free tickets to his concert in San Jose with Christina Aguilera. Not only that, he didn't even offer to tip the staff, who had to stay and work overtime to wait on Justin and his buddies, who didn't leave until almost 4 a.m. One source said, "He even charged (the staff) $20 apiece for autographs."
The easy-going Brit life
Reese Witherspoon says living in... |
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| For The Record: Quick News On Avril Lavigne, Coldplay, 3 Doors Down, Christina A - Jul 09, 2003 | Christina Aguilera's previously unreleased "That's What Love Can Do" will be featured on a new compilation available only at Target stores. Justin Timberlake is also included on the six-song sampler.
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| Christina Agua-lairy! - Jul 09, 2003 | Oh, there's nothing we like more than the occasional bonkers pop star throwing a benny in public. Latest celeb tantrum is from Christina Aguilera who was responsible for some nostril-flaring antics while dining out in Hollywood.
In all fairness, X Tina's black mood was all in the name of caring for the environment. According to The Enquirer, the pancaked-faced singer had asked waiters to pop her unfinished meal into a doggy bag before leaving the posh noshery. When the unfinished morcels were returned in a styrofoam box, Chrissie threw her hissy and ranted about the environmental dangers of s... |
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| Christina Tops AOL Again - Jul 09, 2003 | | According to Christina Aguilera’s official site Christina was the #1 Artist on AOL for the week of June 20-26th. No doubt this has something to do with her new video for 'Can't Hold Us Down' that smashed the AOL charts at #1 with 1.2M views and won't be played in its original form on MTV.... |
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| Styrofoam Packed Leftovers Leaves Aguilera Steamed - Jul 09, 2003 | | The Enquirer reports that Christina Aguilera was recently eating a vegetarian meal at a Persian restaurant in Hollywood and asked for a container to bring the leftovers home, but was infuriated after the waiter brought her a Styrofoam box back. Aguilera called for the manager and tried to lecture him about the environmental dangers of Styrofoam, but since the guy barely spoke English, he had no idea what she was trying to stay. Frustrated, Christina left without her leftovers.... |
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| Aguilera's Environment Angst - Jul 09, 2003 | Pop princess Christina Aquilera has been spotted throwing another diva tantrum -- but this time it was for saving the environment.
The revamped singer enjoyed a recent meal at a posh Hollywood restaurant, and asked waiters to pop her remaining food into a doggy bag before she left -- but when the unfinished morsels were returned in a styrofoam box, Christina lost her cool.
The petite singer was furious that the establishment was using such environmentally dangerous material, and tried to explain to the waiter exactly why styrofoam is bad. Unfortunately, the poor server spoke barely a word o... |
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| CHRISTINA CARES ABOUT THE ENVIRONMENT - Jul 09, 2003 |  When it comes to Christina Aguilera and doggie bags, what a girl wants is no Styrofoam! The songbird was eating a vegetarian meal at a Persian restaurant in Hollywood and asked for a container to bring the remains home -- then tossed a fit when the waiter brought her a Styrofoam box. She called for the manager and tried to lecture him about the environmental dangers of Styrofoam, but the guy had no idea who she was and barely spoke English. An exasperated Christina finally gave up and left without her leftovers.... |
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| Christina Cares About the Environment - Jul 09, 2003 | | When it comes to Christina Aguilera and doggie bags, what a girl wants is no Styrofoam! The songbird was eating a vegetarian meal at a Persian restaurant in Hollywood and asked for a container to bring the remains home -- then tossed a fit when the waiter brought her a Styrofoam box. She called for the manager and tried to lecture him about the environmental dangers of Styrofoam, but the guy had no idea who she was and barely spoke English. An exasperated Christina finally gave up and left without her leftovers.... |
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| Timberlake gives fans all they wanted. - Jul 10, 2003 |  It was a long time coming, but the Justified and Stripped concert featuring multi-platinum pop stars Christina Aguilera and Justin Timberlake finally kicked off at the CenturyTel Center in Bossier City Wednesday night.
Timberlake performed last, starting at 10 p.m., thrilling fans with a string of hits. Just his presence took the excitement level even higher than that reached by the crowd for co-star, Aguilera.
"We love to watch him dance, and he's so cute," squealed 23-year-old Rachel McIntyre and her friend, 24-year-old Emily Hardaway, both of Ruston. "I hope he performs R... |
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| Conformist pop music lacks purity of grunge - Jul 10, 2003 | | Finally you had Christina "Not a virgin and proud of it" Aguilera, a frightening example of what happens when you mix some semblance of talent with greed. Although she is leagues ahead of Britney in terms of that former musical prerequisite called "talent," Aguilera changes her image more than Michael Jackson changes his face. From every teen boy's fantasy "Genie in a Bottle" -- ready to emerge at any moment with innocent sexual desire -- to the diiiirty girl, Aguilera gets paid millions to flounce around MTV stages in butt floss, gyrating her hips and ... |
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| Christina Aguilera Named Top Vocalist - Jul 10, 2003 | Raunchy CHRISTINA AGUILERA has been voted the best vocalist on the planet in a new survey by American music magazine COVE - beating off competition from MARIAH CAREY and MICHAEL JACKSON.
The DIRRTY singer topped the poll put together by musical experts with a perfect score.
Runners up in the top ten include CELINE DION, WHITNEY HOUSTON, BEYONCE KNOWLES, USHER and ALICIA KEYS.
Carey and Jackson bagged second and third places respectively in the poll.... |
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| Christina calls her shots - Jul 11, 2003 | You can say what you like about Christina Aguilera's suggestive songs and sexy image. Just don't say someone else is making her do it, because this girl wants you to know that she is definitely in control of her career and image.
"I've got a sexual side, and I'm not afraid to show it," says the 22-year-old singer. "It would probably be easier for me to play little miss pretty, singing a little ballad with pretty little hair. But that's not me. I like to push boundaries and kind of get out there a bit."
That includes writing and producing her latest album, Stripped, and ... |
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| Justin and Christina -- Teen pop grows up - Jul 11, 2003 |  TAMPA -- Justin Timberlake has stripped himself of his cutesy, polished, teeny-bopper image and and is evolving into a serious solo artist.
He's garnered the international support of fans, both male and female. He wants his vocal talent to speak for itself.
"I don't really have a formula; I mean, for the most part I just go into the studio and do what it is I enjoy doing," Timberlake said in a teleconference from London. "I think that as you grow as a person, of course, you'll grow as a musician and as a songwriter."
Timberlake hopes his venture as a solo act, a dream he... |
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| Singer ghettoes new look - Jul 11, 2003 |  POP babe Christina Aguilera looks really fit as she cooly shoulders a giant ghetto-blaster — and even in ’80s gear manages to look dynamite.
Christina, 22, wears the naff-chic retro kit — a lilac bodywarmer, footie shorts and knee-length white socks — for her new video.
The film sees her parading through New York for an ultra-stylish shoot by director David LaChappelle.
An insider on the set said: “David is the guy who directed the video Dirrty and is sure this will make people sit up and take notice too. It is full of bright colours and yellow cabs.”
The video is for the new single Can’t ... |
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| Christina Aguilera: Album Title Wasn't Planned - Jul 11, 2003 | Pop beauty CHRISTINA AGUILERA is amazed fans think her album STRIPPED is so raunchy - because it was meant to be about emotions.
The DIRRTY singer says she decided on the record's name before any of the songs had been recorded.
Christina, 22, says, "It's funny - that wasn't planned at all. I had the idea to call the album Stripped before any of the songs were recorded.
"I had a lot of the lyrics. I wrote them on the last tour. And they were so personal. I got them from my diaries and poems and thoughts and feelings and views I had about certain issues, like double standards for wo... |
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| Christina's Monkey Treat - Jul 11, 2003 | Pop star CHRISTINA AGUILERA was so taken by a monkey lamp she saw in a hotel room in Dallas, Texas, she took it home with her.
The GENIE IN A BOTTLE singer was staying at the HOTEL ZAZA when she spotted the odd lamp of a monkey holding two lampshades, so she ordered her staff to pack it when she left and pay the hotel for it.
Hotel bosses charged her $500 (GBP313) for the item, which is manufactured by a Mississippi design company.... |
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| Christina Aguilera: Hip-hop Can Be Dirrty, Why Not Me? - Jul 12, 2003 | Christina Aguilera has slammed critics of her raunchy video to smash hit Dirrty - because if hip-hop stars can get away with it so can she.
The 22-year-old singer is amazed that the video caused an uproar, especially considering some of her previous performances. And the singer, whose latest video for Can't Hold Us Down has been censored by MTV, is furious that misogynistic rappers get away with sexual antics onscreen.
Christina fumes, "I didn't realize it was going to get the attention it did. I mean, hello, did anyone see me in the Lady Marmalade video in all the lingerie?
"It'... |
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| Christina Aguilera: About Justin - Jul 12, 2003 | Sexy pop superstar Christina Aguilera reckons she and Justin Timberlake are "perfect" together - but only in terms of touring.
Despite rumors to contrary, there's no romantic interest between the two headliners in the Justified and Stripped - especially because Justin is Christina's rival Britney Spears' ex-boyfriend.
But even though love is not in the air, the Dirrty singer reckons they have a deep connection professionally.
Christina says, "I've never co-headlined before, but Justin and I make a perfect combination.
"We came out with albums at the same time, and we're... |
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| Azoff Sounds Off on Biz, 'Idiot' Retailers - Jul 12, 2003 | LOS ANGELES (Billboard) - For 30 years, Irving Azoff has been a force to be reckoned with in the music industry. He's had a direct hand in almost every facet of the business, as an artist manager, label executive, concert promoter, music publisher and merchandiser.
Never one to pull punches, Azoff has always been a straight shooter: quick to give his opinion and even quicker to back it up with action.
His clients include the Eagles, Don Henley, Christina Aguilera, Seal, Jewel, Journey and Walter Becker of Steely Dan. Azoff is also co-chairman of Concerts West, a role he hints will change in ... |
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| Can't Hold Us Down Review - Jul 12, 2003 | | Uh-oh. After a testy start with the tasteless "Dirrty," then redemption via "Beautiful" and "Fighter," Christina Aguilera takes another downward slide with the fourth single from current album "Stripped." Once again, the Hustler-imaged singer illustrates that when she works too hard to be a homegirl, the results are tough to endure. "Can't Hold Us Down," featuring Lil' Kim, is one of those R&B female-empowerment anthems that puts men down to lift women up—a hopelessly dated theme. Match that with a grating nursery-rhyme melody and faux-R&am... |
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| Aquilera Bares All - Jul 12, 2003 | | Christina Aguilera is on the cover the Austrailian magazine People and there is a page of new never before seen in pictures of the singer in the water with a what is as close to posing topless as is possible.... |
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| The Mucky Mouse Club - Jul 13, 2003 |  CHRISTINA Aguilera poses bra-less and ashen-faced — a far cry from her innocent days with pop pals in the kids’ Mickey Mouse Club.
She was a squeaky-clean 10-year-old alongside Britney Spears and Justin Timberlake in our 1992 snap from the US TV show, below.
But this week the Dirrty singer became the latest of the 22-year-old trio to unveil an ever more sexed-up image.
Her dishevelled pose, in an ad for fashion house Versace, comes a day after The Sun told how Britney stripped to her bra to raunch up her look.
Meanwhile, romeo Justin has won the nickname Trousersnake and even posed whi... |
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| Pop Music’s Two Biggest Former Teen Stars Strip And Beatbox - Jul 13, 2003 | Justin Timberlake has the best shoulders in pop — a mere shrug and he seems to be aloft, laughing at gravity. But right now, in the night’s carefully featured highlight, he’s literally hanging over fans in the Tacoma Dome, a cavernous stadium south of Seattle: Having mounted a crane, he’s playing the human beatbox, his drummer and his DJ in a battle that roots his show in old-school rap, and quoting the early-’80s Bronx electro gem “Planet Rock.”
The crowd — hip-hop babies in trucker baseball caps and short shorts — needs more than an excuse to scream this time. Timberlake and Christina Aguil... |
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| Christina Aguilera if defines as "a very sexual person"!!! - Jul 13, 2003 | Christina Aguilera decided to reverberate and to justify the recent commentaries on the exploration of the body in its appearance. The site Launch.com brings declaration of the singer of 22 years given to the site www.canoe.ca, where it shows a sexual person very, besides guaranteeing that she has total control of its image.
"You can love or displease, but I definitively arrest the attention", I said Aguilera on its videoclipe ' Dirrty '. "I did not imagine that I would call the attention the skill that called. He wants to say, ' hello ', nobody saw me in the video of ' La... |
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| Old Dog, New Tricks - Jul 13, 2003 |  CHRISTINA Aguilera is not someone who is known to be shy about flashing the flesh - as British rocker Darren Hajul is only too happy to confirm.
We've got plenty more where this came from, Chrissy
The Most Wanted singer claims that the 23-year-old "taught me some tricks I never knew" - and he wasn't talking about playing cards.
In fact, he says, they got on so well that she flew him to her Miami apartment for some more naughty action - and we catch up with them in Christina's bedroom (complete with four-poster bed and mirrors) with the saucy singer dressed only in a black G-stri... |
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| Christina and Justin In Concert Together - Jul 14, 2003 |  I really don’t go to many concerts for several reasons. 1. Concerts have been very expensive lately since the dawning of new technology like cd-burners and downloading sites. 2. No act has really caught my attention and actually makes me want to see them in a live setting. 3. The concert will eventually end up on DVD anyway, so why not wait?
Then I heard the announcement that shocked the pop world and me. Justin Timberlake and Christina Aguilera were going on tour TOGETHER! This was unreal. Two of my favorite pop tarts were coming together in one setting. Oh it was magical. Plus the controver... |
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| For The Record: Quick News On Ashlee Simpson, Andre 3000, Master P, New Edition, - Jul 14, 2003 | Print and broadcast PSAs featuring Christina Aguilera and Outkast's Andre 3000 encouraging young people to vote will hit magazines and airwaves later this month. Declare Yourself, a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization, is behind the ads, which were shot by fashion photographer/video director David LaChapelle. ...
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| Fighting Dirrty - Jul 15, 2003 | Christina Aguilera is proving she can fight the splitends off a rabid squirrel yet again, by dissing up censors of her latest raunchy vid.
According to the Daily Star, X-Tina can't believe that the video for her forthcoming single 'Can't Hold Us Down' is being snipped by MTV. The Ag-meister is still reeling from the fact that many channels pulled the video for her uber-hit 'Dirrty'.
She said: "I mean hello, did anyone see me in the 'Lady Marmalade' video in all the lingerie. It's not like Madonna hasn't been there before."
Christina didn't leave it at that though popsters, she a... |
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| Sexy Singer Shocks MTV - Jul 15, 2003 |  Christina Aguilera has slammed censors for cutting out scenes considered too raunchy for TV from her new video.
MTV bosses deemed the original cut of Aguilera's new single Can't Hold Us Down too steamy for its predominantly teen audience.
But the 22-year-old hit back saying male rappers get away with hardcore antics in their videos and she has been singled out because she is a woman.
"It's funny. There are all those hip-hop videos where women are objectified, but when a woman does it, it's a shock," she said.
"But it's something I'm proud of."
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| Aguilera slams MTV for censoring her new video - Jul 15, 2003 | Christina Aguilera has criticised censors for cutting out steamy scenes from her new video.
MTV bosses say the original cut of Aguilera's new single Can't Hold Us Down was too sexy for its mostly teenage audience.
But she says male rappers get away with worse and complains she's been singled out because she's a woman.
"It's funny. There are all those hip-hop videos where women are objectified, but when a woman does it, it's a shock," she said.
"It's not like Madonna hasn't been there before. It's not like you've never seen a woman who's comfortable with her sexuality and her... |
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| Justin Timberlake & Christina Aguilera - Jul 15, 2003 |  "Justin & Christina," a CD being marketed exclusively through the Target department store, is guaranteed to be mocked for excessive commercialism and treated suspiciously by purists who demand separation between artist and corporate sponsors.
Maybe so, but this disc is a deal where everyone draws aces - especially the fans who need to shell out only $5 for this dandy sampler of Timberlake and Aguilera's individual albums.
"Justin & Christina" serves as a promo and a nifty taste of the summer tour that brings both artists to the Meadowlands on Aug. 13 and the Nas... |
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| Grohl Laughs Off Aguilera Romance Claims - Jul 15, 2003 | Foo Fighters star Dave Grohl was delighted to hear reports he was secretly romancing pop diva Christina Aguilera - because he couldn't stop laughing.
The Times Like These hitmaker briefly met the Dirrty singer in a Los Angeles studio, and subsequent stories they were enjoying a red hot relationship emerged soon after, leaving Grohl stunned.
He laughs, "It was huge news in America, to my amazement, because it was completely untrue. The story was ridiculous. We were both in the same studio and we bumped into each other in a communal kitchen and we talked, and that was the only conversatio... |
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| Diaz Attends Justified & Stripped Concert In Atlanta - Jul 15, 2003 | | Cameron Diaz was spotted watching Christina Aguilera and *NSYNC star Justin Timberlake’s summer tour stop in Atlanta.... |
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| Christina Aguilera - Stripped - Jul 15, 2003 | Christina Aguilera - Stripped (RCA)
For a while, it looked like a Celebrity Deathmatch for the ages: Christina Aguilera (half-Latina, half-suburban Pittsburgh, armed with Mariah-grade pipes and plenty of 'tude) versus Britney Spears (the quasi-innocent Louisiana Lolita whose breakout single "...Baby One More Time" beat Aguilera's "Genie in a Bottle" to market by about eight months). But while Britney torched her candle at both ends--two follow-up albums, a movie, a tony Manhattan restaurant--Christina lay relatively low, or as low as one can lie while wearing fishnets and ... |
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| Aguilera auction to aid battered women - Jul 15, 2003 | Christina Aguilera, formerly of Wexford, is using her status as one of America's hottest young celebrities to help the Women's Center and Shelter of Greater Pittsburgh, auctioning off front-row seats and backstage passes to her Pittsburgh show -- July 28 at the Mellon Arena -- and other dates around the country through the Web site StubHub.com.
The Aguilera package also features an autographed photo and a copy of her latest CD, "Stripped." The singer says, "I want people to understand how important it is to provide a safe place for battered women to seek help."
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| Fascinating Fact - Jul 15, 2003 | | The new issue of American magazine INTERVIEW features a host of celebrities chatting to one another; actress MINNIE DRIVER talks to SEAL, SIR ELTON JOHN interviews COLDPLAY, PHARRELL WILLIAMS talks to MICHAEL JACKSON, MARIANNE FAITHFULL quizzes OZZY OSBOURNE, CAROLE KING pries into MANDY MOORE's life and CYNDI LAUPER interviews CHRISTINA AGUILERA.... |
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| Two duos. Two divas. Two Justins. - Jul 16, 2003 | Kelly Clarkson and Justin Guarini
Justin Timberlake and Christina Aguilera
Because of some confluence in the pop-culture continuum, Justin Timberlake and Christina Aguilera will perform in Dallas on their "Justified and Stripped" tour days after Justin Guarini and Kelly Clarkson's movie, From Justin to Kelly, opens in Fort Worth-Dallas.
We're kinda used to Justins around here, thanks to Justin Boots, golfer Justin Leonard and radio guy Justin Frazell, but we're not all that used to seeing two Justins connected to different pop divas at once. Which gives us an excuse to do a char... |
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| Christina Criticizes MTV Censors - Jul 16, 2003 |  Christina Aguilera has criticized MTV for cutting out steamy scenes from her new video "Can't Hold Us Down," featuring Lil' Kim, according to Ananova.com. "It's funny. There are all those Hip-Hop videos where women are objectified, but when a woman does it, it's a shock," she said. "It's not like Madonna hasn't been there before. It's not like you've never seen a woman who's comfortable with her sexuality and her body and with being in control of her surroundings and situation." WENN also reports Christina is ready to play a scheming mistress in a made for TV movi... |
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| Christina to film movie in Calgary? - Jul 17, 2003 | It's a Dirrty little rumour.
Pop tart Christina Aguilera reportedly wants a role in Hollywood Wives: The New Generation, the CBS TV movie that will shoot in Calgary next month.
According to www.teenhollywood.com, the 22-year-old sexpot has even screentested for the project which stars Farrah Fawcett, Melissa Gilbert and Robin Givens.
Aguilera's many Calgary fans shouldn't get too excited just yet, though. Production sources contacted by the Sun say they haven't heard of Aguilera's involvement in the movie.
And they note she is currently on tour with fellow pop singer Justin Timberlake.... |
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| Queens of reinvention - Jul 17, 2003 | Now, you might imagine that such an aesthetic sensibility accompanied by such a jaded worldview is the spiritual and artistic property of Christina Aguilera, but you'd be wrong. Mostly because X-tina is mid-reinvention in her own right.
While she hasn't exchanged her signature slapper aesthetic for squeaky old-Britney-worthy cleanliness, she has nonetheless gone upmarket. Washed her hair, chipped off a layer of three-day-old slap and become a designer muse, the face and elongated torso of the forthcoming Versace campaign. And so what we're left with is Christina as fash establishment slag |
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| Drew's bad strip - Jul 17, 2003 | | Christina Aguilera says the folks at MTV are hypocrites. The "Drrrty" songstress doesn't understand why she had to cut some sexy scenes from her new video for "Can't Hold Us Down" when male rappers get away with a lot worse. "It's funny. There are all those hip-hop videos where women are objectified, but when a woman does it, it's a shock," she said. |
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| Speedyway Genie-us - Jul 17, 2003 | HOLD on to your seats because this lot are about to take off.
The band, pictured left, are called SPEEDWAY and their debut single Genie In A Bottle is pure genius.
A cover of the cheesy pop ballad by CHRISTINA AGUILERA would not normally bode well but Speedway's version, out on August 25, fuses searing guitars with bubblegum vocals.
The Scottish band, somewhere between THE PRETENDERS and BLONDIE, really is the one to watch.... |
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| VOTE4 XTINA: Disney channel UK awards - Jul 18, 2003 | Make sure you put a vote in for Christina to win best Female in the disney channel Uk awards!!!! Why?? because we love her!
http://www.disney.co.uk/DisneyChannel/kidsawards/... |
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| Christina Aguilera and Justin Timberlake, Tuesday at Allstate Arena, 6920 N. Man - Jul 18, 2003 | | Chances are you can’t bear another minute of Christina Aguilera or Justin Timberlake exposure. But most likely you’re tired of the celebrity of these two singers, not their music. While Timberlake’s songs are often thin Michael Jackson imitations, Aguilera has one of the best pop voices around. The sheer spectacle of these stars makes these two concerts a top summer ticket.... |
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| Personal Trainer Weans Christina Aguilera Off Burgers - Jul 19, 2003 | | The Sun reports Christina Aguilera has now been put on a special diet by her personal trainer Ashley Borden. "Christina is a fast-food junkie," Borden explained. "I weaned her off burgers. She just wasn't getting enough nutrition. She's eating lots of carbs so she has more stamina for her dancing. And her workout has totally changed."... |
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| What's the Point of Jodie Marsh? - Jul 19, 2003 | Known for her public war with Jordan and her trashy style, glamour girl Jodie is now claiming pop tart Christina Aguilera copies her, so is she useless or just street savvy?
USELESS SAYS RECORD'S JOAN BURNIE
THERE are, only too obviously, two points to Shoddy Marsh.
And the woman keeps thrusting them in everyone's face like some sad hooker down the drag desperately looking for her next client.
Or in Jodie's case, the next front page. So where's the harm? She's selling, we're buying and no-one's getting hurt?
It's just a larf, see, for the brash Essex girl whose parents are millionaires an... |
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| Cyndi Lauper Interviews Christina Aguilera - Jul 19, 2003 | | Cyndi Lauper interviewed Christina Aguilera for Interview magazine. Asked about how she is able to sing and dance around on stage, Aguilera responded, "Well, to me, the choreography is secondary to the music. The other night I came offstage and was like, 'I don't care if I missed a dance step, but my voice was weak!' This show is very different from what you might've envisioned having seen [the video for] 'Genie in a Bottle' and all that choreographed stuff from the last album. This show is theatrical, and it's about getting into a character and getting to play someone who's vulnerable in... |
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| Christina's On A Burger Ban - Jul 19, 2003 | I think I have uncovered the secret of CHRISTINA AGUILERA's ever-expanding waistline.
The pint-sized singer, above, was ordered to put on more weight by record bosses who feared she was suffering from malnutrition.
Apparently Christina was surviving on one junk food meal a day.
I am glad to hear she has now been put on a special diet by her personal trainer ASHLEY BORDEN.
Ashley says: "Christina is a fast-food junkie. I weaned her off burgers. She just wasn't getting enough nutrition.
"She's eating lots of carbs so she has more stamina for her dancing. And her workout has tot... |
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| Christina Aguilera Gets Into Shape - Jul 20, 2003 | Tiny singer CHRISTINA AGUILERA has been banned from burgers as music bosses try and make her healthier.
The skinny BEAUTIFUL singer has come under fire in the past for being too thin.
And though record bosses initially ordered her to put on weight, they've now decided she needs to look more solid - so they've enlisted personal trainer ASHLEY BORDEN to whip the "fast food junkie" into shape.
Fit Ashley explains, "Christina is a fast food junkie. I weaned her off burgers. She just wasn't getting enough nutrition. She's eating lots of carbs so she has more stamina for her dancin... |
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| Christina To Play Evil Mistress - Jul 20, 2003 | | CHRISTINA AGUILERA plays an evil mistress in her first acting role, a TV movie version of Jackie Collins' Hollywood Wives: The New Generation.... |
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| Concert Tours Endure Hit-And-Miss Market - Jul 21, 2003 | One weak spot is the pop world. The Justin Timberlake/Christina Aguilera Stripped & Justified tour is the sole arena-level offering. In short, this year is like most others.
"It's the same trend: The top 30 markets are where most of the volume and grosses are," says Randy Phillips, CEO of AEG Live, producer of tours by the Eagles, Fleetwood Mac, Timberlake/Aguilera and Mariah Carey. "Established acts are selling, and newer acts are often struggling."
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| Introducing Victoria's Rock Angels! - Jul 21, 2003 | New Victoria's Secret collection inspired by Christina as well as other artists
Who knew the angels of Victoria's Secret were also born to be wild?
The glamorous cover gals are getting a chance to explore their Rock Angel sides with a brand-new, edgy collection! Watch tonight's ET when our CHRIS BOOKER hangs out with the supermodels on bikes -- as HEIDI KLUM, BRIDGET HALL and INES RIVERO ride into New York on some heavenly Harleys to introduce the new "Rock Angel" line!
Debuting this fall, the bold and youthful new collection from Victoria's Secret was influenced by fashion savv... |
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| Justin Timberlake - Jul 21, 2003 | It's a name we've been hearing a lot through the past 6 years, Justin Timberlake. We all know him as one-fifth of the pop group *NSYNC, but this man has got a lot of soul.
Justin Randall Timberlake was born at St Jude's Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee on January 31, 1981 to Lynn and Randy Timberlake. Randy was in a bluegrass band in town, and Justin was hearing the group practice constantly. At age 2, Justin could sing harmony, just by hearing his father. Living around the birthplace of Elvis and living down the street from Al Green, he had a lot of soul influences around him all the time.
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| Rare Christina Aguilera Singing Doll Auction - Jul 22, 2003 | | A very rare Christina Aguilera doll, sold only in Peru, is being auctioned on eBay. The doll sings when you press her belly. Minimum bid is $9.99 in an auction that ends July 27th. Check out a photo of the doll and bid: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2941793694&category=2387... |
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| Aguilera' Singin Began in Supermarkets - Jul 22, 2003 | CHRISTINA AGUILERA was born a performer - she was singing in supermarkets before she could even talk.
The 22-year-old DIRRTY singer had a deep love for music before she could even string a sentence together - and, according to her mother SHELLY KEARNS, her passion always shone through whenever she was taken out to stock up on groceries.
Kearns says, "Christina literally started singing when she was in diapers - she couldn't talk yet. I would have her in a grocery cart in her little chair that you put infants in, and every time we passed under a speaker with music on it, she changed. She... |
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| Justin, Christina And Cameron Diaz, Too - Jul 23, 2003 | Tall. Blond. Camo pants and a tank top. Big smile. Laughing. Leaping. Hugging and high-fiving members of the road crew. She was back and forth, to and fro along the backstage corridors Wednesday as first Black Eyed Peas, then Christina Aguilera and finally Justin Timberlake rocked the Office Depot Center in Sunrise.
"Hurry up or we'll miss him," she squeals to a friend as they dash toward the stage entrance. A zephyr in the night. Why don't we call her... yeah, that's it... Cameron Diaz would be a good name.
And Cameron Diaz it was. For the three Florida concerts (Tampa on Monday a... |
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| True colors in the platinum world of pop - Jul 23, 2003 | | NEW YORK - When Mandy Moore released her first record, "So Real," in 1999, the world was a blonder place. Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera led the field of cheerily debased female teenage video superstars. And even the Oval Office scandals of the time had the light, bouncy rhythms of a blonde cable sitcom - "Sex and the Nation's Capital" - although admittedly one that, being the result of reality and not casting, starred a brunette. But both the world and the Oval Office are darker places now, and many of Moore's contemporaries - Aguilera, Pink and, briefly, Spears - h... |
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| Stargazing can be challenging pursuit in Pittsburgh - Jul 23, 2003 | So if you had to guess which "celebrity" was at the Pirates game the other night, you would be able to narrow the possibilities rather easily. It had to have been either:
A) A TV news anchor
B) A politician
C) A sports personality
D) Christina Aguilera
I'm sorry to report, fellow celebrity watchers, that it was not Christina Aguilera.
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| Gwen Beyonce and Christina Inspire Lingerie Line - Jul 23, 2003 | Female favourite VICTORIA'S SECRET has launched a new line of lingerie and sportswear inspired by sexy singers GWEN STEFANI, BEYONCE KNOWLES and CHRISTINA AGUILERA.
The new line, called the ROCK ANGEL collection, was launched by stunning models HEIDI KLUM, INES RIVERO and BRIDGET HALL in New York yesterday (22JUL03), with all three beauties straddling HARLEY DAVIDSONs.
And Klum believes every woman is a secret rebel, explaining, "Honestly, I think there's a rock girl in any girl. Even the sweetest girl, I think you always wanna be a little bad sometimes too.
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| Christina Aguilera Australian Dates Announced - Jul 23, 2003 |  Frontier Touring Company will bring Christina Aguilera to Australia in December.
Dates have been announced for Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane with the first show in Sydney on Monday December 8. Tickets will go on sale August 1.
Christina has had three consecutive Top 10 hits in Australia with 'Dirrty', 'Beautiful' and 'Fighter' and BMG will release the forth single 'Can't Hold Us Down' in September.
Special guest for the tour is Emmanuel Carella who has just clocked up 12 weeks on the Australian chart with 'Too Beautiful'.
Christina dates are:
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| Missy Elliott Tops MTV Music Award Nominations - Jul 24, 2003 | The 20th annual MTV Video Music Awards show will be broadcast live from New York City's Radio City Music Hall on Thursday, August 28, and will feature performances by Christina Aguilera and Coldplay.
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| 4 MTV Video Music Awards for her "Dirrty" - Jul 24, 2003 | Christina has been nominated for 4 MTV Video Music Awards for her "Dirrty" video including:
Best Female Video
Best Dance Video
Best Pop Video
Best Choreography In A Video.
The winners will be announced Aug. 28th.... |
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| Justin, Christina: One hot, one not - Jul 24, 2003 | Justin Timberlake and Christina Aguilera have followed very different paths in their escape from teen pop, each musical and stylistic transformation a matter of taste. Or, in Aguilera's case, a lack of it.
At the Allstate Arena on Tuesday night, the first of two Chicago arena shows (the other was Wednesday night at the United Center), Aguilera readily embraced the more-is-more principle, offering the kind of pointless spectacle that would overshadow any singer's voice, even the powerful air-horn blast Aguilera's lungs are capable of.
She warned a packed house of mostly females early on tha... |
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| Downloads 'will revive singles chart' - Jul 24, 2003 |  Christina Aguilera came top of the first official download chart in April.
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| Christina's out to get real - Jul 24, 2003 | True to its title, "Stripped," the audacious new RCA Records release from Christina Aguilera, strips away the last remnants of her previous teen idol persona and what's left is as real as it gets.
The 16 new tracks that comprise "Stripped," including her sensational debut single "Dirrty," showcases an unadorned, unfettered and fearlessly outspoken artist who has liberated herself, her soul and her music on an album that is as much a declaration of independence as it is a convincing demonstration of her fierce and original talent. Simply put, this is the real dea... |
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| Rapper Snags 8 MTV Nominations - Jul 24, 2003 |  NEW YORK (AP) Missy Elliott worked her way to a leading eight nominations for this year's MTV Video Music Awards.
The rapper's video for "Work It," a surreal, Daliesque mixture of flies, gray skies and twisted trees, is up for video of the year, best female video and best hip-hop video, the cable music channel announced Thursday.
In technical categories, it was nominated for best direction, special effects, art direction, editing and cinematography.
Justin Timberlake followed with seven nominations. "Cry Me a River" - in which he gets revenge on a cheating girlfriend, ... |
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| Missy Elliott, Justin Timberlake, Johnny Cash up for multiple MTV honors - Jul 24, 2003 | With eight nods, Missy "Misdemeanor" Elliott's video for "Work It" leads the field for the 2003 MTV Video Music Awards, to be handed out on Aug. 28 at New York's Radio City Music Hall.
Justin Timberlake picked up seven nominations--five for "Cry Me a River" and two for "Rock Your Body"--and Johnny Cash's music video for his remake of the Nine Inch Nails track "Hurt" got six nominations.
"I am overwhelmed by this great honor. I thank you all for thinking of me," Cash said in a statement. "It's been 48 years since I cut my first... |
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| Muniz rebuffed by Duff - Jul 24, 2003 | | Christina Aguilera is in talks to play a young vixen (what a stretch) in a TV adaptation of Jackie Collins' "Hollywood Wives: The New Generation." Producers reportedly offered X-Tina a different role, a sweeter one, but she told them she'd rather play a villain. It also stars where-are-they-nows Robin Givens and Farrah Fawcett. |
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| For The Record: Scott Weiland, G-Unit, Jessica Simpson, Christina Aguilera, Mich - Jul 25, 2003 | Christina Aguilera has invited one of her biggest fans, 13-year-old cancer victim Kayla Sansone, backstage when the Justified and Stripped tour hits her hometown of Pittsburgh on July 28. The visit — as well as a $1,000 donation to the Kayla Sansone fund — was coordinated in conjunction with a charity softball tournament.
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| Aaron Carter Wants To Duet With Christina Aguilera - Jul 25, 2003 | | This morning on Good Day Live, Jillian asked Aaron Carter which female singer he would like to duet with, he clearly and immediately said Christina. He went on and said, "She's my baby!" He later on said excitedly, "She winked at me!" According to Carter she once winked at him at an award show. It's one of his life's highlights. "I have a big crush on her, maybe you guys can hook me up," he told Jillian, Dorothy, and Steve.... |
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| Target In Stores - Jul 25, 2003 | Christina and Justin have a CD available exclusively at Target stores, here is a list of the tracks
1. That's What Love Can Do - Christina
2. Why, When, How - Justin
3. Beautiful (Valentin Club Mix) - Christina
4. Rock Your Body (Paul Oakenfold Mix) - Justin
5. Fighter (Hellraiser remix) - Christina
6. Cry Me A River (Bill Hamel Justinough Vocal Mix) - Justin... |
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| Christina Aguilera invites one of her biggest fans - Jul 25, 2003 | | Christina Aguilera has invited one of her biggest fans, 13-year-old cancer victim Kayla Sansone, backstage when the Justified and Stripped tour hits her hometown of Pittsburgh on July 28. The visit — as well as a $1,000 donation to the Kayla Sansone fund — was coordinated in conjunction with a charity softball tournament. ...... |
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| Timberlake Makes Smoother Transition Than Aguilera - Jul 25, 2003 | | Joshua Klein of the Chicago Tribune reviewed the Justified & Stripped tour stop at the Allstate Arena on Tuesday (July 22). Klein says Christina Aguilera's "voice, not to mention the charisma-deficient singer herself, was lost amid all the mechanical thrills." As for *NSYNC star Justin Timberlake, Klein says the singer "has made a much smoother transition to maturity... Timberlake had eight dancers as well, but unlike Aguilera, he didn't seem lost without them."... |
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| Aguilera and Timberlake get down and dirty at the Palace - Jul 25, 2003 |  If the hierarchy of high school students was applicable in life, pop stars Christina Aguilera and Justin Timberlake wouldn't share a concert bill, much less a ZIP code.
In high school, Aguilera would be the misunderstood Goth-trollop and Timberlake, a male cheerleader.
But in the world of entertainment, the only rule is "whatever makes money, works."
The Justified and Stripped tour featuring Timberlake and Aguilera is selling. Although numbers in cities such as Denver and San Antonio have been lackluster, fans have bought all but 1,000 of the 15,000 available seats for tonight'... |
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| Aguilera and Osbourne Voted top celebrity Enemies - Jul 25, 2003 | CHRISTINA AGUILERA's all-out war with outspoken rock chick KELLY OSBOURNE has topped a poll of the feistiest celebrity feuds.
Kelly, 18, started the bitter battle with a series of shocking attacks on the 22-year-old DIRRTY singer.
Kelly announced, "She is one of the most disgusting human beings in the world," before going on to describe Christina as looking like a drag queen.
The daughter of shock rocker OZZY OSBOURNE then went on to say that Christina is "all talk", before they reportedly came to blows when they bumped into each other at a Hollywood party.
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| Macca and Aguilera for Sars Benefit Gig? - Jul 25, 2003 | Singing superstars SIR PAUL McCARTNEY and CHRISTINA AGUILERA are reportedly planning surprise appearances at the ROLLING STONES' Sars benefit gig in Toronto next Wednesday (30JUL03).
The gig, which boasts a line-up including JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE, AC/DC and RUSH, will be held at the Canadian city's Downsview Park.
Speculation intensified after the concert's promoter refused to deny the reports.
Promoter RILEY O'CONNOR says coyly, "We're hearing the same rumours. I have no idea. I've done a lot of concerts in the last 30 years. I've had special guests drop in, just show up on the night of t... |
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| Beyonce's 'Crazy' Stays Atop Singles Chart - Jul 26, 2003 | The Hot 100's top debut is Justin Timberlake's "Senorita" at No. 66. Other entries on the chart this week include Christina Aguilera's "Can't Hold Us Down" featuring Lil' Kim (No. 74), the Eagles' "Hole in the World" (No. 77) and Staind's "So Far Away" (No. 78).
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| Die-Hard Fans Await Pop Stars - Jul 26, 2003 |  While cruising for some breaking news early Saturday morning, 9News photographer Chic Poppe spotted an unusual scene outside a downtown hotel.
Groupies waiting to catch a glimpse of two national acts in town.
Fans got a glimpse of singer Christina Aguilera -- whisking by the crowd with her dogs in tow.
Aguilera and pop-star Justin Timberlake are in town for their show at the U.S. Bank Arena Saturday night.
Jennifer McComas started camping out around 9 p.m. Friday night just to try to get an autograph from the performers.
McComas shared the method behind what some might call her "... |
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| Women In Music - Jul 26, 2003 | There have been many women singers from the 70's to now. There have been very few that have touched my soul so deeply such as Karen Carpenter, Christina Aguilera, Selena and Stevie Nicks. These female singers have broken down barriers in so many ways.
Christina Aguilera has been an inspiration to me in so many different ways I don't have enough space to write all of them. So I will write a few. Her voice for one thing, how she grew up and didn't let that make her think that she couldn't be what she wanted to be, and her vocal range...from blues, to whatever you would classify “Dirrty” under.
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| Christina Aguilera - Jul 26, 2003 | Christina Aguilera was one of the young, hot, squeaky-clean artists when she first debuted in the music industry. But recently the world has learned that all along that was not Christina’s real self and that she could no longer pretend to be someone that she wasn’t.
Should we say that Christina’s new style is “bad” or that it is fun and an expression of her own style. Personally, I wouldn’t brand it as bad, I see it as a new way for people to look at celebrities and see that they have their own styles whether or not everyone surrounding them approves.
It seems that I’m not the only one who... |
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| Javier Expands Capitol's R&B Push - Jul 27, 2003 | Veering from R&B to pop to Latin (his dad operates Spanish-formatted AM station WCUM Bridgeport, Conn.), Javier worked with producers the Underdogs (Brandy, Tyrese), Syndicated Rhythm (Christina Aguilera, Amy Grant) and executive producer Kevin Cloud.
Guest players include the Roots' Ahmir "?uestlove" Thompson, jazz masters Roy Hargrove and Mulgrew Miller and Philadelphia strings maestro Larry Gold.
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| Can't Hold Us Down full video - Jul 27, 2003 |  The fourth single from Christina's stomping second album Stripped will be with us soon, featuring Lil'Kim on guest vocals...
The video for Can't Hold Us Down reunites Christina with acclaimed director David LaChappelle and is already the number one requested video in the US on MTV's TRL.
It sees a street style dance-off between Christina and Lil'Kim's ladies and the local rudeboys; Christina's kept the black hair she sported in Fighter, but this is a much more colourful outing - not least the bright pink teeny top+shorts ensemble she's wearing!
Christina is currently touring America with ... |
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| Old And New Battle For MTV Awards - Jul 27, 2003 | Pop stars Missy Elliott, Justin Timberlake and country legend Johnny Cash have emerged as the top nominees at this year's MTV Video Music Awards in the US.
Rap diva Elliott leads the field, which were announced on Thursday, with eight nominations for the video for her song Work it.
Timberlake was in second place with seven, with Cash on six.
Both have been nominated for the best video of the year, alongside Missy Elliott, Eminem (Lose Yourself) and 50 Cent (In Da Club)
Timberlake's nominations have been for the songs Cry Me a River and Rock Your Body, while Cash's have been for the vide... |
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| It's Not Only Rock'n Roll - Toronto Set for Stones - Jul 28, 2003 |  Altogether, 14 acts are scheduled to hit the stage in the day-long event, which will be hosted by Blues Brothers Dan Aykroyd and Jim Belushi.
Speculation has built that surprise guests may also pop up, with names such as Paul McCartney and Christina Aguilera -- who is already in town as part of her tour with Timberlake -- being bandied about.
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| More sex, less teen on the pop stage - Jul 28, 2003 |  To hell with Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Christina Aguilera's the one who should be making a run for public office.
There's definitely an underlying — no, make that overlying — agenda at play during the 15 minutes of phone time this writer is granted with Lady Aguilera one recent, magical weekday evening.
A candid conversation, it's clear from the start, is not in the cards.
Everything that tumbles out of the former teen queen turned buttless-chaps-sporting r'n'b strumpet's mouth has the politician's calculating manner about it, as if someone's standing a few feet away with cue cards displayi... |
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| Marketing Revolution Sweeps the Music Business - Jul 28, 2003 | Steely Dan & GM Credit Adds legendary music manager Irving Azoff, who has about 20 corporate deals for the summer, including Eagles and Infinity, Steely Dan and GM Credit and Christina Aguilera with Skechers, Target and Mattel: "Times are not only tough, they're getting harder. We are selling less catalog and fewer new records. With the economy as bad as it is, costs haven't gone down. We need to make up for some of these losses. These types of deals are natural."
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| Christina hot; Justin not - Jul 28, 2003 | The hottest teen pop show of the summer came to town Saturday with both artists looking for respect as adult pop performers.
Justin Timberlake and Christina Aguilera proved they are on their way to becoming exciting entertainers, but Aguilera is getting there a lot faster than Timberlake.
Justin and Christina brought their "Justified and Stripped Tour" (from the names of the latest albums from each) to a two-thirds full U.S. Bank Arena with two-thirds of the audience teenage girls and young women They came for Timberlake's cute sex appeal and Aguilera's message of female empowerme... |
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| Justin, Christina make leap from teen idols to entertainers - Jul 28, 2003 | Justin Timberlake and Christina Aguilera have come a long way since their teen idol days. They've become full-fledged entertainers. Think it's a stretch? If you had been at U.S. Bank Arena Saturday night, you'd think twice.
Watching Aguilera through the eyes of an 8-year-old in blonde pigtails really puts this artist - and she is an artist - in perspective.
Yes, she sells sex dirtier than Britney Spears once did, but the awe in the eyes of a little girl in the front row says what this artist is really all about. Beyond the skimpy outfits, the stripper dancing routines and the piercings, th... |
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| Pink Slams Christina Fling Rumors - Jul 28, 2003 | Pink is great friends with fellow pop idol Christina Aguilera -- but slams tabloid reports the two enjoyed a lesbian fling at the star's 23rd birthday party.
The "Feel Good Time" rocker admits the "Dirrty" singer was at the raucous party, but denies reports of a sexual attraction between the pair.
She says, "I love to party with Christina, she's really cool. There have been so many wild nights recently, my 23rd birthday party got pretty crazy.
"The only people who ever come to my parties are true party animals and that night we played a game of spin the bott... |
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| For The Record: Quick News On Britney Spears, Jam Master Jay, Christina Aguilera - Jul 29, 2003 | It's time for the 2003 Christina Aguilera Look-A-Like Contest. If you're a Christina doppelganger, check out www.christinaaguilera.com to find out where you can send in your photos to win a grand prize that's "so good, it's still under wraps," according to the singer's official Web site. Last year's winner received a personal phone call from Ms. Dirrty herself. ...
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| Teachers condemn Kylie and Britney's raunchiness - Jul 29, 2003 | Teachers say scantily dressed pop singers like Kylie, Britney and Christina Aguilera are pressurising primary school girls into wearing clothes that are too adult for them.
Jim O'Neill, chairman of the Professional Association of Teachers, also says there is too much sex and violence in programmes like Emmerdale.
He wants children's minister Margaret Hodge to pressure broadcasters to stop showing inappropriate programmes before the watershed.
And he said parents should vet what their children wore to school where there was no uniform policy.
Mr O'Neill said at the PAT's annual conference i... |
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| Britney and Christina threatening childhood - Jul 29, 2003 | 2003-07-29 21:33:40 BBC
The images of popstars like Christina Aguilera and Britney Spears are threatening childhood according to experts. The chairman of the Professional Association of Teachers, Jim O'Neill says the image of these pop stars is keeping children from being children.
And he complained that the pressure to grow up too soon meant that primary school girls were going to school in "ridiculously short skirts" and "dressing like teenagers - it might be appropriate in a club but certainly not in a school".
He also said Britney Spears had adopted a more ... |
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| Music Review: Aguilera, Timberlake pack Arena with powerful pop - Jul 29, 2003 | Midway through Christina Aguilera's homecoming gig last night at the Mellon Arena, a male stripper was briefly yet hopelessly trapped inside a prop when a curtain refused to budge and stage hands had to crawl inside the prop with Mr. Chippendale to get the curtain up and save the day.
And people wonder why most maids of honor never think of Spinal Tap when planning a bachelorette party ...
Aguilera also gave a few too many self-help sermons on the importance of being yourself -- or, at the very least, Xtina, your new alter ego, in Christina's case.
And there was one excruciating skit in wh... |
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| Brightman's Back - Jul 29, 2003 | So Fresh-Summer Hits 2003 album, which features biggies like Pink, Christina Aguilera, Whitney Houston, Avril Lavigne and many, many more.
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| Michelle Branch On Christina Aguilera - Jul 30, 2003 | | "This morning on Rick Dees' radio show, Michelle Branch was being interviewed by Rick. He was asking her about the music industry and how there is so much female competition. He later started talking about Christina saying, "Christina worries me a little because she's got such an amazing voice but now shes got this 'dirrty' image that people are talking about. Michelle, would you ever consider working with Christina Aguilera?" Michelle said, "Yes, Christina does have an amazing voice. I would love to work with her if the song worked with both our voices.""... |
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| Toronto 'SARSstock' Draws Massive Crowd for Stones - Jul 30, 2003 |  Along with the Stones, who interrupted the European leg of their "40 Licks" tour to perform in Toronto, other main acts will be Australian rockers AC/DC, former N'Sync member Justin Timberlake, and Canadian legends Rush and The Guess Who.
Speculation has built that surprise guests may also pop up, with names such as Paul McCartney and Christina Aguilera -- who is already in town as part of her tour with Timberlake -- being bandied about.
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| Justin out-points Christina - Jul 30, 2003 | Give Justin Timberlake the edge in this summer's big battle of the former teen-pop queens.
Just kidding, Justin. I read the paper. Nice one. Nevertheless, it was obvious mere minutes into Timberlake's closing set last night at the Air Canada Centre who belongs at the centre of a gaudy showbiz spectacle like his Justified And Stripped tour with Christina Aguilera — which returns to the ACC tomorrow after Timberlake's uptown date with the Rolling Stones this afternoon — and who doesn't.
Years of toil as a boy-band drone in 'N Sync have sharpened Timberlake into a savvy entertainer who's comple... |
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| Daphne and Christina? - Jul 30, 2003 | In his recently canceled MTV series "The Andy Dick Show," Dick played a teen pop star named Daphne Aguilera, who claims to be Christina Aguilera's mother's friend's aunt's neighbor. (Actually, every time she explains the relations, they change.)
"I did an amalgamation of Britney [Spears] and Christina, but she looked more like Britney in her first video, 'Naughty Baby Did a No-No.' I kept gravitating toward Christina. I like Christina. She's more talented, and I thought she was a stronger personality and she could take it. Britney seemed like she might get upset."
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| Jul 30, 2003 | Janet Jackson was just on KISSFM103.7 here in Milwaukee, and was doing a live interview from some station in NYC.
The DJ asked her what she thought about some of the girls taking over in the past year or 2.
I don't remember the exact question, but the DJ tried slamming Christina by saying something like, "Don't you just laugh when you see poptarts like trashy Christina wearing nothing but a thong to sell records and be down?"
I didn't know what Janet's response would be, but she quickly came to her defense.
She said something like "No. Not at all. Music is about expression a... |
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| 'Children are being debased' - Jul 30, 2003 | Scantily-dressed pop singers such as Kylie Minogue, Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera are pressurising primary school girls into wearing clothes that are too adult for them, a teachers' union leader claimed yesterday.
Jim O'Neill, chairman of the Professional Association of Teachers, also turned his fire on television soaps, saying there was too much sex and violence in programmes, including Emmerdale, shown before the nine o'clock watershed.
He demanded that Children's Minister Margaret Hodge put pressure on television broadcasters to stop showing programmes full of swear words and viol... |
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| Manufactured Music? - Jul 31, 2003 |  Oh mi God, oh mi god, oh mi god. I can't stop saying that. I went to the Justin Timberlake and Christina Aguilera show. He is so hot, he is even hotter than the posters I used to have up in my bedroom when he was in 'N Sync. But he still looks boyish, even though he's 22 or something. My age! Yay!
He wore this red cap for a couple of songs and we all just went crazy for it, everyone was screaming so loud I couldn't even hear myself. No wonder Britney went out with him. Why doesn't he go out with Christina, maybe coz she's a tramp. Anyway, he was so great -- I hope the mean groups like AC/DC d... |
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| LIVE: Justin Timberlake and Christina Aguilera - Jul 31, 2003 | | Being a pop puppet on the verge of coming of age can’t be easy. After years of acting as teenage hit machines — and, we can only assume, following orders from producers, managers and record labels without question — both *NSYNCer Justin Timberlake and former Genie In A Bottle Christina Aguilera used their recent albums to carve out new, grown-up identities for themselves. With Stripped, Aguilera cast away her sweetie-pie persona to become a smut-talkin’, bikini ‘n’ chaps-wearin’ bad girl and Timberlake used his Justified album to shed his boy band ties and reinvent himself as a Michael Jackson... |
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| Christina, Britney and Kylie told to Cover Up - Jul 31, 2003 | Popstars CHRISTINA AGUILERA, BRITNEY SPEARS and KYLIE MINOGUE have been urged to put more clothes on by British teachers.
The scantily clad stars were singled out at the PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATION OF TEACHERS' annual conference in Harrogate, Yorkshire, England this week (ends01AUG03) by chairman JIM O'NEILL - who claimed schoolgirls are being pressured into wearing clothes that are too adult for them because of the image portrayed by their pop idols.
He told members, "Kylie Minogue might be a great singer but in many of these things you can see more of her bottom than you hear of her voic... |
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| Justin Replaces Ronald McDonald - Jul 31, 2003 | | Sources claim the company - who failed to make a profit this year (03) for the first time ever - will also inject cash into Timberlake and CHRISTINA AGUILERA's STRIPPED AND JUSTIFIED world tour, as part of the deal. |
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| Mya: 'Moodring' - Jul 31, 2003 | | If Mya's participation alongside Christina Aguilera, Pink and Lil' Kim in the remake of LaBelle's "Lady Marmalade" - to say nothing of the song's vampy/trampy video - didn't do the, um, trick, her third album, "Moodring," proves without a doubt that she's headed for sexier, more sophisticated territory compared with earlier efforts. |
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| Stars in her eyes - Jul 31, 2003 | | And while modern stars like Kylie Minogue, Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera raise eyebrows with their soaring hemlines and steamy stage shows, Leanne's heroine is Doris Day - famed for her all-American charm and squeaky-clean image. |
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