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 Brit Award- Christina Aguilera | Type: Other |
| | Basic Instinct | Feb 14, 2007 |
Christina Aguilera, 1990s teen queen-turned-Dirrty blonde, has a three-octave vocal range. She sings in Spanish as well as English and in her eight-year career with Sony RCA, has sold more than 40 millions albums worldwide. A year ago, Aguilera got married, to music industry exec Jordan Bratman.
Now, fewer journalists ask about the music; they want to know when she’ll swap bootie shakin’ for bottle making once and for all.”I just tell them my new album, Back To Basics, is my child,” grins the 26-year-old Pennsylvania native. After “being pregnant for 18 months” she’s produced a collection influenced by her grandma Delcie’s classic R&B tastes. With 23 tracks, it comes on two discs. Christina laughs, “Twins! It’s so exciting.”
Back To Basics was released in August 2006, making UK No. 1 on its release. Famous English-language predecessors, the self-titled debut and its 2002 follow-up Stripped, despite making Aguilera a house-hold name, perhaps surprisingly, made less of a chart impact at No. 14 and No. 2 respectively.
Back To Basics is not typical chart R&B/soul. Instead, Aguilera says she, “Dove headfirst into a 1920s and 1930s-era vibe… like a 1920s burlesque club.” Before work on the album began, she sent a CD of her favourite tracks by Etta James, Billie Holiday, Otis Redding and the like to prospective producers, along with a letter suggesting they, “Feel free to experiment, chop things up, mix things around reinvent and be inspired.”
The producers who came up with the goods include long-time collaborator Linda Perry, and Kwamé, Mark Ronson and the lesser-known Premier, who worked on the track Jazz Thing. Aguilera, who co-wrote all of the album’s cuts, is happy with her choice. “I’m not going to go to the obvious person, say the Neptunes, Pharrell or Lil Jon. I really like to go leftfield, go with someone maybe a little bit more obscure who I respect.”
While fellow Mouseketeer Britney Spears found married life limiting, Aguilera revels in it. The newlyweds have a home in Carmel, California, where they have taco nights and naked Sundays. “We chill with each other and do things that husbands and wives do.”
Perhaps domestic bliss is the reason that explains why Back To Basics’ has a “lighter feel”. Christina says, “For the Stripped record, it was a very real and honest for me, but it was also a darker place”.
These days, she says, she feels “lifted”. In keeping with this, the image projected by Aguilera both in the lyrics and in the performance of the new songs, harks back to more innocent times. Where Stripped allowed Aguilera to explore her provocative self, Back To Basics, while still sexy, is subtle, introducing a Betty Boop-style alter-ego, which rapper Nelly christened Baby Jane. “The sexuality coming forward on this record is softened,”
Christina recently explained to Newsweek (although she claims to have kept her Dirrty chaps to wear when she’s a grandma!) “It’s more pin-up, tongue-in-cheek… I’m referencing Marilyn Monroe, Greta Garbo. We wanted an old Hollywood theme.” And, although the videos accompanying the singles Ain’t No Other Man (No. 2 in July 2006) and Hurt (No. 11 in November 2006) display corsets and fishnets, they are softened by kiss curls and sequins in all the right places. Even advertising campaigns for Pepsi and mobile phone company Orange include a slash of boudoir lipstick and a starlet-style shampoo and set for her peroxide hair.
Although the sweet-girl look coincided with her marriage, Aguilera is quick to state the image change is entirely her choice. “It’s important to express myself and I think sexuality will always have a role in each record, but I will choose how it fits.” As for her raunchier moments? Her husband, she says, “Is right behind me, supporting every pelvic thrust. Sometimes he’ll even say to me, ‘Why are you covering up? You’re sexy, show it off!’” |
 Source: brits.co.uk | |
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| Pages: [1] | AnelyMG: three-octave vocal range!????? they're mistaken is a lot higher than that!
| Posted on: February 14th, 2007, 02:44 PM | |
| southatx2005: 3 OCTAVE RANGE??? someone didnt do their homework before writing an article... btw... did a native english speaker write this? it reads a little off...
| Posted on: February 17th, 2007, 09:57 AM | |
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