Christina Statistics - She Said - Musical Styles & Genres
'Pop is actually my least favorite kind of music, because it lacks real depth.'
'I really don't listen to that type of music personally.' (on being asked about a favorite boy band)
'Pop/R&B and Gospel inflictions. You can hear it in the music, in some of the choruses and bridges of certain songs. Of course, with my own riffing and ad-libbing I always add a bit of soul into what I do.'
'I'm not trying to do as much vocal gymnastics. Before, to make up for the kind of music I didn't want to be doing, I would over riff, to prove that I have talent. It was too much. For this record ('Stripped'), everything's stripped down to the bare necessities.'
'R&B is where my heart is other than straight pop.'
'I’m so in the world of Nina Simone, Billie Holiday and Eartha Kitt, one of the original bad girls. I’ve done a tour in America where I’ve connected to reinventing the old retro jazz blues souls singer, bringing it back.'
'I don't know what it was, but as a child I just gravitated toward the blues; it was an instinct of mine. When I got older, this is the music that soothed me, and singing it was a release.'
