
OK, there are fans and then there are fanatics. When it comes to Christina Aguilera, we are fans. (Joseph Gordon-Levitt? Fanatics. But that's a different story.)
Let's face it. Aguilera's new album Bionic is simply not her best. She seems a little lost, and the first two singles were the underwhelming "Not Myself Tonight" (you're telling us?) and "Woohoo," which made oral sex seem silly. For shame.
Now finally, with the third single into the project (and after she already delayed her tour due to lack of rehearsal time -- and lack of sales, presumably), we finally get to the first good song on the album, "You Lost Me." Ironically, she won us back with this one, a power ballad about some lover that done her wrong and no she is not in a forgiving mood. (After all these years, simply using the word "infected" in a song can still be jarring.) Overall, it's a solid effort -- not enough to turn the album around commercially, perhaps, but certain to do better on the charts than the first two.
And the video (after the jump) is just deliciously retro: First Aguilera is seen in a Flashdance sort of top that hangs off her shoulder; then she's angrily pushing away a shirtless, sculpted dude who doesn't even get his face on camera; and then she's clothed in white and fading away like an angel falling backwards into heaven.
We don't want a bionic girl, we want a human one, and Aguilera seems to have remembered that here.
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Wednesday 28 July
By 4Reel
Just wanted to say that the Bio in bionic has to do with being human.
You people need to start listening to Christina when she talks and respect or accept all of her personality instead of thinking that she should be or act like someone else.
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Thursday 29 July
By NJ
4Reel is right, everything Bionic has a human component to it, a computer wouldn't be a computer if it wasn't put together by a human, and Christina calls that human component, the heart! That's why 'You Lost Me' can be found in the middle of the album aka the heart of the album with others track like 'I Am' and 'All I Need,' songs that are like she says 'raw' and very human. The beginning and end of the album are like the outer shell of a machine, metallic and tough and that's what that is all about. The album isn't a mess, it's actually quite smart.
Also, Woohoo failed to make any success in the charts for two reasons A. There was no video clip and
B. It wasn't properly promoted by the recording company because even though Niki Minaj was in it for a second, Christina's rap parts sounded like Niki Minaj and therefore the track sounded like a Niki song featuring Christina and not the other way around, and apparently that doesn't look good for Xtina.
But otherwise, I love "You Lost Me' too! Woohoo!!
Hope there are no spelling errors and this makes sense... CBF editing.
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Thursday 29 July
By Xisme
Bionic is now over due to the issues with NMT and now with You Lost Me. You lost me will be her lowest ranking single in her career, people are just not listening to it and radio stations are just not playing it because its not radio friendly and the radio release is awful. It isnt going to help Bionic rise from its disaster so the best thing to stop loosing money would be to let it go or let go and re-release the album after her Movie debut "Burlesque". Promotion is the key to success and there simply was far to little of this for Bionic.
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