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Bel Air
A New Direction — 9 weeks ago
his is a new, different kind of pop that shows that Christina Aguilera is not just a hot body with a powerful voice, but a woman with a true identity and creative motivation. She has gone through a great deal of transformation throughout her career, from teenage pop idol, to good-girl-gone-bad (which inspired Brittany Spears to adopt her white-trash version of Christina’s “Stripped” image), to this new vintage-inspired sex symbol. Though Christina may have felt she was growing up with her sex-inundated club hits, but I feel that signs of her true maturity show through in the two-disc “Back to Basics”.
All of these songs are sung with the spirit of an old Hollywood starlet, combined with Christina’s loud and undeniably powerful vocals. The new lyrical style she has adopted is much more clever than her previous songs, using subtle puns and wordplay that conveys sexual undertones subtly (true vintage style of course). Perhaps her most impacting slow song “Hurt” expresses pain in a way much different than that of other pop songs and is only made better with Chrstina‘s anguished voice. “Hurt”, “Candyman”, and “Nasty Naughty Boy” were my favorite tracks by far.
Christina is finally putting her energy and talent into something worth-while, rather than cheesy pre-teen pop songs or smutty club music. She is making worthwhile, unique music. Let’s just hope she continues in this promising direction

















