A new song has been mentioned by Christina during her InStyle Germany interview. Not sure if its reliable, I think I just have to post the information to keep you all wondering. Thanks to Kathryn24 for this news!
“No way!!! I loooove make up. I even wrote a song called ‘Listen Up’ about a girl who can’t live without make up”
From Mouseketeer to Mother: Christina Aguilera Christina Aguilera’s bodyguard and driver are quietly playing pool along the corridor from the presidential suite of the Philippe Starck-designed SLS Hotel in Beverly Hills, where the singer/songwriter awaits me on a white sofa in her latest incarnation as a peachy-skinned Hollywood goddess. Judging by the traffic-stopping ruby-red lipstick and the sprayed-on black velvet halterneck dress with the built-in balcony bra, I’m guessing that she’s already in character for her movie debut in the film Burlesque, which she’s about to start shooting.
Every waking moment, it seems, is accounted for by this shrewd operator, who has sold more than 37 million albums worldwide, won five Grammy Awards and long since proved that she’s Madonna’s natural heir when it comes to reinventing her femininity. Her friend and sometime collaborator Elton John even paid tribute to Christina’s focus by dubbing her an ‘old soul’ – and she’s still only 28.
One of her favourite stores is the LA branch of the erotic boutique Coco de Mer, which knows just how to drape (or undrape) the womanly shape. You won’t ever find her aspiring to be a stick insect: even the bottle of her third and latest fragrance emulates the curves of the female body with a vampish black lace design on the glass.
She may have started out as a child star, but – unlike some LA celebrities – Christina Aguilera has never wanted to stay child-sized. ‘Diet is not a word in my vocabulary – I don’t like depriving myself of things,’ admits this self-confessed junk-food fan, giggling like a rebellious schoolgirl.
‘I make healthy choices when I can, because it’s very important for me to have moments where I can let go, have a great dinner and not care so much about the carbs. I work out five days a week – and I hate working out in the moment, I truly do,’ she adds frankly. ‘But the aftermath is so great, and it helps you feel good – not only physically, but mentally.’
And Christina certainly seems to be in great shape since becoming a mother, back in January 2008, with the birth of her son Max Liron (whose Latin and Hebrew names mean ‘our greatest song’). It’s ironic that her deliciously musky after-hours perfume, Christina Aguilera By Night, has been launched at the time in her life when she has had to become a morning person.
‘Yes, now I’m a mother, I am getting up earlier,’ she concedes with a smile. ‘It’s 6am every day…but I’m a night owl regardless, which means that, for me, going to bed early means trying to get to sleep by 12.30am. My bedtime before I had my child was 3 or 4am, but that’s because I love the night, when everything shuts up and I have a moment to be creative. It’s definitely a balancing act to make time now, but that’s why it’s even more important for me to find those moments in the evening when I can just really pamper myself. And smelling good helps me feel good, so I usually spray on the fragrance before I go to sleep at night.’
‘It’s even more important to me now to find those moments when I can really pamper myself’
When I remind her how Marilyn Monroe, on being asked what she wore in bed, famously replied, ‘Chanel No 5’, Christina giggles again and says, ‘Smart lady!’ Having already confided (on The Ellen DeGeneres Show in 2007) that she and her husband, entrepreneur and music marketer Jordan Bratman, 32, have ‘naked Sundays’ where they parade around in the buff at home (home being the Osbournes’ old hacienda-style mansion in Beverly Hills), she now slyly fills me in further: ‘Naked apart from the fragrance.’
Trust this style queen to make ‘settling down’ sound so subversively sexy. I ask if Jordan, whom she met in 2001 and married in 2005, is a better kisser than Madonna, whom Christina and Britney Spears both kissed full on the lips when the three of them performed at the 2003 MTV Music Video Awards.
She bursts out laughing. ‘Absolutely! My favourite times with him are when we are just cosying up in bed together. I love my bed, I eat in bed, and if it were up to me I would do everything from my bed.’ Christina adds enthusiastically: ‘I love just looking at my son’s face and finding more peace within my life, because that’s what I want to surround Max with.’
And you can see why, with her dramatic family history. The story of Christina Aguilera’s rise to fame is one of drive and determination, seeking refuge in music to escape an early childhood dominated by her violent, Ecuador-born US army-sergeant father Fausto. Her Irish mother Shelly, a teacher of Spanish, divorced the abusive Fausto when Christina was seven and moved Christina and her sister Rachel from their home in Staten Island, New York, to live with the girls’ grandmother in Pittsburgh.
That was where Christina learned to love her granny’s favourite singers, Etta James and Billie Holiday: her third studio album, 2006’s Back to Basics, was a tribute to their jazz and blues influence on her pop and R & B songs. ‘My grandma passed away a couple of years ago, but I’m sure she is proud of me,’ says Christina, adding that she also ‘enjoys pampering’ her mother: ‘I give her everything.’
A natural performer as soon as she could walk and talk, Christina first appeared on US TV in 1992 as a child contestant in the show Star Search. She then joined Britney, Justin Timberlake and Ryan Gosling as Mouseketeers on the Disney Channel’s New Mickey Mouse Club TV show from 1993 to 1994, before her song ‘Reflection’, for Disney’s film Mulan, led to a record deal with RCA in 1998. That soaring, four-octave voice enabled her to make the transition from child star to chart-topping diva at 18, when her first hit single, ‘Genie in a Bottle’, went straight to number one in the American charts and stayed there for five weeks.
And while Britney has been through divorce, rehab, an ugly custody battle with her former husband and a public breakdown in 2007, the highly organised Christina never seems to have put a foot wrong. ‘Women should embrace their sexuality, because it’s something we own, that men cannot do as well as we can’
Instead, she took charge of her career by sacking her manager, cutting loose from the bubblegum princess image of her debut album, 1999’s Christina Aguilera, and triumphantly relaunching herself as a grown-up artist with the confident, raunchy Stripped album in 2002.
As Christina once put it, ‘Britney is someone I used to hold hands with – we were silly little girls together.’ And when I ask if she ever gets tired of people contrasting her fortunes with Britney’s (comparisons have continued ever since they released their first singles within eight months of each other in 2000 – particularly with rumours of feuding after Britney caught her old flame Justin innocently kissing Christina backstage when they toured together), it’s the only time during our encounter that her mellow mood evaporates. ‘At this point, I think it’s irrelevant,’ she snaps crisply.
In Jordan Bratman, a Mark Ronson lookalike whom Christina has described as her ‘rock’, it sounds as if she has met her soul mate. ‘Jordan is pretty genius,’ she coos.
‘Although I’m the more creative one, he understands the music business and really helps me with my brand. I gravitated towards music because it was a release out of a very chaotic environment when I was growing up. I didn’t realise till many years
later that it was an escape, but obviously I had a passion for it and it grew into a career for me. I don’t have to do it at this point,’ adds the multimillionairess, ‘but I do it because I love it.’
Max, she says, already loves music. ‘I play him Led Zeppelin and the Rolling Stones,’ explains Christina, who has worked with the latter as well as such classic voices as Andrea Bocelli and Tony Bennett.
‘And if Max wanted to have a music career for the same reason, then I would say, “Go for it”. I am really into encouraging him as an individual – whether he wants to be a vet, a scientist or a garbage man. As long as he has a passion for it.’
She’s currently working on a new album to be released later this year, as well as fitting in Burlesque, the autobiographical-sounding story of a small-town girl who makes it big as a burlesque star. Motherhood, she tells me, has made her ‘feel even more sensual. But, ultimately, sexuality really stems from feeling good about yourself.’
Christina famously claimed her own sexuality by reinventing herself with the song ‘Dirrty’ from the album Stripped; its accompanying video reportedly shocked her grandmother. Yet Christina fully intends to show ‘Dirrty’ to her son one day. ‘He’ll see all my work, I’m sure,’ she says breezily.‘But I think that’s also part of what I want him to appreciate in women – the fact that sexuality is not something you should be ashamed of.
‘The more that you try to forbid something and keep it secret, the more it becomes this thing you should be fearful of,’ adds Christina. She’s not afraid to label herself a feminist, and the legacy of her long resistance to her bullying father (from whom she is now permanently estranged) can be seen in the way she criticises all attempts to dictate what women should wear or how they should behave.
‘I just feel that women should embrace their sexuality because it’s something we own – that men cannot do as well as we can,’ she explains. ‘I think men get jealous of that and want to keep our sexuality for themselves. But more than ever, women are coming out and owning their sexuality and feeling good about it. I want my son to grow up respecting that.’
And Christina is also clear that she doesn’t want to be anyone’s clone. ‘I do look up to Madonna as a businesswoman,’ she says, ‘but I would definitely not want to emulate exactly what she’s done. I enjoy looking back at the body of her work and the different changes. I love the fact that she’s been a risk-taker – and pretty fearless in some of her choices.’
She shakes my hand and says goodbye in a cloud of the headiest of her scents so far. Having made her name with ‘Genie in a Bottle’, it seems that now the ambitious Christina has set her sights on creating genius in a bottle. ‘Trying scents as you grow up is part of enjoying being a woman,’ she adds. ‘Women are beautiful beings and I love experimenting not just with hair and make-up and fashion, but with fragrances too – it’s like the icing on the cake.’
Christina Aguilera’s third fragrance, Christina By Night, from £19 for 30ml, is available nationwide
Dressed up as matching pirates, the “Genie In A Bottle” babe and her boy went door-to-door while being driven down the street by the family patriarch, Jordan Bratman.
Meanwhile, Miss Aguilera recently spoke with Mail on Sunday, talking about the two important men in her life - Jordan and Max.
Of her hubby, Christina tells, “Jordan is pretty genius. Although I’m the more creative one, he understands the music business and really helps me with my brand. I gravitated towards music because it was a release out of a very chaotic environment when I was growing up. I didn’t realize till many years later that it was an escape, but obviously I had a passion for it and it grew into a career for me. I don’t have to do it at this point, but I do it because I love it.”
As for Max, Aguilera said, “I play him Led Zeppelin and the Rolling Stones,. And if Max wanted to have a music career for the same reason, then I would say, ‘Go for it.’ I am really into encouraging him as an individual – whether he wants to be a vet, a scientist or a garbage man. As long as he has a passion for it.”
Source: CelebrityGossip@PerezHilton: I'm ready for some new music from Christina Aguilera! And I want it to be AMAZING! And I want it soon! How about U? PS #GetXtinaOnTwitter!
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"I can tell you that what you will see and hear from Christina will be different, original, and probably against the grain: the true form for Christina ... always re-creating herself."Tricky Stewart:
"It's just great. I wouldn't say that it's alternative, I wouldn't say that it's different; Christina's always been an artist that moves the bar and that's what the great ones do. They don't stay in the same place for too long, and this album is just another move for her. I really feel it's one of her best bodies of work that I've heard since Stripped. I think it's really, really amazing and I think it's well put together. "She's mixing it up again. She's singing R&B again, she's doing pop. She's doing it all, but she's found a way to make it all meet in the middle because she's so many different things."Sia Furler:
"One of the songs is "the best singing she does since Beautiful" and another one is an "awesome, catchy, Christina-song". Another one is a song in honor for her son Max Liron Bratman. "It´s almost like a lullaby."Ladytron:
"We were impressed because she had a real deep knowledge of our music - album tracks, not just the singles!". "We went in with no expectations; the whole thing was a massive surprise. But it was incredible. She was so musically talented, a vocalist who really knows her voice. The first takes sounded really amazing, and while we'd made demos, it was only when her voice was on them that it all came to life. It's nice to talk about them, we've been sitting on this for a while."Christina Aguilera:
I think I'm most proud of this work than I have ever been, just because I have worked with so many amazing and incredible talented people, a lot of different collaborations, working with a lot of artists that I really love and listen to, respect and admire. Sia, the singer, songwriter has done some work with "Breathe Me," one of her main, amazing beautiful songs, we did a lot of work on this record together and she's just a complete gem, she's truly just a talented force to be reckoned with and I so enjoyed her company. I think we really created some super crazy magic together. I got the chance to sort of write with Santogold, M.I.A., Ladytron, artists that I really love. The overall versatility of this record is truly something special for me, I actually experimented with so many types of textures and sounds of my voice that I've never showcased and I've never even really knew that I could do. Working with so many different people, I really kind of wanted to step into their worlds, them into my world, and just get the best of both worlds and see what happened, and really experiment which is honestly what I try to do with every record so that I'm not making the same song over and over, and over again. I really like to step outside of my own box and really check out artists and this was the first time that I really collaborated with so many at once and it was just so exciting for me and the result was just magic and I just can't wait to share it all with you guys. I'm dying to share some of my titles of the record, some of the songs off the album because they're really special and just interesting to hear within itself, but soon enough guys, soon enough, I promise that it will be well worth the wait. There truly is something for everyone to enjoy on the record and as I said it's versatility is really special and it's something that I've never actually done before and being so versatile both vocally and musically, a lot of good stuff in store.
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Cher (Tess)
Cam Gigandet (Jack)
Stanley Tucci (Manager)
Kristen Bell (Nikki)
Alan Cumming
Julianne Hough
Tyne Stecklein (Jesse)
Chelsea Traille (Coco)
Seven years ago today CHRISTINA AGUILERA had released one of her best albums to date STRIPPED, well I would like to think it was her best Album, but some might think otherwise. Stripped was not widely accepted in the United States because of the song that she had chosen as the 1st single. Dirrty broke the barrier and let everyone know just who Christina actually was. She was no bubblegum artist, she was an artist with substance, an artist with edge, an artist with a voice. She was and is a force to be reckoned with. This is to another 7 years. Can't wait to celebrate the NEW albums birthday.
Stripped went to sell 330,000 copies in the First week out and landed on the #2 spot on the Billboard Hot 100. She sold 4,100,00 copies in the United States alone. It sold more than 13 million copies world wide. "Dirrty" and "Beautiful" reached the #1 spot in the UK Billboard Chart. "Dirrty" didn't even reach the top 10 in the US and "Beautiful" reached the #2 spot.
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Kristen Bell: “I’m excited. I’m really excited. It’s a different role for me,” she explained. “It’s kind of a departure, which is exciting. I don’t want to be pigeonholed as the bubblegum girl next door and this is getting back to my snarkier roots. There is a lot of dancing in the movie, which is intimidating, but I think Christina is unreasonably talented in pretty much every facet of her life. She has written music for the movie, which is crazy good. I’m excited to start.”Source: OKMagazine
Kristen Bell is in a lot of pain these days.
"I've started dance rehearsals and my neck is sore and my inner thighs are so sore," Bell told me at last night's Vanity Fair-hosted launch of Guess?'s new T-shirt benefiting Invisible Children.
No, the actress is not training for a stint on Dancing With the Stars. She's getting ready to start shooting Burlesque, director Steve Antin's upcoming drama in which she and Christina Aguilera costar as rivals at a Hollywood burlesque club owned by a former dancer played by Cher.
Rounding out the cast is Twilight stud Cam Gigandet, Julianne Hough and Stanley Tucci.
So just how much skin will Bell and the other young starlets be flashing in the film? Sounds like a lot, but...
"My character is fun and sexy but not a stripper," Bell said. "There is no nudity, and there are no pasties and G-strings."
Her costumes include Madonna-esque cone bras and "Marilyn Monroe boy shorts—the high-waisted panties kind of thing," Bell explained.
"It's very artistic burlesque," she said. "Burlesque is a tease. It's not meant to really give that much away because that wouldn't be considered a tease. It would be considered giving away the goods."
Dancing aside, Bell may end up—gulp!—singing with Xtina. It's not something the former Veronica Mars star is looking forward to.
"There's a competition between the two of us," she said. "I really want to sing and she's allowed to sing at the club so we fight...In the end when all is well, they may sing together. I almost wish they wouldn't, because I would rather just listen to Christina."
Source: E!
'BADASS'Also, Christina registered 'At Last.' Hopefully this means we will finally get a studio recording of her epic cover! This is rumored to be for the Burlesque soundtrack...
Writers:
DAREY MATTHEW JONATHAN
Performers:
CHRISTINA AGUILERA
'AT LAST'Credits: ASCAP, ATRL, & Xtin
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COSMOPOLITAN: They told once that you and your man celebrate „Naked so called Sundays “…
Firstly I'd like to introduce myself, Joel Horton, a contributing author for Christina's Blo(G)Spot.
Let's get down to brass tacks...
...yesterday I posted an article containing "confirmed" song titles off of the leaked working titled 4th studio album by Christina Aguilera, Light & Darkness. Now I just as all of you know and am fully 100% aware that Wikipedia is NOT A RELIABLE SOURCE. There, I admit it. I posted the article because I thought it would interest our readers that these alleged track names were sneaking around the inner/outer realms of the internet. I offer my condolences to those who suffered any strife from this alleged set of news, but I will not apologize for informing our readers every step of the way, ultimately rewarding them with an informed state of mind. Listen, real or fake, rumors spark our curiosity and ignites our excitement. I am first and foremost a FAN like yourselves and as a FAN, I want to know anything and everything related to any new projects Christina Aguilera is using her masterful talents towards. Plain and simple. I do believe I attached an Editor's Note in the article in discussion.
Sorry for confusion you've bestowed upon yourselves.
Joel
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Let's all group together and start requesting Christina on the radio! with ipods, and itunes on the rise, people are not requesting music enough!
CHRISTINA AGUILERA has revealed that she plans to reduce her workload to spend time cooking meals for her family.Where do starlets go when their career needs a boost? Apparently, “Project Runway.” Lindsay Lohan appeared as a guest judge on the show earlier in the season, and last night Christina Aguilera took her turn. Seeing her on the episode, sporting some serious bangs, reminded me why she’s been the pop star who’s totally fallen off the radar, even though she has the best voice. The girl is too darn nice!
The designer’s challenge last night was to create a show-stopping number for Christina to perform in. The designers went pretty predictable on this one, going for oodles of sequins and feathers. But during the judging panel, while Heidi Klum and Nina Garcia dug into the contestants, Christina totally let everyone off the hook. When Heidi told Shirin that her dress looked like it needed a broom and cauldron, Christina responded, “I didn’t get witchy from it.” Her comments for most of the contestants: “It’s nice.” Come on, Christina, these are dresses you’re supposed to wear—you have to have thoughts beyond that. The only person Christina was slightly harsh on was Logan—she said his dress was a little “cavewoman,” though she said she did like that he used “color.” Uh, it’s silver and black zebra print. No color there. Come on Christina, let the claws out! Get some mean analogies going! That’s why we watch the show!
Another hilarious moment was when guest judge Bob Mackie, who Tim Gunn nicknamed the “sultan of sequins,” gave a critique to Carol Hannah, who won the challenge. He liked her dress, but said the strapless pointy neckline was “tiresome.” Then in the next shot, the cameras showed Christina ... wearing the exact same neckline. And she didn’t even seem to notice the diss. I don’t know, Christina, I just think that a diva without the bite is a bore. I’d work on that.
Telling the November issue of Cosmopolitan UK that people should never be “ashamed…of their sexuality,” Christina Aguilera won’t be caught singing different tune now that she’s a mom to son Max Liron, 21 months.
“Christina is meticulous in her preparation for anything she does”, a film insider said. “She is already training hard to be ready for this role and has asked Dita for some coaching on the more technical aspects of burlesque dancing. She doesn’t want to have to use a double for anything if she can help it.”
Source: AngryApe
working on the scariest of costumes. Hopefully, no one ends up like some Bride of Frankenstein (or actually Frankenstein) as some did on the last episode of Project Runway.
1) "Crazy in Love"- Beyonce ft. Jay-z
Editor's Note:In a recent interview with Britain's Cosmopolitan, the 28-year-old star says that even after having her son, now 20-month-old Max, she feels sexiest when she's stark naked.
"I think women are such sensual beings. And, I mean, I'm attracted to men ultimately -- I'm married and I love my husband and I love what we do together," she told Cosmo.
Unlike vagina-fan and fellow celeb Megan Fox, Christina, who posed nude for GQ in 2006, is open about her sexuality but doesn't do it for media attention or shock-factor.
Of their shared nakedness, Aguilera says her husband and her share bodies to share moments.
"It's important to keep the marriage alive, to spice it up a little."
Adding, "We have to be the coziest couple around. We have something called naked Sundays," says the star.
"On Sundays we just do everything in the house, and we're just cozy and laid back. We don't need to go anywhere, we're just with each other. We do everything naked. We cook naked."
The star has a hot body to go with their Sunday dinners. After giving birth to Max less than two years ago, Aguilera hit the gym with celebirty personal trainer Tee Sorge, who has trained Aguilera for the past three and a half years. In order to get back to post-baby sexiness, Christina used a variety of workout moves to help get her there.
"Christina does biceps curls with 15-pound dumbbells and chest presses with 20-pounders," says Sorge, who suggests lifting heavier weights for a more sculpted and fat-burning effect and mix it cardio to your routine.
"I throw in a minute or two of jumping rope, stair climbing or boxing after every few toning moves Christina does to keep her heart rate up and really maximize the number of calories she burns," says Sorge.
Of her baby bounce-back trick?
"Christina worked out with me until she was eight months pregnant--and then started back up a few months after [her son] Max was born," says Sorge. "That's what helped her look so good during her pregnancy--and snap back so quickly."
Source: Examiner
Written By: Isabelle O'CarrollMr Bones' Pumpkin Patch seems to be the new celeb hangout drawing stars like Christina Aguilera, Khloe Kardashian and Britney Spears.
Christina Aguilera, Khloe Kardashian and Britney Spears are all getting in the Hallowe'en spirit at LA's coolest new hangout. Mr Bones' Pumpkin Patch is where celebs go to pick up pumpkins and more importantly showcase some great off-duty looks.
Britters sports an on-trend stripe top with jeans and heels while Khloe goes for groomed glam in a chunky cardie and knee-high boots. Christina does the casual look of the season, workwear boots, skinnies and a flannel shirt gives her instant off-duty kudos.
Source: Look
