[PHOTOS] 2 NEW 'BIONIC' ALBUM OUTTAKES

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[AUDIO] 'YOU LOST ME' DUBSTEP REMIX BY: LEWIS SANTIAGO

Christina Aguilera - You Lost Me (Dubstep Remix) by Lewis Santiago

[NEWS] LE TIGRE TALKS ABOUT THEIR POSSIBLE INVOLVEMENT WITH CHRISTINA'S NEW ALBUM

Le Tigre wrote and produced "My Girls", from Bionic, Christina Aguilera's latest album. How was it to work with her?

It was wonderful. She's an incredible artist, an excellent mother and a very funny person. It was fun, very natural. I didn't have an impression that working with her was any different than working with Le Tigre or MEN. I felt it was a great collaboration.

I felt I was lucky to work with her, considering she's a very relevant woman to the feminist movement.

How were you invited to work with her?

My girlfriend was working with her and Aguilera asked her to get us in touch.

Did you work on other songs?

Yeah, we ended up with two songs, "My Girls" and another one (Listen Up) that they might hold for the next album, or maybe not even that.

Source: RollingStone
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[NEWS] BEST YOU NEVER HEARD: THE 'BIONIC' SPECIAL

With Christina Aguilera‘s latest single ‘Love Your Body‘ expected to make its debut any time soon, the buzz surrounding the project and its supporting album have undeniably reached fever pitch within the last week.

Set to hit stores in coming months, the yet to be named album will arrive two years after the release of ’Bionic‘, the entertainer’s fifth and most heavily debated LP to date.

So in celebration of the release, which many would agree came to an untimely ‘death’ after struggling to live up to the commercial success of its predecessors, That Grape Juice dedicates this very special edition of ‘Best You Never Heard‘ to Bionic, naming four of our favorite but oft overlooked cuts from the LP.

Get into it below…

‘Woohoo (Ft Nicki Minaj)’

From its stuttering beat to its ‘tongue in cheek’ lyrics, Woohoo is in many ways the older and perhaps more uninhibited sister of 2002′s ‘Dirrty‘.

Fun, sexy and enjoyably filthy, the jam’s unashamed approach to what some might label a ‘taboo topic’ served to cement Christina’s status as one of Pop’s braver entities, heated up even further with a predictably scorching verse from foul mouthed Pop Princess Nicki Minaj.

‘Vanity’

‘I’m not cocky…’

Keeping in theme with the album’s loud, fierce and abrasive theme, Vanity makes for the ultimate party anthem. Armed with finger snapping verses and an annoyingly infectious hook, this shamelessly narcissistic club classic serves just as much heat today as it did when it first fell in our laps over a year ago.

‘Stronger Than Ever’

A feature on the LP’s deluxe edition, many could be forgiven for not knowing that such a song even exists.

Indeed, despite standing side by side with ‘Beautiful’ and ‘Voice Within’ as being one of Christina’s more heart felt ballads, ‘Stronger’ felt the full wrath of the media’s blacklisting of Bionic and thus found itself fading into obscurity once the project’s plug was finally pulled.

Showcasing the vocal restraint many accuse of the performer of not using enough of, the number’s slow but powerfully sincere start makes Aguilera’s trademark belting style toward the end of the cut all the more enjoyable.

Here’s to hoping album #6 delivers more of the same.

‘Glam’

Undoubtedly the closest thing this generation has to Madonna‘s ‘Vogue‘, Glam- in our opinion- could have easily restored interest in ‘Bionic’ had it been the given the single treatment and a supporting video equally as innovative as the track itself.

Almost as though she found a way to channel a Neon stained Tokyo night and compress it into a 3 minute long song, Glam‘s dreamlike backing track and couture-centric theme makes it Christina’s strongest dance effort, far superior- dare we say- to the well produced but poorly received ‘Not Myself Tonight‘.

Source: ThatGrapeJuice

Editor's Note:

Saw this yesterday and decided to post it since news is slow. Insert eye roll here at "Best You Never Heard." Bionic was the second highest most downloaded album of 2010 and don't you forget it.

[PHOTOS] BIONIC ERA HQ PICS FROM ELLEN VON UNWERTH'S 'OUT' MAGAZINE SHOOT

[PHOTOS] BIONIC ERA HQ PIC FROM ELLEN VON UNWERTH'S 'LATINA' MAGAZINE SHOOT

[NEWS] JD SAMSON REFLECTS WORKING ON HER COLLABORATION WITH CHRISTINA ON 'MY GIRLS'

Ms Blog: I have to ask about the Christina Aguilera album Bionic: You contributed to the “My Girls” track.

JD Samson: Christina is a fan of Le Tigre. She was making a record of collaborations with other people that she respects and that she’s inspired by, which I think is so cool. We always have loved Christina. She’s an outright feminist in everything she does, and she speaks her mind and she is an incredible woman. She also is an incredibly hard worker and knows her craft better than anyone I’ve ever experienced. Johanna [Fateman, from Le Tigre] and I went to L.A. and worked with her for a week and spent, like, 10 hours a day in the studio, just the three of us and an engineer. People don’t expect that; they think there is going to be all these producers around and the truth is we were right in it all and we felt very comfortable. Now we’ve been writing music for other people a little bit and trying to change our world.

[AUDIO] 'YOU LOST ME' STUDIO OUTTAKE

CA_LostMe by talkthistalk

[NEWS] CHRISTINA AGUILERA ITUNES COLLECTION SALE

For the first time, iTunes is offering a collection of Christina Aguilera’s entire studio recordings at the exclusive low price of $34.99! “The Collection” features six albums from her self-titled debut to the most recent release Bionic. Click here to order this limited time offer!

The collection includes:

• Christina Aguilera (Debut)

• Mi Reflejo

• My Kind of Christmas

• Stripped

• Back to Basics

• Bionic

Source: Christina Aguilera (Official Website)

[VIDEO] CHRISTINA TALKS ABOUT LIFE, HER CAREER, HER COMPETITION, & WHAT'S NEXT

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[VIDEO] 'NOT MYSELF TONIGHT' IN AMAZING 720 HD

Editor's Note:

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[VIDEO] LADYTRON DESCRIBES THE RECORDING PROCESS BEHIND THEIR CONTRIBUTIONS TO 'BIONIC'

[NEWS] A LYRICAL LOOK AT ADAM AND XTINA'S 'MOVES LIKE JAGGER' SWAGGER BREAKDOWN

“Moves Like Jagger” should not logically exist. Radio granted Hands All Over‘s lead single “Misery” little company, making Maroon 5′s career trajectory resemble even more the downward half of a roller coaster, a few consolation bumps the only highlight until the end of the ride. Christina Aguilera, meanwhile, was lucky to have a career trajectory after her Bionic bomb and subsequent tabloid oops. Half a year ago, a collaboration between the two would have seemed less like an event, let alone a potential No. 1 track, and more like two shipwrecked people clinging to one another in a desperate attempt to stave off the inevitable.

Then came The Voice, NBC’s search for a star singer that so far has been more helpful to its search party. Coaches Cee Lo Green and Blake Shelton were on the rise before the show and didn’t much need the boost. Adam Levine and Christina Aguilera did, and fortunately for them, becoming the show’s breakout stars provided an opening to plausibly crack the charts again. Their song’s got as much swagger as any given song this decade despite “swagger” never appearing in the lyrics, Maroon 5 are much better when they’re trying disco and not funk, and Christina can still sing, but none of those alone or combined took “Moves Like Jagger” past former No. 1 Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F.),” now with a hangover of about 18 chart spots. Nor did the prospect of a coach pairing alone; Cee Lo and Xtina’s “Nasty, recorded pre-Voice anyway, didn’t have nearly the same push. Adam and Christina’s personalities bolstered the show, and they bolster the otherwise lightweight “Moves Like Jagger.” People want to hear them fight and flirt.

The first thing to know about “Moves,” written by Levine with assists by Benjamin Levin, Ammar Malik and Shellback, is easy enough to guess: Adam has the moves like Jagger, and Christina crumples at the sight. The second thing to know is that “Moves Like Jagger” is a spiritual sequel to “Give a Little More,” the “Misery” follow-up and near-hit. Both got their frisson, if you think they’ve got frisson, by staging miniature battles of the genders. Both sound less like relationships than hostage situations, all about negotiating control and who’s doing the one-sided seducing at any given point.But “Moves” adds another layer, one that exploits the slightly sleazy sexual tension between the two that The Voice hinted at roughly twice an episode. It only takes one viewing of The Voice, one recap or just one glance at the press photos to sense the “hate-flirting” as one commenter put it. They’re both playing it up, Adam increasingly shirtless to tease the two-thirds of the world attracted to him (sample Google results: “Can I have a heterosexual man-crush on Adam Levine?” and “My Mother TOTALLY Has a Crush on Adam Levine”) and Christina, it seems, not acting herself tonight or for the rest of the decade. On “Moves Like Jagger,” they play it all the way up the charts.

You wanted control, so we waited
I put on a show, now I make it
You say I’m a kid, my ego is big
I don’t give a shit
And it goes like this

The first stanza of “Moves Like Jagger” is a throwaway, full of already-trashed lines like “just shoot for the stars” and “aim for my heart.” It’s semi-romantic BS to pass the time before the synth bass groans in; it’s small talk. The lyrics get going when the song does. “Christina” wanted control, so they held off on anything romantic until “Adam”‘s moves made that impossible. (Every listener will tell you about mishearing “now I make it” as “now we’re naked.” This is deliberate.) “You say I’m a kid,” Adam sings, and it doesn’t matter that he’s a year older than Christina or that the two singers have no romantic connection. Duets tend to have this subtext built into the form by default; plug these two in, and it’s barely subtext.

I don’t need to try to control you
Look into my eyes and I’ll own you
With the moves like Jagger

These lyrics look much different on paper than in song. Credit Adam Levine’s voice, loose with autotune and doing Jagger-like dances around every note. He makes come-ons like “kiss me ’til you’re drunk” seem less creepy and pickup lines like “take me by the tongue” seem like they might work. He even sells, almost, the Mick Jagger comparison–impressive, because although songs about celebrities and rockers are numerous, extended comparisons to rock stars aren’t. Jagger’s real moves weren’t dances so much as, as critic Frank Kogan put it, more like a “cold deadly stalk.” And taken literally, the chorus of “Moves Like Jagger” must be talking about mind control, as if Jagger’s moves were also hypnotist’s pendulums. Adam Levine will literally own you. His kiss will literally intoxicate you, as if his saliva is tequila. His eyes are made of spirals. All this is ridiculous, even more so when considering the decades-forged charisma gap between Levine and Jagger. But the same suspension of disbelief that made “Moves Like Jagger” a smash hit makes it seem at least kind of believable.

Oh, so get in the car
We can ride it wherever you want
Get inside it
And you want to steer
But I’m shifting gears
I’ll take it from here

The second verse makes things darker; she’s “broken and scarred” to where nothing feels right, which invites biographical criticism but doesn’t beg it. He makes her think he’s got the solution. Levine could’ve ended things on “when you’re with me, I make you believe,” which sounds nice enough, until he finishes it with “I make you believe that I’ve got the key,” deceptive and a fake-out. Then there’s a metaphorical car, which she can steer and drive until she can’t, and Adam’s got the steering wheel and the gear stick and, by the way, the moves like Jagger again.

You want to know how to make me smile
Take control, own me just for the night
But if I share my secret
You gonna have to keep it
Nobody else can see this

Christina’s contribution to “Moves Like Jagger” consists of two interchangeable verses. Her “secret,” such as it is, is that she does in fact like the moves like Jagger. This isn’t really a secret. Neither is the fact that Christina’s own moves and melisma are toned down exponentially, or that she’s directly referencing her own “Genie in a Bottle“–almost the same song with no Adam–with the “rub me right” line. The real secret is whatever unexplained Jagger move kept Christina Aguilera from completely taking over the song. Most critics, when talking about “Moves Like Jagger,” talk about how Christina’s barely on it. Compare “Lady Marmalade,” where Mya, Pink and L’il Kim–charismatic performers all–might as well be laying down rafters for Christina to soar above. After this, she disappears except to barely echo Adam’s lines or toss a few notes into the song here and there. It’s practically a conquest, a duet less about singing together and more about fighting to see who’s sung into submission first.

Again, none of this sounds menacing; it’s played for fun and diversion, and it only lasts as long as “Moves Like Jagger”‘s three or so minutes. Adam, headlines indicate, seems like an OK guy, free of the Casanova scandals that this song would suggest, and Christina–probably noticing how her more subdued Sia collaborations were the ones critics and fans didn’t insult–has hunkered back from her coach-to-coach lasciviousness. It helps that The Voice isn’t airing until spring, keeping the two from their Simon/Paula schtick for now. “Moves Like Jagger” is the next best thing: a small song’s worth of tension, a referendum on Adam and Christina’s careers and a lengthy ad for The Voice that gave them continued life. It’s not enough for a career revival, but it couldn’t succeed if people didn’t care.

Source: PopDust

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[PHOTO] 'KEEP CALM AND LISTEN TO CHRISTINA AGUILERA'

[NEWS] STAR-CROSSED RIVALS BRITNEY AND CHRISTINA FINALLY MEET IN THE TOP 10

First, it was the Internet stock bubble rising again. And this week, Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera meet at last in the Billboard Hot 100 Top 10. It’s like the late ‘90s never left!



Yes, with Maroon 5 and Christina’s ‘Moves Like Jagger’ zooming back up to the Hot 100 Top 10 at No. 8, and Britney inching up two notches to No. 7 with ‘I Wanna Go,’ history was officially made this week as ex-Mouseketeers and former teen pop rivals Britney and Christina both appear in the Top 10 together for the first time ever!



It might seem surprising to many that it’s taken 12 years for the seemingly intrinsically tied duo to chart in the top 10 simultaneously, given that both Britney and Christina have reigned supreme in the pop world for years. But much like the relationship between Brit and Chrissy, their chart story is a complicated one.



Both Britney and Christina, as we all know so well, exploded onto the scene with hit singles “Baby One More Time” and “Genie In a Bottle,” which hit the top of the Hot 100 about six months apart. While Christina continued with her singles success in the early 2000s, Britney struggled to make it into the upper echelons of the Hot 100 singles chart despite massive album sales. A stunning 15 of her first 19 singles missed the top 10 – and five of those 15 didn’t chart at all.



One big factor for Brit’s early chart misfires was the fact that in the early 2000s radio was heavily dominated by R&B/hip-hop with artists like Nelly, Ashanti and Ja Rule finding success. Britney, with her pure pop styling, failed to get huge radio airplay, which was, in the pre-digital sales era, a big part of the Hot 100’s formulation. Christina, on the other hand, had more rhythmic appeal from the get-go and thus consistently received radio support early on – all four singles from her debut album impressively peaked in the top 3.



The other part of the equation that determined a song’s chart position was, of course, its sales, and a decade ago, physical single sales were languishing badly as people took to mp3 downloading (Napster, anyone?). So with little airplay and diminishing sales, it’s no wonder Britney, at the peak of her prowess in the early aughts, could hardly score a top 10 hit.



Towards the end of the decade, the musical landscape shifted, and pop music became cool again. The Eurodance sound became de rigueur on radio, as exemplified by current radio favorites Lady Gaga, Rihanna, Katy Perry and Ke$ha. In this context, Britney’s dance beats became a radio staple. Also, with iTunes taking off in a spectacular fashion and legal digital downloads rising each year, the sales of a single regained its influence on chart positions, and the first-week rush factor of digital releases often means that artists can burst into the top 10 of the Hot 100 with little or no airplay. It was pretty much thanks to gangbusters first week digital sales that Britney debuted at No. 1 with both “3” and “Hold It Against Me.”



And while Britney has started finding Hot 100 success these past years, Christina is struggling, at least relative to her career earlier, with fans not taking too well to either the retro sound of the “Back to Basics” singles or the futuristic beats of the “Bionic” cuts. Perhaps the laws of physics were such that Britney and Christina cannot hold Top 10 spots at the same time or else some sort of pop kingdom meltdown would occur.



Well, whatever it might be, what we’d have expected to happen many moons ago has finally happened, and we couldn’t be happier. Britney and Christina might have had tumultuous ups and downs in the course of their careers, but their current chart success is testament to their staying power and enduring appeal. There might have been a rivalry between the two in the past, with fans of one sniping at the other, but I think both ladies have now earned the respect, if not love, of the other’s fans. Maybe fans of both should join forces in a battle of the old guard (Brit and Chrissy) versus the new (Gaga, Katy, et al.). Meanwhile, long may Britney and Christina’s success continue, and let’s hope for more frequent chart meetings!



BRITNEY'S CHART PEAKS

“…Baby One More Time” - #1 (Jan 30, 1999)

“Sometimes” - #21 (July 24, 1999)

“(You Drive Me) Crazy” - #10 (November 13, 1999)

“From the Bottom of My Broken Heart” - #14 (February 26, 2000)

“Oops!...I Did It Again” - #9 (June 10, 2000)

“Lucky” - #23 (September 09, 2000)

“Stronger” - #11 (January 27, 2001)

“Don’t Let Me Be the Last to Know – Did Not Chart

“I’m a Slave 4 U” - #27 (December 01, 2001)

“Overprotected” - #86 (May 04, 2002)

“Not a Girl, Not Yet a Woman” – Did Not Chart

“Boys” – Did Not Chart

“Me Against the Music” - #35 (November 29, 2003)

“Toxic” - #9 (March 27, 2004)

“Everytime” - #15 (July 03, 2004)

Outrageous - #79 (August 28, 2004)

“My Prerogative” –Did Not Chart

Do Somethin’ - #100 (April 16, 2005)

“Someday (I Will Understand) – Did Not Chart

“Gimme More” - #3 (October 13, 2007)

“Piece of Me” - #18 (February 09, 2008)

Break the Ice” - #43 (May 24, 2008)

“Womanizer” - #1 (October 25, 2008)

“Circus” - #3 (December 20, 2008)

“If You Seek Amy” – #19 (May 09, 2009)

“Radar” - #88 (September 05, 2009)

“3” - #1 (October 24, 2009)

“Hold It Against Me” - #1 (January 29, 2011)

“S&M” - #1 (April 30, 2011)

“Till the World Ends” - #3 (May 5, 2011)

“I Wanna Go” - #7 (Aug 11, 2011)

CHRISTINA'S CHART PEAKS

“Genie in a Bottle” - #1 (July 31, 1999)

“The Christmas Song” - #18 (January 08, 2000)

“What a Girl Wants” - #1 (January 15, 2000)

“I Turn To You” - #3 (July 01, 2000)

“Come On Over Baby (All I Want Is You)” - #1 (October 14, 2000)

“Nobody Wants To be Lonely” - #13 (March 08, 2001)

“Lady Marmalade” - #1 (June 02, 2001)

“Dirrty” - #48 (October 05, 2002)

“Beautiful” - #2 (February 01, 2003)

“Fighter” - #20 (May 24, 2003)

“Can’t Hold Us Down” - #12 (September 13, 2003)

“The Voice Within” - #33 (January 10, 2004)

“Car Wash” - #63 (September 18, 2004)

“Tilt Ya Head Back” - #58 (October 09, 2004)

“Ain’t No Other Man” - #6 (July 15, 2006)

“Hurt” - #19 (December 16, 2006)

“Tell Me” - #47 (December 30, 2006)

“Candyman” - #25 (March 31, 2007)

“Keeps Getting Better” – #7 (October 18, 2008)

“Not Myself Tonight - #23 (May 01, 2010)

“WooHoo” - #79 (June 05, 2010)

“Bionic” - #66 (June 26, 2010)

“Moves Like Jagger - #8 (August 11, 2011)

Written by: Sterling Wong

Source: MTV Newsroom

[PHOTOS] THE 'BIONIC' CIVILIZATION POSTERS

Editors Note:

These posters have been posted in different parts of Los Angeles. Our really good friend and fellow 'Fighter' Vince Rossi saw these in his most recent visit to Melrose Ave., in Los Angeles. Hmm... Aren't these posters just awesome? Love them. Long live 'Bionic' and our queen Madam Xtina.

Credits: Vince Rossi