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Post by Rich on Jun 8, 2010 1:18:07 GMT -5
1 single is not a real reflection of your fans not feeling your entire album. One single may not do as well, and the next one might. Somethings take a little longer to gain traction than others. Having said that sometimes having a loyal following does have it's plus's. Lots of promo is always better than having little to none at all, atleast that way people are aware. I agree that there can be no downside to her promoting at this point - the major thing they need to decide on is a single, because she's got one more shot at a hit single this era, if that.
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Post by Love Plastic Love on Jun 8, 2010 1:35:02 GMT -5
I am starting to feel like they won't even release a second single. There is absolutely no reason why they should be waiting this long after the first single flopped.
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Post by StarSprinkles on Jun 8, 2010 2:03:34 GMT -5
I think they'll release one, but it won't do well. It'll probably either be Bionic or Woohoo. Both would flop, IMO. In fact, Woohoo already HAS flopped.
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Post by SHOOTER on Jun 8, 2010 2:04:25 GMT -5
#3 on iTunes behind Glee and Jack Johnson.
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Post by bs4everalways on Jun 8, 2010 2:13:07 GMT -5
iTunes update for Bionic compared to yesterday:
#1 (D) in UK #4 (S) in Luxembourg (-2) #4 (D) in Germany (-2) #4 (D) in Italy (-2) #5 (D) in Austria (-3) #3 (-1) (D) in Australia #5 (-2) (D) in Ireland #4 (=) (S) & #10 (=) (D) & #122 (-59) (D) in Switzerland #6 (-1) (S) & #28 (-8) (D) in Belgium #7 (-2) (S) & #25 (-11) (D) in Netherlands #10 (-1) (D) in France
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Post by Peaches. [Ch, r. is] on Jun 8, 2010 2:24:12 GMT -5
I think they'll release one, but it won't do well. It'll probably either be Bionic or Woohoo. Both would flop, IMO. In fact, Woohoo already HAS flopped. I think they need to go with IHB
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Post by remix on Jun 8, 2010 3:05:43 GMT -5
#1 in Mexico(Standratd)
#8 in Mexico(Deluxe)
#3 US and 11(in 15 minutes)
I don't know why you people care so much about first week saleas at all ,since the only thing that really matters is how much the album will sell overall.
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ALL MUSIC: 4/5 STARS
Subtlety not being part of Christina Aguilera’s vocabulary, she trades the retro-swing of Back to Basics for the future-pop of Bionic, receiving assists from a roster that reads like a who’s-who of progressive pop in 2010: M.I.A., Le Tigre, Peaches, and John Hill & Switch, known for their work with Santigold. But like the half-cyborg/half-diva illustration of the album cover, this revamp is only partial. Aguilera hedges her bets by adding a ballad from old friend Linda Perry, gets Tricky Stewart to produce a trio of cuts, drafts Polow da Don and Focus… to produce some heavy and slow R&B, respectively, letting enough air into the machines to reassure hesitant fans that she hasn’t abandoned her roots. All this hesitancy means that for as many risks as it takes, Bionic doesn’t feel daring. Apart from the stuttering opener of the title track and glassy chill of “Elastic Love,” notably the two Hill & Switch productions, this never delivers the future shock it promises, but that’s not necessarily a bad thing, because the robot-diva hybrids are often interesting even when they stumble, as they do on “WooHoo,” its incessant title loop piercing like a dental drill. Exhibit A in Xtina’s curious tin ear for sex, “WooHoo” doesn’t work as temptation, not when the chorus come-on is “licky licky yum yum,” but her crassness is no longer alienating as it was on Stripped; it’s simply part of her persona, just like her shameless narcissism, showcased on the closing “Vanity,” where she gets her kid to confirm that she’s the greatest of them all. This triumphant self-possession comes so naturally to Christina that it’s hard not to wish that she acted so boldly throughout Bionic, letting the entirety of the record be as distinctly odd as its best moments. Frankly, the deluxe edition of Bionic does suggest what the album could have been: it’s supplemented by four bonus songs that are wildly imaginative, whether it’s the clattering, chanting “Bobblehead,” the cool synth glide of “Birds of Prey,” the perfect new wave pop of “Monday Morning,” or Sia’s mournful ballad “Stronger Than Ever.” In their place on the album proper are competent, relatively colorless club odes to fashion and fabulousness and Perry’s boring inspirational “Lift Me Up,” songs that play to Aguilera’s persona without inhabiting it. The rest of Bionic — not just the hipster flirtations and Sia’s trio of richly ruminative AAA ballads, but the tracks directly within Aguilera’s wheelhouse, like Tricky Stewart’s wildly successful, slinky “Desnudate,” and the sultry slow burner “Sex for Breakfast” — find Christina not playing to expectations but simply acting as a natural diva and is all the more compelling for it.
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Post by remix on Jun 8, 2010 3:06:20 GMT -5
Greek Top 50 International Albums Chart:
14 Keeps Gettin' Better - A Decade Of Hits 22 Christina Aguilera/Stripped Double Pack
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Post by beach1 on Jun 8, 2010 3:10:52 GMT -5
Christina does this with every era. SHe picks an image she likes and guns hard for it. She is remarkably dedicated to what she does and what she likes even when pretty much the entire world is shrieking at her. She loves posing nude and wearing red lipstick, for example, so she has been doing that for the past 5+ years. A bunch of internet people yelling at her isn't going to make her run out and change her image. In some ways that is good and in some ways bad. I am sure most people would prefer if she did jump whenever an internet message board told her to do so. AGREED. and I love her for it. Sometimes I feel really bad though because I know that no matter what persona she puts on and no matter how much she acts like she doesn't care what everyone is saying it hurts her. And her FUSE interviews from yesterday showed it a little. She was more real then and vulnerable then I've ever seen her. Usually when I watch an interview from her it seems like she memorized a script of what to say and what not to say. Yesterday made me love her more :wub:. She just seems so small and fragile but still she puts up with more shyt then most other artist out there. Of course I don't know for sure, but I felt like her emotional You Lost Me performance on Idol might have been a reflection of her feelings about all the criticism and insults people were saying about her around that time.
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Post by cking33 on Jun 8, 2010 3:16:10 GMT -5
I've been looking up some early reviews. They've been mixed at best. Allmusic obviously liked it, as for major media outlets, USA Today and the LA Times liked it, but NY Times, Chicago Tribune, Boston Globe and Washington Post didn't.
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Post by remix on Jun 8, 2010 4:13:11 GMT -5
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Post by Nadia on Jun 8, 2010 6:09:00 GMT -5
I bought this. Very solid album. B+
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Post by remix on Jun 8, 2010 6:12:15 GMT -5
#1 in UK midweeks.
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Post by Mikal on Jun 8, 2010 6:12:17 GMT -5
#1 in UK Midweeks :)
Albums
1 Christina Aguilera 2 Jack Johnson
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Post by Ivy Leegue™ on Jun 8, 2010 7:44:17 GMT -5
Y'ALL NOT MARRY FANS, I ASSUME??? Yeah, I hope to tie the knot one day, how bout you? In the meantime, #Here4XtinaONLY. Release day!!!!
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Post by fhscott100 on Jun 8, 2010 7:46:24 GMT -5
Rolling Stone:
2.5/5
By Rob Sheffield 2010 06 08
"I'm not cocky," Christina Aguilera explains in her new disco banger, "Vanity." "I just loooove myself, bitch!" Thanks for clearing that up, Xtina. Humility has never been this lady's problem – on her last album, the 2006 double disc Back to Basics, she was in way over her head aspiring to be a jazz singer, comparing herself to Billie Holiday and John Coltrane. But she's a lot more fun now that she's getting her Lady Gaga on instead. She goes for an electro makeover on Bionic, dressing in Gaga-style robot glam and cranking up the Auto-Tune.
Bionic has her friskiest synth beats since the days of "Genie in a Bottle," with surprisingly punk-minded collaborators like Le Tigre, Ladytron and M.I.A. "My Girls" is a hilarious disco anthem where Aguilera gives it up to her new riot-grrrl pals: "My girls wear lipstick while they're making my beats/They got guitar picks in their purses, Louboutin on their feet." Things stall mid-album with a string of dull ballads – "Sex for Breakfast" is cold cereal, and "Lift Me Up" is the inevitable Linda Perry snoozer. "I Am" is an intriguingly Björk-ish collabo with Australian folkie Sia. But "Vanity" says it all, especially when the backup chorus chants the wedding march as Christina vows, "I take myself to be my lawful-wedded bitch." Cheers to the happy couple.
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Post by Ivy Leegue™ on Jun 8, 2010 7:57:45 GMT -5
That's a standard hating pop album review from Rolling Stone. Christina fans, we should be used to those by now. What did they give her other albums? Remember also how they gave TEOM by Mariah 2.5 stars or how Glitter was originally given 4 stars, citing it as her best album and then recanted and adjusted later? That magazine is more irrelevant than Christina haters think she is. Cranking up the Auto-Tune? From the clips, I heard special effects but it's not like the album is full of Auto-Tune. Oy. Anyway, at lunch time, I will have this CD but I won't be able to listen to it until after my open bar post-work. UGH.
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Post by Caviar on Jun 8, 2010 8:23:34 GMT -5
This thread is awfully quiet this morning. ???
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Post by Me. I Am l!nk!nfan815... on Jun 8, 2010 8:26:21 GMT -5
Christina does this with every era. SHe picks an image she likes and guns hard for it. She is remarkably dedicated to what she does and what she likes even when pretty much the entire world is shrieking at her. She loves posing nude and wearing red lipstick, for example, so she has been doing that for the past 5+ years. A bunch of internet people yelling at her isn't going to make her run out and change her image. In some ways that is good and in some ways bad. I am sure most people would prefer if she did jump whenever an internet message board told her to do so. AGREED. and I love her for it. Sometimes I feel really bad though because I know that no matter what persona she puts on and no matter how much she acts like she doesn't care what everyone is saying it hurts her. And her FUSE interviews from yesterday showed it a little. She was more real then and vulnerable then I've ever seen her. Usually when I watch an interview from her it seems like she memorized a script of what to say and what not to say. Yesterday made me love her more :wub:. She just seems so small and fragile but still she puts up with more shyt then most other artist out there. She must be eating a good slice of humble pie...about time
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Post by Me. I Am l!nk!nfan815... on Jun 8, 2010 8:28:08 GMT -5
This thread is awfully quiet this morning. ??? Is the quiet before the storm sort of thing
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Post by Caution on Jun 8, 2010 8:30:12 GMT -5
#3 on iTunes behind Glee and Jack Johnson. #8 on Amazon.com. I'm terrified right now. I hope Bionic sell at least 50k in the first week.
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Post by Junkiex on Jun 8, 2010 8:39:49 GMT -5
I would dare to say it already peaked on iTunes
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Post by Epic Fail on Jun 8, 2010 8:41:10 GMT -5
NY Times hates the album:
“Bionic” (RCA)
Christina Aguilera has a formidable voice and million-selling albums. She has looks and fame. She has a husband and a son. She has a catalog full of songs she wrote, many of them about a woman’s self-determination, and she has her pick of producers and collaborators. Now, on her new album, “Bionic,” how has she decided to present herself?
Mostly as a sexbot: a one-dimensional hot chick chanting come-ons to club beats. “Woohoo” leaves no doubt about what her “woohoo” is, while in the bilingual “Des Nudites,” which is sung like the Spanish word “desnúdate” (“get naked”), Ms. Aguilera promises, “I’m your supplier of lust, love and fire tonight.”
For Ms. Aguilera, 29, it’s an artistic swerve, turning away from the soul-flavored songs on her two previous albums, “Stripped” and “Back to Basics,” to visit the electronic realm. But the choice makes her sound as peer-pressured as a pop singer can be. This is the way to ring tone sales and radio play, until the next sexbot struts off the assembly line.
Instead of separating herself from the pop-R&B crowd with her bluesy voice and her tales of trauma and redemption, Ms. Aguilera plays catch-up. She goes breathy like Britney Spears; she bounces vocals against percussion like Beyoncé. In the S&M-style video clip for the album’s first single, “Not Myself Tonight,” she changes costumes as frantically as Lady Gaga.
With producers including Polow Da Don, C. (Tricky) Stewart and John Hill & Switch — all current hit makers — the tracks dip into reggae, electro and disco revival. They’re snappy, gimmicky and professionally catchy; “Elastic Love,” written with M.I.A., has a low-fi core and lyrics that cleverly work office-supply metaphors. But the songs are built for narrower voices; they barely need Ms. Aguilera.
In case the sex songs aren’t shallow enough, Ms. Aguilera diversifies to announce, “Fashion is a lifestyle.” Then she imitates Madonna, from the “Vogue” days, to speak and sing in “Glam.”
The second part of the album comes across as two postscripts. First Ms. Aguilera tries grown-up mode for a handful of ballads. Linda Perry’s “Lift Me Up” tries to invoke “Imagine” but falls short. The Australian songwriter Sia (whose last name is Furler) collaborated on retro 1960s-flavored songs that savor Ms. Aguilera’s voice, confessing to insecurities over a string orchestra in “I Am” and barely holding back tears in “You Lost Me.”
Then it’s over to singsong playground chants and new wave beats, among them “My Girls,” which was written with Le Tigre, the post-riot-grrrl synth-pop group. No need to fear feminism: Louboutins and Cosmo are brand-name-dropped, and the song insists, “We just came to party.” Ms. Aguilera signs off with “Vanity,” a raunchy, hyperbolic paean to self-esteem.
Midway through the album, in “Glam,” Ms. Aguilera advises, “Be superficial — it’s your one shot.” She spends “Bionic” acting as if that were true. JON PARELES
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Post by Epic Fail on Jun 8, 2010 8:43:44 GMT -5
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Post by jazzyskye10² on Jun 8, 2010 8:52:51 GMT -5
I believe Bionic is the next single- she performed it along with NMT, Beautiful & Fighter on the Today show earlier.
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Post by Me. I Am l!nk!nfan815... on Jun 8, 2010 8:55:54 GMT -5
eww
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Post by kpasa on Jun 8, 2010 8:56:26 GMT -5
After that performance, I hope we see Bionic released. It's actually quite the grower. Other than that, Bobblehead is a nice option.
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Post by leoapp on Jun 8, 2010 9:00:40 GMT -5
Bionic/NMT live in Today show
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Post by nsfb17 on Jun 8, 2010 9:03:17 GMT -5
'Bionic' should have been the first single. It's different - and very catchy - in that weird, Black Eyed Peas way. I'm convinced that it would have done much, much better than 'NMT'. If they do release it second, they may be able to salvage this era yet.
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Post by Me. I Am l!nk!nfan815... on Jun 8, 2010 9:05:24 GMT -5
I can't believe they would even consider Bionic as a single. That song is SO cheesy. The word, supersonic, should never be use in a song unless is for a cartoon or something.
Bionic, take it supersonic, eh I'm bionic; hit you like a rocket, eh-ay-yeh Bionic, so damn bionic, eh Gonna get you with my electronic, supersonic rocket, eh
BARF...Lord have mercy!
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