This excuse some people use to explain Bionic's major under-performance has never sat well with me. Obviously taste is subjective, but it's always suspicious to me when people say "there's only a handful of good songs on that album that could be singles" (this is par for the course for most albums from major pop stars!) or outright dismiss the entire collection of songs as "awful."
I'm sorry, but the video for "You Lost Me" is now passing 41 million views (with it's barely-registering-on-the-scale airplay) and even P!nk, a long-time Christina hater, complimented the song on Twitter at one time. "WooHoo" was Britney's jam.
I also dislike it when some people make it seem like Christina wasn't an eclectic artist all along, as if the concept of electro/dance-pop music was too alien of a direction for her to venture off into. We're talking about an artist who has touched on so many different genres and is known for her drastic reinventions.
I think Bionic succeeded in its goal of "doing it all" and highlighting the different parts of her voice.
The album is actually very good. The problem was that music on it was not radio friendly & different from her older stuff. NMT in the middle of Gaga craze was not a lucky moment as well.
It is not a perfect album by any means, but it isn't as bad as its reputation and sales would lead you to believe. Lift Me Up, Monday Morning, Birds Of Prey, and Little Dreamer are just a few examples of the gems on that album that the general public have no knowledge of.
Thank you I think Bionic is a great album(one of my favourites), Pretty much every song on there is a bop. Desnudate, Prima Donna, I Am, Lift Me Up, Woohoo, NMT, Elastic love and even the Morning Dessert Intro slays. I hate when people talk about it as if it's trash. It had so much potential but the comparisons tainted it from the beginning not even saying any names because, yeah.