fRih and Tinashes last 2 singles are better than Nick and Megham discographies combined with Beysts last album stuffed between them. Drag the Deadnd tho
I pity you because I get to walk out and be me and you have to walk and be you and who wants to be you when you can be me?
” Gosh, I have so many fans already – all those girls, and all those grown-ups who like the way I sing ”At Last,” plus, for some weird reason, a bunch of old guys. Crazy! But they said I could tap into a new ”demographic market” with a Spanish record. They even made all the liner notes in Spanish. (And why not? I AM part Ecuadorian!)
(2) Thank my producer for those diction lessons! For about half the album, I had to sing my hits, like ”I Turn to You” and ”Genie in a Bottle,” in this other language. I thought it would be easy – Ecuadorian, remember? – but geez, he had to write everything out for me phonetically! I’m a hard worker, though. And I sure showed him that no matter how many foreign words I had to learn, I can still hit TONS of unnecessary high notes. Wait’ll Mariah hears me on ”El Beso del Final” (that means ”The Final Kiss,” you guys)! She’ll have one of those midlife crises!
It was originally reported that Aguilera would sing a duet of ”Merry Christmas, Baby” on this album with Etta James, one of her heroines. The blues legend is mysteriously absent from the finished track, but Aguilera oversings so wildly that there wouldn’t have been enough oxygen in the booth to sustain another life form.
That premature confidence in her own soul diva chops continues throughout My Kind of Christmas, its possessive title aptly hinting at the showboating therein. The talented youngster is out of control here, spoiling some nifty modern arrangements with her exhausting insistence on making every other syllable an octave spanning tour de force. All I want for ”Christmas” is for Christina to calm down.
