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Originally posted by rbautz
And what was the reason that Lotus failed?
You all give Bloggers, Atrl or whatever too much credit.
If Akon, Lady Gaga or Perez attacked Bionic, where was the Label of Xtina to protect her?
Why seems it to me that Lady Gaga will in this era be slaughtered like a pig? Because of Perez or ATRL? I think not.
And why y'all think that Katy will have a good era although Brave?
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It has long been held by many in the Christina Aguilera fan community that, between the years 2008 and 2010, she was purposefully sabotaged by internet blogger Perez Hilton and members of Lady Gaga's camp in an attempt to shift the spotlight to Lady Gaga; a then newly emergent artist (2008) who hadn't quite exploded into the mainstream after several months on the commercial market. .
Ever since this time, fans have postulated that comparisons, distorted facts and outright lies ultimately resulted in Christina's reputation being damaged to the degree that almost all objectivity was lost in many of the reviews for her album, Bionic, and thus was doomed to fail as these sentiments had begun to seep into the consciousness of some radio programmers as well. Although Bionic had little in common with Lady Gaga's past material, it was largely dismissed and bashed as a "copy" of her work. As is often the case, the larger general public becomes programmed by these media claims and tend to repeat what they hear, and thus can severly damage the potential of an album.
At the time and despite having some evidence that pointed to sabotage, it was nearly impossible to cut through the noise without being labeled "delusional" and "jealous" (of Lady Gaga's newly found success), because globally so much of the public became enthralled with Lady Gaga and this false idea of Christina being a wicked witch who swooped in to steal her shine. It became "good" entertainment.
This is not about people "suddenly thinking Perez is the greatest person on Earth and ignoring his past foul actions." Everybody knows it is public record that he is notoriously known for trying to ruin artists, especially female artists. So why should we listen to him now? Because in this situation there's a predictable "human behavior" element when former friends have a disasterous falling out, whereby each party usually airs the others dirty laundry slash secrets at some point in time. It's not nearly as black and white and many people make it out to be. It does not follow that he is ALWAYS lying just because he has lied many, many times in the past. He has already revealed that Lady Gaga told him in the past that she doesn't like Christina. This is in stark contrast to what Lady Gaga was saying in various videos. If the media probes further, it could possibly add another dimension to what is already known about this sabotage and FINALLY clear Christina's name.