a new interview made for her upcoming show in denver:
Man, was it a big Grammy night for Christina Aguilera: She won a trophy for the single Ain't No Other Man and honored the late James Brown with a soaring take on It's a Man's Man's Man's World. Aguilera has the vocal goods, which she'll bring to the Pepsi Center on Monday night - along with a few surprises, she promises. The vocalist spoke with staff writer Jay Dedrick and other journalists during a recent teleconference.
1. How did you decide to pay tribute to your inspirations - Billie Holiday, Etta James, Aretha Franklin, Marvin Gaye - on the Back to Basics album?
There was the period in between the Stripped album and Back to Basics. I did fall in love and I'd been in a relationship with my now husband . . . It took me to this feel-good place, and to me there's nothing that feels better than old music of the '20s, '30s, '40s and on. Back then, you had to be able to touch people with raw emotion and touch them with your voice. Nowadays, anybody can make a record. It's so easy to enhance a vocal just by using technology that it does make the old singers sound even more real.
2. On this tour, you're promising 10 costume changes a night, a stage with 600 moving lights, a carousel horse and hundreds of pounds of confetti. Does that really qualify as getting back to basics?
If I play an arena, I don't think it would be fair to just kind of sit on the stage with a mic. I think it's only fair to my audience to . . . give them a real show. For me, whenever I go to a concert or show, I enjoy being taken out of my element for a moment . . . and enter this whole different world. So it wasn't about literally going back to the old and doing it that way. It is important for me to do my own interpretation and bring a modern-day feel to it.
3. What did you learn from the (just completed) European leg of the tour? Did you make any changes?
Maybe a few tweaks and maybe a few moves on my part to let my background singers help me out a little bit on certain things, so that I can fully give my audience my all in vocal capabilities . . . I noticed there were a lot more older fans than there had been on previous tours. It was really nice to see, (a range from) older couples to 9-year-olds in the audience.
4. You recently met your idol, Etta James, during a photo shoot for InStyle magazine. What did you talk about?
I was so nervous . . . but she was so down to earth and so real. It was so refreshing and so nice to sit down with someone that you admire so much and then their personality just exceeds your expectations. She called me an old soul and said that my voice reminded her of almost a Janis Joplin to a Dinah Washington - so complimentary. I mean, she made my life with her compliments and the things that she had to say! She also said, 'Don't pay attention to any of the negativity out there. You keep doing what you're doing and don't care what other people think. Because every time that you stand up for what you believe in, you're sticking up for so many artists before you that never had that opportunity to speak up for themselves.' Those words will stick with me forever.
5. You've talked about doing movies. What do you see in store for your career in the years ahead?
I've been doing this and making a living, really, for myself in this business since I was 6 or 7 years old. My main idea is to just stick around: constantly evolving as a woman and finding out what the next thing I have to say is. That's why I take time in between records . . . Film is something that I intend on doing. Like music, it's another art form that I want to take seriously, so I've been reading scripts. But I really want to make sure it's the right role. If I want to act, I want to do just that - I don't want to play myself as a singer, necessarily.
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me too, but i guess he/she/it was listing it as a potential nominee, not a personal favourite....other wise, it just don´t get it! lol...
it's climbing at a great pace!!
I think CandyMan is doing better on downloads than Hurt was at this time. 
