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Christina Aguilera (closed: please see News post for more info)
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Originally posted by alessandro186
I can't wait for this album
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Yeah me too. Especially after hearing the reviews.  I think that Amazon is a good sign that it's going to sell very well.
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I've been listening to those 30 second clips nonstop now! Hurt is so fu.cking brilliant. I can tell it'll be one of my favorites of all time.
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Someone at Pulse found this in their paper's gossip section:
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We hear that Christina Aguilera is in talks to record the theme song for the new James Bond flick, "Casino Royale." This would be a major coup for the young diva considering that the fanchise has only ever enlisted older, major icons such as Madonna, Tina Turner and Shirley Bassey to sing the title tracks. "It's between Christina and Tina Turner at the moment, and the movie bosses are just trying to decide who is best suited for the job. Aguilera has the slight edge at the moment, and, as she really wants to do it, I think she'll get it," says a source close to the project.
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 Whoa, thats so weird. Last night, I told my Dad that Casino Royale is the only movie I want to see in theatres this year. GET IT CHRISTINA!! Blonde singer to go with a blonde Bond. I hope she gets this.
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Member Since: 7/30/2006
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unfornately it has already been confirmed that chris cornell of audioslave will record the theme song
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Hey guys I heard the beginning of Here to Stay and the album version seems like it was the original version. I think that she made the pepsi version just for the commercial. It sounded cool though. But again it was only 30 sec. The link was taken down though.
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Originally posted by alessandro186
unfornately it has already been confirmed that chris cornell of audioslave will record the theme song
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aw that stinks.  Oh well.
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Chicago Tribune: How "Beautiful" helped women with eating disorder
By Leslie Goldman
Special to the Tribune
Published July 30, 2006
3 young women wave fashion at the eating-disorder monster
Slogan shirts are everywhere, but three young women from the suburbs who have struggled with anorexia and bulimia have made sure there is at least one that carries a major message for those bad body-image days.
Tifani Dembek, 18, of Lombard, had emerged from her first round of in-patient eating-disorder treatment at Linden Oaks Hospital in 2004 and was looking for an arts-and-crafts project to aid in her recovery.
A Hobby Lobby employee who had been taught the mantra "fake it till you make it" while in treatment, Dembek designed a shirt with "I am beautiful" on the front, "No matter what they say" on the back. The message is an homage to Christina Aguilera's song "Beautiful," which Dembek said helped her in her recovery. She also made shirts as gifts for friends Ari Carlson, 15, of Oswego and Laura Rank, 19, of Hinsdale. All three have been in and out of treatment for eating disorders.
In May 2006, the three wore their shirts to an eating-disorders candlelight vigil. Eyebrows were raised--in a good way--and now they spend days putting together orders in every color of the rainbow. Rank's favorite is her purple top, the color of recovery, according to the Highland Park-based National Association of Anorexia Nervosa and Associated Disorders, which receives the proceeds of the $12 "Angel Strength" shirts.
Carlson, an Oswego High School sophomore, admitted she was a tad embarrassed to wear her first shirt. "I was afraid people might think I was stuck up," she said. But soon "I saw how many people wanted to buy them and what a good message it was sending to other people. It made me want to keep on helping other people rather than give myself negative self-talk."
As for Dembek, who leaves for Marquette University this fall, "I truly believe that everything happens for a reason, and I believe . . . my eating disorder happened so that I could come through it and help others. Making the shirts makes me feel like I'm being productive and helping a good cause."
But perhaps Rank best personifies the "fake it till you make it" belief. Hospitalized six times when younger, the Benedictine University sophomore now wears her "Beautiful" shirt weekly. "People say, `Oh, that shirt is so cute, where can I get it?' and then they say, `You really are beautiful.' I am actually starting to believe it."
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That's a nice article. You get to see the real impact of "Beautiful". Even tho sometimes that video was just too much!
I'm gonna be the first to say CONGRATULATIONS to Christina for 4 VMA nominations including VIDEO OF THE YEAR!!!! woooo
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Vote for Christina guys!! She's been nominated a lot before but has never won one by herself (she won for Lady Marmalade).
 I have to get a better picture later but she's on the cover GQ Uk
Justin Timberlake called Christina the best singer of his generation live on TRL today he also sang a litle bit of ANOM!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4XJhnDMauY
An insider at LD said: Well folks, today I saw the photos that were takin' by Ellen Von Unwerth for the album, and let me just say that they came out amazing. I don't know which specific ones will be used on the booklet, but it doesn't really matter they are all gorgeous. Very colorful. And don't worry, the sexy Christina is still alive and well in some of the photos. in one she is sporting only several carfully placed stands of pearls. (HOT)
& another add: I think that Christina will be confirmed as a VMA performer a little later. When she was on TRL she said that they were in talks w/ MTV about a performance and apparently one of her dancers confirmed it in their blog. So maybe the 2nd single is Candyman. We just have to wait and see.
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Woohoo!!! B2B is #5 on Amazon's Top-Sellers! She's moving up!
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i hope it leakes.............. cant wait!!!
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WHOA..that GQ cover looks soo hot!
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She got some boobies in that pic lol
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Hey guys when you vote for Christina on MTV click "watch" the clip after her video should be a short 1-minute clip of her talking about ANOM (NOTHING NEW, but it looks like it was part of her all eyes on Christina MTV special).
Link to vote for Christina: http://www.mtv.com/ontv/vma/2006/vot...ategoryId=voty
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She better watch that price. Its going to be as expensive as **** after the first week
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 thx for the updates! u know i've already voted for Xtina! I just can't wait for the Pepsi game....I'm gonna vote like crazy on that.
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this is kinda funny...
AGUILERA PLEASED WITH BRATMAN'S ASSETS
Raunchy singing sensation CHRISTINA AGUILERA has a lot to thank her in-laws for.
The DIRRTY star married management executive JORDAN BRATMAN in California last November (05) and during the celebrations the groom toasted his parents saying, "I'd like to thank you. For my good looks and my large willy."
Aguilera, 25, elaborates, "That's the truth. He makes me very happy."
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MSN Article
Last Teen Queen Standing
Jul 27, 5:27 PM EST
In Defense of Christina Aguilera
By Kurt B. Reighley
Special to MSN Music
Christina Aguilera is a bona fide musician.
OK. Take a deep breath. That probably wasn't an easy sentence to read. It hurt to type it. But it's true. Her days as a "teen pop sensation" are long over. She turns 26 this year. She has built a credible pop catalog, one that has shown growth and a willingness to take risks. She has not dallied with TV shows, or children's books or pug rescue charities. Who among her contemporaries can say the same?
Britney Spears? No. Britney's last two albums were a padded Greatest Hits and the desperate stopgap measure "B in the Mix: The Remixes." Musically, she hasn't made a ripple since "Toxic" in 2004. Learning to juggle babies, figuring out which flavor of Moon Pie tastes best deep-fried and making sure your husband doesn't blow your entire fortune on his own questionable recording career are all worthy pastimes, but Britney would have to mount a one-woman production of Wagner's Ring Cycle to accrue anything close to credibility at this point.
Jessica Simpson? Let's see. In between her reality TV show -- which, one might note, resuscitated her waning public image, slight as it was -- her fragrance, her line of knock-off designer shoes, the Pizza Hut commercials and fine films such as "The Dukes of Hazzard" -- she makes records. Usually of other people's songs: Robbie Williams ("Angels"), Berlin ("Take My Breath Away"), Nancy Sinatra ("These Boots Are Made for Walkin'"). Just wait until you hear her forthcoming cover of Dead or Alive's "You Spin Me Round (Like a Record)." That's not a joke.
Jessica's new single, the title track from her Aug. 29 release "A Public Affair," continues this desperate recycling. Technically, "A Public Affair" is an original song ... written by eight people, two of whom are R&B vets Nicholas Ashford and Valerie Simpson. And what does it sound like? Madonna's "Holiday." It took eight people and the bridge from "Ain't No Mountain High Enough" to knock out a cheap imitation of a Madonna classic? Sheesh. Plus, the flimsy lyrics continue the embarrassing trend of pop stars airing their personal grievances publicly (see also: Lindsay Lohan's "Rumors," Nick Lachey's "What's Left of Me"). Boring. To quote Detroit critic Jimmy Draper, "I'm tired of feeling like I have to subscribe to US Weekly just to understand what these people are singing about."
And then there's Christina. When she emerged in the late '90s, Aguilera seemed like just another Mouseketeer made good. She had to bite and scratch to carve out her own place in a market glutted with pretty teenagers who could carry a tune ... or at least lip-sync well. Besides Jessica, Britney and Mandy Moore, we got imports from Sweden (Robyn), England (Billie Piper) and Ireland (Samantha Mumba). Hell, even Don Ho's daughter, Hoku, got into the game. (Her sole hit, "Another Dumb Blonde," was better than 90 percent of the challengers; bless you, Radio Disney.) As one fell away -- or went off to a state college -- another would rise in her place, like some beast from Greek mythology. Goodbye Willa Ford, hello Hilary Duff.
Like her or hate her, Aguilera has just gone from strength to strength. In the world of entertainment, there's good and there's dull, and Christina is rarely dull. She quickly graduated from "What a Girl Wants" to talking about her genital piercing. Even when she seemed to spiral out of control, there were signs of life, and -- oh this is hard -- integrity. Patti LaBelle is an unstoppable force of nature, yet an entire generation of listeners will never associate "Lady Marmalade" with LaBelle because of Aguilera and company's overhaul of that classic for "Moulin Rouge." She cut a whole album aimed at the Latin market. She recorded a very credible duet with jazz great Herbie Hancock -- who does not have to work with people below his métier. Hell, she even won the Grammy for Best New Artist and survived. Somewhere, the Starland Vocal Band is very jealous.
Admittedly, Christina isn't the only teen pop queen to forge ahead. Pink has done well for herself, roping in the Indigo Girls to play on her recent album, shooting the hilarious "Stupid Girls" video and verbally berating President Bush at every opportunity. But while the current role model for young women seems to skew closer to the tough, Avril Lavigne-type, don't overlook that Kelly Clarkson's big emancipation number, "Since U Been Gone," was produced by Max Martin, the same Swedish mastermind responsible for key hits by Spears, *NSync and Backstreet Boys.
After years of paying lip service to Etta James, Aguilera truly flexes her R&B chops on her recent hit, "Ain't No Other Man" (listen to the single). Yes, she still does that ridiculous, operatic wail of melisma that most post-Whitney/Mariah disciples do to mark their territory, but the song is solid; it integrates a pair of esoteric funk samples, but it doesn't bite anyone else's style. Frankly, it's not hard to image James -- or a '60s soul sister such as Laura Lee ("Women's Love Rights") -- singing these exact same sentiments, about how bad-ass her lover-man is, and how she'll fight to keep competitors at bay.
Christina's new album, "Back to Basics," is a double-CD, one disc featuring hip-hop producers (specifically DJ Premier of Gang Starr), the other with all live instrumentation. She has said in interviews the set taps heavily into her love of sounds and images from the 1920s, '30s and '40s. While making the record, she papered her walls with pictures of Louis Armstrong, John Coltrane, Billie Holiday and Pearl Bailey. Will Jessica or Britney ever be able to whip up anything comparable? Doubtful. Hell, between the pair, if you asked them to identify Pearl Bailey, they'd probably guess it was a type of tapioca pudding. Which makes sense. Those girls know all about being round, creamy, sweet and bland. But Christina? Now there's a W-O-M-A-N with flavor.
Amazon Editorial Review of B2B:
Amazon.com
Back to Basics, Christina Aguilera's first disc in four years, refines and clarifies the--let's call it "sexy"--aura surrounding this platinum firebrand. Now 26 and married, the best belter in a class that counts Jessica Simpson and Britney Spears on its roll call has turned her attention to love songs: the supercharged and ubiquitous first single "Ain't No Other Man," for one, and the hushed stunner "Save Me from Myself" for another. That doesn't mean she's foresworn being nasty, though. Dive deep into this set, past the gorgeous crackle that frames the old-school jazz-, blues-, and soul-inspired tracks on the first disc, and you'll reach a playful and familiar raunch; "Candyman" celebrates a "one-stop shop" who "makes the panties drop" to a boogie-woogie beat, and "Nasty Naughty Boy" sends out a heated, big-beated invitation to "sip on my champagne/Cause I'm gonna give you a little taste/Of the sugar below my waist." Thoughtful listeners should snap out of their fascination with Xtina's undiminished yet newly un-tramp-like sexuality, though, because what they'll really want to focus on throughout these 22 tracks is the honest-to-God artistry. While the rock producer Linda Perry helps disc two pop in interesting and unexpected ways (check the muffled blues number "I Got Trouble" and "Mercy on Me," an obvious nod to Fiona Apple), DJ Premier, a mainstay on Jay-Z and Nas projects, pipes a batch of aural high-fives into the nostalgia-bitten first disc (the deep-down funk of "Back in the Day," the strut-strut early hip-hop sound of "Still Dirrty"). Their nudges aside, though, Back to Basics is all Aguilera's baby--she executive-produced, and she's found herself artistically. Nobody would argue, in fact, if she swiveled around the chorus to "Ain't No Other Man," written for her husband, and aimed it at herself: "You got soul, you got class/You got style, you're badass." --Tammy La Gorce
B2B is currently #34 on Itunes. I expect it will move up further as the day goes on.
Paris Hilton Runs Away Scared of Christina's B2B!!! Lmao
Socialite PARIS HILTON has ducked out of a chart battle with CHRISTINA AGUILERA. The aspiring pop star had planned to release her self-titled debut album on 14 August (06), until she discovered it would be the same day as Aguilera releases her new double album BACK TO BASICS. No new date was given for Hilton's record launch.
Stacie Orrico apparently pushed her album back as well, which saddens me.
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