Another notable project you lent your pen to was Christina Aguilera’s ‘Bionic’. Yet, while received well in some corners, the LP didn’t fare well commercially. Why do you think that was?
I think it was a number of reasons; there’s a right time, right place for everything. I think the album – even right now – has never really been heard. I think people heard the first single and drew their conclusion and panned it without really giving it the fair listen it deserved. I did about 5 songs on the album, none of which got the exposure they deserved.
And I think if people did hear the full album the way she intended it to be heard, people would have a different impression of it. It’s not for me to say it’s her best album or her worst album. But… it’s a damn good album and I think people kind of trashed it after the first single like a piece of crap and didn’t want to hear it.
She works very hard and she has a vision and had a lot to say and did a lot of cool vocal things that was out the box for her. I think people weren’t ready to hear that from her yet, but she’s risen and learned from her mistakes. And I think the next time she’ll come out even bigger. We are already planning on working again. I’m not even going to worry about it.
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Thankyou Claude!!!! I can’t STAND peopel sometimes
! it’s just music! peopel are SO freaking sensitive! They shouldn’t jump to conlusions all becuase of one single. Look at dirrty, That was a crazy first single but then came Beautiful. Where are the TRUE xtina fans? Im not saying they had to like bionic but AT LEAST respect it cuase whether u like it or not, xtina worked hard on it and peopel only parise something if THEY like it! how selfish! And noooooooo!! It’s not fair. When was xtina supposed to know peoepl were ready? Xtina made no mistake people need to get a freaking grip! They act like the world will end cuase of a first single! Sometimes, i want to give people a good slap in the face! I mean, i can see where some are coming from, but come ON! Lets not be ignorant…she’s a reinventor. It’s not fair! Im starting to think NO time would have been perfect. It’s not fair to xtina….how was SHE supposed to know when people were ready? I don’t think people EVER would be! This is why it’s hard to be an artist cuase peoepl are stuck up, selfish, and picky! shame! Don’t worry xtina..i respect all ur work and always will.
I think it’s just the general audiences now a days. You don’t even have to be talented to sell records anymore, just look at Ke$ha ..a lot of auto tune and it’s very repetitive, but the thing is people can dance to it and because it’s repetitive it sticks in your head. I bought Bionic and I thought it was a good album with some great songs on it. But when you have people like Perez who is pro GaGa, everyone just immediately look at the first single and thinks everything else is shit. Everyone thought she was copying Gaga when the truth was when she was doing BTB she said she was going for Electro pop on the next album and Gaga hadn’t even made it big yet. Plus, I don’t think her management did a very good job at promoting it either. But with Christina, her albums are always different, when she came out with Stripped everyone automatically hated it and “wished” she went back to her Genie in the Bottle days. Then with BTB they wish she went back to “Stripped”. I don’t think people have really figured out Christina yet, she’s making music about what’s current in her life.