Sia's words, stricken with the grief of abandonment and betrayal, release Aguilera's voice, ranging from a deep, defiant growl to a lonely, high, vaporlike whisper. In its simple progression, Aguilera finds a song strong enough to withstand the blistering power of her voice. Those four minutes alone are enough to ensure Aguilera's place alongside Nina Simone and Whitney Houston in the soul pantheon. Her contribution to the album'four songs written with her bassist, Sam Dixon'is what Aguilera calls, 'the heart of the album.' One song in particular, a raw, shuffling, vocally demanding Etta James'type ballad called 'You Lost Me,' is not only the heart of the album but a defining apex of Aguilera's career. Sia Furler, professionally known as Sia and as the best Australian queer blue-eyed soul singer, got it.
'You never really know who's going to get it and who's not.' 'It's a gamble,' Aguilera says of the cattle call. As a new mother, I was thinking about the future generation, so I was inspired a lot by electronic music.' When she began the album, Aguilera put out a call to artists whose work she found simpatico, an unexpected cavalcade including underground faves Le Tigre, Goldfrapp, and Ladytron. 'On Bionic, I wanted to go completely futuristic. 'Every album has been a 180 from the past,' she admits.
Her voice is a mercenary, one of the perks - and pitfalls - of being a versatile medium. From pop tart to Angry Young Woman ( Stripped) to Marilyn Monroe ( Back to Basics), the sequence of Aguilera's sound is as wild as the wind. Her bright red Rocky Horror lips are the bridge that connects the two halves.īionic does not logically follow from her last album or the one before that. I like the dark side.' In fact, the cover of her new album, Bionic, features a D*Face portrait of Aguilera, one half of her face notably Marilyn Monrovian, the other a robotic consortium of gramophones and Edison bulbs. In the foyer, we have that Warhol Marilyn Monroe he did that's half a skull. 'D*Face is an artist who takes these images and defaces them. 'Jordy and I collect a lot of graffiti art,' she explains. Her hair is pixie cut and platinum blonde, her jeans are ripped, and her voice - considering it can jump four octaves in a single sweep - is surprisingly quiet. She's tiny, even in a pair of Louboutin heels. It's a pop art 'ashes to ashes, dust to dust' and it doesn't seem to fit Aguilera's still girly demeanor. It's a portrait of John Lennon, but with half the Beatle's face depicted as a skull. Hanging above the sofa is a creepy painting by British graffiti artist D*Face. The pool house is where Aguilera recorded most of her new album and where the singer is now curled up, Betty Page style, on a sofa, with those famous red lips wrapped around a Ricola.
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The other holdover is the recording studio, a converted pool house past a courtyard full of teak gazebos, lightly melted Buddha-head candles, and a sad Kermit doll lying face down in the pool like Joe Gillis in Sunset Boulevard. The doorknobs, at least, are holdovers from the Osbourne era, heavy iron affairs with Gothic crosses on them. The house has been thoroughly Aguilerized with zebra- and leopard-print carpets and Shepard Fairey prints that scream Obey from the walls. The selection showcased the happy home life she has with Christina, her dad, Matthew Rutler and with the star's firstborn, 13-year-old, Max, too.Christina Aguilera, now 29, lives in Ozzy Osbourne's old house right off the Sunset Strip with her 2-year-old kid, Max Liron, her husband Jordan 'Jordy' Bratman, and a platoon of Latinos who dust, Swiffer, sweep, and generally keep the manor. Others showed the little girl giggling with her famous mother and pulling some silly faces too.Ĭhristina shared several images of her adorable daughter In the adorable and rare photos, Christina was cuddling Summer, who was wearing an Xtina T-shirt and a broad smile. The Genie in a Bottle hitmaker was in an emotional mood as she celebrated her youngest child Summer's big day. The proud parent usually keeps her two children out of the spotlight but she put her daughter front and center to pay tribute to her on her seventh birthday in mid-August.
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