While she’s been out of the news for a while, getting married, toning down the raunchy ‘dirrrty’ image that resulted from the marketing of her last album, Christina Aguilera’s back from the recording studios with a soon to be released album. During her off-period she promoted voting in the 2004 US elections, as well as numerous collaborations with other musicians like Herbie Hancock and Andrea Bocelli. The first song from the album, to be titled ‘Back to Basics’, is to have its first single release in the form of the jazz and big-band influenced track ‘Ain’t No Other Man’. The song is great, as you would hope any new Christina Aguilera track would be, though it does take a second listen to really ‘get’ it. It opens with a Miles Davis-esque horn entrance before Christina starts her wail/singing sound and the ‘heavy beats’ come in. It’s a move away from some of the more rap-influenced parts of her previous album, but these are never far from the surface for one of the tracks on the August-released album features the rap star Nas and is due to be titled ‘Still Dirrty’. With fantastic production and her powerful voice, the new album will do doubt be a hit. Nobody’s going to be sending the Aguilera brand to the wall with a shoddy release. Popjustice have this to say before they talk about the single itself:
Is it any good?
We do not know because, as keen supporters of the forward-thinking notion that record sales are the only way to make money from music and that downloading songs illegally is directly taking money from recording artists’ mouths even if the word of mouth generated from such an act would more than compensate for the three pence revenue lost from that initial download, we have not illegally acquired the song.
She performs the song on the 2006 MTV Movie Awards which are broadcast in the US tonight, having been filmed June 3rd. Photos from the evening are below.
Queerty: Xtina’s Ain’t No Other Man
Spine Magazine copy of Ain’t No Other Man no doubt soon to be removed
Popjustice: The leaky return of Christina Aguilera
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