![]() Opener Bionic sounds just like a Santigold track, which is no bad thing, especially when you compare it to Woohoo, which is about oral sex but is about as sexy as going to the dentist. co-write) you get the R&B-by-numbers of the crushingly disappointing first single, Not Myself Tonight. ![]() So for every clattering, beat-driven masterpiece such as Elastic Love (the M.I.A. Unfortunately, it’s fairly obvious that someone at some point got cold feet and felt the need to dump the majority of the more interesting stuff onto the Special Edition version (the main album has 18 tracks, the special version 24). The guest list is stellar, with production from Switch, John Hill, Tricky Stewart, Polow da Don, Le Tigre and Ladytron, whilst co-writes are handled by Sia, Santigold, Cathy Dennis, M.I.A. On paper Bionic sounds like it could be the forward-thinking, experimental pop album Aguilera wanted it to be. But since then, pop music has stepped up a gear and even arch-nemesis Britney Spears was indulging in harder-edged dance music with her Blackout album. In that sense, revealing the audacious plans of having tracks produced by the likes of Le Tigre and Santigold sounded like a masterstroke. ![]() ![]() When early rumblings about the album that would become Bionic first appeared, Lady GaGa was still doing co-writes for other people. Fast forward eight years and one indifferently received album – 2006’s Back To Basics – later, and the pop world has a new blonde-haired matriarch (and it’s not Madonna). Odd because when she made the seemingly impossible leap from candy-coated ex-Disney Mouseketeer to barely-dressed sex powerhouse with Dirrty, it seemed the world was hers for the taking. ![]() It’s odd to be contemplating how and where Christina Aguilera fits into the pop landscape in 2010. ![]()
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