I feel like I've overdosed on Christina Aguilera these past two weeks. After yesterdays awful performance at the American Music Awards [here], I've decided to go on an Aguilera fast for a few days. However that doesn't mean you guys shouldn't enjoy a live performance of the most successful song (on Itunes,) from new album Lotus.
Joining forces with fellow judge Blake Shelton, the pair sang duet Just A Fool for The Voice audience. I wrote in my review of Lotus [Here] that the Country/Adult Contemporary style of music that Just A Fool is built upon suited Christina's throaty delivery better than any other genre on the album. Thus, I'm going to predict that this was a good showing from the singer. As for Blake, he's a country music star, so I'm guessing he has the vocal chops to give a good live performance.
Watch the video for Just A Fool below, and see if my predictions come true. Then comeback later for this weeks lottery numbers....
So was it any good?? Let me know your thoughts in the comments!
She sounds like a 60 old lady who used to be a singer in her youth.
ReplyDeleteWow Christina in conservative clothes...
ReplyDeleteShe actually sounds like Alla Pugacheva who did drink too much and lost her silvery soprano....
ReplyDeleteNot bad, Better than the AMA performance. MUCH BETTER!!!
ReplyDeleteI really, really liked this performance because of two main reasons.
ReplyDelete1. I love Blake's voice. He's a really good singer and the tone of his voice sounds really appealing to me. The fire and passion he puts in his singing make me believe every single word of it.
2. The song is amazing. The best of the album and one of the best of the year. The lyrics are pure gold and the song itself sounds so believable. Whoever wrote it, was really feeling every word and it shows.
Being said that, Christina was not THAT terrible. She wasn't good either. But at least listening to her in this performance was something possible to endure, while in the AMAs was almost like a stab in the chest (or the vocal chords). I think this style suits her a little bit better, but the straining is starting to drive me to insanity. She can't belt without making it sound as if it were the hardest thing in word!
By listening to the first lines she sings we can notice how bad she sounds.
ReplyDelete"did drink too much and lost her silvery soprano...."
Driking is Aguilera's new sport. See:
http://c580019.r19.cf2.rackcdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/christina-Aguilera-drunk.jpg
http://www.allchristinaaguilera.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/christina-aguilera-looks-quite-drunk-after-partying-at-chateau-marmont-los-angeles-november-6-2-300x221.jpg
http://swipe.swipelife.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/christina-aguilera-drunk.jpg
http://www.celebs.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/christina-aguilera-wasted.jpg
Got ourselves our own Jessica Fletcher, right here! You keep exposing those truths, Henrique! lol
ReplyDeleteTruly one of the last disciplines you can't be accused of using doping ;)
ReplyDelete"As for Blake, he's a country music star, so I'm guessing he has the vocal chops to give a good live performance"
ReplyDeletealas DD, that used to be a safe assumption but not so much these days
I like this song and really don't think this performance was as bad as some are calling it.
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ReplyDeleteI thought she sounded better than the last couple of efforts...I can't think of anything intelligent to say about it all right now :p
ReplyDeleteSounds better in this performance the the earlier ones. Still worried about her supporting her vocals properly.
ReplyDeleteI noticed that her head voice sounds much nicer and lacks the unnatural weight of her chest voice. That really shows how the years of abuse has changed her voice, I believe. Her oh-so-beautiful tone has changed into something... well, ugly. Her high notes sound forced now, like she's really having to push for them- when they sounded really awesome back in her early days. The belting has always been strained, but now she sounds like Tom Waits. On a bad day. Singing 'Bad as me'. I really feel sorry for her.
ReplyDeleteLet's be honest here; even someone like... like Selena Gomez can do better.
This performance itself is okay, but her voice still seems damaged and forced, even compared to the Bionic era. I'm not really holding out any hope for a complete- or even a major- recovery any more. I'll just hope that she gets even a little better.
"now she sounds like Tom Waits. On a bad day. Singing 'Bad as me'. I really feel sorry for her."
ReplyDeletePardon Me!!!!!
Tom Waits is a fucking genius and not at any point in time could Christina come anywhere close to his level artistically.
I was meaning vocally.
ReplyDelete... different tastes? :D
Yes, different Tastes. Was joking btw regarding the strength of my feelings but had to go before I could add an appropriate gif. :(
ReplyDeleteNot surprised you don't like Tom tbh but I personally feel since he sings according to his abilities and doesn't try to do more or differently...I'd call him a better singer than one who tries to vocally achieve something clearly not feasible for that voice.
Wouldn't set Tom as an example of a poor singer. And that is what you clearly did. You didn't use him as an example of taste as much as quality I felt.
My word you guys though, tear her whole performance because of a few notes. But I love the new album and I enjoyed this performance. Best so far from her list of trainwreck disaster performances.
ReplyDeleteWell, I haven't heard much of his material (mainly because his style causes my ears to bleed) so I can't really draw conclusions about his artistry...
ReplyDeleteI just meant that Xtina sounds like Waits singing pop... not really a good combination.
Again you are comparing taste as if ability. The discussion around Christina here is clearly not so much about taste as it is about her abilities.
ReplyDeleteAs for my remark regarding Tom's artistry...that went not so much to his vocals as to the entirety of his work.
Allow me to rephrase what I said then: I feel that Xtina currently has the vocal capabilities Tom Waits :D. Is that better? (seriously, I have no idea how to say this rofl.)
ReplyDeleteNo it's not. As that is blatantly factually incorrect. ;)
ReplyDeleteWhat you mean to say is actually very easily said...what you ,I gather, mean to say is that "Christina's voice sounds like Tom Waits' to you".
Yes, that's what i'm looking for! Thank you! Xtina sounds like Tom Waits to me now. Which, in my opinion, makes her as little suited to pop as he is.
ReplyDeleteThere you go! I just "enlightened" you. ;D
ReplyDeleteits not everyday you hear Christina Aguilera not trying to mimic a crocodile...and I gotta say her lower range is very good...is she a mezzo or a contralto?
ReplyDeleteShe used to be a soprano. Around Back2Basics, I'd say she was mezzo. Now, she sounds like a contralto.
ReplyDeleteI'm sick of this woman, honestly. Mostly because her "My Kind of Christmas" album is consistently played at my job and it's driving me bat shit insane. I will pay to see her in concert just to get the opportunity to chuck that album at her head.
ReplyDeleteShe's a mezzo by standard voice classification. The registers are insanely disconnected, though. You can hear her head voice is really light and round, while the upper chest isn't even mixed AT ALL into the head voice. Ironically, the best part of this performance was the very end where she sang in a nice, mixed voice for a few notes. Overall, she's a light-lyric mezzo, with some higher facility.
ReplyDeleteHahahaha.
ReplyDeleteWhat more can we say..it was a "good" performance. I just can't understand that two years ago at the Haiti benefit concert she performed "LIFT ME UP" and she sounded so beautiful clear and crisp. I'm not sure whether she is trying to copy miss HUDSON but this needs to stop. I want CHRISTINA TO DO THESE THINGS (CHRISTINA IF YOUR READING THIS I'm doing this all at of love my girl!!):
ReplyDelete1) Loose weight
2)Stop drinking alcohol
3) Get over the divorce
4) STOP WEARING SO MUCH MAKE UP
5)VOCAL LESSONS ASAP
6)HUMBLE YOURSELF
7) Do the Adele thing and make an album full of ballads
8)Listen to YOUR fans and the people that love her
9)GO ON TOUR........
10) GET A STYLIST!!!!
XOXOX
Oh god, never compare this vocal disaster to the awesomeness that is Jennifer Hudson.
ReplyDeletehahaha Do it!
ReplyDeleteHad to turn it off at 2.30-ish...it was hurting my ears. :O(
ReplyDeleteI love Christina (though she sure is making it harder for me to love her, these days), but I laughed so hard at your comment. I think her Christmas album is absolutely horrid, with the exception of "Merry Christmas, Baby." I would love to see a YouTube video of that stupid CD flying at her from the audience.
ReplyDeleteLmfao, I'll start looking at tour dates now so I can make this happen.
ReplyDeleteI'm pretty sure you've said in other posts that you love Xtina but continue to call her a vocal disaster. Jennifer Hudson is great but she's not that amazing. I'm just amazed at her never-ending volume capacity tbh.
ReplyDeleteIf you're sick of her, then why comment on this post by saying something that isn't even relevant to the actual topic?
ReplyDeleteShe is definitely not a contralto. Contraltos have naturally thick, deep and manly-sounding lower registers - Christina's lower register is not natural and her mid-range and head voice are far too light to be anything like a contralto.
ReplyDeleteI love Xtina... between her debut to B2B. Now, her voice is in steep decline, and it's impossible to realistically describe her as anything but a vocal disaster.
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