Album Description: Japanese pressing of the highly anticipated two CD 2006 release from Pop diva Christina Aguilera features bonus Enhanced Video material. Christina Aguilera has transformed her image and musical style with every album. With the new Back to Basics album, her musical style has changed from the urban and light rock sounds of Stripped to a soulful and jazz-inspired album. Aguilera has described this album as a soul record combining elements of 1920s, '30s and '40s blues and jazz with modern day influences. The record finds her working with hip-hop producers DJ Premier, Kwame and Mark Ronson for the first time. It will also find her working with Linda Perry, who worked with Aguilera on Stripped (2002). RCA.
Amazon.com: Back to Basics, Christina Aguilera's first disc in four years, refines and clarifies the--let's call it 'sexy'--aura surrounding this platinum firebrand. Here, the best belter in a class that counts Jessica Simpson and Britney Spears on its roll call has turned her attention to love songs: the supercharged and ubiquitous first single 'Ain't No Other Man,' for one, and the hushed stunner 'Save Me from Myself' for another. That doesn't mean she's foresworn being nasty, though. Dive deep into this set, past the gorgeous crackle that frames the old-school jazz-, blues-, and soul-inspired tracks on the first disc, and you'll reach a playful and familiar raunch; 'Candyman' celebrates a 'one-stop shop' who 'makes the panties drop' to a boogie-woogie beat, and 'Nasty Naughty Boy' sends out a heated, big-beated invitation to 'sip on my champagne/Cause I'm gonna give you a little taste/Of the sugar below my waist.' Thoughtful listeners should snap out of their fascination with Xtina's undiminished yet newly un-tramp-like sexuality, though, because what they'll really want to focus on throughout these 22 tracks is the honest-to-God artistry. While the rock producer Linda Perry helps disc two pop in interesting and unexpected ways (check the muffled blues number 'I Got Trouble' and 'Mercy on Me,' an obvious nod to Fiona Apple), DJ Premier, a mainstay on Jay-Z and Nas projects, pipes a batch of aural high-fives into the nostalgia-bitten first disc (the deep-down funk of 'Back in the Day,' the strut-strut early hip-hop sound of 'Still Dirrty'). Their nudges aside, though, Back to Basics is all Aguilera's baby--she executive-produced, and she's found herself artistically. Nobody would argue, in fact, if she swiveled around the chorus to 'Ain't No Other Man,' written for her husband, and aimed it at herself: 'You got soul, you got class/You got style, you're bada--.' --Tammy La Gorce
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Rating: - No basics
Let me start off by saying that I'm a huge Christina fan. I think she's an incredibly talented young lady with a powerhouse voice. However, the theme of this album is suppose to be a tribute to traditional jazz and blues music from the 20's, 30's, and 40's. Christina has openly said that she wanted this album to reflect on old jazz music. However, the album only achieves this on 2 or 3 tracks. "Candyman" and "I Got Trouble" sound like authentic jazz tunes that could've been recorded in the 1940's. "Nasty Naughty Boy" is a sultry, seductive song that sounds like it's straight out of a 1920's burlesque strip show. The rest of the album is filled with up-tempo pop tracks (Slow Down Baby, Aint No Other Man), sappy love songs (Save Me From Myself, The Right Man), overdone vocals (Hurt, Mercy On Me), and filler tracks that don't stand out at all (On Our Way, Without You). With a 2 disc album, I expected much more from ... Read More
Rating: - HE'S A 1 STOP SHOP MAKES THE PANTIES DROP
I would pay to hear Christina sing the alphabet. She gets better with each new CD.
"Makes Me Wanna Pray" it just makes you wanna get out of your chair and dance. She performed it on 'Ellen' Look it up on youtube it's that good.
"Ain't No Other Man" I was excited when I heard this song, Christina had been saying that this CD was gonna be a throwback to the early jazz days. It's a great song that fuses pop/jazz.
"Understand" This is my favorite song on the entire CD Why was this never released as a single?!?!?!
"FUSS" For me this song is a lowpoint-It stands fro F You Scott Storch, the man who co-wrote several songs on the "Stripped" CD I guess they had a falling out. Christina, you're better than this.
"Candyman" Such a fun dance pop number, it kinda reminds me of "Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy" mixed with Lou Bega's "Mambo #5" The video is fun to watch ... Read More
Rating: - Back To Basic
She just get's better with every CD she delivers.
I have loved her from the frist time i heard her,
Spears and Simpsom don't have nothing on her.
She is a true pop legend..........
Rating: - "The one and only....there never will be another...Christina Aguilera"
The Back to Basics Intro pretty much sums up how the listener feels after listening to the first note of this record.
As a Christina fan from the very beginning, I have been continually amazed by her versatility. Whether it be bubble-gum pop, soul, gospel, r&b, or even hard rock, Miss Aguilera has always pulled it off perfectly. Her changes always go beyond the studio and into her appearance, so when the world saw The Artist Formerly Known as Xtina ditch her assless chaps and dreads in favor of a "Baby Jane" title, Marylin platinum curls, and siren-red lips, I knew the record would be something unlike anything the world has heard before from the multiple Grammy winner.
Back to Basics does not disappoint. Some criticize the record for being less-personal and raw than Stripped, but really, it is just as honest as the previous record. The only difference is, the artist in question is just ... Read More
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