With a career spanning over a decade, Christina Aguilera remains one artist whose life and music remain just as topical today as they were when she first started out.

Enjoying her fair show of highs and a number of unforgettable personal lows, to say her public image has been bitter/sweet would be an understatement.

Loved by many, loathed by some, we here at That Grape Juice want to know.

Is Christina Aguilera the performer people just love to hate?

Some time after her debut, well publicized reports surrounding Ms. Aguilera‘s mean girl-esque character began to turn her into the perfect foil for Britney Spears, who although was slowly begin to sex things up at the time, was still heralded as being the ultimate All American Girl.

In time, Christina became the Elphaba to Spears’ Glinda.

The Rosie O’Donnell to her Elisabeth Hasselbeck.

Though it was clear to all that Aguilera was twice the artist Britney could ever be, vocally and creatively, it was becoming apparent that even at her worst Ms. Spears was always going to be the people’s favorite.

So she played it up, replacing ‘Christ‘ with an ‘X‘ to become ‘Xtina‘ and seemed more than happy to play the role the media had written for her.

Her ‘Stripped‘ era served to solidify her status as Pop’s wild card.

Enlisting the help of Linda Perry to help recreate the magic that was Pink‘s ‘M!ssundastood‘ , the LP spawned the cuts ‘Beautiful‘ and ‘Can’t Hold Us Down‘ .

Though it won her critical acclaim, her bold new stance came at the expense of her persona which in turn affected the success of its lead single, ‘Dirrty‘ .

Peaking at #48 on the Billboard Hot 100, its lack luster run on the chart was used to justify the wave of negative press both the song and its supporting video began to receive from all corners of the press.

Fast forward to 2008, after enjoying the success of ‘Back To Basics‘ era two years earlier Ms ‘Candy Man’ was readying the release of ’Keeps Gettin’ Better‘ Greatest Hits Album.

All was going well, until this happened:

This person was just brought to my attention not too long ago. I’m not quite sure who this person is, to be honest. I don’t know if it is a man or a woman. I just wasn’t sure.

That ‘person‘ was of course Lady GaGa, who although at the time was yet to become the household name she is today, already had a increasingly loyal fan base.

Who of course didn’t take too kindly to her comments:

Thus, in what can only be described as history repeating itself, Christina was once again billed as the evil stepsister, spewing shade and jealousy to a rival more promising than she was.

Unable to shake this image came at the expense of her LP ‘Bionic‘ which saw her status as one Pop’s leading innovators tarnished by claims of irrelevancy and a desperation to compete with a woman she claimed she had never heard of.

Failing to impress both on a commercial and critical front, the album saw the belter come under fire like never before and was ultimately forced to end its campaign three singles.

Though her stint on ‘The Voice‘ has helped to soften her image, even after a run in with the law sometime before it began airing, we want you to weigh in.

Has Christina been unfairly cast as The Wicked Witch Of Pop Music?

Or are bad career decisions and a questionable attitude to blame for a public image that has taken it fair share of embarrassing blows?

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This is very poorly written. It may make a few valid points, but it completely misses the point that people were turned off by the overt sluttiness of Dirrrty and the clown make-up look she was going for around that era.

It also leaves out the entire point of the Lady Gaga comments, because the reason people were turned/pissed off was that her comments were a reaction to people saying that her look in the videos/performances and the songs themselves on that Greatest Hits albums were Gaga rip-offs.

I didn't even read that but yes she is. Everybody hates her piss poor attitude.

errant said:

This is very poorly written. It may make a few valid points, but it completely misses the point that people were turned off by the overt sluttiness of Dirrrty and the clown make-up look she was going for around that era.

It also leaves out the entire point of the Lady Gaga comments, because the reason people were turned/pissed off was that her comments were a reaction to people saying that her look in the videos/performances and the songs themselves on that Greatest Hits albums were Gaga rip-offs.

But wait a second, Gaga copied Christina (image wise) long before Christina copied Gaga(music wise).

TonyVanDam said:

errant said:

This is very poorly written. It may make a few valid points, but it completely misses the point that people were turned off by the overt sluttiness of Dirrrty and the clown make-up look she was going for around that era.

It also leaves out the entire point of the Lady Gaga comments, because the reason people were turned/pissed off was that her comments were a reaction to people saying that her look in the videos/performances and the songs themselves on that Greatest Hits albums were Gaga rip-offs.

But wait a second, Gaga copied Christina (image wise) long before Christina copied Gaga(music wise).

Copied what?

musicjunky318 said:

I didn't even read that but yes she is. Everybody hates her piss poor attitude.

Looking back now, it seems Lil' Kim was THE only celebrity friend Christina ever had in the industry. Everyone else (especially Eminem, Mary J. Bilge, & Mariah) hated Christina enough to consider beating her ass.

musicjunky318 said:

TonyVanDam said:

But wait a second, Gaga copied Christina (image wise) long before Christina copied Gaga(music wise).

Copied what?

Use the org's search engine to find an old thread about Gaga when she used to copies Christina's image and you will see what I mean.

TonyVanDam said:

musicjunky318 said:

I didn't even read that but yes she is. Everybody hates her piss poor attitude.

Looking back now, it seems Lil' Kim was THE only celebrity friend Christina ever had in the industry. Everyone else (especially Eminem, Mary J. Bilge, & Mariah) hated Christina enough to consider beating her ass.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

TonyVanDam said:

musicjunky318 said:

Copied what?

Use the org's search engine to find an old thread about Gaga when she used to copies Christina's image and you will see what I mean.

Ok.

Tony, how do you know those people wanted to beat Xtina's ass?

scriptgirl said:

Tony, how do you know those people wanted to beat Xtina's ass?

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TonyVanDam said:

errant said:

This is very poorly written. It may make a few valid points, but it completely misses the point that people were turned off by the overt sluttiness of Dirrrty and the clown make-up look she was going for around that era.

It also leaves out the entire point of the Lady Gaga comments, because the reason people were turned/pissed off was that her comments were a reaction to people saying that her look in the videos/performances and the songs themselves on that Greatest Hits albums were Gaga rip-offs.

But wait a second, Gaga copied Christina (image wise) long before Christina copied Gaga(music wise).

what image?

TonyVanDam said:

musicjunky318 said:

I didn't even read that but yes she is. Everybody hates her piss poor attitude.

Looking back now, it seems Lil' Kim was THE only celebrity friend Christina ever had in the industry. Everyone else (especially Eminem, Mary J. Bilge, & Mariah) hated Christina enough to consider beating her ass.

Mary J. and Mariah got pissed at Christina because they went out of their way to praise her musical chops, yet Christina talked shit about them. Plus he has a reputation of f***ing for tracks. It's no wonder why she has few friends in the industry.

her status as one Pop’s leading innovators

I still think that there is an album's worth of great tracks on Bionic (the deluxe version). If it had been whittled down to a forty-fifty minute album I think more people would have enjoyed it.

I loved her on The Voice and I never watch those kinds of shows. It's kind of a shame that she didn't re-release Bionic to try to take advantage of the popularity of The Voice. If she could have added a couple of hit singles to it I think it would have had a decent chance of taking off.

rialb said:

I still think that there is an album's worth of great tracks on Bionic (the deluxe version). If it had been whittled down to a forty-fifty minute album I think more people would have enjoyed it.

I loved her on The Voice and I never watch those kinds of shows. It's kind of a shame that she didn't re-release Bionic to try to take advantage of the popularity of The Voice. If she could have added a couple of hit singles to it I think it would have had a decent chance of taking off.

I don't. I don't think anything was going salvage "Bionic". It was already written off before it hit the shelves/went online.

why do people hate a pop star for not being 'nice?' i mean you dont think tina turner or justin timberlake or Bono or Janet or Madonna (ha, ha) or Gaga or Britney have a cunt button that gets pushed?

Musicslave said:

rialb said:

I still think that there is an album's worth of great tracks on Bionic (the deluxe version). If it had been whittled down to a forty-fifty minute album I think more people would have enjoyed it.

I loved her on The Voice and I never watch those kinds of shows. It's kind of a shame that she didn't re-release Bionic to try to take advantage of the popularity of The Voice. If she could have added a couple of hit singles to it I think it would have had a decent chance of taking off.

I don't. I don't think anything was going salvage "Bionic". It was already written off before it hit the shelves/went online.

Maybe you are right but performing "Moves Like Jagger" on the show certainly did not hurt that song any. At the very least tying the album into the show would have given it a sizeable promotional push.

rialb said:

Musicslave said:

I don't. I don't think anything was going salvage "Bionic". It was already written off before it hit the shelves/went online.

Maybe you are right but performing "Moves Like Jagger" on the show certainly did not hurt that song any. At the very least tying the album into the show would have given it a sizeable promotional push.

Oh I hear ya. I guess at that stage of the game "Bionic" had been considered officially dead by her and the label though. Hell, she even started disowning it shortly after sales began to sink. I don't recall what she said but I remember posting on a thread here about how her and NE-YO both disowned their shit soon after releasing it.