Will she ever be able to comeb back from the flop that was Bionic to be a succesful artist again?

Absolutely.

If she can pull out another gem similar to "Beautiful", she can definitely have a comeback. I think a power ballad or a more adult contemporary sound is the way to go for her next album.

I'm not counting Christina out yet at all. She can definitely make a comeback.

I think it can, but people didn't even seem to like You Lost Me and I thought it was incredible. At least there is 1 artist who knows how to sing a ballad. I'm not really sure what she should do

I think she's going to have to break more out of the music realm of things to revamp her career. Burlesque was a move in the right direction, but she needs to do more.

All artists have droughts in their career. She has just hit one and can't seem to get back on track.

I didn't get her last album. Was it any good? I know it didn't sell well at all.

daPrettyman said:

I think she's going to have to break more out of the music realm of things to revamp her career. Burlesque was a move in the right direction, but she needs to do more.

All artists have droughts in their career. She has just hit one and can't seem to get back on track.

I didn't get her last album. Was it any good? I know it didn't sell well at all.

It was complete trash.

Cinnamon234 said:

Absolutely.

If she can pull out another gem similar to "Beautiful", she can definitely have a comeback. I think a power ballad or a more adult contemporary sound is the way to go for her next album.

I'm not counting Christina out yet at all. She can definitely make a comeback.

Ballads arent doing all that great these days

Folks were fast to write Mariah off after Glitter and she came back pretty strong. Of course Christina can come back but that doesn't mean that she will come back. I think she needs to get a new album out much quicker than she usually does. If she waits four years it will be much tougher for her to stay relevant.

paisleypark4 said:

Ballads arent doing all that great these days

Maybe, but the dance/electronica thing didn't work for Christina at all, so maybe it's time for her to get back to her roots. Everyone knows she has a great voice, so that's why I think a ballad would be best.

I think Christina does better with ballads than the up-tempo stuff anyway. Everyone's doing the dance/club thing anyway, people will soon get tired of it. It's best if Christina stays away from the trendy sound.

Cinnamon234 said:

paisleypark4 said:

Ballads arent doing all that great these days

Maybe, but the dance/electronica thing didn't work for Christina at all, so maybe it's time for her to get back to her roots. Everyone knows she has a great voice, so that's why I think a ballad would be best.

I think Christina does better with ballads than the up-tempo stuff anyway. Everyone's doing the dance/club thing anyway, people will soon get tired of it. It's best if Christina stays away from the trendy sound.

The problem is that ballads aren't popular right now on pop radio.

I haven't heard Bionic yet but I quite liked the two new songs on Keeps Gettin' Better: A Decade of Hits and I would have liked a whole album of songs like that.

I dont believe Christina Aguilera's career is over she's just in a dry spell. She got married and had a baby so when you're not in the spotlight someone else takes over. Hence Lady GaGa. She still has that voice so she can make a comeback. As someone posted she should do a ballad as her next single her attempt at dance/electronica failed miserably.

rialb said:

I haven't heard Bionic yet but I quite liked the two new songs on Keeps Gettin' Better: A Decade of Hits and I would have liked a whole album of songs like that.

I think that's exactly what her problem is. Her voice isn't suited for electro-pop. Every time she does it she fails on the charts -- and musically but that's my opinion.

Christina should be true to herself and be the vocalist she was born to be. She can sing her ass off. Leave the dance shit to Gaga, Britney, Madonna....

She oversings EVERYTHING. It gets very tiresome. And it doesn't work with electro. The whole "Bionic" project just felt like she was trying WAY too hard to be down with the trends.

She probably needs to try a different career if she's gonna stay afloat some kind of way. She hasn't really been a big seller though. And if she's going to make another album, she may have to compromise her vocals so it wouldn't appear that she's singing for a supper that's never coming. Bi-On-Ic or whatever it was titled as was released at a bad time as it was anyways.

Militant said:

She oversings EVERYTHING. It gets very tiresome. And it doesn't work with electro. The whole "Bionic" project just felt like she was trying WAY too hard to be down with the trends.

She doesn't seem to get artistic nuance. All she does is loud, matter-of-fact histrionics. I think that turns people off to her.

abigail05 said:

Militant said:

She oversings EVERYTHING. It gets very tiresome. And it doesn't work with electro. The whole "Bionic" project just felt like she was trying WAY too hard to be down with the trends.

She doesn't seem to get artistic nuance. All she does is loud, matter-of-fact histrionics. I think that turns people off to her.

Hell a lot of acts turn me off when they think they're doing something when they ain't doing nothing.

She has to stop theming her albums or trying to be like Madonna. She should make her albums short and cohesive like Amy Winehouse did with Back to Black.

Militant said:

She oversings EVERYTHING. It gets very tiresome. And it doesn't work with electro. The whole "Bionic" project just felt like she was trying WAY too hard to be down with the trends.

To be fair. She has yet to ever do electro. She thinks she did it but not one song on that album was electro. There are some electro/soul artists and she could have come up with something good.

rialb said:

Folks were fast to write Mariah off after Glitter and she came back pretty strong. Of course Christina can come back but that doesn't mean that she will come back. I think she needs to get a new album out much quicker than she usually does. If she waits four years it will be much tougher for her to stay relevant.

Mariah still has to fight for relevancy. Her last album underperformed and there were more than 1 flop albums between Glitter and The Emancipation of Mimi. Mariah never gave up though.

StillDirrty said:

She has to stop theming her albums or trying to be like Madonna. She should make her albums short and cohesive like Amy Winehouse did with Back to Black.

Err....I don't think THE EGO christina aguilera could ever write a album like back to black ..... she would have to get a life and stop trying to be "sexy" "dirty" or whatever fake sh*t she sings about....and get real!

I think the sex thing is part of her trying to be like Madonna. She used to always say how she wanted to push boundaries but Madonna pushed them all already. & I honestly think that is why she gets compared to Gaga. They copy from the same person so there are similarities.

Also, Glam's intro sounds like Poker Face which is a mistake. That was supposed to be the first single so things could have been much worse than Not Myself Tonight.

Militant said:

She oversings EVERYTHING. It gets very tiresome. And it doesn't work with electro. The whole "Bionic" project just felt like she was trying WAY too hard to be down with the trends.

True. When she did that James Brown cut i was speechless.......

She needs to forget her superstar ambitions; as Timmy has said, her superstar days ended somewhere in the mid-00s...

I truly liked Back to Basics because I thought that she had reinvented herself as a white soul singer, with upbeat pop/soul/swing and classy ballads. But nooooooooo, she has embraced the "trendy" electronic/shit-dance sound and she has failed miserably... but, what did she expect?? Bionic has basically no hits, all the songs and "singles" are pretty average even for 2009-2010 radio...

she must return to the organic sound of Back to Basics (not necessarily soul/swing/big band, though) and leave behind the "hey girls, we're are still young, we still like to dance, and you all still love me, right" sound-image. That image-sound may work with Britney but not with Xtina. A softer image (still too much makeup) and some humility are also necessary. She needs to be less obsessed about those unreal +5.000.000 sales, specially in the era of iTunes...Anyway, if she still wants HIGH sales, she must deliver new STRONG singles, not the average crap of Bionic...

but, in this mad era, who the hell knows what's best for anybody? 00s mainstream listeners ARE crazy, illogical and volatile...who the hell thought that Mariah could make a comeback? is it because of the tits?

JoeTyler said:

She needs to forget her superstar ambitions; as Timmy has said, her superstar days ended somewhere in the mid-00s...

I truly liked Back to Basics because I thought that she had reinvented herself as a white soul singer, with upbeat pop/soul/swing and classy ballads. But nooooooooo, she has embraced the "trendy" electronic/shit-dance sound and she has failed miserably... but, what did she expect?? Bionic has basically no hits, all the songs and "singles" are pretty average even for 2009-2010 radio...

she must return to the organic sound of Back to Basics (not necessarily soul/swing/big band, though) and leave behind the "hey girls, we're are still young, we still like to dance, and you all still love me, right" sound-image. That image-sound may work with Britney but not with Xtina. A softer image (still too much makeup) and some humility are also necessary. She needs to be less obsessed about those unreal +5.000.000 sales, specially in the era of iTunes...Anyway, if she still wants HIGH sales, she must deliver new STRONG singles, not the average crap of Bionic...

but, in this mad era, who the hell knows what's best for anybody? 00s mainstream listeners ARE crazy, illogical and volatile...who the hell thought that Mariah could make a comeback? is it because of the tits?

The voice, Mariah got a great pair ... A good CD is a good CD ... hence E=MC flopped because most of the songs were sh*t

JoeTyler said:

She needs to forget her superstar ambitions; as Timmy has said, her superstar days ended somewhere in the mid-00s...

I truly liked Back to Basics because I thought that she had reinvented herself as a white soul singer, with upbeat pop/soul/swing and classy ballads. But nooooooooo, she has embraced the "trendy" electronic/shit-dance sound and she has failed miserably... but, what did she expect?? Bionic has basically no hits, all the songs and "singles" are pretty average even for 2009-2010 radio...

she must return to the organic sound of Back to Basics (not necessarily soul/swing/big band, though) and leave behind the "hey girls, we're are still young, we still like to dance, and you all still love me, right" sound-image. That image-sound may work with Britney but not with Xtina. A softer image (still too much makeup) and some humility are also necessary. She needs to be less obsessed about those unreal +5.000.000 sales, specially in the era of iTunes...Anyway, if she still wants HIGH sales, she must deliver new STRONG singles, not the average crap of Bionic...

but, in this mad era, who the hell knows what's best for anybody? 00s mainstream listeners ARE crazy, illogical and volatile...who the hell thought that Mariah could make a comeback? is it because of the tits?

All signs point to "yes."

Oh and wait I got the date wrong for Mariah's Rainbow. It came out before Glitter. That album underperformed too. So her only recent success really was that one album but she has had hit singles. That is Christina's problem. She hasn't had a #1 sing since Lady Marmalade. That is a problem to me. Even Pink can do it.

Nah. No one's here for her dance songs and that's the only type of songs that are popular these days.

Did she ever have a career?

Ooooh shit!!!!

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