... because that ish wasn't so funny on second thought...

"influenced"

*cough*







I don't know. Xtina is just really starting to rub me the wrong way. She isn't a legend yet; and quite frankly I don't think she will EVER become more than another name mentioned when people are already talking or writing about Mariah or Britney. At least not until she does something *honest* because that's the one thing missing from ALL of her albums: honesty. She's always forced, fake, and trying too hard to portray some character or image. There isn't anything particularly unique about her. Everything that she's done in her career up to now has been done already. I think she needs to show more respect to the people who have set the pace and the space for her. These ARE people like Mariah, Madonna, Britney, and Pink. No matter how much name-dropping she does of Etta James and Ella Fitzgerald and Billie Holiday, it's clear who her REAL inspirations are and that still even comes across on this latest album: all the people she's dissed. Aguilera = not an artist, I'm afraid. A good singer, but that's about all there is to Xtina right now. (And there are a LOT of good singers out there that nobody paid attention to just because they weren't blond and half-naked.) She hasn't set any trends or done anything new. None of her songs are destined to any kind of memorability or "classic" status. She even dissed Beyonce too, but that's pretty much all she is right now: another Beyonce. Maybe she can dump on Mariah when she's achieved one-third of the things that Mariah achieved... in her first 5 years no less (10 #1's already). Heck, Britney can claim more of a "legend" status than Aguilera can right now. "Baby One More Time" and "Oops" are damn near iconic for the decade.



So yeah, she's just really starting to bother me. Or maybe it's all the tacky red lipstick.

Madonna doing "Black" music in 1994 vs. Xtina doing "Black" music in 2006:I don't know. Xtina is just really starting to rub me the wrong way. She isn't a legend yet; and quite frankly I don't think she will EVER become more than another name mentioned when people are already talking or writing about Mariah or Britney. At least not until she does something *honest* because that's the one thing missing from ALL of her albums: honesty. She's always forced, fake, and trying too hard to portray some character or image. There isn't anything particularly unique about her. Everything that she's done in her career up to now has been done already. I think she needs to show more respect to the people who have set the pace and the space for her. These ARE people like Mariah, Madonna, Britney, and Pink. No matter how much name-dropping she does of Etta James and Ella Fitzgerald and Billie Holiday, it's clear who her REAL inspirations are and that still even comes across on this latest album: all the people she's dissed. Aguilera = not an artist, I'm afraid. A good singer, but that's about all there is to Xtina right now. (And there are a LOT of good singers out there that nobody paid attention to just because they weren't blond and half-naked.) She hasn't set any trends or done anything new. None of her songs are destined to any kind of memorability or "classic" status. She even dissed Beyonce too, but that's pretty much all she is right now: another Beyonce. Maybe she can dump on Mariah when she's achieved one-third of the things that Mariah achieved... in her first 5 years no less (10 #1's already). Heck, Britney can claim more of a "legend" status than Aguilera can right now. "Baby One More Time" and "Oops" are damn near iconic for the decade.So yeah, she's just really starting to bother me. Or maybe it's all the tacky red lipstick.

Looks like Xtina has beef with all the people she's copied. I'm just waiting for her to start beefing with Etta James now, lol. I wrote about how Xtina copies Pink already with the Linda Perry thing, the "oh woe is me" lyrics, the album art and all, so let's not tread there again. But among the people Aguilera has made disparaging remarks about are all the people who haveher own music and style. Did Xtina not talk about how she grew up singing Mariah Carey's songs? And her overdone vocal style does *NOT* come from Etta James or any of her name-dropped legends. Nope, that's the Mariah influence right there, where the notes are there just for the sake of being there, lol. And did Xtina's first album not tread the same waters that her other former rival Britney Spears popularized with her first album? And did her second album not find its inspiration (and producer) from Pink's second album? And did her "dirrty" style not rehash what Black R&B and rap perfomers had been doing for the last 10 years at that point: parading around half-naked? And what Madonna had done nearly 2 decades before also? And not to mention the latest character she's playing. Madonna covered that territory already, so did Janet Jackson to a lesser extent.And the album art again. Hmmm....