Album Review - Christina Aguilera - Back to Basics
By Matt Parish
Christina Aguilera has talent, pure and simple, but her latest effort
Back to Basics is a considerably flawed affair. Although it is intended
to be a clever, retro-morph that fuses the styles of legendary jazz and
blues artists from the '40s, '50s, and '60s with more modern freestyle
club and dance beats, one is left with the feeling that the outing is
little more than an ego-driven, vanity project. For proof, look no
further than the songs' titles -- four of them (Makes Me Wanna Pray, I
Got Trouble, Mercy on Me, and Save Me from Myself) are stuck in a
first-person perspective. As for the intro, it not only unimaginatively
is titled Intro (Back to Basics), but it also regurgitates the same
"prizefight" beginning the she utilized on the far superior Stripped.
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