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| Artist: Christina Aguilera
Label: RCA
Category: Music
List Price: $21.98
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Avg. Customer Rating:  418 reviews
Sales Rank: 1322
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 2
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.1
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 4.9 x 0.4
MPN: 82639
UPC: 828768963425
EAN: 0828768263921
ASIN: B000G759LW
Release Date: August 15, 2006
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| Customer Reviews:
 Why all the hype abou this album??? August 29, 2006
9 out of 13 found this review helpful
I really tried to like "Ain't no other man"..gave it many listens and just couldn't bring myself to like it...While the instrumentation was interesting and different, her constant oversinging really gets in her way, especially when I know Christina does have a good voice, which is apparant on her other albums. Unfortunely, I didn't even like the only song that had any prayer of being a hit (mentioned above). The other songs on this album are more of the same; oversinging, no restraint to the runs and lack of good hooks to draw the listener in.
Christina's Stripped album was far better than this, as was her first album. Christina should be saying her prayers to the MTV fairy for all the publicity which I'm quite sure had a hand in making this album so popular.
Love Christina I Don't get this Album August 29, 2006
9 out of 15 found this review helpful
She is amazing and talented, there is no question about that. I am a huge fan of her both for her music and her as a person. I was so excited to hear the new album was finally out. I love "Ain't no other man," so I was excited to hear what the rest of it sounded like. I don't get it. I listened to it and was like "ehh, it's different." Everything sounds the same and is more like a journal entry then a song. Unlike "Stripped," it didn't feel like a journal entry that was made into a good song. It was missing the personal touch of that album. It felt like an attempt to make a themed album in a particular genre and just didn't feel like all the material even connected with her."Candyman," sounds like a sample of "Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy," to me. Hopefully I'll like the remixes. Sorry to all the other xtina fans, I don't mean any harm.
 Very blah coming from Chrisitina. September 12, 2006
9 out of 14 found this review helpful
Stripped was a far better cd. As a matter of fact, stripped was an excellent cd. I give her credit for trying to be different, but this cd wasn't her best at all. And I expected better since she had a few years since stripped was released. In that time, I felt she could've done something better. I basically only bought this cd because I am a huge fan of hers and would like to have everything she releases, but luckily I only paid $9.99 for this cd on it's week of release. Unlike the $20.00 I shelled out for stripped a few years back, however it was worth every penny.
Now with this cd you get a double disc. In my opinion disc two has a few cute songs on it while disc one is just a waste of time to listen to. However, this is not a freshman album and I expect better than cute songs from Christina. Hopefully she is already in the studio working on the next one and trying to make up for this mediocre cd.
Love the Girl, Hated her CD September 18, 2006
9 out of 30 found this review helpful
I love Christina's voice and her personality, yet, her CD is more than dissappointing, too many slow songs, the 1st single is the only catchy song on the CD. It has a couple of good slow songs...but buying a CD for 2 songs is a let down. Get Jessica Simpson's Public Affair, so much better.
Wasn't what i was expecting, Sold CD August 16, 2006
8 out of 14 found this review helpful
honestly I wished it was good as stripped, but its not. Christina has a wonderful voice and i still love her and her music but i was let down. I have listened Thur the cds about 6 times now and no song has started to stick out as a Catchy pop top 40 song. I would not expect many singles to come out of this CD. She did a lot of artist creativity stuff and its alright but its not pop or top 40, maybe thats why no one else does it. There is to much "in the room" audio, meaning while you listening to the CD, some times you fell like your listening to some one else listening to the same cd but you can hear them while the CD pretends to skip to define a beat. There are a lot of songs that sound like Big band, with out the band or limited band. Christine provides most of the "music" with her voice and the big band is just the drums or beat. The songs that didn't sound like they were big band hip hop mix, sounded like they were from her holiday cd, same production and sometime similar melodies.
Don't believe all the reviews on here as some sound to perfect, like a marketing slick, may be her agent posted some of these reviews to help sales.
Note to Christina, Girl you got the voice, you have the looks, your just reaching to far out to try to be a leader in something new and wonderful, and its not that good. Come back into the fold of Top40 and make some more hits.
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