Did MotherHood Destroy Christina's Career

Since the beginning of time, the second a woman reaches a certain age she has been expected to spread her legs and let someone inseminate her eggs, she was then expected to raise those kids whilst her husband went out to work and then be the doting wife when her husband got back from work.
This formula worked for many women back in the day, then the 60s happened and some women decided that maybe this formula wasn’t right for them, that maybe this formula would hold them back from being successful individuals.

Fast forward to today. Most women now wait until the thirties before having children, some for personal reasons and some professional reasons, afraid that taking the time to get married and have children would stop them getting that promotion at work or simply because quite frankly, children take up too much time. So how does this apply to Christina Aguilera, well I’m going to discuss how much Christina Aguilera’s current career trough is down to her decision to have a child when she did.


In 1999, Christina Aguilera released her debut album Christina Aguilera, then in 2002 released Stripped, then in 2006 released Back to Basics and this year she released the album Bionic. Looking at the dates of when she released albums it is obvious to see that with all of them there is almost a 4 year gap. Now four years to the average Jose’ may not seem like forever but in the world of technology and music, four years might as well be a hundred because four years is enough time for fads to come and go. Did any of us know who Lady Gaga was four years ago, how many of us tweeted two years ago and wasn’t it just one year ago that many of us thought we thought Tiger Woods was the patron saint of husbands, a lot of scheisse can happen in just four years.

The mistake Christina made was thinking that her voice alone would carry her name throughout the four sets of four years she took off to do whatever she was doing, not realizing that in a fickle industry like this even the best of the best can be forgotten, ask a 13 year old who Paula Abdul is and they’ll tell you “oh that woman from American Idol”, they won’t know that Paula Abdul was one of the many choreographers who taught Janet Jackson herself how to dance and who enjoyed many a hit in her day also. The same goes for the Karyn White’s and Sheila E’s of the world, people just forget. No sooner than you plan on making that all important come back, some new piece of skirt comes along with better marketing tactics, a fresh face and even firmer breasts and generates a whole new buzz making you and your bewildered fans look outdated.

However, in Ms. Aguilera’s case it isn’t new artists that are her biggest problem, it is old ones.
When Christina debuted back in the 90s she was marketed as being some sort vocally talented alternative to Britney but was never able to generate a phenomenon like Britney did, however this worked for Christina as it gave her fans the feelings that they were part of special clique who cared about real talent and so they bought her records and she sold millions. What then happened was that Christina Aguilera became sort of like the Mary Wilson of her time, the one everyone respected an artist but spent more time paying attention to the one everyone knew didn’t have the best voice but was packaged better.

So Christina got complacent, she thought she could just release albums every four years and her fans would immediately be ready with their ten dollars to purchase them. However, Christina did not anticipate how much can happen in four years and how much an artist can completely upgrade their image successfully putting them ahead of the pack.
The best example of this is Beyonce’, nobody saw Beyonce’ as being iconic in 2003, in fact her career was written by some journalists with the release of Work It Out but when she released Dangerously in Love in 2003 she proved everybody wrong with the success and her popularity as a brand. Beyonce’s next album was released in 2006, three years later, only one year less than Christina’s did, so why is it this worked for Beyonce’ and not Christina?

Beyonce’ is in many aspects the kid in the class who does more than they’re supposed or have to do at a certain time but what they didn’t have to do one lesson actually puts them ahead of the class in the next. After every Beyonce’ album, follows a movie which she will promote alongside the record, and then her endorsers will then conveniently start releasing commercials starring Beyonce’ to capitalise on the promotion of the record and movie and then comes the talk of “ a new video” alongside whether “she’ll be performing at this award show”. Then after the album and movie comes out, she’ll announce a tour; spend a year on tour releasing a dozen videos whilst conveniently being spotted out and about in different cities. To the average eye, Beyonce’ is just working, to her bosses at Sony she’s enhancing her brand image by doing so much in one period of time that even when she is actually not doing anything she is appearing to be doing a lot. This then gives her fans enough content to discuss and argue about on social networking sites like Twitter and You tube keeping Beyonce’s name relevant until she is ready to put out a new album. So essentially, she makes in some respect an artistic investment, invest a lot of time in 2008, reap the rewards in 2010 at the Grammys, make an artistic investment by releasing a random video in 2010, generate a buzz for an album to come out in 2011.

These artistic investments boost morale for your fans who then feel as though they are doing something really important by purchasing whatever you release, and it does even more for their morale when the artistic investments you made ten years ago pay off with performing at the Inaugural Ball.
Christina of course assumed an album and a few singles were all she would need to remain relevant, she assumed she took four years between 2006 and now to get married and have kids and return to the same industry that once respected her in her Hurt era.
However, didn’t Britney have kids, in fact doesn’t Britney have two. Well the answer to this is simple, unlike Christina fans, Britney Spears comprehend the importance of brand power and so will buy a Britney album and pay to see Britney on tour even though they haven’t heard Britney speak about an album OR a tour. Britney is able to do this because her fans have always understood how sales work since she debuted, when they buy a lot, she sells a lot. This is why Britney was able to have two kids, not promote an album or a tour and still be one of the most commercially successful recording and touring artists in the world.


So to complete this article, I’ll say this. Christina’s problem isn’t Lady Gaga or lack of originality, it’s complacency. It’s assuming everybody still cares about what you bring the table after four years of seeing nothing of you, it’s assuming that Iconic status is permanent; it’s assuming that talent bests all when it comes to selling records.

At this point, with the almost cringe worthy sales of Bionic, Christina fans need to go out and buy the record instead of worrying about what Perez Hilton and the like are saying about her. In the worlds of a wise man, “Men and Women lie, but sales don’t,” he was damn right. Just look at Michael Jackson, no matter what he was accused of doing; his fans bought what he put out forcing the media to acknowledge his releases.
Let us hope that other artists can learn from Christina’s mistake and hold off having kids until they’re place in pop history is secured because as of now, Christina’s place is anything but certain.

The Dream And Christina Milian to divorce? (Kat Stacks laugh)

According to various publications, Christina Milian, formerly of Island Def Jam and The Dream, currently of "10 Reasons Why You Should Sign A Pre-Nup When Marrying Someone Less Succesful Than Yourself" are having marital problems and are on the brink of divorce.

"insert smart ass comment here".
This story is funny for two reasons:
1. Who really gives a flying damn.
2. If this is true, then Christina and her mami just made bank.

Christina has a habit of seeing producers and "collaborating" with them. Anyone remember Dre of Cool and Dre.





Then after getting dropped by Senor Carter after that album that sold less copies than Wendy Williams could sell female hormones, she got with The Dream. Honestly, whether she loves(d) him or not, you'd have to be Chris Brown not to realize that her relationship with him has financial benefits.

3LW - "You Ain't Ready"
Ashanti - "Medicine"
B2K - "Everything"
Bayje
- "Still in Love"
- "Missin' You"
Beyoncé
- "Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It)"
- "Smash Into You"
Boss - "Butterfly Effect"
Billy Crawford - "Bright Lights Big City"
Brit and Alex
- "Beautiful"
- "Heart Breaker"
- "Preachin' to the Choir"
- "Thats My Baby"
Britney Spears - "Me Against the Music" (feat. Madonna)
Brooke Valentine - "Ghetto Superstarz"
Celine Dion - "Skies of L.A."
Chris Brown - "You"
Ciara
- "Ciara To The Stage"
- "High Price"
- "Like A Surgeon"
- "Keep Dancing" (feat. The-Dream)
- "Lover's Thing" (feat. The-Dream)
Dear Jayne
- "Talkin' 'Bout Himself"
- "I Loose Everything"
Diddy - "Change"
J. Holiday
- "Bed"
- "Laa Laa"
- "Suffocate"
Jamie Foxx
- "Just Like Me (feat. T.I.)"
- "Slow"
- "Rainman"
- "Why"
- "Digital Girl (feat. Kanye West)"
Janet Jackson - "Greatest X"
Jennifer Lopez - "Louboutins"
Jesse McCartney -"Leavin"
Justin Bieber
- "One Time"
- "Baby" (feat. Ludacris)
Karina Pasian - "16 @ War"
Lindsay Lohan
- "Washing My Hands"
- "Problem Solver (Call Me)"
Lloyd
- "I Need Love"
Lucy Walsh
- "Forever Since"
- "So Uncool"
Mario - "Crazy Kind of Love"
Mariah Carey
- "Touch My Body"
- "Touch My Body (remix)" (feat. The-Dream)
- "Betcha Gon' Know (The Prologue)"
- "Obsessed"
- "H.A.T.E. U"
- "Candy Bling"
- "Ribbon"
- "Standing O"
- "Inseparable"
- "It's A Wrap"
- "Up Out My Face"
- "More Than Just Friends"
- "The Impossible"
- "Angels Cry"
- "Languishing (Interlude)"
- "They Don't Know Me (Unreleased)"
- "I Need Things"
Mary J. Blige
- "Grown Woman" (feat. Ludacris)
- "Just Fine"
- "Feel Like a Woman"
- "Shake Down" (feat. Usher)
- "Roses"
- "Come to Me (Peace)"
- "Nowhere Fast"
- "Mirror" (feat. Eve)
- "Kitchen"
Mýa - "Like Crazy"
Nicole Scherzinger - "Powers Out" (feat. Sting)
Nivea
- "Complicated"
- "I Can't Mess with You"
- "Indian Dance"
- "Let It Go"
- "Okay" (feat. Lil Jon & YoungBloodZ)
- "Red Cup" (feat. The-Dream)
- "Watch It"
Raheem DeVaughn - "Customer"
Rihanna
- "Breakin' Dishes"
- "Lemme Get That"
- "Sell Me Candy"
- "Umbrella"
- "Hatin' On The Club"
- "Hard" (feat. Young Jeezy)
- "Rockstar 101" (feat. Slash)
Shawn Desman
- "No More"
- "Man in Me"
- "Ooh"
Steph Jones - "La La Means Love"
Sterling Simms - "All I Need"
Sugababes - "Gotta Be You"
Usher
- "Moving Mountains"
- "This Ain't Sex"
- "Trading Places"
Yung Joc - "Coffee Shop" (feat. Gorilla Zoe)



I'll assume you know how publishing works.
So if they are divorcing, then Christina and her mother, you remember her right? That overbearing excuse for a mom-ager who was convinced her daughter was the second coming of Paula Abdul, are going to make money in less than two years than they did when Christina was at the height (sighs) of her career (shits).
I really thought The Dream was smarter than this, I mean really- with d-list celebrities divorcing quicker than Alicia can drop her panties for a married man you would everyone would be extra cautious.
Evidently not.

BET? Take out the B and You've got a Deal.

Nicki Minaj
Justin Bieber
Young Money
Melanie Fiona
Wale

What do all these artists have in common? Well, all of them are nominated for BET Awards in the New Artist category, (sigh) yes even the second name there. Justin Bieber. I'm not going to digress, I'll get straight to the point.

When you take a white face, give them a "stereotypically" black context and put lots of money behind that white face, you find just how intelligent these record labels really are.
Since the 60s, doing things "the black way" has always been seen as rebellious and we all know that in our society being a rebel is seen as being real and so record labels have found a clever way to exploit this by giving some of their artists a "real" context.
So what happens in capitilism is this, the smartest people find way to fuse things to make lots of money from it.
So of course, because all of us have been subtly programmed to still view being Caucasian as the height of society record labels have spent years trying to make their Caucasian artsts more real and "rebellious" whilst maintaining mainstream appeal. The best way to do this is to give this Caucasian artists urban writers who will strategically throw slang into a song with catchy hooks so that in the eyes of the 14 year old girl up in her bedroom, the music she is listening to is not cheesy and "real," when in fact its been tried and tested for decades.

Still unsure as to what I'm getting at?





Ironically, this poor excuse for an artist has been marketed as Usher's protege' when Usher himself is a victim of the same thing that makes Justin Bieber a success. Anyone remember how upset Usher was with Justin Timberlake because Usher felt like he was being swaggerjacked, well yes he was, but Justin Timberlake is actually a good artist who can sing, and dance and has artistic credibility.
Justin Bieber isnt doing anything that Aaron Carter wasnt doing ten years ago, and he sure as heck itself isn't doing anything that little Bobby from the round way couldn't do when he was four.

However, Little Bobby is too black for white audiences and 14 year old girls only respond to urban music when it has a European face. I am a world-centric person, I believe that diversity is beautiful but I'm a marketing student, I know exploitation and deceit when I see it.

The BET Awards giving Justin Bieber a Best New Artist nomination but not giving Monica a Best R'n'b Female nomination? Are we really suprised? As much as I enjoy BET, we all know that these black organisations are just a way for big corporations to fool black audiences into believing that something is being specifically tailored for them, when in fact it uses channels like BET to appear politically correct. Ironically, the only category Justin Bieber can be found in is Best New Artist, but not in the Best Male R'n'b Artist category? Is that BET's way of acknowledging that Justin is a Pop Artist, but aren't BET anti-pop, wasn't Michelle Williams' We Break The Dawn too pop for them at one point?

No- once again, BET are changing their own rules to suit themselves, I wouldn't be suprised if a financial incentive wasn't provided for them to give the brat a nomination. Then we take a look at the Best Male R'n'b Category, Usher and Chris Brown are there, but no Robin Thicke? A wife beater and a has been who both couldn't even shift discount bombs to Al-Qaeda are nominated over an artist with an album as critically aclaimed as Robin's.



Whatever.
It'd be interesting to see how their audience reacts if the brat wins the award he's nominated for.

Dear Sandra Rose

Dear Sandra
As one of the only Sasha Supremacists who actually performs cunningulus, there was a time where I hated you. There was a time where I dreamed of meeting you backstage at a Monica concert (shut up) and giving you a "You Told Harpo to Beat Me" smackdown. I used to hate you more than Sean Kingston hates The Biggest Loser but then I saw something.
What I saw hurt me so much, I thought about you and how you were feeling, how you were coping with it?

Now since I know you were too busy waxing your pussy lips to know what I'm talking about, take a gander below:




Mean, right?
Now there is no need to even go into whether what he said about you was right or wrong, because then we'd have to discuss how intelligent he is and I think Rihanna's face circa February 2009 answers that question. Instead of discussing Chris Brown, let's discuss you and what you need to do to counteract such hateful tweets.



1. Pledge your allegiance to a relevant entertainment force. No- Tiny doesnt count. Pledging your allegiance to someone with a giant fan base guarantees support in times like this, I'd advise Michael Jackson, his fans will defend anything as long as it defends their hero, don't talk about the little boys, the nose, the face, the brows or the lacefront and you're as good as in.


2. Support and exploit pain. This worked for Tyra Banks. Supporting and exploiting pain, eg abuse victims turned Top Model contestants, rape victims turned Tyra Banks show guests, anytime someone says something mean about you, people will assume that whoever is talking about you is also talking about the pain that you support and exploit. Why do you think most comedians dont talk about Tyra "The Hardest Thing I've Ever Had To Take Is My Producers 10 Inches" Banks, they don't want to be seen as being insensitive to her "altruistic" causes.


3. Stop talking shit about The Knowles'. I'm not sure how it will help you but it would make me happy, if you continue to talk scheisse about The Knowles' you can forget about our little date, (I take cash in advance and I don't do outcalls)

DELUSIONS OF OPRAH

Definition: When someone is convinced that they are as powerful, influential and as respected as Oprah Winfrey. Symptons may include "Never Yelling At A Girl Like This Before" and pretending to be a journalist on a heavily edited talk show hosted by yourself and produced by bumbling idiots too afraid to tell you what they REALLY think of your lacefront.

Things That Are Fun to Look At.

Life can be hard for a has been slut. One decade you're hot, the next you're not. One moment every Queen, Lion, Bear, Tiger and suspect Choir Conductor is chanting your lyrics and the next you're auditioning for a low budget straight to DVD movie that you will spend years trying to pretend never existed.



Anyway, Christina Aguilera who spent the last ten years of her career being compared to a certain Icon is now being compared to another and she doesnt like it. In an interview with OUT Magazine (for which George Rekers hopes to begin editing in the near future) Aguilera reffered to Lady Gaga as a "newcomer" and "fun to look at."

Since we're talking about things that are "fun to look at", let's talk about things that aren't so fun to look at.

Not Myself Tonight
Australia (ARIA)[39] 22
Belgium (Ultratop Flanders)[40] 24
Belgium (Ultratip Wallonia)[41] 10
Canada (Canadian Hot 100)[42] 11
Czech Republic (IFPI)[43] 38
Japan (Japan Hot 100)[44] 14
Netherlands (Dutch Top 40)[45] 18
New Zealand (RIANZ)[46] 32
Russian Airplay Chart[47] 168
Slovakia (IFPI)[48] 12
South Korean Digital Chart[49] 73
Spain (PROMUSICAE)[50] 32
Sweden (Sverigetopplistan)[51] 34
Turkey (Türkiye Top 20)[52] 15
United Kingdom (Official Charts Company)[53] 12
US Billboard Hot 100[54] 23
US Hot Dance Club Play[55] 13
US Pop Songs[56] 14


Well ain't that a bitch.


Telephone
Australian Singles Chart[25] 3
Austrian Singles Chart[80] 3
Belgian Singles Chart (Flanders)[80] 1
Belgian Singles Chart (Wallonia)[80] 1
Brazilian Hot 100 Airplay[81] 85
Canadian Hot 100[29] 3
Czech Airplay Chart[82] 11
Danish Singles Chart[80] 1
Dutch Top 40[83] 6
European Hot 100 Singles[84] 1
Finnish Singles Chart[80] 7
French Singles Chart[85] 3
German Singles Chart[86] 3
Hungarian Singles Chart[30] 3
Irish Singles Chart[33] 1
Italian Singles Chart[80] 2
Japan Hot 100[87] 21
New Zealand Singles Chart[28] 3
Norwegian Singles Chart[80] 1
Polish Airplay Chart[88] 2
Slovak Airplay Chart[89] 6
Spanish Singles Chart[80] 8
Russian Singles Chart[90] 16
Swedish Singles Chart[80] 2
Swiss Singles Chart[80] 4
UK Singles Chart[31] 1
US Billboard Hot 100[22] 3
US Adult Contemporary[91] 28
US Hot Dance Club Songs[23] 1
US Mainstream Top 40[24] 1


In the words of one my personal heroes Proffesor Makael Of The University of Skorpion

"WHO MAD?!".


Is it any suprise that a tired, wailing expired piece of 90s nostalgia who's only released four albums in 10 years is mad that someone else has come along and achieved more respect and commercial success and done it all in two years. I hate to sound like a ball scratching, beer guzzling chauvenist or anything but the best place for SOME women to be is bare footed and in the kitchen and NOT in the studio recording music that nobody cares about.


That is all.

PS
Although I am aware that there is less life in Christina's fan base than there is in the vagina of a 82 year old nun, I still feel it is important that I do commend Christina's publicists for their swift response to the controversy surrounding the comments made by Christina, let's see how quick they get to work when Christina's album charts so low that even Gary Coleman looks down on them.

Crack because of the Crack

No. You are not watching a scene from a BET produced LifeTime Movie. This is a scene from A&E's Intervention. It's difficult to establish which part of it is more heartbreaking- the younger guy's squeal at "I LAV YEU" or the older guys wail. Scheisse! I haven't heard a grown man wail like that since Wyclef was possessed by the Holy Ghost Of D-lists past in the Haiti Relief Single. Scenes like this really tug at my metaphorical heartstrings, so here is a cover of song which could reduce anyone to crying like a Justin Bieber disciple who just found out how puberty works.