Junio es el mes previsto para la salida del nuevo trabajo de Christina Aguilera.Cuatro años después de Stripped y tras un año y medio de grabaciones, el nuevo disco de Christina Aguilera está por fin listo para su edición. El disco llevará por título Back to basics, que podría traducirse como “de vuelta a las raíces”. Y algo parece haber de ello en este trabajo, en el que la artista dice haber volcado las influencias de la música que lleva escuchando desde su infancia.
El jazz, the soul, el pop de los 40, 50 and 60 y artistas como The Beatles, Billie Holiday, Otis Redding o las Andrews Sisters. Todo ello podrá rastrearse en los cortes de Back to basics, aunque adaptado a los nuevos tiempos y, como la propia Christina ha declarado a Rolling Stone, “connected to something people can dance at clubs”.“There are many things that do not resemble anything that people have heard before me”, warns the star on his next album. And it looks like it actually going to be like. In the interview published rollingstone.com talking about a song in the style of Eleanor Rugby The Beatles, a song called Candy man style inspired by the vocal group the years 40 The Andrews Sisters and a cut that recalls, according to the own Christina, a “cabaret of the '20s”. Also mentioned previously announced song Save me from myself, devoted to her husband Jordan Bratman.The author of Dirrrty has compared the process of making his new job with “be pregnant during 18 months”, but labor is now closer and Back to basics, that might be edited as a double CD, arrive in June. The final launch date has not been set.
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DJ Premier was surprised when he received a call last spring. Age of RCA Records, Christina Aguilera saying he wanted as producer. “It was a shock because I wondered, Aguilera knew where my work” Premier says. “I'm one of those guys who do not expect pop artists want to work with me. My first question was, 'How does she know about me”.Aguilera wanted to recreate and pay tribute to the music that inspires: soul, jazz and blues in the years 1920, 30 and 40's. She heard DJ Premier's work in the late 80's because of his work with Gang Starr on the song “Jazz Thing” “It has elements of Miles Davis and Billie Holiday” Aguilera says about rhythm. “The way he combined all of that, I said humm, I bet he knows where I'm trying to go with this album., I wasn't sure if he wanted to work with me because it would be his first time in the pop world., I knew it would be something new and different for him.”.DJ Premier has produced 5 songs for “Back to Basics” Aguilera's new album that is scheduled to go on sale in June. This strange mix between DJ Premier and Aguilera is the recent association of a rap producer and a pop artist. Aguilera says that her work with DJ Premier is new territory for both of them and continues her habit of taking creative risks with her music as in the song “Ain’t No Other Man” produced by DJ Premier and Charles Roane, the theme marks 127 strokes per minute, Most pop and rap songs rarely exceed the 100. another song is “Thank You (Dedicated to the fans) where DJ Premier took vocal cues from Christina's debut single “Genie in a bottle” mixing them with messages from fans left on his recorder.These songs reflect the sound that Aguilera wanted to take. “What I try to do with each album, It is not necessarily to go towards the majority of people and make myself number 1 on the charts… I really want to go somewhere different, think outside the box and go with someone perhaps darker, what I respect. I'm not saying that Premier is that, but he's not the obvious person everyone is going to ask to produce them like The Neptunes, Pharrel o Lil Jon. I really want to go with someone different, someone that others have not taken advantage of”.
“The industry has turned its back on me, That's why working with Aguilera is a blessing for me., because she is making it emerge” he says “It's like, many forgot about me, but I still have the funk, I am very happy that she gave me the opportunity to connect with her and do something different.. she told me: Know, when this album comes out, Your whole life is going to change and I told him, yours too and he answered me, I know.”
Source: Billboard Magazine