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| Nytimes |
 Christina Aguilera has a formidable voice and million-selling albums. She has looks and fame. She has a husband and a son. She has a catalog full of songs she wrote, many of them about a woman’s self-determination, and she has her pick of producers and collaborators. Now, on her new album, “Bionic,” how has she decided to present herself? Mostly as a sexbot: a one-dimensional hot chick chanting come-ons to club beats. “Woohoo” leaves no doubt about what her “woohoo” is, while in the bilingual “Des Nudites,” which is sung like the Spanish word “desnúdate” (“get naked”), Ms. Aguilera promises, “I’m your supplier of lust, love and fire tonight.” For Ms. Aguilera, 29, it’s an artistic swerve, turning away from the soul-flavored songs on her two previous albums, “Stripped” and “Back to Basics,” to visit the electronic realm. But the choice makes her sound as peer-pressured as a pop singer can be. This is the way to ring tone sales and radio play, until the next sexbot struts off the assembly line. Instead of separating herself from the pop-R&B crowd with her bluesy voice and her tales of trauma and redemption, Ms. Aguilera plays catch-up. She goes breathy like Britney Spears; she bounces vocals against percussion like Beyoncé. In the S&M-style video clip for the album’s first single, “Not Myself Tonight,” she changes costumes as frantically as Lady Gaga. With producers including Polow Da Don, C. (Tricky) Stewart and John Hill & Switch — all current hit makers — the tracks dip into reggae, electro and disco revival. They’re snappy, gimmicky and professionally catchy; “Elastic Love,” written with M.I.A., has a low-fi core and lyrics that cleverly work office-supply metaphors. But the songs are built for narrower voices; they barely need Ms. Aguilera....full text |
| Allmusic |
| Five years in the making -- and for all the wrong reasons -- Lil Jon's Crunk Rock isn't the crunk-meets-rock collection originally promised. Instead, it's a scattershot set of tracks that just barely fit together, but take into consideration the label problems and legal issues the producer has faced since the album's conception, and it becomes a scruffy mess you just might cheer on. Come at it from the return-to-form sleaze angle, and you can mark the “so creamy” “Ms. Chocolate” with R. Kelly, and the ridiculously raw “Ride da D” with the Ying Yang Twins as winners, and maybe even “G Walk” which finds the previously presentable Soulja Boy spitting “I gave your girl a hug and she got wetter than a tub” over a hulking Shawty Redd beat. Look for a genre-mashing, very 2010 effort from slick ringleader Jon and there's the reggae-fied “On de Grind” with the Marley brothers, or the freaky robot-dance “Get in Get Out” with producer Laidback Luke at the controls. As far as Jon's own productions, “Killas” is the gorilla-grinding example of the album's original concept as Ice Cube, Game, and Elephant Man lock and load over lurching guitars. The unholy marriage of crunk and frat-electro is less successful but amusing as Jon loans his “Heeeeyyy!”'s and “Yeaaaaahhhhh!”'s to what are essentially LMFAO and 3OH!3 cuts. It's a shame that desirable, early promo singles like “Snap Yo Fingers” or “Act a Fool” didn't survive the bankruptcy hearings of Jon's previous label, but as far as album's rescued from lawyers go, Crunk Rock deserves a “Heeeyyy” and a couple “Yeaaahhhhh”'s to boot....full text |
| Rapreviews |
| Whaaaat?!?!? Lil Jon is back. After several false starts and a heap of record label drama, hip hop's grand ambassador of crunk returns with his oft-delayed "Crunk Rock". The album has been a work in progress, dating all the way back to 2005. Originally scheduled for release in 2006, one of the first promotional singles released was the successful "Snap Yo Fingers". By the time 2008 rolled around, there was still no album and TVT Records had filed for bankruptcy. Jon ended up signing with Universal Republic and once again rescheduling the street date. The date came and went but Lil Jon did manage to drop a couple of mixtapes in the interim, "Rockbox Vol 1" and "Vol 2", respectively. As the years went by, it appeared that Jon's vision for the album had changed as it was expected to be more eclectic now with pop elements along with house and R&B. The album's first official single, the Drumma Boy-produced "Ms. Chocolate" and the promotional "Outta Your Mind" were both released this past March and it seemed as if "Crunk Rock" was finally going to see the light of day. Yeaaaaaah! Following a short intro, "Crunk Rock" kicks off with "Throw It Up Part 2 (Remix)" which features Pastor Troy and Waka Flocka Flame, and the Soulja Boy-featuring "G Walk". These songs seem to fit right in along the lines of what I've come to expect from a Lil Jon album: deep bass, hand claps, lots of adlibs, etc. I was thrown for a bit of a loop on the Drumma Boy-produced "On De Grind". It features appearances from Stephen & Damian Marley and a toned-down (as toned-down as possible, rather) version of Lil Jon that dares to be...lyrical, as he raps: "Slumdog Millionaire, made it outta nothin' Through all the Temptation, came up David Ruffin [...] Super hard, Tony Stark, I got that iron on me Rastafari, don't make me sic the lion on em I got killers everywhere, it's the City of God Now ain't nobody seen shit, it's just a mirage Sunglasses at night, under the street lights I ain't missin' no meals, I gots to eat right I'm on hustle overdose, like that nigga from 'Crank' Ain't no Oscars, we ain't actors, nobody to thank Try to stay positive, and never give up Tryin to keep my head up, but I'm fed up If some bloodclot change don't come Then bloodclot pain gon' come" After a short interlude explaining what the lifestyle of "Crunk Rock" entails of, we finally get some rock to go with the crunk in the form of "Killas". The song features Game, Ice Cube, Elephant Man and the musical sounds of Whole Wheat Bread. "Outta Your Mind" features LMFAO (of "I'm In Miami Bitch" fame) on one of two appearances on the album, the other being on "Shots". Frequent Lil Jon collaborator (and perennial milkbox candidates) the Ying Yang Twins come through and do what it is they do the best, yelling obscenities at the ladies. In this case, it's "Ride Da Dick" and it probably won't be long before the song hits your local nightclub and radio station. It's raunchy as hell, but anything can be made radio friendly nowadays. Take a look at "Get Low". I suppose it's only right that the track ends with a clip of Chris Rock saying "skeet, skeet, skeet"....full text |
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