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She sang, "Come on over," and we did...but she wasn't there. Where the hell is Christina Aguilera? She wowed everyone with "Genie in a Bottle", remembered she was Latin for her second album, and made herself look like a Misfit from Jem and the Holograms for the "Moulin Rouge" video. Then she disappeared.
She had plenty of reasons to lay low in what turned out to be the Year of Britney. Miss Spears was everywhere. Did Christina go into hiding to plan a pop counterattack? What will we see when she returns to the music scene? In the world of pop, it's crucial to constantly offer a new theme, a new look, and a new attitude. *NSync came back as bad boys with their new sound called "dirty pop." Britney came back with more mature tracks about becoming a woman. What will Christina's new theme be? Let's see if we can guess. The last we saw of her was at the Olympics, where she sang a song called "Infatuation." She was wearing all black and looked a little Selena-esque, so she could be trying to do the whole Latin thing, but this time, turbo-charged... However, word on the pop music street is that she got her nose pierced and a barbell under her lip. She said in an interview in Allure that she's got eleven piercings total! And MTV reported that Christina said, "There's a lot of aggression in me that has to come out in a not very precise or articulate way." So perhaps Christina's going punk? Or maybe she'll combine the two and become the first ever pop-Latina-punk to hit the airwaves, a cross between Gwen Stefani and Selena.
This is just a hunch, but I have a feeling that she's gonna be leaving the big hair behind and getting a little rougher. Thanks to Pink, all the princesses of pop want to break off their Barbies' heads and sing songs about how hard it is to be pretty all the time. Christina reportedly heard the Pink album, loved it and called up producer Linda Perry of 4 Non Blondes fame to ask for help with her new album. With tentative track names like "Can't Hold Us Down," "Oh Bondage Up Yours!," and "Don't Make Me Over," Christina's new songs don't sound like anything we'd ever hear on the Mulan soundtrack. We look forward to her comeback, and her new album, expected sometime this fall. That should give Christina enough time to figure out what a girl wants and what a girl needs to reinvent herself in this competitive world of pop.
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