In 2009, a working title that was announced for the fourth album was Light & Darkness, and it was also rumoured the album should be out that same year. Unfortunately, there was no confirmation regarding Light & Darkness nor the release date, and even worse, there was no hype or news about Christina's fourth album.
Then, this year began, and Christina had given the title of the album during a New Year's celebration interview. It was entitled Bionic, and I was blown away by the title itself. It was slated for a March release, but shortly after, it was re-announced that the album would have an April release. If I remember correctly, it was also announced that Glam would be the title of the lead single.
A few weeks ago, Xtina-Web.com's Twitter account posted a message that the Christina Aguilera website has been revamped. My jaw dropped and I quickly went in to find out that there was a countdown timer and that "BIG NEWS" was going to be released.
It so happens that the news was slated to be released in noon based on the EDT time zone, which so happens to be 12 midnight in Singapore's time zone. So, for two consecutive school nights, I stayed up just to see what news was going to be released.
The first news came out last week, giving the lead single title, Not Myself Tonight (not "Glam"), and the album artwork. I liked it was very very very very anxious to find out more! =DThe second news posted was the full lyrics, and I read it and was super-surprised to find out it included the line, "and if you don't like it, fuck you", because it was only two days before that I shouted out those last two words in class and was heard by my teacher, very unluckily. Hahha! Co-incidence or fan-fate?
Few days later, the site was edited again with a new countdown timer announcing the premiere of Not Myself Tonight, and I was going to die of a heart attack, though I had hoped they would've released the song to the Internet on the second day of news.
Anyway, an 18-second snippet was released a few days before the actual complete track. I wasn't overwhelmed by it, but I loved the line, "cause I'm doing things that I normally won't do-o-o-o-o-o".
Meanwhile, Bionic has been announced to release on June 8, 2010. It's exactly 70 days from now, and I am looking forward to that date! =D
Today, on March 31, 2010, 6am of Singapore (which is March 30, 2010, 6pm in New York), the song was finally released in complete track! I wanted to wake up very early in the morning and turn on my computer just to access Christina Aguilera.com just to listen to the track, but I didn't in the end.
In school, my friend Fiona told me that the song title was a trending topic last night on Twitter. Is it true? Does it mean that Christina's still hot? I'm not underestimating her and her international fanbase, but because I am a Mariah Carey fan (whose name did not enter the trending topics during her birthday a few days ago), I'm a little unconfident about whether my favourite artists are still popular amongst people my age.
My other friend, Rita, used her cellphone to access the Internet and found a Youtube video with that song for me to listen to it! Yahoo! And now, I've come back home, and I finally listened to it very properly!
Firstly, I must admit that this song did not meet my absolutely high expectations. However, the same thing happened with Mariah's Obsessed last year. The first times I heard it, I wasn't 101% satisfied.However, that is because I am a big fan of theirs and I know their songs very well. I can name a whole list of favourite Christina songs that I've listened to hundreds of times each, so I'm very sure Not Myself Tonight will become one of my favourite songs of this year.
After all, Obsessed later became my most-played 2009-released song of last year, so I just have to get used to the song thanks to my overly high expectations of this incredible artist.
I see similarities of this song with Madonna's Sorry, because there's an interlude in the beginning of the song with spoken words. I also find the exhalation sound at the end of the song similar to the exhalation sound effects in Madonna and Britney Spears' Me Against The Music (also found at the end).
What parts of the song do I like? The messages and lyrics of the song!
"I'm out of character, I'm in rare form, and if you really knew me, you know it's not the norm."
Recently I've been feeling quite out of character compared to my behaviour in the past few years.
"Cause I'm doing things that I normally won't do-oo-oo-oo-oo-oo. The old me's gone. I feel brand new, and if you don't like it, fuck you."
So far the line I can sing along to the best (because it was in that 18 second snippet), and the line with the best melody.
"Not tonigh-gh-gh-gh-gh-gh-gh-gh-gh-gh-gh-ght!"
Cool effects! But it'll be strange when she performs the song live and belts that note out for real without any computerized effect.
There's a instrumental only part after 2:15 which I really like a lot. It sounds very Eurodance.
I am a little confused though. I read that Christina's gonna tone it down for this fourth album and not do so much of what has been classified as oversinging. I thought she would belt less, but she still belts a lot in this song, which is actually what I want, because it won't be easy for me to get used to a Christina song without belting, such as Save Me From Myself, which I did not like the first time I heard.
I've been listening to this song consecutively for a really long time, it's definitely going to be my most-played song of the week, and probably next week as well.
Meanwhile, I hope that when this song releases, it will enter the Billboard Hot 100's Top 5, because it's been eight years since Christina's had a Top 5 hit (the last being Beautiful in 2002, which peaked at #2). Two years ago, Keeps Gettin' Better debuted at #7, which was great.
This year will be a Christina-dominating year for me!
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