Here is another performance from Christina Aguilera set at the Justin Timberlake & Friends concert in Las Vegas. The singer did a rendition of ‘Not Myself Tonight’ from her widely ignored ‘Bionic’ album. Check it out below:
Although Aguilera sounded a lot better than her near horrendous performance of ‘Beautiful’, the damage that has been done to her voice over the years was most apparent. Her belting has become hoarse and rough, and is no longer as clear as it was only 3 years ago (see her ‘Back To Basics’ tour DVD).
After countless performances of screaming from her throat, Aguilera has almost completely lost her upper range. While all singers experience changes with age, the rapid decline of Aguilera’s voice is clearly not only attributable to time. It seems that the effects of bad technique have finally caught up with her.
By comparison, Beyonce’s voice is better than ever. Still, each singer is different and we do not know the other vocal issues with which Aguilera might be dealing. Could it be the nodules that have plagued her idol, Mariah Carey, for years? Or have her vocal chords, like her success on the charts, simply lost their steam?
the pic reinds me of Rihanna, same style i think.. lol
not that bad though… Yeah she did better yeah but its not that bad …
STFU U ARE THROWING TOO MUCH SHADE TO B TRUE..LEAVE CHRISTINA ALONE..SHE STILL SLAYS..AND EVERY ARTIST HAS A FLOP MOMENT..USHER..CIARA..UR FAV MARIAH..BRITNEY’S BLACKOUT..SO STFU..ARTISTS CONSTANTLY HAVE TO REINVENT THEMESELVES TO STAY RELEVANT WIT THE TIMES..UNFORTUNATELY DIS DIDN’T WORK OUT FOR HER..CHRISTINA STILL SOUNDS AMAZING..UR JUST JEALOUS BOUT HER VOCAS COMBARED TO MARIAH’S
NOT TO MENTION CHRIS BROWN!
oh! now she wants to promote!
too little too late & her voice is constantly being strained from screaming.
It’s not soooo awful. I love when she ‘screams’.
@Jermany
Breathe.
Anyways, she was good. And My friends and I always agree that if Christina had a different technique, she would be damn near untouchable. Its nothing wrong with making something wonderful, more wonderful.
Sidenote:The silver boots and belt is FIERCE in that picture. 🙂
Well at least if there has been damage done to her voice…she can still hit notes unlike a Ms Mimi that Trent stans for who sounds very good due to the backtracks that they have been able to provide her on live performances… cause she will NEVER sound like she used to… Ill be glad when he gives it up and understands that Mariah will never be Mariah again and move on to better singers and STOP HATING. bleh. Good Look Christina… I still have faith that you will churn out another good album after this one…
Lol. Say whatever you want but she is one of the greatest voices of our generation, other artists just playback their stuff but she is singing live and dance at the same moment, she works her ass of and I respect her. Whatever. Rihanna, Katy Perry and many more are no competition to Christina when it comes to vocals and looks. And every succesful artist knows lower albums sales than expected k? Look at Whitney, Mariah and even Madonna. Christina is a legend in music
Christina has one of the best voices int he industry.. And she hasn’t lost it at all!!! Are you deaf?? She can sing as good as she always had.
THANK YOU! I’ve been saying this since her debut, her techniques has caught up to her. The damage is done, but her mid belts are still quite husky.
shes done,,,,,all hail the QUEEN. Beyonce
Christina is a great singer, but she doesn’t have a beautiful voice. If that makes any sense at all. I always thought her singing was very rough around the edges. She just doesn’t have that beautiful tone like Mariah, Whitney, Celine, Toni B, Beyonce, Kelly Clarkson, Leona Lewis and others.
WOW you stay haitting on Christina she did a GREAT JOB! TRENT UR JUST HAITTING!
it’s laughable that muthafuckahs are typing “mariah will never be mariah” – let’s be clear; mariah IS mariah & there is only one mariah! case in point, many of christina’s attempts at vocal stunts were birthed through the vocal power that is mariah carey. you x-tina fans can say what you want, the truth is in album sales- not so ‘bionic’ are we boo?
screaming is not singing. no discussion. that’s the bottom line.
i don’t care who u are….. sing wrong ur voice will decline. ITS PR TO SAY MY VOICE DECLINED BECAUSE OF AGE ECT…. A DAMN LIE. Anyway xtina was much better than previous performances
The performance was Not that Bad but she really needs to stop screaming
Her dancers look So fat O_o
look at her singing “you lost me” live on one of those tonight shows..or listen to her singing “lift me up” on hope for haiti..she sounds amazing..she blew beyonce and mary j bulge..out da water..she don’t have anything to prove..her voice is amazing point blank..its just some song choices..and she just over sings..as all singers that can actually sing do..
BOTTOM LINE, HER VOICE IS AGING LIKE EVERYONE DOES AS YOU GET OLDER. YOU CAN MINIMIZE IT BY SINGING PROPERLY AND NOT F****** SMOKING, FOR EXAMPLE (HINT XTINA, WHITNEY, OR NOT DRINKING – HINT FAT-RIAH). HER VOICE IS LOWERED BY A HALF KEY OR SO NOW. MORE HOARSE THAN IT USED TO BE AND MORE STRAIN AT THE BELTS. AKEYS VOICE IS ALSO CHANGED THE SAME WAY. ONLY PERSON WHO’S VOICE HASNT CHANGED MUCH SINCE HER PRIME IS SHIRLEY BASSEY BUT SHE IS LIKE 1 IN A MILLION. NEXT.
Look at this perfromances, her voice is not going anywhere…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBRZegwVstY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDeaCDUXHcc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKOmoYFlBEk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXOt3pcGfzc
One more
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lzt-zXt_KjA&feature=related
One name comes to my mind who sounds good screaming and that is PATTI Labelle!.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yyYdpvGqVBo&feature=related
She sounds perfect better than mariah carey these days
I’m speechless after reading what you said…Christina is actually one of the most beautiful and touching voices in business, there’s no need to make comparisons in every single post!this blog is really starting to bore me!!keep on listening to talentless artists dear Trent and leave this amazing singer alone!
i think her voice sounds better now than back to basics , her belting seems alot higher n she can sustain the notes , it sounds more like singing than screaming now
Sh sounds good but definely not like the best performer of this generation.Forget Beyonce & MC,music is about passion!
I feel like she is not having fun at all; instead she is trying to prove that she can outsing anybody.Have fun xtina,just have fun !
Her performance of Beautiful was HARDLY horrendous. What were you smoking?
Maybe you should advise Mariah to learn to sing live before you criticize other singers. Christina has not lipsynched once, her voice wasn’t as good as before but so what? She’s still one of the best LIVE vocalists in today’s generation. needless to say, Mariah does NOT belong to that list because she lipsynchs.
STOP MAKING EXUCSES FOR MARIAH CAREY. That’s not an excuse for lipsynching
“Christina has not lipsynched once”
Lies all lies. Christina definitely lipsynches. She may not have done it lately but she has her share of performances when she obviously mimed and lipped high notes.
TRENT STFU, DID YOU NOT HEAR HER “YOU LOST ME” OR “LIFT ME UP” PERFORMANCES ONLY MONTHS AGO? SHE WAS AS GREAT AS EVER…
SHE’S GOING THROUGH A ROUGH TIME SO OFCOURSE THAT’S GONNA HAVE AN AFFECT ON HER, EVERYBODY HAS PERFORMANCES THAT ARN’T UP TO THEIR USUAL STANDARDS.
XTINA DEFINATELY STILL HAS IT BUT I DO AGREE THAT SHE NEEDS TO GET VOCAL LESSONS BECAUSE ONCE SHE HAS THAT TEQNIQUE SHE WILL BE EVEN MORE OF A BEAST AND ALL BEYONCE COMPARISONS (DUE TO HER VOCAL CONTROL) WILL BE DONE FOR FOREVER AND AND A DAY.
P.S TRENT DO YOU HAVE TO BRING MARIAH UP IN EVERY POST? WHAT’S NEXT “JANELLE MONAE WHO WAS ONCE WALKING THROUGH A MALL AND HEARD THE LEGENDARY MARIAH CAREY PLAYING ON THE RADIO IS RELEASING HER 2ND AMAZING YET UNDERRATED ALBUM?” LOL GET A GRIP… AND THAT’S FROM A MARIAH FAN.
People why are you bringing up MARIAH. When she’s on and she performs live she is incredible. Mariahs sanging isn’t forced. I like Xtina but don’t be mad at Mariah because of what Xtina is dealing with now. Mariah is Mariah and she’s the only Mariah period. Ya’ll are bringing her up, not anyone else. Xtina’s voice is amazing, not much has changed about it. Bur Mariah is amazing. She has nothing to do with anything.
The funny thing I think she sounds great. I usally agree with TGJ but on Christina they always get it wrong other performances she did of this song not too long ago have been great her voice hasn’t gone anywhere. Besides no one can ever be 100 all the time. P.S. she nailed that high note towards the end.
Terrible, just terrible. She was so flat trying to sing ‘yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah’ at the end. Smh. You guys make so many excuses for this woman that it’s ridiculous. So what if she’s going through something right now, that doesn’t have an affect on someone’s voice unless they are actually emotional on the stage. Age? Well why are Aretha, Gladys, Patti, etc still slaying with their voices and they’re in their sixties? What’s the excuse from earlier in the year when she was sounding worse than this? Better yet, her entire career when she performs strained and pitchy like she was here? Age has nothing to do with her having a terrible style of singing.! Years of screaming and straining are the REAL reasons of her bad performances, not age or emotional stress. Please, people.
Firce as always!!! She is a SUPERSTAR with a SUPER VOICE!!! Haters f*** you all!! You wish to be xtina. Her talent, her fame, her $$$$$$$$$$ millions, and her incredeble voice. But not in this life .. Now you can died buch of losers:(
Tem weezwe … Xtina is the best!!! It doesn’t matter what a nasty s*** you says about her.. She is a super woman with an incredeble voice!!!! 46.000.000 albums sold!! 3sold out world tours 45.000.000)(115.000.000)(98.000.000) so who is who in music bizz???
i thinks she sounds great i think she is just going to get better . i think the reason y pepel thinks she has lost her voice is be coz she hasent done much in 5 years and its not trant as much as it was. but in one year now her voice will be trant up agen
omg why xtina why smdh i agree with the one who said xtina is a great singer but she don’t have that tone that mariah and beyonce have i still love her voice but latley………………god help us
Beyonce never had a voice to lose.
She’s a performer, NOT singer. So where’s the logic?
Christina’s voice is deteriorating just like Mariah’s and Whitney’s did.
@Antom
Is English your first language? Clearly, it isn’t, being that your comment is FULL of inaccurate spelling and grammar. And what does her sales have to do with anything I said? There’s no doubt that she’s successful, however, her voice has become increasingly terrible over the years. Try again.
that grape juice u are truly acting stupid…u know damn well christina has not lost her voice…. hello did u not catch that last like 30 seconds of the performance….while her recent peformances have been ok (given her recent divorce) she has still had some amazing moments like the AmIdol finale when she sang You Lost Me….PLEASE!!! u don’t count someone like Xtina out…not with that voice….
Trent must be sucked a lot of c*** before write these horrible comment about XTINA. The performance was much better than Mariah’s and her stupid xtimas album.
her voice has not deteriorated at all it still sounds fantastic in fact i love the new techniques she uses oh and she had no problems hitting any of the notes. the difference in tonality is actually perfect for a song like beautiful and it was incredible and actually one of my favourite performances shes ever given that song. also her sales have not been that bad they’ve actually been quite good compared to most artists in the business it may not be as successful as her past releases but that doesn’t make it a flop. to be honest though i can’t really expect you or any of your pathetic followers to actually be able to accept truth or even actually pay attention to what others say seeing as your nothing put a moronic little blogger who has very little actual knowledge of anything really the only people who actually value your opinion are people who are exactly the same as you idiots who will do anything to get attention and hide behind the mask of the internet so you can have your own little tantrums about people you don’t even know because no one i the real world genuinely likes you in fact they probably can’t stand to be around you and this is the only way you can get anyone to pay any attention to you because thats all you are an attention seeker you disgust me k thanks bye
She sounds pretty good to me, she has always had that grit to her voice. It’s powerful, but it still has some what of a rawness to it. She sounded good to me. You made it seem like she was just terrible all over. Her high notes were not course and rough. She showcased power and range.
You’re being a little over the top with this.
Rapid Decline ? Lost all of her range in her upper register ? Lol really ? Then how exactly is she able to still hit high notes. Stop the foolishness.
Straintina.
Am so sick of people slagging this woman off, this is the way she sings if you dont like her or her voice thats fine just dont watch her. The comments that are on this site about her are very nasty and spiteful and she doesnt deserve all that. Anyway she probably doesnt really care, whos actually the loser you people slagging her off or her?? Shes made millions, and has had lots of success , what have you people actually done?? nothing compared to her. Trent you sound like a very bitchy teenager girl, get a life she sounds great and theres nothing wrong with her voice. Its live so obviously shes not gonna sound perfect, instead of bitching about someone who is very talented and has a great voice why dont you look and pick on all the “artists” who cant sing or lip sync like Katy Perry, Rihanna, Ke$ha, Gaga, and Cheryl Cole. You need to stop trying to be like Perez Hilton and be yourself, you never used to slag her off, all of a sudden since Perez started you just copied, your such a f****** puppet have your own mind.
“The singer did a rendition of ‘Not Myself Tonight’ from her widely ignored ‘Bionic’ album.”
Thanks for reminding us for the 1,000th time that Bionic flopped, because it’s not like we already knew that.
“Could it be the nodules that have plagued her idol, Mariah Carey, for years? Or have her vocal chords, like her success on the charts, simply lost their steam?”
Right, cause we all know that when you flop commercially, your talent suddenly goes down the drain, too. Even though you do have a point about her bad techniques catching up with her, your constant shade-throwing regarding her flop is beyond tired. It’s like you forget that Mariah had her flop period, too. I’m pretty sure you didn’t like it when everyone was writing her off because of a couple of failed albums. Yet here you are doing the same thing to Christina. Sometimes I just can’t with your pathetic asses.
@TEAM WEEZY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmUzh2wKZMs
OH YEAH HER VOICE IS GONE RIGHT? LOL SOUNDS BEAUTIFUL TO ME…
seriously your girl kelly wishes she could sing this “bad” on her best day
this blog used to be entertaining and sharp tongued and opinionated but has become an obsessive outlet for trent’s loathing of christina and rihanna. its embarrassing for this blog to see what it once was
lmfao. beyonce never has and never will be labelled the voice of her generation. you’re so pressed. are you still mad about jhud COMPLETELY OUTHSINING beyonce?
nobody, besides her hardcore stans, cares about beyonce’s voice.
seriously. even leona lewis overtook beyonce in the vocal stakes, with like..one song.
I think what people tend to forget tho at Mariahs worst each of her albums have all went gold or platinum, which is really not a flop, just not what you would expect from her. But a gold album from 07 on down isn’t to shabby.
Let alone the fact that her E=M2 album moved almost 1.5 miilion units, and spawned a smash hit #1 single with Touch My Body’. Thats pretty good for what it was. She also had her highest first week numbers that week when this album was released.