Sorry for the infrequent updates the last few days... end of the month is crazy... it's now April so we'll be revealing our all new DIVA and DIVO of the month soon! Any one have a guess??
This weekend Jade and I checked out the Christina Aguilera "Back to Basics" tour on its Boston stop. I'm not a huge personal fan of Christina, but I have to admit that the girl can outsing most other artists out there right now! She's certainly a DIVA, too... I have it on good authority from someone in her inner circle that she's seriously on the "demanding bitch" side.
But hey, the girl delivers, that's for sure. She opened the show with "Ain't No Other Man," closed with "Fighter" (which was a really odd choice, if you ask me) and filled the in-between time with a good number of tracks from her current "Back to Basics" album.
Here's a YouTube clip of the opening number that night:
Best performance of the night? Maybe I'm a little blinded by the visuals, but it was probably Christina in a catsuit, whipping and teasing a lucky audience member who was dragged onstage for "Nasty Naughty Boy," a burlesque number off the new album. I wouldn't have minded being the strapped down "victim" for that flaying ;) (Yeah, Miss Aguilera is looking mighty fit lately!)
She did touch on most of her "old" hits, working a latin version of "Come on Over (All I Want is You)" and a reggae-ish "What a Girl Wants" into things. She also did a fantastic, simple version of "Beautiful" as her first encore, which was much appreciated. I do think she's an awesome singer, but she sometimes overdoes the vocal gymnastics. I think she still thinks it's 1999 and she has to convince all of us that she's more talented than Britney, damn it! Eaaasy, Christina: we get it, we get it!
One of the highlights of the night was definitely one of her most club-friendly tracks: Dirrty. And even better, she performed "Still Dirrty" (from the new CD, a retort to media reports that she's "cleaned up her act") by putting those classic chaps back on that she made famous a couple years back.
The Pussycat Dolls opened for her, and they were surprisingly entertaining. Again, maybe I was just blinded by the skin quotient ;) But any girl who can do backflips in heels is alright by me. For their big closer, "Don't Cha" they wrapped things up with the Ralphi Rosario remix version, which was a nice salute to their club fans.
Overall, a great show and a vast improvement over Justin Timberlake's last weekend. Although I have to say... when their forces combined back in 2003 for that Justified and Stripped Tour... damn, that was amazing!
Ah, memories... sniffle ;)
Alright guys, that's my check-in for now. Talk to you all tomorrow!
Later,
JOHNNY
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