Even though it was sold as an “endurance test” and I’m an out-and-proud musical masochist, I’m still not quite sure how I made it through this masterfully edited four minute video of melismatic showboating stitched together from a recent VH1 concert starting queen ululator Christina Aguilera. Laid end to end without a song or a groove to guide them, Xtina’s endless, painful, kitten-in-heat vocal runs go beyond amusing Internet novetly and into the realm of, like, some kinda avant-garde sound poetry. [FourFour]
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I kind of love it. I’m as skeptical as anyone about Aguilera, though I love “Ain’t No Other Man” (brass on brass), but this convinces me she’s very good Broadway and to lay back and enjoy it.
I made it!
Yamataka Eye vs. Christina Aguilera - let’s make it happen.
1:42…for some reason my chest hurts.
I made it. I just did other things while Christina mangled “Nearer to You” live.
i made it all the way through. maybe context is the key. this clip was annoying, but every time (EVERY.TIME.)i hear her hit that first note in “ain’t no other man”, i get chills.
Out of context, it’s not so much irritating and more just a boring but impressive series of technical exercises. Kind of like watching someone do an insane number of one-handed pushups, but in this case while wearing a succession of ridiculous costumes. (The red-sequined collared shirt was very Mrs.-Claus-on-a-day-pass.)