Christina Aguilera Back To Basics Cd Views

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Back to Basics is the fifth studio album by American recording artist Christina Aguilera, first released on August 10, 2006 by RCA Records. The album features what Aguilera describes as a throwback to the 20s, 30s, and 40s-style jazz, blues, and feel-good soul music, but with a modern twist. [2] The album has yielded three commercial singles: Ain't No Other Man , Hurt and Candyman . Slow Down Baby was used as a promotional single to promote her tour in Australia and Oh Mother was released as the album's fourth single in some parts of Europe. The album made Aguilera's second U.S. non-consecutive number-one album. The album received a nomination for Best Pop Vocal Album at the Grammy Awards and won Best Female Pop Vocal Performance for Ain't No Other Man . It was her first album to reach number one album in the United States after 1999's Christina Aguilera , selling 346,000 copies in the U.S. and 615,000 copies worldwide in the first week.

The first half of the album is kind of a throwback with elements of jazz, blues and soul music combined with a modern-day twist, like hard-hitting beats. And for the second disc, we [Aguilera and Perry] creatively went into our own zone and our own world together. There are no cover songs, so we made more of a '20s, '30s vibe with an authentic and organic twist. There are no samples — it's all live music. One of the songs sounds like you entered a 1920s burlesque club, another song sounds like it was actually recorded in the 1920s, using a vintage microphone, so it's exciting stuff. —Christina Aguilera, MTV[4]

When Aguilera started working on Back to Basics, she was not just inspired by the sounds of the 1920s, '30s and '40s, but the look of those eras as well.[16] When she began shooting for the artwork of the album, she cited Bette Davis, Marlene Dietrich, Marilyn Monroe, Carole Lombard, Judy Garland, Greta Garbo, Veronica Lake, among others as her inspirations.[16]

Aguilera started promotion of Back To Basics on June 3, 2006, when she performed the album's lead single Ain't No Other Man at the 2006 MTV Movie Awards in Los Angeles. On June 15, 2006 she visited Total Request Live and showed a preview of the video for her first single.[17] Six days later she attended the TV show again and premiered the whole clip.[18]