Post by mcbutterfly on Oct 8, 2007 18:06:23 GMT 8
Is Christina the new Madonna? There's some striking parallels to be drawn between the careers of some of America's greatest pop stars - Brit and Whit were the squeaky clean embodiment of the American dream which turned sour, while Madonna and Christina were raunchy rebels who became business savvy and settled down.
Whitney Houston was once a gospel singing, goody two shoes sort of gal. Her songs were all about love, and so big and emoted you could hardly fit them on your record player. She said if her children grew up to be like Madonna, she'd kill them. Then she rebelled, got hitched to Bobby Brown and it all went very wrong.
She looked skeletal at a Michael Jackson Tribute concert at Madison Square Garden and she'd lost that surprised look at the sheer volume of the voice coming out of her. She said 'crack is whack' and that she made too much money to do crack, though photos released by a 'concerned' relative appeared to show that she lived in a crack den. She's since ditched Bobby, completed rehab for the second time of asking, and is said to be planning a comeback.
Madonna seemed to be a Catholic girl gone way bad. She'd posed nude; eaten out of garbage cans and slept in squats. She rolled around the stage at the MTV awards wearing a wedding dress, showing her pants and writhed around on a gondola in Venice for 'Like a Virgin'. Her songs were all about love but in a racy way.
Then she took an interest in the business side. She ditched disco and released songs about sex, and empowering yourself, the Iraq war, and inner happiness. She married, and has a country house, where she dresses in tweeds to shoot clay pigeons and rides horses. She now dresses very demurely. She doesn't allow her kids to watch television. And when the authorities came to check up on David Banda's new home, she apparently came out of the kitchen in an apron.
Britney Spears was once a goody two shoes, gal from Louisiana. She wanted to wait for 'the one'. She was an all singing, all dancing, all smiling cutie pie. She seemed to be managed like a commodity, and had a mother who, er, strongly encouraged her. The she rebelled, like Whitney.
She started with a two day marriage in Vegas. Then she got married properly (to one of her dancers) and had two babies. It didn't go well. Then she ditched K-Fed, fell out with her mother, parted company with the suits, and devoted her energies to partying, encouraging rumours of drugs, full-time nudity and 'romps'. She's been bald, blonde and brunette, and still cheerfully lets it all hang out, dress-wise. At her big comeback performance, she gave the impression that it was fun, but impinging on her valuable partying time.
Christina Aguilera had a difficult upbringing, and, like Madonna showed steel-tipped tenacity in getting a deal and a break. She was a cutie pie, but she quickly reinvented herself. She gave herself the name Xtina, writhed around in leather chaps and red pants in the 'Dirrty' video, looking frighteningly in touch with her sexuality.
Then she took an interest in the business side of things; she took 'creative control' of her career. She started devoting her enormous 18 octave voice to songs about sex, empowering yourself, being independent, and feeling beautiful; know-all songs with a 'message'. She dated music industry boy Jordan Bateman for three years, then married him. She's started dressing demurely. And a sensible two years into her happily married life, she's apparently pregnant.
Source: The Observer
Whitney Houston was once a gospel singing, goody two shoes sort of gal. Her songs were all about love, and so big and emoted you could hardly fit them on your record player. She said if her children grew up to be like Madonna, she'd kill them. Then she rebelled, got hitched to Bobby Brown and it all went very wrong.
She looked skeletal at a Michael Jackson Tribute concert at Madison Square Garden and she'd lost that surprised look at the sheer volume of the voice coming out of her. She said 'crack is whack' and that she made too much money to do crack, though photos released by a 'concerned' relative appeared to show that she lived in a crack den. She's since ditched Bobby, completed rehab for the second time of asking, and is said to be planning a comeback.
Madonna seemed to be a Catholic girl gone way bad. She'd posed nude; eaten out of garbage cans and slept in squats. She rolled around the stage at the MTV awards wearing a wedding dress, showing her pants and writhed around on a gondola in Venice for 'Like a Virgin'. Her songs were all about love but in a racy way.
Then she took an interest in the business side. She ditched disco and released songs about sex, and empowering yourself, the Iraq war, and inner happiness. She married, and has a country house, where she dresses in tweeds to shoot clay pigeons and rides horses. She now dresses very demurely. She doesn't allow her kids to watch television. And when the authorities came to check up on David Banda's new home, she apparently came out of the kitchen in an apron.
Britney Spears was once a goody two shoes, gal from Louisiana. She wanted to wait for 'the one'. She was an all singing, all dancing, all smiling cutie pie. She seemed to be managed like a commodity, and had a mother who, er, strongly encouraged her. The she rebelled, like Whitney.
She started with a two day marriage in Vegas. Then she got married properly (to one of her dancers) and had two babies. It didn't go well. Then she ditched K-Fed, fell out with her mother, parted company with the suits, and devoted her energies to partying, encouraging rumours of drugs, full-time nudity and 'romps'. She's been bald, blonde and brunette, and still cheerfully lets it all hang out, dress-wise. At her big comeback performance, she gave the impression that it was fun, but impinging on her valuable partying time.
Christina Aguilera had a difficult upbringing, and, like Madonna showed steel-tipped tenacity in getting a deal and a break. She was a cutie pie, but she quickly reinvented herself. She gave herself the name Xtina, writhed around in leather chaps and red pants in the 'Dirrty' video, looking frighteningly in touch with her sexuality.
Then she took an interest in the business side of things; she took 'creative control' of her career. She started devoting her enormous 18 octave voice to songs about sex, empowering yourself, being independent, and feeling beautiful; know-all songs with a 'message'. She dated music industry boy Jordan Bateman for three years, then married him. She's started dressing demurely. And a sensible two years into her happily married life, she's apparently pregnant.
Source: The Observer
