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06-06-2006

Christina Aguilera Doubles Up On New Album

Christina Aguilera’s upcoming album, “Back to Basics,” has grown into a double-disc affair, according to her spokesperson. The project will arrive Aug. 15 via RCA and is led by the single “Ain’t No Other Man,” which can be purchased via Apple’s iTunes Music Store. Aguilera debuted the cut over the weekend at the MTV Movie Awards.

As previously reported, the set find Aguilera paying tribute to soul, jazz and blues from the 1920s, ’30s and ’40s with assistance from producers DJ Premier and Linda Perry. “They’re going to see a whole other side of Christina,” Perry previously told Billboard.com of her contributions, which rely exclusively on live instrumentation.

I really like to go left field, think a little bit out of the box and go with someone, maybe a little bit more obscure, that I really respect,” Aguilera told Billboard earlier this year of her decision to work with DJ Premier. “Not to say that Premier is that, but just to say that I’m not going to go to the obvious person, say, the Neptunes, Pharrell or Lil Jon. I really like to go someplace different that people haven’t approached.”

Other tracks set “Back to Basics” include “Save My From Myself” (dedicated to Aguilera’s new husband, Jordan Bratman), “Candy Man,” “I Got Trouble,” “Thank You” (which features bits of prior Aguilera hit “Genie a Bottle“) and “Still Dirrty,” described by RCA as a “sassy club track.

“The first half is based upon working with more beat-driven producers and will use samples and things like that, and then the second disc is all me and Linda Perry,”

“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 the second disc?: “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.”

“I definitely take my time, so I do come with a lot more to say about what’s going on in my life so it’s meaningful to me and to my fans. I always try to come back with something new and try to evolve as an artist and as a visionary. I can’t wait to see the reaction.”

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