My Kind of Christmas

Performer: Christina Aguilera
Artist: Billy Preston; Pete Christlieb
Distributor: BMG Special Products

Notes: This is an Enhanced audio CD which contains regular audio tracks and multimedia computer files. Personnel includes: Christina Aguilera (vocals); John Goux, Ashley Ingram (guitar); Pete Cristlieb, Gene Cipriano, Larry Williams, Sal Lozano (saxophone); Wayne Bergeron (trumpet); Billy Preston (piano, organ); Robbie Buchanan (piano, programming); Dr. John (Mac Rebennack) (piano); The Matrix (keyboards, bass, programming); E. Dawk (keyboards, background vocals); BabyBoy, Alex Alessandroni (keyboards); Chuck Berghofer (bass); Harold Jones, Vinnie Colaiuta (drums); Sol Survivor (percussion, programming); Luis Conte (percussion); Barry Harris, Chris Cox (programming); Kim Johnson, Toya Smith, Sue Ann Carwell, The L.A. Mass Choir, The Celebrity Voices Choir (background vocals). Producers include: Thunderpuss, Ron Fair, Robbie Buchanan, The Matrix. Engineers include: Michael C. Ross, Ron Fair, Sol Survivor. This is an Enhanced CD, which contains both regular audio tracks and multimedia computer files. There's a lot to be said for the pop Christmas album as cultural artifact. Ever since the days of the crooners, the intersection between pop song and yuletide fare has been the point where art, commerce, and ritual meet. The bigger the pop icon, the more this holds true, so its no surprise that teen-pop mega-sensation Christina Aguilera's MY KIND OF CHRISTMAS proves to be a solid addition to the holiday album tradition. She tackles a mixture of the expected Christmas material ("Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas," "Angels We Have Heard on High") and more contemporary material, including a song penned by pop wizard Dianne Warren ("These Are Special Times"). The production approach is a similar mix of convention and modernism, but the unifying thread is the consistently unerring vocal performances this seemingly infallible teen diva delivers throughout.

Britney Spears proved that the same goldmine that Madonna and Cyndi Lauper mined in the 1980s was again ripe for the picking, and she was immediately followed up the charts by another female teenybop sensation, Christina Aguilera. Closely aligned with Spears's style early on, Aguilera hit the charts in a major way in the late '90s. However, by the dawn of the new millennium, Aguilera had transformed herself from a bubblegum sensation to a raw and raunchy vamp (STRIPPED), and then to a mature, platinum blonde pseudo-traditionalist (BACK TO BASICS), positioning herself as a risk-taker with little connection to her Mousketeer past.

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