When two powerful women in today’s commercial music like Christina Aguilera and Rihanna release records at the same time, it’s impossible not to make a comparison. Pounds of vocal quality against electronic singles and explicit lyrics, but which album sounds better?
“Music is not played” says Alejandro Sanz on his new album, but if we could feel a little more about the new albums by Rihanna and Christina Aguilera, we could say that the two divas have used different textures to return to the music market. Rihanna is made of a more resistant material than diamond, although we already know that it shines more than it, yes: it can end up scratching. Christina is softer, not only in her body but also in her songs, and she has a rounder album, although much less risky.
‘Unapologetic’ is the seventh album in the career of this 25-year-old from Barbados, a career that began in 2005 with ‘Music Of The Sun’ and that has kept her at number one in world music all these years. Seven albums that seem to come out like cakes from the Universal factory but that nevertheless maintain the character of Rihanna; in this last one, the hardest and most durable, Rihanna returns to the origins of her music, with more street than studio, less retouched voice and a little less commercial dance (with the exception of no single ‘Diamonds’ or her collaboration with David Guetta). .
Rihanna’s Diamonds World Tour will pass through the Bilbao Exhibition Center in Barakaldo on May 26, 2013 and the Palau Sant Jordi in Barcelona on June 1, two appointments to see Rihanna’s spectacular live show, which always leaves you wanting to more and where you can lose a couple of kilos dancing non-stop.
The kilos are the cause for which the sensationalist media meddle with Christina Aguilera, who claims to have accepted her new figure and that she has released a record, ‘Lotus’, much more natural and calm, far from the comings of pot that the previous ones starred in. As Whitney Houston once said: “Christina, you are the voice of the new generation”, and with ‘Lotus’ she can make old laurels green again.
?Your body’ is her debut single, with two flats, because Xtina has been joking for a while, especially since she took the coaching chair of ‘La Voz’ in its US version. Along with two of her co-stars on the show, Cee Lo Green and Blake Shelton, she sings two of the album’s most attention-grabbing songs: ‘Make The World Move’ and ‘Just A Fool.’ The only bad thing about the album is that it can sound the same as always, between ballads and more upbeat songs, but with little risk on the part of this imposing blonde.
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