[TWEET] @THEREALXTINA: 'THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THE @PEOPLESCHOICE AWARD & HONOR...'

Thank you so much for the @peopleschoice award & honor to perform #BlankPage last night. Love you all! XoXtina youtu.be/XwMvTC_ILSM
— Christina Aguilera (@TheRealXtina) January 10, 2013

[NEWS] CHRISTINA LOOKED GREAT AT THE PEOPLE'S CHOICE AWARDS

We had to do a double take when Christina Aguilera started her performance of "Blank Page" at the 2013 People's Choice Awards.

Why?

You might want to sit down for this one: She was wearing pants!

The 32-year-old singer and former judge on 'The Voice' looked almost conservative in her slim black pants and cream-colored blazer. It's a nice departure from her typical tight and two-sizes-too-small dresses.

Then again, the song required a bit more serious gear than the platinum blond is known for.

"The song is about making mistakes and realizing you can't go back but you can start over with a blank slate," a source told US Weekly of the new song.

"Christina expresses herself through her songs and this one is very emotional," the source added. "This year is a new beginning for her and she's excited."

She even got a little choked up on stage.

"Thank you for giving me this form of expression and letting me use my voice," she told the crowd while accepting her "People's Voice" award. "It means so much to me. When I sing I believe it truly is the only time I can truly be myself."

"I find a home in music and I hope others can find a home in music as well."

But, back to the pants. Christina, just so you know: Pants? Good. No pants? Bad.

Source: She Knows

[NEWS] CHRISTINA AGUILERA GIVES CANDLELIT PERFORMANCE OF 'BLANK PAGE' AT 2013 PCA'S

Surrounded by white candles, wearing a white blazer and black leggings and sporting unwashed, white blond hair, Christina Aguilera took the stage to perform the ballad ‘Blank Page’ at the 2013 People’s Choice Awards tonight (Jan. 9.)

It was a simple and unfettered performance, one that allowed Xtina’s powerhouse voice to command the attention of every person in the auditorium.

Even though her voice was a tiny bit strained, she still sounded better than most on their best day.

Power ballads like this are Xtina’s forte, and she reminded us why we loved her so much in the first place. While her “comeback” album ‘Lotus’ may have flopped, if this song finds its audience, the album could get a second life.

After performing the song, she was handed the People’s Voice Award, and in her acceptance speech, she admitted that was the first time that she sang that song without crying. She also confessed that singing is the only time she feels like she is truly herself, and that she finds a home in music. It was a touching speech, and an entertaining performance.

Curiously enough, she gushed about ‘The Voice’ producer Mark Burnett in such a way that made us think that it was a calculated attempt to make sure she gets her chair back on the show and doesn’t lose it to Shakira. Xtina is on hiatus for Season 4, with the Latin dynamo filling in for her.

Source: Pop Crush

[NEWS] CHRISTINA AGUILERA GETS EMOTIONAL SINGING 'BLANK PAGE' AT THE PCA'SS

Christina Aguilera got choked up during the rehearsals for this year's People's Choice Awards, but like the true fighter that she is, soldiered on through her live performance on Wednesday, Jan. 9.

The former Voice coach toned down her usually eclectic wardrobe, opting for a simple white blazer and black slacks for her debut performance of the new song "Blank Page" onstage surrounded by candles.

But Aguilera, 32, wasn’t quite so calm just one day before, sources tell Us Weekly.

"She was very emotional," one insider told Us. "The song is about making mistakes and realizing you can't go back but you can start over with a blank slate."

"Christina expresses herself through her songs and this one is very emotional," the source continued. "This year is a new beginning for her and she's excited."

Another source reported that Aguilera was "sobbing" during rehearsals and even had the audience in tears while rehearsing her emotional song.

Following her performance Wednesday evening, Josh Duhamel hopped onstage to present Aguilera with the "People's Voice" award. The blonde star admitted to crying "four times" during Tuesday's rehearsals.

"Thank you for giving me this form of expression and letting me use my voice," the "Your Body" singer said in her acceptance speech. "It means so much to me. When I sing I believe it truly is the only time I can truly be myself."

"I find a home in music and I hope others can find a home in music as well."

Source: Us Weekly

[VIDEO] 'BLANK PAGE' LIVE AT THE PEOPLE'S CHOICE AWARDS

[NEWS] CHRISTINA AGUILERA WILL BE PERFORMING "BLANK PAGE" AT THE "PEOPLE'S CHOICE AWARDS"

[VIDEO] 'BLANK PAGE' (PIANO COVER) BY: RAUL QUINTANILLA

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[AUDIO] 'YOU LOST ME / BLANK PAGE' - CHRISTINA AGUILERA (FEAT. SIA)

It looks like the mastermind behind some of Christina's best remixes, Lucas (Twitter), has done it again, but in the form of a mash-up featuring Sia's vocals in "You Lost Me" and "Blank Page".

Check out the amazing job he did below.


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@karlosacenteno oh wow I wonder where this came from!? It's just a guide vocal for the harmonies in the pre chorus!
— sia furler (@siamusic) January 3, 2013

[AUDIO] 'BLANK PAGE' (FULL) - CHRISTINA AGUILERA #LOTUS

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[NEWS] CHRISTINA AGUILERA SAYS 'LOTUS' LP WILL BE 'MULTI-LAYERED, HEARTFELT'

Christina Aguilera admits that her last album, 2010's Bionic, didn't connect with her fans. "It had a lot of amazing sounds and a futuristic twist to it," she says. "But if you weren't a music person, it was just going to go over your head. A lot of the collaborations were with people that were either very underground or weren't necessarily from the pop world. I really think it was far ahead of its time and it'll be fully appreciated in the years to come."

On her follow-up, Lotus – her first LP since getting a divorce and becoming a judge on The Voice – Aguilera goes for a sleeker mainstream pop sound, working with producers like Max Martin, Lucas Secon and Shellback. "I don't really push myself to have those formulaic commercial successes," Aguilera says. "It's dishonest and it starts lacking creativity. I embraced being a pop artist, but I like doing it on my own terms, at my own pace."

Aguilera sees Lotus (in stores on November 9th) as a companion piece of sorts to her 2002 album, Stripped. "It really takes me back to that time," she says. "I was shedding a skin in a sense. I had been pigeonholed as formula-pop driven, or molded or forced to be something I didn't feel was true to me. I was labeled from 'Genie in a Bottle,' and I had a lot of things to say and share as a 21-year-old woman. Now I've come full circle a decade later. I had a greatest hits album and I experienced a decade in this crazy business. It's a time of celebration, of embracing being a pop star."

The songs span a range of emotions, from the pain of loss through a spiritual rebirth to a celebration of life. "It's a very multi-layered, very heartfelt record," she says. "I wanted to share all the different sides of me, as a woman, and as a creator and an artist. Part of that is being a mom. Part of that is sexuality. Part of that is vulnerability. Part of that is aggression and angst. All those pieces make me who I am."

[NEWS] 'LOTUS' DELUXE EDITION TRACKLISTING

1. Lotus
2. Army Of Me
3. Red Hot Kinda Love - Secon, Lucas
4. Make The World Move - Aguilera, Christina feat. CeeLo Green
5. Let's Find Out
6. Your Body
7. Let There Be Love
8. Sing For Me
9. Blank Page
10. Cease Fire
11. Around The World
12. Circles
13. Best Of Me
14. Shut Up
15. Just A Fool - Aguilera, Christina feat. Blake Shelton
16. Empty Words
17. Light Up The Sky
18. Your Body

Source: Amazon

[VIDEO] VEVO NEWS INTERVIEWS CHRISTINA AGUILERA

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[NEWS] BILLBOARD: THE RESURRECTION OF CHRISTINA AGUILERA FULL INTERVIEW

Christina Aguilera hasn't felt this way in a decade. The singer is reflecting on the eventful two years leading up to the release of her fifth studio album, "Lotus," from her home in Los Angeles -- a period that heralded the commercial disappointment of her album "Bionic"; a divorce from husband Jordan Bratman; the release of her first movie, "Burlesque," and its accompanying soundtrack; her highly successful stint as a coach on NBC's "The Voice" and accompanying appearance on Maroon 5's mega-hit "Moves Like Jagger."

The last time she felt so inspired, the result was 2002's Stripped-a creative breakthrough that helped distance Aguilera from her teen-pop peers and produced memorable hits like "Beautiful," "Dirrty" and "Fighter."

Due Nov. 13 on RCA, "Lotus" refers to the "rebirth" Aguilera underwent both personally and professionally, opting not to work with longtime songwriting partners like Linda Perry in favor of such newer collaborators as Alex Da Kid, Sia, Candice Pillay and even pop maestro Max Martin, on first single "Your Body," which hit radio and iTunes last week and bows at No. 33 on Billboard's Mainstream Top 40 chart this week.

Like on Stripped, Aguilera dips into many genres-from dance-pop on "Your Body" and "Make the World Move" (a duet with fellow "Voice" coach Cee Lo Green), piano-driven power ballads ("Sing for Me," Sia collaboration "Blank Page") and rock-tinged empowerment anthems ("Army of Me," "Cease Fire"). The album even opens with a quick sample of M83's "Midnight City" on the title track, an experimental table-setter where Aguilera resolves to "leave the past behind/Say goodbye to the scared child inside."

Alex Da Kid, who first teamed with Aguilera for 2010's "Castle Walls" on T.I.'s No Mercy, worked with Aguilera on several Lotus cuts with songwriter Pillay, many of which were recorded at her home studio. "I've worked with big and smaller people, and the more established people can get stuck in their ways and say they're not open to critique," Alex Da Kid says. "She definitely had a strong opinion, but she'll go with the best idea in the room. That's really rare for someone that's had so much success."

[NEWS] CHRISTINA ANNOUNCES TWO NEW SONG TITLES & SIA TWEETSABOUT 'BLANK PAGE'

Now that 'Your Body' has officially been released into the world of music, Christina Aguilera had an early morning interview with KIIS FM host Ryan Seacrest where she was asked several questions about 'The Voice', Max, her new single and album.

We weren't expecting to get any new album news but boy were we surprised to learn that she considers 'Lotus' to be a more mature version of her 2002 release 'Stripped', where she called it '... Stripped 2.0' after that comparison she revealed the titles of two other songs that will make it onto the final product.

One song is entitled 'Sing For Me' which Christina Aguilera said is a '... dedication to my fans' and the another song title that she revealed was 'Blank Page'. Many of us came across the demo that was recorded by Sia months ago as a demo for a 'special artist'. For those of you that don't know Sia Furler wrote the song with Leona Lewis in mind but in the end decided to give it to Christina.

Here is a demo of Sia singing 'Blank Page':

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After hysteria broke that 'Blank Page' was going to be on Christina Aguilera's forthcoming album, 'Lotus', Sia tweeted:

So @therealxtina Sounds amazing on our next collaboration. Blank page. Squeeeeee.
— sia furler (@siamusic) September 14, 2012

[TRENDS] WE GARNERED 6 WORLDWIDE TRENDING TOPICS THIS MORNING (9-14-12)

Editors Note:

'QUEEN XTINA IS BACK' and 'STRIPPED 2.0' both trended WW but we have yet to find a good screen shot of the trends.

I cannot believe that the day we've all been waiting for has finally arrived. The new era has officially begun. Are you ready?

[AUDIO] CHRISTINA AGUILERA INTERVIEW WITH RYAN SEACREST

[SMART-PHONE FRIENDLY] Audio Credits: AguileraCraze & WeLoveCAguilera