So the Christina Aguilera songs you wrote—for the record, how many will there be?
There are four of them. I think they’re called “I Am”—I called it “Lullaby” but she’s given it another name. But I think it’s called, um—[she starts singing]—oh, “All I Need”! And it’s “All I Need,” “You Lost Me,” “I Am” and something like “Stronger.” But I don’t think she called it “Stronger” in the end. That’s just what we called it. We just call it something while it’s in the working process and then she gives it it’s name. There are some where it totally lends itself to its name and there are others where it’s just like, “No, we had a song called ‘Fighter’ so we don’t want a song called ‘Stronger.’” But they’re all on there. She’s pretty awesome. It was pretty crazy when she sang at me for the first time.
Were there any songs you two recorded that didn’t make it on the album?
No, just those four songs. Then we did another one for her movie with Cher. So it’s been a really good collaboration, actually. We really got along great. We didn’t bin anything, which was good.
NovaFM’s LA correspondent Sal Morgan caught up with Christina on set and asked her about what it’s like working with Cher. She also talked about the movie and her character Ali Marilyn Rose. Sal mentioned that Christina wrote 4 songs for the movie and that it has a “Back To Basics” vibe to it.
Christina teamed up with Chrysler to design the eco-friendly vehicle, the new Eco Style car, which features recycled materials in the interior and an economic engine.
It also features a water-based Vanilla, cactus-colored seat-inserts and bamboo appliqué placed on the door trim and center console (all sustainable materials).
Aguilera put her own personal touches to one of the vehicles, dubbed the “Eco Style by Christina Aguilera,” which will be auctioned off to raise money for Haiti.
How great is that? How many people can say they drive a car designed by a pop star?!
Adam Lambert has revealed that Christina Aguilera pipped him to a potential Goldfrapp collaboration.
The American Idol star had hoped to work with the British electropop duo on his debut album For Your Entertainment, for which he later bagged songwriting contributions from Lady GaGa, Justin Hawkins from The Darkness, Muse’s Matt Bellamy, Pink and Weezer frontman River Cuomo.
“I really wanted to work with them and they expressed a mutual interest, but they were so busy with their own project and working with Christina Aguilera that it didn’t work out,” he told Digital Spy.
“When I heard Christina was working with them, I was like, ‘Aww, she beat me!’”
However, Lambert insisted that he bears no hard feelings towards Aguilera, saying: “It’s a really interesting combination though – I can’t wait to see how that sounds.”
Answering fan questions:
Kadir from Istanbul writes: I want to ask you a question about burlesque,this movie looks so interesting.I saw a little premier on E! and it was so good full of dancing singing..my question about the movie soundtrack how many songs will be in and how many songs christina sing in it and you of course !? =) If you answer me i”d be so happy,thank you so much and have a great life..LOVE FROM TURKEY… Thanks Kadir! I hope you have a good life too. I am not sure how many songs there will be on the soundtrack. Right now there are a lot of songs, maybe too many and so some will have to be cut. Christina has the most. I just sing one song, That’s Life. The film and the soundtrack will be in theatres at the end of November.
On last day of filming:
I just got back to my hotel after a 16 hour day of work, my last on the movie Burlesque. I am really tired, but I can’t imagine how the girl dancers are feeling tonight. They have been dancing their asses off, at full pelt, all day long, wearing these chain-mail style dresses that are already making scrapes and grazes on their skin – and they have a whole day of doing it all again tomorrow. It’s the finale of the film, a song written by Christina, and it really is amazing. But wow, those girls, I don’t envy them. And the set is so hot because there are huge stage lights on all day and the air conditioning can’t be turned on because it makes the smoke that is pumped into the sound stage to increase the lighting effects disappear. At least they all look totally hot and are going to be worshipped the world over come Thanksgiving. Here’s a little film I made today…
Has writing with Christina Aguilera opened the door to more collaborations with other mainstream pop icons? (eg Britney Spears, Justin Beaver, or such and so forth).
Alison: It’s something we’ve been asked in every interview we’ve done so far, which is now quite a few, and it’s all over the net and everywhere. Everyone’s talking about us writing with Christina Aguilera, and… Well, we wrote her a song, but we have no idea what is happening with it. And that’s because they haven’t wanted to play it to us.
Will: Probably for security reasons. I mean if we were in LA they’d probably just say, ‘come round and we’ll play it to you’.
Alison: Yeah, so we don’t know. That’s the short answer of what’s gonna happen, whether it’s on her new album or not, we just don’t know right now. Unfortunately we’ve been asked about it in interviews so it’s all round the net at the moment with me saying, ‘I fucking hope she doesn’t release it because it’s not finished!’ We’d really like to have the opportunity to hear it and improve it if we can.
