Rumored list of producers:

Christina Aguilera, Linda Perry, Goldfrapp, Ladytron, Sia Furler, M.I.A., Le Tigre, Santigold, Switch, Focus, Diplo, Dan Carey, Oscar Ramirez, John Hill, Sam Endicott, Claude Kelly, Steve Morales, Dr. Luke, Paul Sheehy, Detail, Tricky Stewart.

Impressive line-up for a pop album. Ladytron are said to have produced 5 tracks on it. Can't say I'm not excited to hear Xtina's new material.

where do these clips come from? i mean, what links it to xtina? psyched either way for this album.

Jesus, that first video. If those are clips from the songs, then count me in as excited, but something tells me that doesn't make sense. I'm not the biggest Xtina fan, her voice annoys me more than anything else, but she does have some fine bangers. Can't really say no to that list of producers though I really wish Diplo would just fuck off already.

They're just two viral videos on youtube. But you got to admit the sounds and visuals suggest something done by either Goldfrapp or Ladytron. This clip especially came to mind after I saw the first teaser.

http://blogs.villagevoice.com/music/archiv...fuck.php?page=1

love christina, hometown girl (sorta) and all.

Diplo, what a dickhead he turned out to be.

Ah, so it's Christina then eh? I read a popjustice post a few days back where they speculated that it was either The Knife (that was put to bed with the whole "Colouring Of Pigeons" shabang), Goldfrapp or Aguilera. It could plausibly be material from the new Goldfrapp record which is due in a few months.

If it is Christina, all the power to her, looks like she's going in a pretty interesting direction.

Yeah, I'm saying it's Xtina.

A new video surfaced today.

Possible clue at the 6 second mark?

And there's also this:

http://stuff.sonybmg.de/Image/Christina_Ag...Promo_Album.jpg

Was just telling my brother about these vids yesterday and meant to see if anything had surfaced recently than completely forgot about it.

But, boy, if the new Xtina album sounds anything like the music in these clips, then it will be the first Aguilera album I listen to front-to-back. I'm pretty stoked on all the visuals and music. Interesting stuff. Keep me posted, _jon!

That looks more like Lady Gaga than Xtina.

http://indecentxposure.net/blog/?p=2470

Pretty interesting shit at the bottom about "decoding the numerics" of these videos. Pretty strange marketing indeed, but pretty awesome nonetheless.

The code on the last clip is "MANDRAGORA," which is the mandrake plant. The plant's roots have features of a human-like form, and it definitely coincides with the branched appendages shown in one of the videos.

Yeah...I don't think it's Gaga but I doubt that's actually Xtina...I'm sure she has better teeth than that.

Most recent video has the best music.

Ten years ago, I never would have dreamed that Christina Aguilera would do something this weird and conceptual. But shit, I'm definitely interested in hearing the album.

are you guys convinced it's not The Knife in some form? the music is spot on and it all seems to aesthetically match with the latest Fever Ray videos, no?

doesn't all of this just seem way too good to be Christina?

hope this is she.

wonder if there'll be any pop songs on there or if she's really going for the whole kooky vibe these preludes indicate.

Well, thing is she's been working with some uncharacteristic producers (i.e. Goldfrapp, Ladytron, Le Tigre) so it could turn out to be really different. But the Sony Germany press still seems to indicate it's her.

Also, does the Knife have this kind of budget? They might. I dunno.

color me intrigued

I was obsessed with this until they released the last video. I'm bored now - just tell me whose album it's for.

will be a top five eoy album. without having heard it, i already have it at number 3.

So more and more blogs seem to be saying that the 'iamamiwhoami' person is actually Margaret Berger, a Norwegian singer... never heard of her. But this is a good way to get noticed, I s'pose.

I'm sick of these mysterious so-called "genius, creative viral marketing campaigns". Does anyone still have fond memories of the "genius marketing campaign" of Cloverfield? In the end, the product still has to be good.

As for Christina Aguilera, the lead singer of the Bravery and 4 Non Blondes Lady helped produce, so you KNOW you're getting a creative tour de force! I'm not saying it won't be good or interesting, but it does seem like people get a little too excited whenever a mainstream pop star works with anyone remotely interesting.

Well, they are genius marketing campaigns.

Anyway, Xtina has blue eyes, and while contacts are possible, I don't know.

The lead singer of the Bravery also wrote "She Wolf," so y'know...

guilty as charged (kinda...not really concerned with who produces an aguilera album) but that's because 1) before this album i could barely care less about new christina aguilera except when 2) she has goldfrapp, le tigre, mia and ladytron writing songs for her new album and they just happen to have written some favorites of the past decade so...
but yea, i just listened to blackjazz and bionic is now my number four...pushing new puritans to five.

Whatever, dudes. I'm loving this videos. It can be a campaign for gay witches for abortion for all I care, as long as there's more music and videos behind it. But yeah, I'm calling it now and say it's Christina.

Kinda hoping it's a campaign for gay witches for abortion, to be honest.

yeah, i am totally down with gay witches for abortion

hope hope

15.6.6.9.3.9.14.1.18.21.13.56155

It may not be Christina after all. Although, I still believe is her.

^^ Don't really care who the fuck it is anymore but i'm going to be a fag and readily admit that I'd listen to a whole album of that shit. Colour me excited.

OK, so my underwear is already drenched in anticipation.

That really does not sound like Christina Aguilera. Prolly gonna be AOTY, though.

The monkey is the clincher for me. Like they said, "I'm out of imagery, what should we do?" "Eh, throw a monkey in there!"

these videos are amazing

Seems like Ellen Allien is a distinct possibility here.

does that mean it isn't Margaret Berger?

i have to say, this is kind of ridiculous. it's cool and all but it's also somewhat bs. just tell us who the fuck it is already, the hype shouldn't overshadow the creation itself, which is what it's turning into. all this buildup and then the product - remember snakes on a plane? hyped to hell then the product was not so good... i mean, i guess this is what it's come to in this day and age with pop music, nobody cares unless you make a shitload of weird videos all over youtube. well they've done a good job, and i hope their album manages to stay in the public eye for more than a week. that would be a miracle in 2010.

that music kind of sounds like goldfrapp, has she been eliminated? also i think christina aguilera came out and said it wasn't her.

Nah, seems like a possibility as well. There's a teaser of the Ellen Allien album going around with clips of each track, and there are a few that sound like they could easily be other sections from the clips of music on the videos, but who knows.

Little Boots?

Snakes On a Plane is far from the proper forebear to this particular piece of viral internet hype.

that thing's been out for over a year in the UK. Highly doubt they'd develop an elaborate marketing program involving mandragora and weird imagery and what not just for the US release, especially when the album is just a so-so collection of synthpop singles.

Cloverfield is a closer reference point. Or as it was known in the summer of 2007: "wtf is this a new godzilla movie", "LOST: the movie" and "is it a 9/11 movie".

Also, I think Heretix might be on the right track.

You are correct.

More to the point, the visuals are amazing and if the actual music is a lot like what's playing in these videos than the "hype" seems much deserved.

Judge for yourselves:

http://showhype.com/audio/bpc217-ellen-all...ust-teaser-mp3/

Looking forward to Dust regardless, without meaning to derail what is ostensibly a Christina Aguilera thread

Much as I'd like it to be Ellen Allien, I really don't think it is. The voice on the latest video is pretty ethereal whilst Allien's is much more clinical. The accents seem pretty different too. This thing is kind of consuming me.

goldfrapp

Not Ellen Allien. This chick is singing, and Ellen Allien can't sing for shit.

Golfrapp is doing some lame cheesy 80's shit.

I think that's it for these videos. MTV is now part of the campaign with the package they "received" containing a puzzle.

The llama and the monkey drawings are a reverse image of the ones found in the pictures. I don't know if that means anything, but whatevs.

There's also this heart thing.


CSI needs to get on this bitch.

I'm starting to lean toward the Knife.

Check out this picture of Karin. Look at her distinctive upper lip.



A couple more.



Note the teeth and the thinness of the lips. The shape of the forehead.



And compare to this video. Fisheye lens could account for discrepancies in size or proportion and the singer is obviously wearing contacts.



I was hesitant at first because the visuals in these videos are such a step down from the Fever Ray ones. But the Knife videos were always a little rough.

I don't know, though. While the general imagery and facial distortions (especially at the end of the monkey video) seem very Knife-ish, the tree-humping/tree-licking/tree-cumming stuff seems uncharacteristic of the pair.

I read somewhere speculation that it's Aphex Twin. HOW awesome would that be?

It's probably/definitely not him though.