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}} ''Bionic'' (stylized as ''•••'') is the sixth studio album by American recording artist Christina Aguilera, released on June 4, 2010 by RCA Records. Aguilera enlisted a wide range of producers for the project, including her longtime collaborator Linda Perry, and new collaborators including Christopher "Tricky" Stewart, Polow da Don, Ladytron, Sia and Samuel Dixon. Inspired by Aguilera's taste of electronic music, ''Bionic'' was described as an electro-R&B and futurepop record. Its first half consists of mostly electropop tracks, while the second half features a more balladic production. The album's main lyrical themes are sex and feminism. ''Bionic'' received mixed reviews from music critics, who were ambivalent towards its production and lyrical content. Commercially, the album struggled to match the chart impact and sales of her previous releases. It debuted at number three on the U.S. ''Billboard'' 200 with first-week sales of 110,000 copies, and has sold 330,000 units there as of September 2012. In the United Kingdom, ''Bionic'' debuted atop the UK Albums Chart with the lowest debut sale figure in eight years, and later became the largest drop in chart position for a number one album in the chart history. As of November 2012, the record has sold nearly one million units globally. ''Bionic'' yielded two international singles: "Not Myself Tonight" and "You Lost Me". "Woohoo" was released in the United States and some European countries, while "I Hate Boys" was exclusively released in Australia and New Zealand. In support of the album, Aguilera made several appearances on TV and in live shows in 2010 to promote the album, including ''The Oprah Winfrey Show'', ''American Idol'', and ''Today''. In May, she initially planned to further promote the album by embarking on The Bionic Tour, which was cancelled shortly afterwards. == Background and development == After a successful 2006, where Aguilera released her critically acclaimed and commercially successful album, ''Back to Basics'', Aguilera received a nomination for Best Pop Vocal Album at the 2007 Grammy Awards and won Best Female Pop Vocal Performance for its lead-single "Ain't No Other Man". While on the Asian leg of the Back to Basics Tour, during the summer of 2007, Aguilera said that her upcoming album would be, "short, sweet and completely different" from her previous long play, ''Back to Basics''.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=New Aguilera Album Set For August )〕 After the birth of her son Max, Aguilera stated in an interview with Ryan Seacrest that her forthcoming album would include a totally new aspect of herself as an artist, because of the pregnancy with her son. In a February 2008 interview with ''People'', Aguilera stated that she was going to start recording new material for her forthcoming album at her Beverly Hills home. DJ Premier, who at the time was working on projects for his label, Year Round Records, shared plans to head back into the studio with Aguilera. About this he said, "She's doing an all pop album again, but she wants me to keep the tone like what we did before. She's ready to start next month." Linda Perry, who had previously worked with Aguilera was to be included in the project too. In an interview with ''Billboard'' in October 2008, Aguilera said that the album would be mostly produced by Perry. During the initial recording sessions, Aguilera released her first greatest hits album, ''Keeps Gettin' Better: A Decade of Hits'', which features 2 new tracks that are derived from electronic music, and she announced that compilation was in the vein of where the upcoming album was going to go, which was a very futuristic approach to music." "I get off on working with creative energy," Aguilera said. "That's when I'm most at home and feel happiest. And all these people brought about new sides of me. It was a big collaboration-fest, and it felt so good and rewarding in the end, because I was just so happy with the work and the new territories that I ventured out to."〔 Aguilera also remarked that her son inspired her to experiment in ways "that maybe I've been afraid to do in the past, to allow myself to go to a place of 'less singing,' " she says. "() is just about the future -- my son in my life, motivating me to want to play and have fun." 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Bionic (Christina Aguilera album)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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