Christina Aguilera goes Bionic

MANILA, Philippines - With 30 million albums sold worldwide and the honor of being the only artist under the age of 30 included in Rolling Stone Magazine’s list of the 100 greatest singers of all time, Christina Aguilera (photo) releases her brand new album Bionic.

“The meaning behind the album title Bionic is very layered. It means to me having bionic body parts, in particular the vocal cords are highlighted in the album art work. There’s a little songbird in there that’s singing through metal pipes and there happens to be horns and a speakerphone. It’s a very cool and complicated drawing by D*Face, one of my favorite graffiti artists. And then you have Bionic coming from the notion of just being super highly electronically charged and excited for the future. And also it’s the way I see women. We are superhuman in so many ways. We give birth, we give life, we do it all, and I mean we wear many different hats. We work at the same time, we raise our families, we hold down our forts and becoming a new mom since then has also contributed to the bionic meaning of the album,” Aguilera said.

It features songs co-written by Aguilera along with her much buzzed about collaborations including Sia, Tricky Stewart, Le Tigre, Hill & Switch, and Ladytron among others including the carrier single Not Myself Tonight,  a fiercely energetic anthem produced by Polow Da Don.

“Not Myself Tonight is all about freeing yourself, freeing your inhibitions, freeing whatever’s inside of you that you’ve been holding back or maybe a little afraid to let loose of. It’s got a little rebellion to it but it’s all in good fun and it’s just really a ‘free yourself’ anthem,” Aguilera said.

Other tracks in the album include Woohoo feat Nicki Minaj; You Lost Me; My Girls feat Peaches; and Lift Me Up, among others.

Christina is widely credited with pushing pop music’s boundaries over the past decade and with her new single, album and tour.

Bionic is now out in CDs at leading record stores nationwide under Sony Music.