After all, record companies have a habit of getting their big acts to change planned releases. So what happened? Given the snippets we know about what was happening in the run up to Bi-On-Ic, it would be fair to assume that the resulting album is the result of the record label playing it safe, ditching the challenging for the predictable.
She was willing to take a risk and go in a completely different direction."īut the final product is an album that takes too few risks and, aside from a few bright spots (the Sia ballads, the MIA track), eschews the more outré collaborations for by-numbers contributions from Tricky Stewart (known for his work with Mariah Carey) and Polow da Don (associated with the Pussycat Dolls). She told Ryan Seacreast: "I can't say too much but I've been brainstorming for the last nine months of pregnancy so I have all these mood boards for visuals and how I'd like to evolve and transform into a new character."Īs Reuben Wu of Ladytron told Spinner earlier this year: "My feeling is that she got to a point in her life where she wanted to take her music to a different level. To fit with this new musical edge, Christina even hinted at a persona change, brought about by her pregnancy. As if this wasn't mind-boggling enough, Johanna Fateman from Le Tigre excitedly blogged that "Deceptacon was Christina's jam", while Ladytron's Reuben Wu revealed the former Mouseketeer played Elastica in her car. During interviews for 2008's Keeps Gettin' Better: A Decade Of Hits, Christina said her next album would sound "futuristic", taking pop art cues from, of all people, The Velvet Underground and Nico.
From early quotes about Bi-On-Ic, it seemed like it would be experimental, driven by alternative pop classics.
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