Not Herself Tonight: Revisiting and Revising Christina Aguilera Not content to merely listen to her favorite records, Christina Aguilera has made a career out of duplicating them. In just a few short years, she's blatantly swiped inspiration from everyone from Mariah Carey to P!nk to the Andrews Sisters. And despite her persistent regurgitation of Madonna's sexual politics speel, her ambition always involves adopting a new high-concept persona and being anyone but herself. It's hard to flip through Aguilera's brief discography and not feel like we've all witnessed a decade-long identity crisis. Either she's never evolved past being anything more than a well-paid mime or she just really enjoys playing dress up. [read more]
Floria Sigismondi: Designing Her Own Dimension She's killed Fiona Apple, morphed Christina Aguilera into a cotton candy-haired moth queen and turned Jack White Satanic, and you can only hope Floria Sigismondi is just getting started. Born the daughter of opera singer parents in Pescara, Italy, this director/photographer/sculpture extraordinaire is perhaps best known for the off-kilter camerawork and macabre environments seen in videos for Marilyn Manson, Sigur Rós, Interpol, David Bowie, the White Stripes, Björk, the Cure, Leonard Cohen, Muse, Living Things and Incubus, among others. Take a tour through my music video-accompanied collection. [read more]
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