My Kind of Christmas [Enhanced]

Christina Aguilera | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (July 1, 2004)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Enhanced
• Label: SonyBMG Special Markets
• ASIN: B0002IQOZA
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (271 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #23,379 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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32 of 37 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Christina Calm Down!, December 18, 2000

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J. Martin "ffej26" (Woodside, NY) - See all my reviews

This review is from: My Kind of Christmas (Audio CD)

The most gifted singer to come along in a long time is obviously Christina Aguilera. She ahs proven she can sing anything with that powerful belt. On her Christmas CD she chooses christmas favorites and a few original songs. Her rendition of Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas will blow everyone away. Other highlight include The Christmas Song and This Christmas. One thing she needs to do is calm down a bit. Her version of O Holy Night is a vocal rollercoaster which easily could have been the highlight of this album, but she feels the need to prove that she really can sing. She already has and I'm sure alot of people would agree with me when I say she should just hit the high note and hold it, that would send shivers up and down my spine. To me it is not appropriate to do vocal acrobatics on standard Christmas songs, but she has an amazing voice and she sings her heart out. I just wish she would calm down.

21 of 25 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Not my kind of Christmas, November 29, 2000

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Brian P. Kelley (Missoula, MT USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: My Kind of Christmas (Audio CD)

I've been very impressed with Ms. Aguilera's vocal talents since I first heard them on The Mickey Mouse Club years ago, however this CD is ridiculously overdone. While I am all for artists making song their own, this just seems a way for her and her producers to show off vocal talents while butchering classic Christmas songs. After listening to the first five tracks in complete disapointment I had hoped Oh Holy Night would be of some quality. The beginning was lovely. Using her wondrous voice to accent this songs wonderful writing. Then ruining this beautifully haunting piece with what seems to be becomming her trademark 5 million unneccesary vocal slides. Hopefully she will grow out of this need as Mariah Carey has seemed to do since her first three Albums or so. Bottom line is I would return this CD if the store would let me.

21 of 25 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Doesn't really sound like a CHRISTMAS album, November 12, 2000

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peach momo - See all my reviews

This review is from: My Kind of Christmas (Audio CD)

Much as I really adore Christina Aguilera's startling vocal abilities, I have to comment that this christmas album of hers doesn't cut it as one to instil holiday spirit.

Her voice, indeed, is greater than ever. She sings with better control and more elaborate stylisations - but at times she overdoes it, gorging an entire track with the maximum amount of her vocal callisthenics possible. Jazz appears to be Aguilera's best platform for displaying that talent of hers to best effect - hear "Merry Xmas Baby".

However, amid the impressive melismatic curls, where is the tenderness in her music, voice? The uptempo tracks are best guilty of the latter flaw - Arresting in the audio makeup, but nevertheless overproduced and devoid of the simplicity best rendered in christmas songs. (Track 11, "Christina's Xmas", a meaningless, hip hop interlude that does no good to the album at all.)

This 11-track album will be remembered for the vocal showmanship, but for the holiday spirit, there are better CDs out there.