And Jakarta is hot as hell right now.. They wouldn't let devil worshiper like Gaga to perform.. Most of em all Muslim.. I and other Christian never had a problem with her appearance..

lol, just as perfect as anybody else I suppose, that must be the point.

wow filipinos really went all out for the gaga concert. jealous. never saw that support when christina went here 5 years ago. gagas doing two shows here due to massive demand. whatever

"I was too b****y last night, wasn't I."

That time of the month eh.

"The only thing I am happy about is that all I wanted for this tour, was that she performed Heavy Metal Lover as a motorbike. And that's what she does."

Now that on it own is worth the price.

"lady gaga just arrived in my country."

Admit it, you squeed.

"Vocally she is not at her best, her dancing is still dreadful and she relies on backing track at least as much as Madonna, a woman that has less than half her voice..."

She's too clutsy to be a dancer. Backtracking, well that's better than lip-syncing but not by much.

"She is talking to her audience like they are 3 years old."

Taking the whole Mother Monster thing a little bit too the extreme.

lady gaga just arrived in my country.

4 is not a flop, I mean, she sold 1,135,700 copies in US only. And I really really like the album. I think it's better than her previous album I Am...Sasha Fierce.

Is Beyonce '4' a flop tho?

Listening to Femme Fatale right now, one of the most enjoyable and solid pop albums of recent years.

01. Till The World Ends
02. Gasoline
03. I Wanna Go
04. How I Roll
05. (Drop Dead) Beautiful
06. Inside Out
07. Trip To Your Heart
08. Criminal
09. Big Fat Bass
10. Seal It With a Kiss
11. Trouble For Me
12. Hold It Against Me

I totally disagree that those ladies are controlled, but a Britney fan having a strong opinion about Britney being a more engaged and involved songwriter than Christina is hilarious at best.

Okay lol Christina is very conscious of crediting people in her songs, if you notice, she almost always has 'written and composed' for the credits, even if she wrote all the lyrics and only had help with the music section, she throws them together. She once said that she wrote the hook on one of the songs on her first album but didn't get the credit, I think that was GIAB, so she tries to give even the tiniest of efforts. I don't think Brit or her fans do that, for instance, I see her fans saying she wrote a song called 'Everytime' totally by herself, but she didn't, can't remember the co-writer, but I'm sure if I look it up I could find it. Why don't you brag about the song she wrote that became #1 , 'miss Independent'. Kelly added the break to make it personal, but Christina wrote that song when her first album was out. Co-credit or not, Christina has her words coming out of someone else's mouth. hahaha

I kind of agree with you, but if people wanted to follow Christina, they would follow her no matter what the account name is. I think it would only be better to change the name for those who don't know Christina, and don't know that she refers to herself as Xtina.

beyonce opened her twitter acct and made her very first tweet. not even 24 hrs had passed and she got more than 3 million followers already? christina has more than a year on twitter and shes just got a tad over a million. life is fair?

Try this:

01. What The Hell
02. Push
03. Wish You Were Here
04. Smile
05. Stop Standing There
06. I Love You
07. Everybody Hurts
08. Not Enough
09. 4 Real
10. Darlin'
11. Remember When
12. Goodbye
13. Black Star
14. Alice

I have really only moved Black Star, and I think it works the best.

They really did the worse they could when they chose What The Hell. People had already shown they responded really well to serious ballad maker Avril that made Alice, and only when they had warmed up and were ready for more, she suddenly put out WTh. :/ A WTH move totally. And if WTH was descriptive of the album I'd be pleased with it, but the album was an acoustic ballads album, (WTH and Smile excluded). They really made it feel as weird as possible.

I like 4, and I think that especially it's instrumentals are marvelous. I listen to it like this:

01. I miss you
02. Run The World
03. Countdown
04. Party (feat Andre 3000)
05. Best Thing I Never Had
06. Rather Die Young
07. Love On Top
08. I Was Here
09. Start Over
10. I Care
11. End Of Time
12. 1+1

It is only that this album was when Beyonce caught the generic lyrics and recycled sound syndrome, which has been at its peak since after 2008-2009 in pop music (after the burst of weird and unusual stuff that was coming out from 2004-2008).
Also there are a lot of tracks that cancel each other's power in the set list. Why do you need I Miss You (which by the way sounds unfinished, more like an interlude) when you have 1+1 and I Care? Why have Run The World, when End of Time is its exotic version and more original, since it's not a remake? Why have Rather Die Young when you have Party and Best Thing?
I like all the songs in there except Rather Die Young because the "improvisation" part feels so awkward and poor... And I could live without Best Thing and Run The World (horrible singles imo), and with a more complete I Miss You and deeper more specific lyrics for I Was Here cause they sounded kinda naive or general-at least compaired to how much more deep and serious the instrumentation felt.

I hope there's more videos to get out, because we already know a video has been shot for End Of Time, and I hope they'd also make vids for I Care, Start Over and I Was Here, but I doubt it since they're already making new music.

I think the videos for Countdown and 1+1, especially the later, are gorgeous and I enjoy them no matter how many times I watch them. My favs are I Care, Love On Top and Start Over. I have a lot of respect for what 'party' was.

My favorite elements in the album are the instrumentals of I was here, end of time and 1+1, the lyrics of start over and how the instrumental of Run The World changed into this dance pop instrumental from what it originally was.

The bonus tracks, I appreciated them more musically I think, but they were not as good pop songs, they were not as instant, memorable and short.

like she never grew up at all. maybe people need to see growth in her.

@ijamseeds Just because she doesn't have a Grammy or a damn AMA that doesn't mean she hasn't accomplished anything. Avril is a damn good artist and does not need any of those awards to prove to the world that she is a good artist. She has plenty of fans and does not need to take any tips from anybody and if she did she sure as hell shouldn't take them from Christina because then you'd come back on this forum and talk about how Avril's copying Xtina.

Did you see Avrl's new video?
http://youtu.be/VxMtqg8U5oo
It begins at 01:50
Why, why why can't she get her marketing strategy right?
She released WTH right after Alice and obviously that killed the potential of both the album and the single.
And now she's releasing her best video from this era, and is not a fans gift thing? What is wrong with her? This song deserved a video so much more than the singles from Goodbye Lullaby anyway, and actually this is the first video since what the hell that actually promotes the song properly, Smile and Wish You Were Here were so shockingly average at best in terms of how they worked for the songs.

anyway, so love on top proved beyonce got more octaves than xtina. she sang 4 octave key changes pregnant, dancing and full on. i dunno if there's still anything left for xtina to prove to the world.
1. Songwriting skills? anyone, artist or not can write powerful messages that can move, sway and influence as long as it's from the heart and true.

2. High notes? if the voice's lily, an amateur singer, can sing high notes that xtina can't, effortlessly, then there are really a whole lot of professional singers in the world that can outsing xtina in the high notes belting.

3. Performing? like dancing? (no), singing? (maybe), theatrics? (no), playing musical instruments (she can't), other entertaining stuff? (no. all she does is sing and stoop down and stomp for the high notes).

4. Acting? Nope/maybe.

5. Record Sales? Nope.

6. Composing songs? She can't play piano and/or guitar. how would she do that?

7. Producing songs? anyone, artist or not, who is into audio technology with all the necessary equipment, can combine sounds to create a track or a beat.

8. Voice? NO ONE SO FAR can compete with her on her unique sounding voice. Well I guess this is it for her.

One thing she can do though to salvage her artistic credibility is to try a stage musical. If ever she plans to incorporate theatrics in her performing in the future, at least no one would question her on that since she will be a certified theater artist by then. she loves saying going "full circle" as a woman. when she tries this, shell definitely be "full circling" as an artist/entertainer.

well she's a good mom i guess, a formidable scentrepreneur, a loving girlfriend.

I don't think Beyonce intended for it to sound like she was copying or stealing things from Christina. Afterall, Etta James has inspired millions of people.

I'm not a fan of anyone of them!! but I have a great admiration on Madonna, she is a brilliant artist, and she deserves all these success! our queen of pop!!!! my mom is a HUGE FAN of hers!!! she has everything about her....books, doll, all of madonna's cds even the soundtracks, movies....the list is very big!!
So, I'm expecting Madonna new album, because i loved the other album celebration and hard candy was brilliant!!!! And my mom and i went to her show on december 14th, 2008!!!! What a big show!!!!
And I also liked Avril Lavigne's new album, the song Alice is very beautiful!!!
Britney Spears and Gaga, I don't expect nothing from them, I don't like their songs, even though my mom is fan of britney!!
And finally, Beyoncé, is a great singer, and her voice is amazing, but on the other hand I don't like, but nothing against her!!
(I'm Sorry Spears and Gaga's fans)

so brit's nowwith the samelabel with xtina?

Britney moved to RCA Records

Beyonce's album is so weak that I cannot believe it! No more than half the songs are worthy of a listen! And even though I like those songs, they are not terribly strong and wouldn't stand out in a normal/standard-quality album, or among the singles released by others right now.
I love the direction but none of the songs is really there yet. There is nothing noteworthy about them. Really sad about that, especially after the Sasha Fierce album, where there was not one song that didn't stand out. And to think they had more than 70 tracks to chose from...!