My Ideal Bionic Re-release (Morning and Night edition)
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Saturday, March 5, 2011 - 14:42
My Ideal Bionic Re-release (Morning and Night edition)
I thought, if Bionic was indeed to be re-released, it wouldn't be a major production from the beginning. It would be a final effort, just to give a little something more to the fans and a last tiny taste to the public. I can't think of any proper promotion, other than some performances (which could help with promo for the Voice at the same time maybe) or videos or radio airplay, but no full out promotion waves. So I won't go into describing anything about promotion or whether/how it could work. I'll go straight to the releases.
It would be a double release. Two different versions released at the same time, each being a different outlook and experience of the songs and artwork of the era.
Both in slim DVD case, containing a fold-out poster, and an artwork gallery download link on the b-side.
Each album will have a theme, morning or night, and a corresponding setlist. It will either be a two-sides audio CD, or if such a thing cannot exist, it will be two discs per album. The a-side will be the main album and the b-side will be the rest songs. The two versions will be different, because one will focus on the lighthearted more mainstream pop side of the album and will be closer to the original Bionic in terms of how it is organized, and the other version will be focused on also featuring the sounds that were cut from Bionic, so it will be a more eclectic collection of sounds, thus making it more atmospheric, kinda heavier, a bit more alternative.
The artwork for the respective posters, covers and the respective downloadable galleries for each version, will be a focus on the artwork concept of the cover of the album for the morning (alternative) version (aka Christina being Bionic, made out of music pipes etc), and on the artwork that mixes jewelery and precious stones with the S&M aesthetic for the night (mainstream) version, while both will be influenced by the FAN edition artwork like that on the poster and the lips cover for the box case.
The albums will cost 7 USD at most per piece (so that buying both will cost the same or less than buying a regular CD), they will be released worldwide and half their price cost or profit will go to charity, most probably related to aiding Japan. Perhaps it could be that Kimono Girl gets released as an Aid Japan single, so the profit from the single and the amount of profit from the song per album unit, could be donated to Japan.
Here are the setlists.
Morning Version:
a-side or Disc 1 (notice it misses the Love&Glamour and My Heart intros, while no taste of Bionic, mainstream or alternative, is essentially missing):
01. I Am (Stripped)
02. Elastic Love
03. Desnudate
04. My Girls
05. Stronger Than Ever
06. Woohoo
07. Monday Morning
08. Glam
09. Not Myself Tonight
10. You Lost Me
11. Castle Walls (Bionic Version) (alternate version feat. TI)
12. Birds Of Prey
13. Lift Me Up
14. Kimono Girl
15. Bound To You (Bionic Version) (alternate version to the one in Burlesque OST)
16. Little Dreamer
17. All I Need
18. I Am
b-side or Disc 2:
01. Bionic
02. I Hate Boys
03. Morning Dessert
04. Sex For Breakfast
05. Primma Donna
06. Vanity
07. Bobblehead
Night Version:
a-side or Disc 1 (notice how it follows the fun-heartful-fun structure of the original Bionic, while keeping most songs at the same places pretty much):
01. Bionic
02. My Girls
03. WooHoo
04. I hate boys
05. Desnudate
06. Love&Glamour
07. Glam
08. Prima donna
09. My heart
10. All I need
11. I am (Stripped)
12. Morning dessert
13. Sex for breakfast
14. Lift me up
15. You lost me
16. Elastic love
17. Not myself tonight
18. Vanity
b-side or Disc 2:
01. Monday morning
02. Bobblehead
03. Birds of prey
04. Kimono girl
05. Little dreamer
06. Stronger than ever
07. Bound to you (bionic version) (alternate version to the one in Burlesque OST)
08. Castle walls (bionic version) (alternate version feat. TI)
09. I Am
Also this could be a digital only release (it also kind of works like an album sampler as it has a little more than half the songs-and it works by introducing you to the logic behind the morning version, just as much as the original Bionic release introduces you to the logic behind the night version). Released at minimum price, with full profit going to charity, for those who are not interested in buying the album anew:
01. I Am (Stripped)
02. Elastic Love
03. Desnudate
04. My Girls
05. Stronger Than Ever
06. Woohoo
07. Monday Morning
08. Glam
09. Not Myself Tonight
10. You Lost Me
11. Birds Of Prey
12. Lift Me Up
13. Little Dreamer
14. All I Need
So much for not going into promotion... 
Thank you so much!
your ideas are INSANE!(in a good way.) why aren't you her manager? you go into so much detail, you must have really thought it through! i hope some of your ideas are realized, the more Christina out there, the better!
Thnx ijamseeds when we also find a name (for us fans), we will be set to start our campaign to get to manage her officially.
loving you morning and night idea. maybe fans are better marketing strategists for her record brand to sell
Ok, so after our Bionic overview, I decided to change up this thread.
I also kept these video ideas from the original post because I kinda like them:
Kimono Girl video: Christina with Japanese face make-up appears in totally different settings inspired by various Japanese cultural elements, like Manga, Street Fashion, Geishas and countless more. But she also appears very simple and natural in a stripped down environment to balance things up.
My Girls video: A mix of MIA's airplanes, P!nk's Get This Party Started, Avril's What The Hell, and any Sex&TheCity trailer.
Very much a Gangsta video mixed with Bubblegum Pop aesthetic and a touch of Indie. Emphasis will be given to editing the transitions from scene to scene, to give the video a weird feel.
Desnudate video: Christina is in a Dirrty Era like setting, resembling an underground club.
The video has a very strong, cinematographic and busy visual full of close ups of various views in the club.
It is a gray-scale black-toned video featuring impressive strobe lighting and emphasizing in playing with time flow and heavy editing and mixing, promoting different textures (humid, windy, muddy, rough etc),
while people in the club interact and dance to the same addictive, highly demanding choreography for the song, as wind blows, water falls, lights go crazy, fire or mud spring and so on.
I Am video: Christina is in a neo-gothic decorated building that from the outside is like an organic sculpture with aerodynamic curves.
She appears in a variety of outfits inspired by floral shapes. So she's dressed as a rose, a lily, an orchid and so on.
She's dancing around the 'tower' going up. On each level she's either dancing solo, with a partner or a big company like she's in a ballroom party.
At the same time we get flying view glimpses of the surroundings and the outside of the building, going up gradually,
reaching to the top at the end of the song to see from a distance that it has X-Tina's form. We can also see real-life X-Tina dancing at the top 'balcony' (head or chest area of the building) with her partner.
Glam video:Christina's dining on jewelery and precious rocks. Christina and her female back-up dancers with minimal clothing and heavy jewelery on, weird haircuts and extreme make-up, give a runway show walking on a long dining table, with guys bound to the chairs around it.
Christina and her female dancers with even more extreme appearance dance to the choreography for the song in front of an empty font, as air blows from below and glitter falls, colorful lights flash etc.
Vanity video: The aesthetic of the video is somewhere between the videos for Not Myself Tonight and You Lost Me, while paying homage to the infamous Madonna-Britney-Christina moment (The kiss during 'Like a Virgin/Hollywood/Work It' medley, VMA's 2003).
It is a skit video, satyric, sarcastic, and mixes real-life scenes with cartoon animation. It depicts Queen X-Tina's preparations to marry herself.