That Times Two Of The Month

In case you don't already find Christina Aguilera kind of tiresome and dim-witted (full disclosure—I've dealt with, or rather not dealt with, her closeup briefly) despite her catchy music and bangin' pipes, her lame Out cover interview might help:

"'I don't get to kiss all the girls and the boys,' Aguilera says, 'but my husband knows that I get into girls. I think it's fun to be open and play. The line is real to me. My husband and I check in with each other, but I definitely love women. I think they're more attractive to the naked eye,' she says before adding, 'I don't think I could ever really be with a woman because that's a lot of...what do you call it? Guys have testosterone, girls have...' Estrogen? 'Yeah, there's a lot of estrogen and I'm a lot to deal with when it's that time of the month, so I can't imagine it times two.' Aguilera pauses and then shakes her head. 'And you know, I love dick. To be honest, that I cannot live without.' She sucks her Ricola with a vengeance."

She seems to want to be bisexual, and then to talk herself out of it within the same interview. And women look better to the naked eye as opposed to under a microscope? Plus, I know we're post-feminist now but the estrogen part makes her sound dumber than Miss Oklahoma, who thinks she was "cured" of lupus.

Great voice she's got. When it's singing.

Comments

[Matt]

"Great voice she's got. When it's singing" Love it Matthew!

[Mark]

Her leaked tracks are extraordinary.

I never found her a great public speaker, but I don't think she is as bad here as you make it sound. In the context of an interview someone taking a few seconds or needing to get clarification in getting the word "estrogen" does not mean that they are "dumb." Come on.

Also, I find the use of word "dumb" somewhat ableist.

[Matthew Rettenmund]

lol on ableist. I said she has great pipes. For a woman approaching the age of 30 not to know the word estrogen, that is dumb.

[Matt]

Mark, extraordinary is not really how I would define her leaked tracks...they are not bad but there is nothing special about it. Her music video looked so dated, like a mix of everything we had already seen in the past 30 pop music years...too bad because her last two albums really delivered imo.
Now, she sounds really dumb when interviewed in comparison to some other actual popstars (well, certainly not Britney Spears but compared to Lady Gaga, Beyonce or Rihanna for example). She just sounds so white and yes, a little dumb.

[forgetmenot]

Here's my beef: we actually live in incredibly interesting and exciting times as gay people. For example, we are well underway in a transformative period where an entire generation is growing up largely indifferent to sexuality, to say the least. Movies like Boy Culture and the 1st Another Gay Movie are emblematic, but only a detail. Across America there are just thousands of really interesting stories to tell that have a gay angle. But the gay media seems so fixated on telling only the same dozen stories over and over. I get it on one level, if your purpose is to piggy back on the monolith and skim a buck, but if your purpose is to invigorate the reader, then in my humble opinion the job of Out should be to take the arcane, the hidden, the clever, the obtuse, the holier-than-thou, and give it the full Christina Aguilera treatment. Bring the story out with that polished, sorta shallow but translatable POV for which mass media was invented. To simply regurgitate every one else's story with a thing gay veneer seems to me like a waste of time. Like I said, we live in interesting times. Why can't Out be in the business of capturing that and presenting it to us with panache?