Christina Aguilera - Your Body

2012 has been a bit of an uninteresting year for music.  I'm not even sure what the song of the summer actually was, a lot of people are saying, "Call Me Maybe," but I remember listening to that song way back last year.  Personally, I'd pick either "Wild Ones" or "Payphone."  But anyways, it looks likes things are seriously picking up this fall and winter. We'll be getting hits from Ke$ha, Lady Gaga, P!nk, Nicki Minaj, No Doubt, Nelly Furtado, and of course Christina Aguilera.  I feels like forever since rumors of a song called, "Love Ya Body" were floating around, well looks like it's finally here, only now just called, "Your Body."

Christina is coming out of a really rocky zone.  Her "Bionic" album was a much bigger failure than expected, and it all went downhill from there.  She's making a comeback now and this is the big single representing that.  It's powerful, it's got that really raw Christina sound that she's famous for.  She's back in action and not holding anything back.

The song moves quickly at first, but really breaks out at the chorus with a pounding beat.  Rough strength is put into everyone word as they're drilled into your head.  It's definitely a good strategy as it's so easy to get that rhythm stuck in your head and find yourself humming or bobbing to it throughout the day.

The lyrics also take a pretty strong approach.  Whether your listening to the explicit version or the clean version, it's still very clear what the meaning is.  "All I want to do is love your body." What else could that mean?  She's not making any unusual euphemisms, she's just shouting it out plain and simple.  Like everything about the song, it's bursting with confidence and strength.

The one thing that gets me about the song, though, is how formulaic it is.  There's nothing particularly new or unique brought out here.  I'm not going to drag on this, though, since she's coming from rock bottom, so it makes sense that she'd want to stick with the winning formulaic.  It's still a great song, just not as interesting as it could be.

This is going to be a big hit for Aguilera, the question is can she stand up to the massive competition?  It's going to be tough, but can she hold her own against the likes of Carly Rae Jepsen, Ke$ha, Lady Gaga, and various others?  Only time will tell.