Aguilera credited Carey’s “Vision of Love” as the song that inspired her to be a singer, and to try and imitate the melisma she heard Carey deliver in the song. According to Pier Dominguez, Aguilera stated that it was Carey who had the biggest influence on her vocal style. ![]() Aguilera said early in her career that Mariah Carey was another influence. A review in The Guardian declared, “Practically everything recorded before Aguilera was born blurs into one amorphous genre, which she categorises, somewhat inadequately, as ‘fun music'”. The album included an unreleased song, “Slow Down Baby”, which sampled a Gladys Knight & the Pips song. In her early years she listened to vintage jazz, blues, and soul music. Prior to performing Aguilera stated, “There’s a line in this song that says ‘I found a dream that I could speak to.’ And for me that dream, all my life, has been Etta James.” The majority of her album, Back to Basics, pays tribute to James and other pop standard singers who many originated from the 1950s. I mean, all of Etta’s old songs, countless songs I could name, I grew up listening to.” Following James’ death in 2012, Aguilera was asked to perform “At Last” at her funeral. I’ve said it for the last seven years – since I had my first debut record out – in every interview. Aguilera says, “Etta is my all-time favorite singer. Btw, Xtina has been shady towards Mariah and its evident: for example on one of her interviews she was asked about Mariah she goes on to say “Oh Mariah,….*laughs*…I will say she is a great song writer, I will give her that.” Implying what? Trying to shade her vocals, when she, Xtina, emulated her style for so long? That s*** doesn’t sit well with me.Īguilera’s major influence and idol is blues singer Etta James, whose classic song “At Last” has been covered by Aguilera throughout her career. She could avoid all this by saying she would rather not mention Mariah and talk about her work alone. She also talked about Mariah in her “Extra” interview. Btw, Xtina talked about Mariah in her last interview with Billboard magazine. This site uses Xtina to shade Mariah, so this doesn’t help Xtina one bit. I realize that not everyone will like Mariah, but to call Mariah fat, has-been, etc when Xtina herself isn’t skinny and is now talked about because of the exposure from “The Voice”. I just now expect her to bring Mariah into it. Sadly, when I saw the title of this article I wasn’t surprised by it one bit. ![]() ![]() The name calling happens at both ends, even I am guilty of it.
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