3. Woohoo feat. Nicki Minaj 6. Love Not Myself Tonight was released in April 2010, and You Lost Me was released in June. Woohoo was released in the United States and some European countries, while I Hate Boys was exclusively released in Australia and New Zealand. Bionic was promoted in mid-2010 by television performances, such as Aguilera's appearances on The Oprah Winfrey Show, American Idol, and Today. A concert tour was initially planned to support the album; nevertheless it never materialized. Contents 1 Background and development 2 Recording and production 3 Music 4 Lyrics 5 Release and artwork 6 Promotion 7 Singles 8 Critical reception 9 Commercial performance 10 Track listing 11 Credits and personnel 12 Charts 12.1 Weekly charts 12.2 Year-end charts 13 Sales and certifications 14 Release history 15 Notes.
If you missed the details of Lady Gaga and Perez Hilton’s batshit Twitter feud, here’s a recap: Lady Gaga, a Bennington thesis who also sings, accused her former bestie, celebrity gossip gremlin Perez Hilton, of stalking her at her New York City apartment, prompting Hilton to claim that Gaga is a Very Bad Person who has pathologically sabotaged the careers of her contemporaries (namely: Christina Aguilera, Natalia Kills, Kerli, Katy Perry, Porcelain Black and also someone named Truth Tea, with whom I’m not familiar — is that a man or a woman?). Now, Hilton has fired some additional shots by amplifying a new movement (viva la revolución!) called Justice For Bionic (see the graphic above encouraging true lovers of music to hit retailers on November 11 not to purchase Gaga’s ARTPOP but instead, to buy Christina Aguilera’s much-derided 2010 LP Bionic. Justice For Bionic is currently picking up steam on Twitter, although at press time, it has yet to overtake other trending topics such as “ piştthaditakipleşelim.” For me, this elevates the diva warfare of Gaga’s “ Applause” vs. Katy Perry’s “ Roar” to dazzling new heights; there’s something wonderfully out-of-touch about introducing a three-year-old Christina Aguilera album into the mix. It feels perfectly in keeping with the dire conditions within fan culture: There remains wildly disproportionate enthusiasm for an artist like Aguilera, whose commercial relevance is increasingly dubious even as her status as an icon among her own fans grows ever clearer, while on the opposing side, the virulence of dialogue among Gaga’s fans has reached such an epic scale that she’s forced to release a statement about their propensity for hate speech. All of that is compounded by everyone’s hysterically distorted sense of fairness and entitlement, whether it’s Gaga (however unintentionally) playing fast and loose with the chart rules while.
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