Is Bionic REALLY a flop or was ahead of its time?

[JordanMiller is Fggt]

This album was a bop! But Christina kinda deserved the hate because she was a nasty shady person thinking she was on Britney's level. I'm glad she kinda flopped and Gaga took her spot the same way Cardi b came and took Nicki spot for being cocky and arrogant. God works in mysterious ways don't he? 

[thebritmaster]

I love Bionic, it has some amazing songs. But at the time the aesthetic really did feel too Gaga inspired  So musically it was great but I didn’t like the looks / visual art side of it

[On_Mah_Raydah]

The ballads kill the entire sound of the album. Whoever was in charge of the tracklist is the real flop. The bonus tracks are way better than some of the actual songs.

 

Birds of Prey is a masterpiece.

[Sgt Spears deputy]

My favourite album of her.

[filmandstage13]

It has its moments, but it’s no Stripped. I think it’s a bit overlong. I hardly ever make it all the way through. Sometimes artists have a lot of great ideas and struggle with editing them down, and I feel like that’s what happened here.

And with all that was included, I still don’t know why Birds of Prey didn’t make the standard edition.

Also, I never followed Perez at all, so I don’t know what impact that had on the public’s reception. But I do think it was a misstep to put out “Not Myself Tonight” as the first single. It was the most Gaga-esque track on the album and basically welcomed the comparisons. It didn’t help that she looked like Gaga in the video with all the latex and the hair. It just came off that she was a couple years behind for an album that was supposed to be ahead of its time.

I think if it had come out before Poker Face it would have been viewed differently, maybe even revolutionary. But it felt a little like bandwagon jumping at the time, especially coming off such a radically different era like Back to Basics.

Still, excited for her upcoming music! I think she’s still got some great ideas in her!

[pieceofphil]

I know I get read to filth for this, but this album felt like a Gaga copy, which I know can't be as it was long before in production but Gaga did the pop electronic thing so much better and lived it. Whereas Christina went back and forth with her looks, her performances and lastly her attitude was somewhere in the clouds after back to basics.

Yes there are three songs that really stood out but there also were too many songs that felt like a bad demo missing something. Also she didn't do as many ad libs on that album if I remember correctly. It felt overly generic which is why I didn't like it as a whole as much. I'm fine with the singles and birds of prey though.

[Sea flower]

Probably ahead of its time, but i still don't like it to this date. There are some very good songs and some that i really dislike and i thought Xtina could do much better...like Desnúdate.

[theannehedonia]

It was both ahead of its time and a flop. It didn't do well commercially, which is the definition of a flop. But a lot of the songs still hold up today, so that's saying something.

[returcus]

She even introduces us to word "flop" it wasnt used until Bionic and Floptina. Legend X ha strikes again!

[Neydelinska Spearsi]

8 minutes ago, returcus said:

She even introduces us to word "flop" it wasnt used until Bionic and Floptina. Legend X ha strikes again!

Omg stop ****ting on Bionic, let us live in 2010 ffs! It's our coping mechanism or some **** idk. Surviving 2020-21 is a ******* science

[The JayTawndre Show]

5 hours ago, Jordan Miller said:

The correct answer is ahead of its time. Confirmed.

Facts.

Bionic is in my Xtina Holy Trinity 

[MortalMarshmallow]

It’s kinda funny that looking like a cheap ******* (Stripped era) really suited her , but looking like a more high maintenance ******* (Bionic era) did not .

 

Her off brand/try hard aesthetics were at least half the reason why the album failed . 

[Korb]

Can't it be both?

[nwonder]

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

jk Idk. I didn’t listen 

[Adriannn]

It's a great album and you all have to deal

[electricopop]

It was ahead of its time, just bad promo and choice of singles.

[Jaiden]

Not a cohesive album at all

But I think it flopped cause the public wasnt seeing her like that big anymore

When she last released her álbum (before Bionic) in 2006, a lot happened.

Rihanna, Gaga, Katy rising to superstardom, there were Nelly Furtado and Fergie big sucess, Britney's comeback, Bey slaying...

 

[ROL]

Bionic feels both behind and ahead of its time if you get what I mean. I feel that album stricly had to come out in 2008 or 2009 latest. I think it’s a flop, love Xtina but B2B and Stripped are way better. I was re-listening to Liberation the other day but I’ve honestly only listened to Bionic once lol.

 

On 10/30/2021 at 8:51 PM, returcus said:

That's not true. She had the album ready with Glam as a first single (with the same idea to put tribute to Madonna but to Vouge) but before shooting Burlesque. After the movie she felt reinspired and decided to go back to studio - that's how NMT Woohoo and IHB were born. And she decided to include them and that's it. We don't know how much label was pushing for more safe sounding tracks, but for sure she couldnt put everything just like that as she wanted. She wanted Birds Of Prey as a single

Omg this is really interesting, I love Glam and wished it was a single, honesty feel like it would’ve initially been a moderate/gay hit and over time in a few years it would have slowly grown to a GP hit similar to Work Btch’s trajectory.

[Whyshouldibsad21]

Ahead of its time for sure. I really think the hate from perez and gaga made it cool to hate on this album. 

[ObsessedBritFan1]

She needs to work bish.