Christina Aguilera - Genie Gets Her Wish

Christina Aguilera - Genie Gets Her Wish


Starring:Christina Aguilera
Studio: RCA
Product Type: DVD

Editorial Review:
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This video souvenir saluting teeny pop princess and Grammy winner (as Best New Artist) Christina Aguilera is a textbook example of the hybrid documentary format that's proving de rigeur for recording artists courting the burgeoning teen and pre-teen audience. Shot on videotape and mixing backstage atmosphere, between-shows conversations, interview clips, and fan testimonials with music videos, Genie Gets Her Wish offers the same sort of cheerfully uncritical portrait accorded Aguilera's peers including the Backstreet Boys, 'N Sync, and Britney Spears in their own video valentines.

Like Spears (who's conspicuously invoked as both friend and former New Mouseketeer colleague), Aguilera combines a curiously old-fashioned show-biz work ethic with a contemporary persona that intoxicates young teen boys, inspires young girls, and likely triggers mild anxiety attacks for some parents. No father can watch this profile's footage of prepubescent girls wiggling along to the singer's signature hit, "Genie in a Bottle," with its sly entendres ("You've got to rub me the right way...") and not ponder the meaning of innocence in the 21st century. Moms likewise may want to find a hotline to help counsel their daughters on the dangers of blue eyeliner abuse and excessive blow-drying.

However, even jaded boomers and Gen-X ironists may have a hard time ignoring Aguilera's outsized vocal gifts. While it's sobering to hear her cite such "old-timers" as Whitney Houston and Mariah Carey as influences, it's beguiling when the 18-year-old gamine, accompanied by her RCA Records executive angel, Ron Fair, leaps into an impromptu performance of the Etta James classic "At Last." If the lyric seems precocious coming from Aguilera's bee-stung lips, that voice warrants the choice, offering a tantalizing glimpse of what could happen if she successfully navigates beyond the frothier waters of teen pop to more mature music. --Sam Sutherland
Christina Aguilera - Genie Gets Her Wish
Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
  • Only in 2 channel stereo and to much talking & interviews
  • A Good Introduction to Christina!
  • CHRISTINA THIS AIN'T ENOUGH, RELEASE ALL OF EM!
  • Young Christina
  • Below Average
 Christina Aguilera - Genie Gets Her Wish
Starring: Christina Aguilera
Manufacturer: RCA
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ASIN: 6305747105
Release Date: 2000-02-08

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This video souvenir saluting teeny pop princess and Grammy winner (as Best New Artist) Christina Aguilera is a textbook example of the hybrid documentary format that's proving de rigeur for recording artists courting the burgeoning teen and pre-teen audience. Shot on videotape and mixing backstage atmosphere, between-shows conversations, interview clips, and fan testimonials with music videos, Genie Gets Her Wish offers the same sort of cheerfully uncritical portrait accorded Aguilera's peers including the Backstreet Boys, 'N Sync, and Britney Spears in their own video valentines.

Like Spears (who's conspicuously invoked as both friend and former New Mouseketeer colleague), Aguilera combines a curiously old-fashioned show-biz work ethic with a contemporary persona that intoxicates young teen boys, inspires young girls, and likely triggers mild anxiety attacks for some parents. No father can watch this profile's footage of prepubescent girls wiggling along to the singer's signature hit, "Genie in a Bottle," with its sly entendres ("You've got to rub me the right way...") and not ponder the meaning of innocence in the 21st century. Moms likewise may want to find a hotline to help counsel their daughters on the dangers of blue eyeliner abuse and excessive blow-drying.

However, even jaded boomers and Gen-X ironists may have a hard time ignoring Aguilera's outsized vocal gifts. While it's sobering to hear her cite such "old-timers" as Whitney Houston and Mariah Carey as influences, it's beguiling when the 18-year-old gamine, accompanied by her RCA Records executive angel, Ron Fair, leaps into an impromptu performance of the Etta James classic "At Last." If the lyric seems precocious coming from Aguilera's bee-stung lips, that voice warrants the choice, offering a tantalizing glimpse of what could happen if she successfully navigates beyond the frothier waters of teen pop to more mature music. --Sam Sutherland

Customer Reviews:

2 out of 5 stars Only in 2 channel stereo and to much talking & interviews.......2007-02-07

Wow, she has to travel and stay in hotels. Never would have guessed that.

4 out of 5 stars A Good Introduction to Christina!.......2005-09-04

I think this is a pretty good introduction to pop star Christina.

It shows her interacting with some fans, dancing to some songs on her debut, and some questions they ask her. You also get to meet her manager and some of the people she works with.

At points shes singing live, a live performance of "Genie in a Bottle" is the opening to this dvd.

This dvd also follows around Christina on some of the things she does on tour.

I recommend you rent it if you're just a fan, but I'd buy it if you're a huge fan.

1 out of 5 stars CHRISTINA THIS AIN'T ENOUGH, RELEASE ALL OF EM!.......2005-01-05

I REALLY, REALLY, REEEEEAAAAAALLLLLLY WISH CHRISTINA AGUILERA WOULD RELEASE A VIDEO COLLECTION WITH ALL OF HER VIDEOS, BRITNEY HAS DONE THAT, WHY HAVEN'T YOU, CHRISTINA?! I REALLY WANT YOUR VIDEOS ON DVD!!! THESE TWO ARE CUTE BUT LEAVE ME WANTING A LOT MORE! OKAY, WELL, THE VIDEOS FROM 'STRIPPED' ARE TRASHY AND AT TIMES JUST PLAIN SCARY BUT I REALLY WANT THE VIDEOS FROM HER DEBUT AND HER SIDE PROJECTS LADY MARMALADE, NOBODY WANTS TO BE LONELY, THE CHRISTMAS SONG AND CAR WASH.....CHRISTINA, I BEG YOU!!!! RELEASE A VIDEO COLLECTION, YOU KNOW THE FANS ALL WANT IT!!!

5 out of 5 stars Young Christina .......2004-12-15

This is a great DVD for someone that wants to learn about this young artist and how she got started in this part of her career excerpts from this occur in her"My Reflection"Christmas Special" and Tape.I think this is a Great To Have for anyone that wants everything Christina Aguilera.

1 out of 5 stars Below Average.......2004-08-01

"My Reflections" dvd is much better as it is a concert. This dvd is a bunch of videos and interviews. Not a keeper. Rent in first.
Genie Gets Her Wish
Average customer rating: Not rated
    		Genie Gets Her Wish
    Starring: Christina Aguilera
    Manufacturer: Bmg Special Product
    ProductGroup: DVD
    Binding: DVD

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    GeneralGeneral | Dance Pop | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music
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    GeneralGeneral | Adult Contemporary | Pop | Styles | Music
    Ballet & DanceBallet & Dance | Musicals & Performing Arts | Genres | DVD | Video
    GeneralGeneral | Music Video & Concerts | Genres | DVD | Video
    GeneralGeneral | Pop | Music Video & Concerts | Genres | DVD | Video
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    ASIN: B000IFSGUI
    Release Date: 2006-10-03
    Christina Aguilera: Genie Gets Her Wish
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      		Christina Aguilera: Genie Gets Her Wish
      Starring: Christina Aguilera , Nick Aragon , Jermaine Browne , George Mynatt , and Jorge Santos (IV)
      Director: Clare Grace Davies
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