Bionic was a great album.
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In response to the negativism surrounding the album, Aguilera claimed that "Bionic" was ahead of its time. "I can proudly say it was ahead of its time, to be honest," Aguilera told Billboard. "It wasn't so commercialised. You had to really be a music lover, be a true fan of music and the love of being open to really appreciate that record. It's just a special piece in my body of work that will forever live on." She also added: "The older the record gets the more people will come to appreciate it actually and check it out."[89] Daniel Hunt of Ladytron, blamed RCA, saying bluntly that Christina’s label "*******ed up everything" when it came to putting together the final album.[48]
After Aguilera's response, Sam Lansky wrote for MTV Buzzworthy that the album was "precociously brilliant" and "how thrilling most those songs are", claiming that "the songs on the deluxe edition are forward-thinking and even timeless, galactic pop with subversive, ambient production." Lansky noted that "In its own way, Bionic neatly illustrates the dangers artists face when aggressively trying to keep up with 'current' music. As a result, futuristic pop tracks can already sound dated by the time they’re released. And even when they don’t, those chart-chasing songs don’t age particularly gracefully. But two years after the fact, Bionic‘s moments of greatness remain about as good as it gets."[48] In similar vein, Mike Wass of Idolator wrote that "the album holds up better than expected, and is actually an intriguing — if somewhat disjointed and often meandering — collection of songs. Christina’s assertion that she was ahead of the curve is inarguably correct."
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so true