Blind Item!- Christina Aguileras Vegas residency was not selling tickets!

“ The casino couldn't even give tickets away and get people interested in seeing this former A list singer perform. Hence, the postponement due to illness, while they strategize. ”

She’s a flop.

Someone said it best, Christina Aguilera is a great singer but isn’t likable. People would rather go see someone who is far less talented but is likable and has a lot of personality, like Britney.

That's really sad. She's a great singer with a good voice...when she doesn't do the over-singing, over the top shit.

Way more talented then Blow Job Spears.

Talent doesn’t give you a built in loyal fanbase. You need personality and people to like you.

Yeah. Here's the personality you think is admirable, r4

R5 her NOW isn’t her then. Grow up.

r6 YOU grow up, idiot. You're a mental midget. Christina bypassed her many times over.

Britney is and always was a drugged-up, stoopid, oversexed, chipmunk-voiced bitch.

If you don't realize that already, i'm sorry for you and anybody who calls you family.

R7 bypassed? Britney has sold over double the amount of albums as Christina and still has more fans with much larger tours. Lmaoooo

Yeah, because it's all about the money, r8.

How about TALENT?????????

R9 actually, you’re a retard. Money is the motive of that industry. Hence her show being postponed due to lack of sales. You make no sense and contradict yourself. You’re not educated and should probably learn your placing.

r10 I'm laughing myself to sleep over your oblivating reasons. Good night.

Who uses the word "retard" anymore?

I feel sorry for Christina. She is talented but also completely devoid of good taste - in many areas. I don't think she is a self-sabotager on purpose. She can't help herself to not suck and be annoying.

She should do a Viv biopic. She resembles her.

The price they are charging for the shows at this venue are ridiculous and really take the piss for literally an hour performance after taking out interludes- fans don’t want to be fleeced for a below par show at these prices

Sounds almost as bad as Janet's residency last year. They were giving away all you can eat buffets with each ticket.

That's why Janet herself bought some tickets.

An over-singer with no charisma and who is known to be a cunt.

Her Dirrty *outfits* and *styling* were atrocious.

Happy she finally found Ozempic.

I wouldn't go for free. I'd rather spend my hour doing...just about anything else.

R3 Ya gotta be joking. You seriously believe she doesn't do over-singing or over the top shit? She screams and yells every song.

R2 R3 She’s not a great singer.

She’s always screaming, she’s always doing the same exact runs in every song. Just because you can reach a high note doesn’t mean you have the ability to hit it and that’s her problem.

She’s a white girl who think she sings like a black girl and the truth is she can’t lol.

This is the only song where Christina actually sounds beautiful because it’s the only song she’s singing in her true comfortable range and she’s not screaming outside of it.

[quote] Britney is and always was a drugged-up, stoopid, oversexed, chipmunk-voiced bitch.

R7 Is the DL familiar with the conspiracy theory that Britney's voice is pitched in post production? (It sounds so plastic in "Oops..." etc. that it doesn't seem implausible to me, and "Toxic" is at least 90 percent an entirely different singer. Like JLo, many songs are just playback and credit stealing. (Nicole Scherzinger whose voice was a whole combo is just one example for that industry practise.)

Aguilera can sing, sorta but it's all too much to me. Layers upon layers of effect upon effect, like a pancake with maple sirup, extra sugar, vanilla ice, cream,... Nice for some fun songs but I don't admire her as an artist or anything. Spears is a projection space for fantasies, and I don't only mean those of straight males. Her face is very similar to Monroe's and she was the most attractive when the mystery was greatest. Since she started posting random shit on Instagram, it shows she's just a basic rich bitch. (Unlike Monroe who was really an interesting personality and authentically cared for others too.)

The Kylie show was fun but a fucking rip off. She didn’t even sing most of her most famous/beloved songs. Could have seen Madonna twice for the cost!

Vocal chops that she does not know how to use to create good vocal music. Like many modern singers she uses vocal prowess without musicianship and artistry.

Britney Spears has neither vocal prowess or artistry. She’s a burnt out teeny bopper hot mess. It’s actually sad.

I also believe Whitney lacked the artistry of Aretha, Ella, Sarah. Billie, and others. Belting “I Will Always Love You” had its limits. Sometimes she was spectacular when she combined great vocal ability with artistry, e.g., the National Anthem. I chalked it up to substance abuse- but then Garland (except for the last 5 years of her life), produced sublime music amid lifelong addictions.

You couldn’t pay me to go to Vegas to see CA.

[quote] She’s always screaming,

Sing TO me., not AT me.

She should get a backup act since her own can't stand on it's bloody legs. ;-)

Well, this just means we need to call Linda Lavin. She’s not dead yet

This might be partially to blame.

What You Need to Know Important Information Please Note: Voltaire is a new entertainment experience, and all tables have a minimum table spend to be used towards food and beverage during the show. Please note that this minimum table spend is in addition to your ticket purchase through Ticketmaster and you will be responsible for payment of this additional spend upon arrival to Voltaire. All spend at tables is subject to tax, gratuity, and service charge. Tickets are not eligible for resale or transfer. Minimum Table Spends per Table Type/Guest Count: Sapphire Tables - 8 Guests: $3,200*, 10 Guests: $4,000*; Diamond Tables - 8 Guests: $2,800*, 10 Guests: $3,500*; Gold Tables - 2 Guests: $650*, 4 Guests: $1,300*, 6 Guests: $1,950*, 10 Guests: $3,250*; Silver Tables - 2 Guests: $600*, 4 Guests: $1,200*; Bronze Tables - 2 Guests: $500*, 4 Guests: $1,000*, 6 Guests: $1,500*. *Min. Table Spend + Tax, Gratuity, & Service Charge

[quote]Well, this just means we need to call Linda Lavin. She’s not dead yet

Over my dead body.

Yeah, a $300+tax per person minimum on food and drinks is over the top. Who wants to have food and drinks like that at a concert?

$1300 table charge for 4, medium level! Plus ticket price. What fan base has this kind of cash?

PLUS tax and tip. AND "service charge".

I saw a show a few weeks ago and it was full but the people who could afford to pay for the front rows were boring AF. They just sat there. Everyone in the back were on their feet having a good time.

Christina graduated from the "Patti Labelle screeching-screaming school" with a master's degree in "I suck at singing"

She sings " at the audience" not "to or with the audience." Also, she's not very likeable!!

Lower the price. It will sell.

Doesn’t have many memorable songs.

Oversings.

Comes across as extremely unlikeable.

Not a recipe for a selling (very expensive) tickets.

She’s not much of an entertainer

How many Aguilera fans travel in packs of 6, 8, or 10 to need to reserve tables that large? A table of four for two couples should be the max.

Realestalker used to review her real estate deals.

She had an obnoxious pet designer who needed a different career. Every photo was worse than the other - as if Rosemary Clooney smoked meth and ordered all the furnishings from Overstock at once.

Her ballads with Linda Perry are her best songs. This one is pretty.

Signing up to that venue means she (her team) overestimated how much people would pay to see her.

It's a long time since she was A list.

Maybe they could have her serve the drinks between sets?

I really think that would pull them in.

Maybe they should give the tickets away in exchange for attending a 90-minute timeshare tour.

R49, at those prices she’d have to bring me drinks AND change at intermission. Tax and tip included, of course.

r32 here

After I read here about her tickets not selling, I went to Ticketmaster hoping to scoop up a couple cheap tickets as a consolation prize for not seeing Kylie, but fuck no.

How is this a “blind item”? It’s a topic for DL, but not a blind item.

Someone needs to show OP a well-written blind item, and not this Enty CDAN crap.

R38 Patti can sing though, she’s just extra and over the top.

Christina actually screams. It doesn’t sound pleasant or controlled, it sounds noisy and damaged. Singing is not supposed to look or sound painful.

When Christina hits her “high notes”, it looks painful and it sounds it too. Her fans would compare her “rasp” to Janis Joplin but Janis just had a smoky raspy voice from whiskey and cigarettes. Christina has a strain in her voice because her range isn’t actually that high, she simply has the ability to get it that high. That’s why it sounds like she’s shitting a brick.

Patti is very controlled. She’s constantly trying to shatter glass but she’s in control of her voice.

Karma. She was so nasty as a judge on The Voice. This all seems like karma for sticking knives into the souls of so many contestants.

She could never really recover after the canonical tweet about her appearance on Maroon 5's "Moves like Jagger":

"Christina was at her lowest...fat, nasty and broke. Career in shambles. She came on this bitch mad as hell!!!"

[quote]Realestalker used to review her real estate deals. She had an obnoxious pet designer who needed a different career.

I remember the interior of one house was kind of the equivalent of interior design vomit. It was colorful, chaotic and ugly. The most notorious part was her baby son’s room that had a massive floor to ceiling sized crescent moon painted with a face that was the stuff of nightmares. That thing was scary!

Here it is in case anyone is curious.

Has any (female) singer who has gone on to join the panels of shows like The Voice or American Idol had continued chart/sales success? The examples that come to mind are Christina, Katy Perry, Mariah Carey, Britney, Gwen Stefani and maybe Nikki Minaj. I am sure there are more, but (could be wrong) it seems all of these artists either joined these types of shows after their pop careers had already faded or were beginning to. Christina and Katy may be the best examples. It seems like their popularity fell off of a cliff.

I seem to remember that after Etta James died, they had Christina sing "At Last" at her funeral.

She sounded like a vacuum cleaner.

Ariana Grande basically stole Christina's thunder. The gays found a newer, younger "diva" with some pipes and left Christina lying in the dust, a sad, forgotten heap. At least, that's how it seems.

R61 It was Lady Gaga who was the nail in Christina’s coffin.

Right around the time Lady Gaga exploded, Xtina was accused of copying her with the visuals for “Keeps Getting Better”. Xtina was being shady. When someone asked her what does he think about Lady Gaga, she said she had never heard of him (yes, him).

So that cause a big backlash and Xtina came out with “Bionic” and it was a total flop and people accused her of copying Madonna and Gaga and it just did her in.

“Bionic” was a massive failure too. It tanked hard. She was really one of the first big modern pop stars to go from really successful to absolute flop.

[quote]She’s a flop.

Ahhh. So she's basically turned into Janet Jackson?

That last clip of Christina in R54’s video, hilarious. And horrific to listen to. And God Whitney was great at her peak.

R64: I don’t think she can sell out concerts anywhere else but at least Janet does consistently tour the US successfully still. Her Vegas residency did well too.

I’m in my mid 20’s and she’s not really popular with my generation. Britney however is.

R60 Was it Xtina? I recall it being Beyonce. Gotta go look this up now.

It was Obama's 2008 inauguration ball where Beyonce sang "At Last," and I recall Etta James being mad about it.

Dirrty style updated and reinforced with industrial strength spanx.

No thanks.

Yes, I just looked that up R69. I posted too soon.... should have done my homework first!

Kylie Minogue is nowhere as big as Christina was in the States but she managed to completely sell out her Voltaire residency to the point she had to add even more dates which instantly sold out as well in spite of Voltaire's obscenely high markup for even Las Vegas standards. They're practically charging $250 for a £6 bottle of Kylie Minogue Rosè.

R72 speaks the truth.

Kylie is also beloved and a known sweetheart. That, and she rarely tours in the states, AND her fan base is mostly aging gay men with more and more expendable income.

Christina has no relationship with the gay community, judging by her looks over the years.

[quote]Sounds almost as bad as Janet's residency last year.

Janet’s residency was in 2018 and every night was sold out.

[quote]Has any (female) singer who has gone on to join the panels of shows like The Voice or American Idol had continued chart/sales success? The examples that come to mind are Christina, Katy Perry, Mariah Carey, Britney, Gwen Stefani and maybe Nikki Minaj.

You forgot the one who started it all - Paula Abdul.

She sounds best here. Angelic, almost. No high notes. No belting. Just singing.

Good point R77. Paula Abdul did pretty well for herself if you think about it.

[quote]Ahhh. So she's basically turned into Janet Jackson?

No. Janet still successfully tours and her last album was a number 1.

But you tried it.

Oh please R80. Don't post your made-up-alternate-universe crap about Janet Jackson here without reputable links.

She's ok but nobody has even thought of her since the early 2000s. She had some good songs in the nineties.

Calm the fuck down, gurlina R81. Go search for your reputable links on your own damn time. Janet just announced yesterday an extension of her successful Together Again tour from last year. Every Super Bowl Sunday for years now has been deemed Janet Jackson Appreciation Day on social media. She had a highly rated documentary on cable a couple of years ago the same week DWTS had a Janet Jackson night, her last album Unbreakable made her the only black artist with a number 1 album across four consecutive decades, and she is still recognized as one of the architects of the modern day dance/pop star without having to degrade and embarrass herself on social media in an attempt to prove said point (ala you-know-who). Her influence shows in all your faves, whether you want to cop to it or not. Now go read or book and educate yourself.

I think her career started crashing when she married her “manager”.

R84, didn't it crash when she ditched him? Ain't No Other Man was the only song of hers that was decent (inspired by him?) and she worked a retro look at that time that was stylish.

Then the divorce.

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