Sing for Me (Christina Aguilera song)
| "Sing for Me" | ||||
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| Song by Christina Aguilera | ||||
| from the album Lotus | ||||
| Length | 4:00 | |||
| Label | RCA | |||
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| Producer(s) | Aeon "Step" Manahan | |||
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"Sing for Me" is a song recorded by American recording artist Christina Aguilera for her seventh studio album, Lotus (2012). It was written by Ginny Blackmore, Aguilera and producer Aeon "Step" Manahan. Described by Aguilera as being one of the more emotional tracks on Lotus, the song was inspired by the music of Whitney Houston, Mariah Carey, and Etta James, to which she had frequently listened while growing up.
"Sing for Me" received positive reviews from music critics, many of whom praised Aguilera's vocal performance. One critic described the song as a new version of "Beautiful" (2002), while many felt that the song was produced in response to the commercial failure of her sixth studio album, Bionic (2010). Upon the release of Lotus, the song debuted on the South Korea international singles chart at number 125 with digital download sales of 2,306.
Following her sixth studio album, Bionic (2010), Aguilera filed for divorce from her husband Jordan Bratman, starred in her first feature film called Burlesque and recorded its accompanying soundtrack. Aguilera became a coach on NBC's singing competition show The Voice and was featured on Maroon 5's single "Moves Like Jagger" (2011), which was on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart for four consecutive weeks. After these events, Aguilera revealed that she had begun to work on her seventh studio album, saying that she wanted to find high quality and "personal" songs for to record. Regarding the creative direction, she revealed that the album would be a "culmination of everything I've experienced up until this point ... I've been through a lot since the release of my last album, being on ('The Voice'), having had a divorce ... This is all sort of a free rebirth for me." She further said "I'm embracing many different things, but it's all feel-good, super-expressive [and] super-vulnerable." Aguilera continued to say that the album would be about "self–expression and freedom" because of the personal struggles she had overcome during the last couple of years. Speaking about her new material during an interview on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno in 2012, Aguilera said that the recording process for Lotus was taking a while because "I don't like to just get songs from producers. I like them to come from a personal place ... I'm very excited. It's fun, exciting, introspective, it's going to be great". "Sing for Me" was initially written by Blackmore about her experience with the music industry; upon hearing the song Aguilera had trouble identifying with some of its lyrics, so she and Blackmore met up and rewrote parts of the song.
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