Christina Aguilera’s new video has rubber, bondage, topless gentlemen dancing in the rain, and Aguilera herself lezzing up with a lot of other pretty ladies. It may be blatantly exploiting and manipulating sexual niches for commercial reasons, but… but… but… it’s hot! I love it! I’ve fallen into a cynical marketer’s trap and am thoroughly enjoying it in there!
Yes. I know. I’m shallow and unprincipled, but you’ll probably understand my position once you’ve seen it.
Apologies if there are a load of odd foreign adverts attached to the embedded video player. It’s not on YouTube due to copyright problems, so I’ve had to yoink it from a mysterious site I found at the arse-end of Google.
Of course am all in favour of this variety of entertainment but….can imagine the conversation – “it’s 20 years since Madonna did this kind of thing, let’s rip it off only don’t do it as well and let’s make it clear that we don’t really mean it like she did…”