Christina Aguilera's new single 'Ain't No Other Man'

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I can't find a thread about this... Best song she's ever done! Does anyone know who produced it? If anyone have the remix with Big Boi please share.

― Lovelace (Lovelace), Friday, 2 June 2006 12:50 (twenty years ago)

I love this.

― Grand (grand), Friday, 2 June 2006 12:55 (twenty years ago)

i cant dl but isnt this from her all premo album

― and what (ooo), Friday, 2 June 2006 12:56 (twenty years ago)

She's been working with DJ Premier?! I didn't see that one coming.

I can't get enough of this song!

― Lovelace (Lovelace), Friday, 2 June 2006 12:59 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, it's done by Primo but it's some old simple horn sample which sounds more like some Rich Harrison type shit.

Primo should get M.O.P, The NYGz and Poet up in teh video if he's up in it himself.

― $howbiz and a texa$ g, Friday, 2 June 2006 13:13 (twenty years ago)

premo did all of royces next LP too, theres a new cut called 'ding ding' making the rounds already thats pretty dope

― and what (ooo), Friday, 2 June 2006 13:25 (twenty years ago)

sorry, under the circumstances i figure it best to remove the YSI link as Andrew has explicity stated he doesn't want links to copyright music posted directly on ILM anymore (altho the FAQ may not be up to date).

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Friday, 2 June 2006 13:31 (twenty years ago)

now i feel dirrty...

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Friday, 2 June 2006 13:33 (twenty years ago)

Oh, I wasn't aware of that. It's been awhile since I posted on ILM

― Lovelace (Lovelace), Friday, 2 June 2006 13:47 (twenty years ago)

YS...oh snap. Damn, I want to hear this!

― musically (musically), Friday, 2 June 2006 18:03 (twenty years ago)

(hype machine)

― Tape Store (Tape Store), Friday, 2 June 2006 18:05 (twenty years ago)

She does have a fantastic voice though, doesn't she?

― shorty (shorty), Friday, 2 June 2006 18:09 (twenty years ago)

Oh, I actually do like this song quite a bit...It's no "Toxic," but it's still nice.

I forgot to add the url: hype machine

― Tape Store (Tape Store), Friday, 2 June 2006 18:12 (twenty years ago)

If you want to hear the song it streams automatically when you go to christinaaguilera.com.

I like it, it has a definite old school vibe to it. What's up with her new album...I thought it was going to be mostly standards or something?

― musically (musically), Friday, 2 June 2006 18:28 (twenty years ago)

Soul Sides has it.

― schwantz (schwantz), Friday, 2 June 2006 20:03 (twenty years ago)

This is great.

What's up with her new album...I thought it was going to be mostly standards or something?

Naw, just a bit "old-timey".

― Dr. Rodney's Original Savannah Band (R. J. Greene), Friday, 2 June 2006 21:51 (twenty years ago)

this is one of my favorite tracks of the year so far!

― helix aspersa (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 2 June 2006 22:33 (twenty years ago)

Damn!

A WHOLE ALBUM OF THIS SORT OF THING PLZ THX

― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Friday, 2 June 2006 22:37 (twenty years ago)

She screams too much in it. But I love the beat.

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Friday, 2 June 2006 22:54 (twenty years ago)

she doesn't scream, she shouts!

― helix aspersa (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 2 June 2006 23:15 (twenty years ago)

Fuck that Mariah Carey-wannabe shit.

Someone please remix this and keep the groovy beat and the AWESOME breakdown at the very very end.

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Friday, 2 June 2006 23:27 (twenty years ago)

"Mariah Carey-wannabe shit". Riiiiight.

― Dr. Rodney's Original Savannah Band (R. J. Greene), Saturday, 3 June 2006 00:41 (twenty years ago)

I like it, though the beat does remind me of that breakbeat-lite stuff they use as Muzak at Old Navy.

― ramon fernandez (ramon fernandez), Saturday, 3 June 2006 06:45 (twenty years ago)

its ok, this sort of thing always goes over my head tho and i can never figure out why! '1 thing', 'crazy in love', i can see how they are well put together songs and i know they hit other ppls brain targets but they miss my brain target. there is no way this is better than 'genie in a bottle' for me. another problem: it pains me because i really like christina and i know shes a good singer but no matter how i try, i just dont like her voice! frustrating! i guess its like the guy from bronski beat refusing to go on tour w madonna because he hated her voice. i think he also thought she was a talentless skank tho, whereas i think christina is a talented skank!

― karri miback (cruisy), Saturday, 3 June 2006 08:03 (twenty years ago)

upon reflection it must be that i hate hip hop

― karri miback (cruisy), Saturday, 3 June 2006 08:10 (twenty years ago)

"1 thing" left me cold and i only really liked the chorus of "crazy in love" but i think this is pretty tight all the way through. and i'm a little relieved she had a strong and upbeat R&B single up her sleeve after some of the ballady stuff she's been putting out.

― helix aspersa (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 3 June 2006 08:19 (twenty years ago)

dont get the hype, its kind of boring.

― anthony easton (anthony), Saturday, 3 June 2006 18:05 (twenty years ago)

I can't stop listening to this. Thank you Christina for dragging Primo's head out of his ass!

― Dr. Rodney's Original Savannah Band (R. J. Greene), Saturday, 3 June 2006 19:27 (twenty years ago)

5/10

― jed_ (jed), Saturday, 3 June 2006 20:57 (twenty years ago)

This doesn't touch "1 Thing."

― Tape Store (Tape Store), Saturday, 3 June 2006 23:59 (twenty years ago)

I absolutely love this song! I was hoping there would be something that would fill the "1 Thing"/"Crazy In Love" energetic soul pop void, and here it is. It's not quite in "Crazy In Love"'s league, but I think it's a tiny bit better than "1 Thing."

― Matthew C Perpetua (inca), Sunday, 4 June 2006 00:24 (twenty years ago)

it's totally ace. i was a big fan of 'come on over,' and i think this really takes what i loved about that song to the next level.

― maura (maura), Sunday, 4 June 2006 16:04 (twenty years ago)

eh... amazing beat, and she's OK for most of it, but she's really pretty over the top. Amerie and Rihanna and even "Crazy in Love" seemed a little more understated in comparison.

― milo z (mlp), Sunday, 4 June 2006 16:20 (twenty years ago)

that Busta track posted with this on Soul Sides kills, though.

― milo z (mlp), Sunday, 4 June 2006 16:23 (twenty years ago)

Isn't Rihanna always a bit understated? That's what I like about her, even when the song's massive she's kind of diffident within it.

I find Ain't No Other Man both more and less over-the-top than Crazy in Love and 1 Thing - her voice is so much huger than either of theirs, big and brassy and blasting out at you, and it shoves the already-sparse arrangement way into the background. So overall it doesn't have the same attacking power as Crazy in Love, which was massive in every aspect (in my memory, anyway, I don't have a copy to hand). But then the gap between sparse-but-punchy stop-start instrumentation and big foreground voice is wider than in 1 Thing - Xtina's voice is more insistent and her backing much simpler - which makes the song feel bigger because of all the space in the middle. If that makes any sense.

I really love it, anyway - the first few times I heard it I actually thought the impact wasn't big enough! The way she hits the first 'ain't' in the chorus is so exhilarating.

― permanent revolution (cis), Sunday, 4 June 2006 16:47 (twenty years ago)

i kind of wish it didn't sound so obviously constructed, but i do like it better than anything else i've heard her sing on. it's very short though, so that's actually good. just enough that the chopped togetherness of it stays punchy.

― Kim (Kim), Sunday, 4 June 2006 16:57 (twenty years ago)

Xtina's voice is more insistent

xactly. her voice carries the song through all the different parts, staying at the same level of volume/intensity and not losing control (which she definitely does sometimes when there's not much else happening in the music).

― cognitive discodance (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 4 June 2006 17:24 (twenty years ago)

not feeling this nearly as much as other people here. :(

― sean gramophone (Sean M), Sunday, 4 June 2006 17:28 (twenty years ago)

I'd love it so much better if Tom Jones were singing it.

(Whether he keeps it as "man" or inverts to "woman," I don't care.)

― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Sunday, 4 June 2006 20:13 (twenty years ago)

I like the beats or whatever but don't like her singing too much. But it's okay. I do think the production is kind of "1 Thing"ish, but I liked that much more.

― Rockist_Scientist (RSLaRue), Sunday, 4 June 2006 20:36 (twenty years ago)

Arghh, what is the horn sample on this track? It's an old funk tune that has appeared on a few comps...

― todd (todd), Sunday, 4 June 2006 22:18 (twenty years ago)

This is so fucking Ru Paul

― Jimmy Mod: NOIZE BOARD GRIL COMPARISON ANALYST (The Famous Jimmy Mod), Monday, 5 June 2006 01:41 (twenty years ago)

this song is immense! i can't get enough of it - xtina really nails the vocal performance, jbr otm re: both the volume and intensity of the xtina-holler while retaining control. she also sounds like she's having a lot of fun singing it - i can imagine the most fabulous dance routines and costumes in the video.

Isn't Rihanna always a bit understated? That's what I like about her, even when the song's massive she's kind of diffident within it.

she isn't very understated on 'sos' - which is possibly why i'm lukewarm on it compared to all other rihanna.

I'd love it so much better if Tom Jones were singing it.

this is the craziest craziness i have ever heard. xtina has an incredible signature holler which is forceful and thrilling enough to raise the dead, tom jones has a disgusting, constipated, old man voice which is the aural equivalent of his horrible orange leather skin. he makes my skin crawl.

― The Lex (The Lex), Monday, 5 June 2006 07:36 (twenty years ago)

best bit in this song ts:

"Told my MOTHER, my BROTHERS, my SISTERS, and my FRIENDS
Told the OTHERS, all my LOVERS, both PAST and PRESENT TENSE"

she sounds like she's about to burst with joy!

"Never thought I'd be alright - no no no!
Til you came and changed my life - yeah yeah YEAH!"

which speaks for itself.

― The Lex (The Lex), Monday, 5 June 2006 07:47 (twenty years ago)

So I think I've discoved the "special sauce" for any dance track, and I have isolated it down to two little perfect notes that, if added into a song, make your lizard brain tell you: "Dance, Dammit!"

http://media.putfile.com/The-Special-Sauce-for-your-dance-track

― schwantz (schwantz), Monday, 5 June 2006 20:18 (twenty years ago)

(ignore the vocals, and concentrate on those two awesome little bass notes)

― schwantz (schwantz), Monday, 5 June 2006 20:23 (twenty years ago)

xtina has an incredible signature holler

I just don't see this. Or rather, if I do, I do in the sense that I acknowledge Clapton can play guitar or Eminem can MC -- technically great, NOTHING involving. Nothing new about my take, obv.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 5 June 2006 20:25 (twenty years ago)

I want to buy a beer for whoever did the vocal production on this. She sounds fucking fierce.

― Eppy (Eppy), Monday, 5 June 2006 20:30 (twenty years ago)

I'm slightly unconvinced otherwise but lemme hear it on headphones.

― Eppy (Eppy), Monday, 5 June 2006 20:31 (twenty years ago)

Except for the weird little octavey scrapy synth part that peeks through at like two points in the chorus (see 2:59) which I just want to marry.

― Eppy (Eppy), Monday, 5 June 2006 20:32 (twenty years ago)

love the way each verse/bridge/chorus adds something to the instrumental mix, just keeps building. also love the fact that Primo throws in this great funk-guitar riff at the end and just fades it from there. haha it's a Sharon Jones record!

― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Monday, 5 June 2006 20:41 (twenty years ago)

yeah I totally love the guitar riff in the end but it's too short. I'd love for it to be a few seconds longer.

― Lovelace (Lovelace), Monday, 5 June 2006 21:11 (twenty years ago)

Lex has never been more OTM in his entire life than he is in this thread!

― Matthew C Perpetua (inca), Monday, 5 June 2006 21:12 (twenty years ago)

http://xxlmag.com/online/?p=2090

― rtccc (mwah), Monday, 5 June 2006 21:30 (twenty years ago)

Luis Aviles & The Latin Blues Band "(I’ll Be A) Happy Man" (1968)

Thanks rtcc!

― todd (todd), Monday, 5 June 2006 22:49 (twenty years ago)

She's performing tomorrow at the MTV Movie Awards...

― Tape Store (Tape Store), Wednesday, 7 June 2006 21:01 (twenty years ago)

I agree with pretty much everything Lex has said, only I'd say that the best part of the song is when she says:

"AndnowI'mtellinyou said AINTNOTHAMANBUTYOU YEAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH" (3:10-17)

Awesome tune.

― The Brainwasher (Twilight), Thursday, 8 June 2006 04:40 (nineteen years ago)

And I love that "oh shit" she throws at 3:22. Soo cute.

― The Brainwasher (Twilight), Thursday, 8 June 2006 04:49 (nineteen years ago)

Was listening to this last night when out on the run. Still think the vocal performance is great, still think the production ain't all that. The guitar stuff at the end is teh lame.

I really hope this isn't this year's "1 Thing"; something better, puleese!

― sean gramophone (Sean M), Thursday, 8 June 2006 07:30 (nineteen years ago)

Watching her perform this from a clip of the MTV Awards last week it occured to me that Christina deserved more "Next Madonna" hype than Britney, if only because Christina seems the most likely to inherit Madonna's gay icon status.

― Cunga (Cunga), Thursday, 15 June 2006 03:31 (nineteen years ago)

one month passes...

Hey

we just uploaded 2 of our 3 mixes of Aint No Other Man remixes to our myspace page, please check them out and let us know what you think

http://www.myspace.com/pedrolondon

thanks

Pedro

― pedrolondon (PedroLondon), Sunday, 16 July 2006 17:54 (nineteen years ago)

no, thank *you*.

― Roughage Crew (Enrique), Monday, 17 July 2006 12:44 (nineteen years ago)

I still say she has a great voice but she has no soul.

― Don Rowlando (Sam Rowlands), Monday, 17 July 2006 13:12 (nineteen years ago)

much like robert johnson.

― Roughage Crew (Enrique), Monday, 17 July 2006 13:14 (nineteen years ago)

her voice is so annoying (although maybe technically great) it almost spoils the track for me. still, it may be the only track I like from her.

― AleXTC (AleXTC), Monday, 17 July 2006 13:16 (nineteen years ago)

it's kind of marley marl.

― Roughage Crew (Enrique), Monday, 17 July 2006 13:19 (nineteen years ago)

Wow!

This isn't that great a song, it's a bit workmanlike... but my god it really does suit her voice! :O

Basically just by keeping her too damn busy (for once) to do her "signature" awful fucking caterwauling at all the most unnessecary moments possible. And mostly she avoids the more shrill & treble ends of her range here to just blast it out straight & true. It's very Aretha(!)

― fandango (fandango), Monday, 17 July 2006 13:35 (nineteen years ago)

four weeks pass...

Album out today. Who's heard it? Anything as good as Ain't No Other Man?

― Marmot (marmotwolof), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 05:05 (nineteen years ago)

i was totally right about the dance moves and costume changes in the video :D

the album is very very good. some amazing ballads on it.

― The Lex (The Lex), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 09:32 (nineteen years ago)

I saw her performing "Candyman" on MTV the other night. Holy shit.

― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 10:54 (nineteen years ago)

yeah candyman is pretty amazing, written by linda perry.

― keyth (keyth), Thursday, 17 August 2006 00:54 (nineteen years ago)

I like "The Right Man". And the intro to the second disc is surprisingly cool with the circus music and the choir.

― Turangalila (Salvador), Thursday, 17 August 2006 01:09 (nineteen years ago)

I still can't believe that "you're cool, you got class, you're 've got style, yo' badass" line

There's something about it that's so weird and out of place. It might be concept of a woman complimenting somebody for being classy and then immediately praising their badassery.

― Cunga (Cunga), Thursday, 17 August 2006 01:28 (nineteen years ago)

i think the point is that classiness is badass!

― aaron d.g. (aaron d.g.), Thursday, 17 August 2006 03:06 (nineteen years ago)

I got it tonight. Yes, it's really good. This is the first Christina album I've bought, and I'm glad I did.
I was actually relieved to discover that this isn't some 155 minute epic double CD. Disc 1 is about 47 minutes and disc 2 is about 32, I think. It could have fit on one disc, but I guess they're doing the Nellie McKay "it's like turning over a record!" thing. Whatever. In any case, it's not filler laden or anything and disc 2 is freakin' awesome.

― Marmot (marmotwolof), Thursday, 17 August 2006 04:28 (nineteen years ago)

Really? People like Candyman? I'm lovin' Ain't No Other Man, but can't get to Candyman no matter how I try.

It is interesting to hear her talking about this album, and realizing how off on historical perspective she is. Ain't No Other Man isn't a '30s song, it's a '60s song. It's kinda like when people kept calling jump blues swing during that swing "revival" bullshit in the late '90s.

But yeah, this is another great Xtina track. I wouldn't have bet on her against Britney at the outset, but she's won handily by now.

― js (honestengine), Thursday, 17 August 2006 07:08 (nineteen years ago)

I'm loving the beginning of Disc 1 and the ballads at the end of Disc 2. I keep wavering on "Still Dirrty." I had expected a Dirrty Pt II but it perplexes me because I don't find there is enough of the "dirrty degree" yet it is proving to be insanely catchy, as is "Oh Mother". And at the end of the song, I'm like, hell yeah christina, wear lingerie outside of your clothes.

― danzig (danzig), Thursday, 17 August 2006 07:17 (nineteen years ago)

five months pass...

I heard this at the gym yesterday, and in that context, surrounded by emo and bands influenced by bands influenced by grunge, it was a little refreshing oasis.

― R_S (RSLaRue), Thursday, 18 January 2007 11:56 (nineteen years ago)

emo in a gym?

i have never been to a gym (or heard any emo music tbqh).

― the original hauntology blogging crew (Enrique), Thursday, 18 January 2007 12:00 (nineteen years ago)

It's not all they play, but yes, it's in the mix.

― R_S (RSLaRue), Thursday, 18 January 2007 12:01 (nineteen years ago)

I thought all the breathless hype on this thread was just people caught in the moment, mainly because it got old and started annoying me pretty quickly, but wow, I didn't realize it got to #4 on Jackin' Pop. what an overrated-ass song.

― Alex in Baltimore (Alex in Baltimore), Thursday, 18 January 2007 14:14 (nineteen years ago)

it's just 'there'.

― the original hauntology blogging crew (Enrique), Thursday, 18 January 2007 14:14 (nineteen years ago)

um, no?

― David R. (popshots75`), Thursday, 18 January 2007 14:55 (nineteen years ago)

I think this song is great, but i think most of this thread is very silly, on some 'lets rank all the pop singles from the past couple years w/ females singing them' bullshit. Dudes its not fantasy football.

― deej.. (deej..), Thursday, 18 January 2007 15:25 (nineteen years ago)

Outside of 'Crazy', this was my fave single of last year.

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Thursday, 18 January 2007 15:37 (nineteen years ago)

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