Christina Aguilera My Kind Of Christmas CD

This is an Enhanced audio CD which contains regular audio tracks and multimedia computer files.
Personnel includes: Christina Aguilera (vocals); John Goux, Ashley Ingram (guitar); Pete Cristlieb, Gene Cipriano, Larry Williams, Sal Lozano (saxophone); Wayne Bergeron (trumpet); Billy Preston (piano, organ); Robbie Buchanan (piano, programming); Dr. John (Mac Rebennack) (piano); The Matrix (keyboards, bass, programming); E. Dawk (keyboards, background vocals); BabyBoy, Alex Alessandroni (keyboards); Chuck Berghofer (bass); Harold Jones, Vinnie Colaiuta (drums); Sol Survivor (percussion, programming); Luis Conte (percussion); Barry Harris, Chris Cox (programming); Kim Johnson, Toya Smith, Sue Ann Carwell, The L.A. Mass Choir, The Celebrity Voices Choir (background vocals).
Producers include: Thunderpuss, Ron Fair, Robbie Buchanan, The Matrix.
Engineers include: Michael C. Ross, Ron Fair, Sol Survivor.
This is an Enhanced CD, which contains both regular audio tracks and multimedia computer files.
The second punch in a double whammy of stopgap releases in the fourth quarter of 2000, My Kind of Christmas appeared on the shelves two months after Mi Reflejo, Christina's Latin reworking of her debut album. My Kind of Christmas actually has more new material than Mi Reflejo, and Aguilera responds in kind, turning in passionate performances throughout the 11-song album. She can teeter on the edge of being too passionate, belting out when she should lay back, but the power of her voice, no matter how diva-esque she may be, remains remarkable; she needs to learn restraint, but she's clearly a better singer than her peers. Of course, My Kind of Christmas remains a holiday album, filled with covers of standards (from "Oh Holy Night" to "The Christmas Song" to "Merry Christmas, Baby") and a handful of obligatory new songs. None of the new songs are knockouts, but "Christmas Time" and "This Year" are pretty solid pieces of dance-pop, even if the marvelously titled "Xtina's Xmas" (easily the best name of any new holiday song of 2000) is a 90-second collage trifle that doesn't live up to its promise. But, hey -- filler is part of a holiday record, and there's actually not too much of it here. Instead, it's pretty tight, entertaining seasonal dance-pop. It may not add too much to Christina's catalog, but it does suggest that she may not be a mere one-album wonder. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine
There's a lot to be said for the pop Christmas album as cultural artifact. Ever since the days of the crooners, the intersection between pop song and yuletide fare has been the point where art, commerce, and ritual meet. The bigger the pop icon, the more this holds true, so its no surprise that teen-pop mega-sensation Christina Aguilera's MY KIND OF CHRISTMAS proves to be a solid addition to the holiday album tradition. She tackles a mixture of the expected Christmas material ("Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas," "Angels We Have Heard on High") and more contemporary material, including a song penned by pop wizard Dianne Warren ("These Are Special Times"). The production approach is a similar mix of convention and modernism, but the unifying thread is the consistently unerring vocal performances this seemingly infallible teen diva delivers throughout.