Linda habla de Christina Y Pink

Linda Perry Starts Pink’s Party, Defends Christina Aguilera, Is Legendary: The Autostraddle Interview Linda Perry has been out from day one of her career as the lead singer of the early 90s rock group 4 Non Blondes — at the 1993 Billboard Awards she performed their one-hit wonder (and current drunken karaoke fave) “What’s Up” with the word “dyke” emblazoned on her guitar. When the group broke up she retreated a bit from the music industry, instead releasing two emotional and creatively fulfilling noncommercial solo records.

Then in 2001, Pink plucked her rockstar idol out of relative obscurity when the Perry-written-and-produced “Get the Party Started” helped make Pink’s second album an international best seller and Pink a household name.

Witnessing Pink‘s career reinvention, Christina Aguilera came calling in 2002 and formed an unlikely but hugely successful pop musical relationship.

Linda is now one of the most in-demand prolific songwriters and record producers in the industry writing and producing songs for Alicia Keys, Courtney Love, Gwen Stefani and Adam Lambert (among countless others).

I spoke to Linda about her spontaneous performance with Pink at last year’s Evening With Women, the state of the current pop music landscape, her career as an cover artist via iPhone on Twitter, Christina Aguilera’s terrible year in the press and the girl who broke her heart and inspired her new record 8 Songs About A Girl.


Pink’s surprise performance at the event last year was a huge surprise for everyone, especially in light of your publicized falling out in 2003. When did you mend your relationship with her?

Well, it’s not that we had a broken one, it’s just that she and I stopped talking for a few years because… well, she got mad at me, and for good reason… Someone had asked me about one of her records, I think it was Try This, and I think they took it out of context, but I said, “Well, I know what Alecia is capable of, and it’s crap to me. Because I know what she can really do.” So, you put “Linda Perry Says Pink’s Last Album Was Crappy” as a headline and of course she’s gonna fucking get mad! And I totally understand! But, she and I spoke and we get along great again. Pink and I will always be like falling off a bicycle – we’re gonna get right back on and be fine. She’s stubborn and I’m stubborn. Whatever she’s doing [musically] is totally working. She doesn’t need anybody to fix anything. So, she and Carey came out last year and supported An Evening With Women, they bought a table which was really awesome of her. And, ya know… I saw her there and I was like “well, shit! I’m up here and she’s down there and… let me just go for it! And so, she came up and it was an amazing, spontaneous moment. We don’t plan those kinds of spontaneous moments so don’t ask if I’m gonna try and do that again! Those moments in life are rare and awesome.


Have you discussed possibly collaborating again for her next album?Nope…. again, if that were to happen it would probably be in a very spontaneous way.

I really feel like the public has been too hard on Christina Aguilera this past year. Do you think it’s a case of society wanting to tare someone down only to build them back up because the public loves a comeback story?

Christina’s always had the bad rap. So, it’s not like this is happening all of a sudden… she’s always had it. That’s something between Christina, her fans, the public, and the energy of the world. That’s something only Christina and the energy can figure out what’s going on there. But, as far as I’ve known her, everybody’s always given her a hard time. She’s a different little bird. You know, she’s not really out a lot and when she does go out, people are gonna grab things. Like, is she running around as much as Britney Spears was a few years ago? No, she’s isn’t. But, when they catch her they catch her in whatever state she is in. I don’t know why the press is so hard on her right now. I think Christina’s awesome and a very talented person. She definitely doesn’t care — and that is a fact. You know how some people say “I don’t care” and they really do? I can tell you that Christina really doesn’t care…. because she learned very early on that critics are critics, people will say whatever they want and it’s up to her to decide what is the truth and what is not. She stands true to what she knows.

Like, she told me “I know this Bionic record is not going to be a big record because I’m gonna try and do some different things and I don’t know what’s gonna happen but this is what I wanna do…” She knew that before she recorded one thing. She knew that about Back to Basics, too. Her record company came to her and said “you’re gonna sell way more many records if you make this a single album. Let’s get rid of the double record.” And she said, “No, this is how I hear it. I hear one record being like this and the other record being like this.” Everybody warned her that it’s not going to sell as much but she didn’t care because she comes up with creative ideas and stands behind them as an artist. It’s not all about selling a bazillion records to her. She just wants to be able to stand behind it. In the end she did say to me, “Maybe I did release the Bionic record too soon. Oh well. Now, I wanna make a rock record!” I was like “Oh, God!” She’s gonna take everybody for a ride. So, ultimately, why she gets put down I don’t know. You’ll never know, I’ll never know, only Christina will ever figure that out and get the answer.

OKKKKKKKKKKKkk ame completamente la entrevistaaaaaaa la ameeeeee SI CHRISTINA HACE UN ALBUM ROCK MUEROOOOOO estoy esperando esto hace añosss please figrher COME BACK


cada palabra de linda me hace mas amar CHRISTINA

Que weba leer en ingles, resuman xD

wow que buena respuesta de Linda!!! y eso demuestra que Christna si es de las que toman rienda propia de su carrera, no son de las que les dicen "has esto y el otro" ella tiene una inspiacion y la desenvuelve hasta hacerla un album, lo que entiendo aqui es que desde antes de sacar Bionic ya habia perdido esa inspiracion y buscaba cosas nuevas y se perdio en el camino, creo que filmar Burlesque si le revoluciono todas las ideas que tenia paa Bionic, yo lo unico que se es que Christina vendra de nuevo con algo que nadie espera =)

YES YES YES!! Casi está confirmado entonces que el próximo disco irá más por el pop-rock con canciones como Fighter, Stronger Than Ever, The Beautiful People, Make Over, etc etc y ME ENCANTA LA IDEA!! siempre quise un album completamente pop-rock de Christina y con esa onda black y gothic de Fighter, me encantaaaaaa!! La facilidad con la que puede transformar su voz en ronca pero afinada es impresionante y la plasmaría perfectamente en un disco, ojalá no demore mucho en sacarlo!! Ah, soy feliz..

Ok.. también amé la entrevista.. y amo la idea de hacer música con tendencias rock!!! Me MUERO con eso porke siento ke se divierte muchísimo cantando canciones así!!

Pero no me kiero emocionar, no me kiero hacer ilusiones porke aún faltan como 3 años para saber un poco más del disco, y si sale con una tontera diferente me voy a decepcionar.

No se precipiten chicos.... sobre un nuevo album todavia..

Me encanto lo que dijo Linda de ella... pero es verdad, Christina siempre ha tenido mucho odio encima, y a veces tampoco entiendo por que

Just_Habibo escribió:

Este nuevo CD sera muy interesante, me encanta mucha la idea, ahora lo que me intriga es como Sia se amoldara a esto.

Stronger than Ever (producida por Sia) tiene elementos de Pop Rock, yo creo que si podrían hacer algo, sobretodo en las baladas que nuncan faltan en los discos de Christina, en este caso "Deberian" ser baladas Pop rock como stronger than ever si de verdad quieren mantener un estilo en el disco

Pero SIA solo escribe!! ella NO produce... cualquier cancion dramatica de Sia se puede adaptar al rock....

Christina TIENE que incursionar un poco mas en el mundo del Rock! algo tipo FIGHTER! Sin extralimitarse para que no sea una wannabe ya que este mercado si es como mas complejo.... ME ENCANTARIA que lo hiciera!

no m importa si es ROCK o lo que sea, quiero la SIEMPRE BUENA MUSICA de Christina! como siempre lo ha sido, solo m preocupa un album con un mismo concepto y una buena promo..