A Great Big World and Christina Aguilera are out with the music video to their new single ‘Say Something’, off Ian Axel and Chad Vaccarino’s debut album ‘Is There Anybody Out There?’, out January 21st on Epic Records/Black Magnetic.

Talking about her participation on the song, Aguilera told Idolator, “It’s so quiet and still and steady and in a way pleading. I’m only taking on projects that feel good to me and represent, as always, a purpose of the here and now in my life.”

Watch the Christopher Sims directed video via YouTube below.

Christina Aguilera chatted with VEVO News for an interview, where the pop singer talked about trying to juggle motherhood with her music and work on ‘The Voice’, taking time between albums, enlisting Melina Matsoukas for the ‘Your Body’ music video, and her “amazing collaborations” with Sia Furler.

Commenting on her busy workload, Christina said, “It was really hard for me to sort of juggle everything. Being a mom, being on ‘The Voice’, which is crazy long hours. Every project that I put my foot forward in doing I believe whole-heartedly, passionately in, so I can’t give anything less than 150%. When you’re going, going going like that, it’s a lot of work.”

Talking about delays between albums, Aguilera said, “Fans are like, ‘When are we gonna hear new music?’ for a while now, but it’s gotta be right. I have to put things out and only do things when it just feels 100% genuine. I’m finally at a place now where it’s taken some time, but I’m so thrilled with the release of the record. ‘Lotus’ is sort of me coming to this place of feeling rejuvinated and embracing myself as a woman and who I’ve become as an artist and all that I’ve experienced.”

Discussing the ‘Your Body’ music video, she said, “In the video I got to work with Melina Matsoukas, who I was really gravitating towards, because she has such an imagination. She sort of created this character that goes out. She’s definitely a bad ass. She knows what she wants, but she’s very playful and she doesn’t take herself seriously. I want the audience to have a good time too and sort of live vicariously throgh this character. It’s very playful. It’s sort of seductive and sexy. It was just a really fun character to play.”

Commenting on her latest collaboration with Sia Furler, she said, “Sia and I have done amazing collaborations together. She worked with me on the movie soundtrack ‘Burlesque’, which we got a Golden Globe nomination for. We also did a lot of work on my ‘Bionic’ record that was very sentimental and very intimate and vulnerable feeling, and that’s what I love about working with her. It’s a very natural process and we wrote a beautiful song together called ‘Blank Page’. A lot of people that hear the record say ‘That’s my favorite song on the whole record’. It’s one of those songs that I think everyone can connect to on a certain level.”

Watch the interview below.

Lance Bass sits down with Pop Diva Christina Aguilera to talk about her top music picks and her upcoming performance at the 2012 AMAs!
Aguilera talked about how she’s been living a dream, what people should expect from her seventh album ‘Lotus’, working with Max Martin on the project, being part of ‘The Voice’, and what’s on her music playlist.

Asked if she’s “living a dream”, Aguilera said, “Absolutely. I couldn’t imagine doing anything else. I’m definitely put here on this earth to do what I do and constantly grow and evolve. It’s been a really incredible journey.”

Discussing what fans can expect from her new album ‘Lotus’, Christina said, “All of my albums do represent parts of me at different times in my life. I take my time between the records because I want them to truly reflect the person that I’ve sort of grown and become from the last record. It’s about freedom and independence. A lot has gone on since the last time I had a record out, and that one, ‘Bionic’, was to reflect being a new mom and feeling like you’re all bionic woman person, musician, person, artist. Now, it’s just a place of everything that felt good to me instead of trying to, (‘Bionic’) was very futuristically inspired, but this one, it’s fun. It’s got elements of everything. I think my fans will really appreciate it. It’s supposed to reflect, throughout, the lotus to me represents this unbreakable flower that throughout the harshest of weather conditions, throughout the roughest of times, it still thrives and remains strong and beautiful. That’s sort of what the record represents.”

Talking about her work with Max Martin on the record, who co-wrote the album’s first single ‘Your Body’ as well as ‘Let There Be Love’, the pop star said, “He’s been nothing but fabulous. I think we both respect each other as artists. He actually can sing. I didn’t even know. He’s behind the board. A lot of people don’t know that. It’s great when you get behind the board with a producer that gets behind the board, he’s so involved. He’ll actually give some vocal ad-lib ideas. I’m like, ‘Okay Max, I didn’t know you could sing.’ You wouldn’t know. The experience of working with him as been great and I know the fans are excited to see us team up. He’s cranked up amazing pop hits over the last decade or so, so it’s great that our paths have finally crossed.”

Watch the interview via YouTube below.

Christina Aguilera was on the phone with Ryan Seacrest of 102.7 KIIS FM in Los Angeles last month to promote her new single ‘Your Body’. The pop singer and ‘The Voice’ mentor talked about the song and its music video, the message behind her new album ‘Lotus’, taking the risk to do ‘The Voice’ with Adam Levine of Maroon 5, Cee-Lo Green and Blake Shelton, her son Max, other pop stars like Britney Spears and Mariah Carey doing the TV now, what she thinks now about her first single ‘Genie In A Bottle’, the success she and Maroon 5 enjoyed on ‘Moves Like Jagger’, and more.

On ‘Your Body’, she said, “It’s just such an upbeat and fun and free song. It gives me yet the opportunity to use my pipes on it and it’s kind of anthemic and makes you want to dance and everyone can sing along to it, so it’s gonna be really fun for me to take it to the road and get an opportunity to share it with my fans.”

On the new album ‘Lotus’ being a rebirth for her, she said, “The word lotus I’ve come to getting to know it as the unbreakable flower. No matter the harshest of surroundings or what kind of weather conditions it goes through, it still stays strong and is able to stand the test of time. I’ve been around over a decade in this business, and this point in my life the last time my fans heard me, I’ve gone through a lot of stuff like being on ‘The Voice’ has inspired me in new ways. It’s about personal freedom for me. I definitely went into this record finding my individuality all over again. It’s almost like a ‘Stripped 2.0’ if you will.”

She added, “There’s definitely a secret kind of window into my heart with this record and definitely the fans will get their ballads and all of that. It definitely gives you a flavor and a piece of different sides of me, the sassy side, the vulnerable side, and a look into how I’ve been feeling and what I’ve been going through over the past few years and the new woman I’ve become. That’s what ‘Lotus’ is all about.”

Asked if she was skeptical about doing ‘The Voice’ at first, Aguilera said, “I think the four of us came together, me, Blake, Adam and Cee-Lo, and we were all sort of holding hands together and jumping off the cliff and saying we believe in this concept. I think Mark Burnett really was what really helped us all understand this wasn’t to poke fun at people, this was something that was about promoting true talent and supproting that. We can poke fun at each other, but we’re not into doing that to the people on stage. The four of us know what it’s like to have these tours, to go to these awards shows, what it takes to have the guts to go up there and perform, and it can be nerve-wracking, so we’re all in support of that. I don’t know if I could think of a better four to go up there. These guys are like my brothers at this point. It’s hilarious what we do behind the scenes and then on camera. It’s so funny. One second me and Adam are in the back, Blake’s taking a nap and I take my red lipstick out, we’re bored and we start writing profanity on the outside of his trailer.”

Listen to the interview via kiisfm.com below.