Xtina Bobblehead – Christina Aguilera’s New Album Xtina

A bobblehead doll is a plastic or ceramic likeness of a popular person, usually a sports figure or a well-known celebrity. The first bobbleheads were produced in the 1920s, and were given away as promotional items by some professional teams. In the 1960s, Major League Baseball began producing papier-mache bobblehead dolls of individual players with their uniforms on. The dolls were a huge success, and fueled a craze for collecting the collectibles in the United States. Eventually, manufacturers were able to make bobbleheads from plastic materials, and the popularity of these toys grew even more rapidly.

After a long lull, in the 1990s, new manufacturing processes made it possible to produce quality bobbleheads at low cost. The resurgence of interest in these collectibles was jumpstarted when the San Francisco Giants gave out 35,000 Willie Mays bobbleheads to fans during a game in 1999. The popularity of these dolls continued to grow, and many other sporting events and companies began giving out bobbleheads to their fans.

Christina’s sugary sweet pop persona had been buried under a pile of Xtina sexiness and shameless narcissism on Stripped, but the empowering, balls-out ballads of Beautiful brought out her most true self. And then came the raunchy Dirrty, which showed that she had no problem owning her sexuality – and shocking people in the process.

Another highlight is the sci-fi electropop track Birds of Prey, which rides a trend for campy spacey electronic music and feels distinctly Xtina. And then there’s Woohoo, a bouncy club number with plenty of sexy lyrics that shows she can still deliver a twerkable beat.