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June 30, 2002 - While Christina Milian takes comparisons to Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera as a compliment, she makes sure to distinguish herself from the pop stars. "I understand the comparison, and it's a compliment for me," she tells Hera Diani of The Jakarta Post. "Both of them are great artists. Britney is a great performer and Christina has a great voice. But at the same time, of course I want to be recognized as an artist. Besides, I write all of my music because writing is a huge aspect for me. You can see many performers are doing lipsync and remaking other people's songs... I don't want to do that. I want to be original and write my own songs." Read more.

June 27, 2002 - Globe magazine reports Christina Aguilera recently skipped the catered lunch offered to her during her photo shoot for Allure. Instead of a healthy lunch of lentil soup, spinach ravioli, and roasted vegetables, she instead had a 6 inch Subway turkey sub. Then a few hours later, Aguilera again got hungry and requested an assistant to pick up an order of McDonald's Chicken McNuggets. US Weekly had reported a few months ago a similar story for her Allure photo shoot.

June 27, 2002 - Christina Aguilera fans continue to get snippets of news on her new album as her official website lays dormant. On an MTV News break today, they showed a new 'Diary of Christina Aguilera' and mentioned that Eve will be rapping on the track 'Can't Hold Us Down' while Jane's Addiction guitarist Dave Navarro is playing guitar on the leaked track 'Fighter'.

June 26, 2002 - MTV News caught up with Christina Aguilera and Alicia Keys last month at New York's Electric Lady studios where the two collaborated on 'Impossible,' a track Keys co-produced for Aguilera's upcoming album. Aguilera told Keys as she sat at the piano, "I like the piano. Now I gotta learn how to play. You inspire [me]." Keys responded, "I like them vocals. We're smashing. Official killer. 'Killer Chris!'" Read more.

June 26, 2002 - Aires323 writes "MTV News with John Norris on Total Request Live just annonced that Alicia Keys and Christina Aguilera will colaborate on a song entitled 'Impossible' on Aguilera's untitled up-coming album. The album is set to be released September 17, 2002. They also showed a clip of Alicia at the piano and Christina singing in front of it. More details to follow later."

June 24, 2002 - TeenMusic.com has more details on Christina Aguilera's upcoming album. Christina revealed, "A lot of my past is in this record. What I was going through on tour, what's in my head about everything, about my personal life. It's like an open book; a storybook, from beginning to end. I'm telling a story." Read more.

June 23, 2002 - Christina Aguilera fans are buzzing after 'Fighter' was leaked to the internet. The fans at her former official LiveDaily.com forum (Still no word on an official forum other than the months old announcement) hadn't had much to talk about except bickering about when the tiny singer's new album was going to be released. But now with a new material to listen to, the attention has turned to the 'Fighter' single. The track is available for download on KaZaA right now or from ChristinaMultimedia.com here, and lyrics can be found here.

June 23, 2002 - It looks like the popbitch.com item on Christina Aguilera and Carson Daly is spreading quickly as Sunday's New York Post blind item asks, "Which pierced-a-plenty pop tart had her hair extensions yanked out during a wild sex session with a hunky MTV personality?"

June 22, 2002 - Popdirt.com's latest poll asking 'For albums expected out later this year, which album will sell more copies in its first week?' had over 5,700 votes cast and topping the list was the Backstreet Boys, who got just under 28%. That was enough to beat out *NSYNC rival Justin Timberlake, who got 23.7%, while O-Town got 18.5% and Christina Aguilera nabbed 12.7%. Trailing everyone was Aaron Carter, who only got .37% of the vote. Read more on the totals here.

June 21, 2002 - Popbitch.com reports that according to a golfing buddy of Carson Daly, the MTV Total Request Live host once accidentally pulled out Christina's hair extensions in the middle of a steamy sex romp.

June 21, 2002 - Star magazine talked about celebrity beauty secrets in this week's issue and report that Christina Aguilera relies on a solution of milk of magnesia to tone her skin. They say she also scrubs her face with a raw potato to get rid of pimples.

June 21, 2002 - The latest popbitch.com column warns readers not to hold your breath for Christina Aguilera's new album. The weekly update states: "Aguilera has blocked-booked Conway recording studio in LA to record her second album, at $3,000 a day. There are three engineers and a Protools operator on standby - but it has now been over three months and Christina has only showed up once. And that was to invite one of the engineers to Vegas."

June 20, 2002 - The National Enquirer has more details on the Justin Timberlake hook-up with Christina Aguilera at Hollywood hangout Joseph's on June 3rd. Britney Spears had went to the club to keep an eye on her former boyfriend hoping to rekindle their romance, but Justin was cold towards her the entire night. According to a source, "At one point, Justin got up and headed for the bathroom and ran into Christina, looking great in ghetto chic. He was overjoyed to see her, and they hugged, kissed, and talked animatedly. Now that Justin is back on the dating circuit, he looked at Christina in a whole new way." Read more.

June 20, 2002 - IMDB.com reports Christina Aguilera is now dating Robbie Williams, and the British pop star's love for tattoo's is said to be to blame for Aguilera's giant new tattoo emblazoned across the back of her neck spelling out 'Xtina'.

June 18, 2002 - Entertainment Tonight has a 55 second video clip of Christina Aguilera's role in the cabaret-inspired dance troupe, the Pussycat Dolls, for one night last week at The Roxy Theatre in Los Angeles. Christina told ET, "It's kind of reminiscent of what I did for 'Lady Marmalade' but this is a little edgier. It's not so old school meets new school." Watch the video clip here.

June 17, 2002 - soBeautiful writes "Posted on the TRL board at MTV.com:
I personally went to a FYE store to pre-order Christina's album, which is going to be released on September 10th. They looked for the files of future releases to fill out the info, while the assistant was telling me: 
"It's funny that some people don't know how to pronounce her lastname, and her album has no title yet, but it is the most requested album ever. We ran out of pre-order slips yesterday and it was because of Christina's album. We certaintly need to get this store full of her CDs if we want to meet the demand." Read more."

June 16, 2002 - ChristinaMultimedia.com has the video preview Entertainment Tonight had on Christina Aguilera's performance at Pussycat Dolls. Tune in on Monday to watch the entire feature. Watch the preview here.

June 15, 2002 - US Weekly reports Christina Aguilera was spotted mingling with her Daphne Aguilera alter-ego Andy Dick at a party for Pony sportswear at Nacional in Los Angeles. Others at the party included Gina Gershon, Jerry O'Connell, and Kelly Osbourne.

June 15, 2002 - Christina Aguilera has been showing off her newly enhanced bust at the Pussycat Dolls burlesque show in Los Angeles and on Monday, Entertainment Tonight will talk with the singer. If you can't wait until then, check out Christina in a pair of raunchy undies handling a riding crop here.

June 15, 2002 - Larry Rodgers of The Arizona Republic spoke with Pink last month about the rumors she and Christina Aguilera didn't get along on the video shooting for 'Lady Marmalade'. Pink admits, "I'm not a 'yes' person... and I don't think she (Aguilera) liked that. We butted heads a little bit, but she came to my birthday party last year, and I talked to her for a really long time. I felt empathy for the girl, and for the first time, I saw her as a human being instead of an object." Read more.

June 14, 2002 - The Sun reports Britney Spears recently went clubbing at Joseph's in Los Angeles but her stay was short lived. When she walked in, she saw rival Christina Aguilera and her ex-boyfriend Justin Timberlake of *NSYNC flirting with each other. Britney left in "floods of tears" after seeing the two.

June 13, 2002 - Star magazine spoke with a source close to the situation regarding Christina Aguilera's recent banishment by the Standard hotel in West Hollywood, due to her and her pal's wild partying at the hotel. "Cleaning up after her was a nightmare," the source says. "There are always cigarette burns on expensive pillows, torn wallpaper, spilled drinks all over the carpet and the smell of stale booze and smoke. So they were pretty clear about it when they told Christina: 'Take it somewhere else!'" Christina's flack denied the hotel partying ever happened. Read more.

June 12, 2002 - Popdirt.com's last poll asking what best describes your thoughts on Christina Aguilera's new album situation had 32% say "Like Mrs Butterworth, her sweet time is worth it," while 28.8% said that the long delay will be fatal. 18.9% wondered how off the map Christina would have been were it not for the Grammy winning 'Lady Marmalade'. Check out the entire results here. Christina fans get another chance to vote for the tiny warbler in our latest poll asking which of the albums due out later this year will sell the most copies in its first week. Vote here.

June 9, 2002 - The portion of the Playboy article on Limp Bizkit frontman Fred Durst where he talks about Christina Aguilera was posted. The interview reportedly took place about 18 months ago and is perhaps the most revealing of the comments he's made concerning Aguilera begging him to perform with her on the MTV Video Music Awards. Durst fumed, "She didn't even show up for the fu** ing [VMA] rehearsal. I'm sitting in the hotel room with my managers the day of the rehearsals and she ain't comming. She's fixing her hair. So I storm into her room, going, 'What the fu** are you doing?' She goes, 'Calm down.' I go, "No, fu** you! I ain't fu**ing doing this damn song.' So she starts crying hysterically, freaking out. I go, 'OK, I'll fu**ing do it.' I did her a fu**ing favor, and all I got was a bunch of sh** from my fans were like, 'What the fu** did you do that for?'" Read more.

June 9, 2002 - Garbage singer Shirley Manson is again making a target of pop rival Christina Aguilera. Manson is pictured holding a sign at a show in Portland recently saying "Shirley Manson is a goddess. Christina Aguilera is an ugly whore." No word if this was a fan's sign at the show (though probably more likely) or if Manson made it up herself. Check out the photo here.

June 9, 2002 - When US Weekly was quizzed on whether Christina Aguilera had gotten breast impants, the magazine contacted Aguilera's reps but never heard anything back from them. So they quized New York plastic surgeon Dr. David Abramson, who after looking at old and new photos of Aguilera commented, "Either she has gotten implants or grew about 300 cc's."

June 8, 2002 - Enrique Iglesias recently chatted with UK's More! magazine where he was quizzed on female pop stars that have an interest in him. On Liz McLarnon of Atomic Kitten: "Oh, yeah. I met them recently. They're cute. Bring it on, I say! But only if it's all three of them together. Thats the condition." On Christina Aguilera, "Only if she's with Britney Spears. Both of them. Together..." Finally, on Samantha Mumba, "Only if she's with...who can we put Sam with? I saw her movie recently. She's really cute." As for who makes him swoon, Enrique admits to having a soft spot for Julia Roberts and Halle Berry. Read more.

June 7, 2002 - Globe magazine reports Liz Taylor was enjoying a dinner with friends at Koi in Los Angeles, but was constantly bothered by fans seeking autographs. She told fans it wasn't the right time for her to be signing autographs but she did sign for one fan that introduced herself as Christina Aguilera. Taylor rose to her feet, gave Aguilera a hug, and gushed that she loves her music and signed an autograph for her.

June 6, 2002 - popdirt.com's latest poll asks you what your thoughts on the Christina Aguilera album delay, non-announcement, or whatever you want to call it. Vote here.

June 5, 2002 - Despite promising his post 9.11 promise to learn how to love and forget how to hate, Limp Bizkit frontman Fred Durst took time to take shots at Christina Aguilera in the latest issue of Playboy magazine (Fred insisted today that the interview took place about 18 months ago). Durst said, "She's an ungrateful, spoiled-rotten fu**ing asshole ... She's so talented, but she doesn't see what's in front of her because she's so young and dumb. Fu** her man, I don't respect her." Read more.

June 1, 2002 - According to a pair of postings on the Christina Aguilera LiveDaily forum, inquiries to RCA suggest that Christina Aguilera's new album has again been delayed until the fourth quarter of 2002. XtinaBumpNGrind said, "I emailed them 4 days ago about it and got a response yesterday. They said to look for the album to be released in late November early December." The poster later fumed, "It sucks and I find it EXTREMELY disrespectful to all of us." The opinion was shared by most on the forum, who have been expecting a new album at different points thoughout the year, only to find news headlines of Christina partying at various events instead. Read more.

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