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September 30, 2002 - Popdirt.com's new poll asks 'Which female pop star is the LEAST fan friendly?' Vote for someone other than Christina Aguilera here.

September 30, 2002 - The Los Angeles Times reports the Beverly Hills-area home Christina Aguilera has been leasing is now being purchased by the singer, who was unable to find another home that she preferred. Aguilera paid $2.75 million for the 4,500 square foot home, which has spectacular city-to-ocean views. The master suite has two bathrooms, two walk-in closets, an office and a gym. Read more.

September 30, 2002 - Video captures of the offensive Thai phrase "Trip for Sex in Thailand" written in the background of Christina Aguilera's new video 'Dirrty' have many Thai's angry and others worried that the singer will be banned from the country. Check out a capture and forum discussion here and here. bee_angel writes, "I know that Christina didn't know the meanings of those Thai words, we absolutely don't blame her. We still LOVE her Christina."

September 29, 2002 - Gemma Tarlach of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel profiled teen pop idols Justin Timberlake of *NSYNC, Nick Carter of the Backstreet Boys, Christina Aguilera and country girl LeAnn Rimes, all whom want to emphasize their independence and maturity with their new albums. "We call Christina the 'Meanie in a Bottle'," says WXSS-FM 103.7's JoJo Martinez, citing how being perceived as likable is more important for female pop stars than for the boys. "She's not very nice to some of her fans." Read more.

September 29, 2002 - According to a posting at the Christina Aguilera forum at LiveDaily.com, the singer's new video for 'Dirrty' has left some in Thailand upset over a phrase that appears in the background of the clip saying, "Sex Tour in Thailand." Bangkok resident randy_1 said, "That sentence degenerates my country. I know that there are a lot of Thai('that kind of women') around the world and also in Thailand. My country is Buddism-Nation. No sex cable TV, All clubs must close before 2.00am, adult entertainment (movies, mags) are illegal." Because of the controversy, the poster said, "People who ain't her fan is not going to buy her cd. And there is no chance that Christina will have a show in Thailand." Read more.

September 29, 2002 - Mavrix Photo has pictures of Christina Aguilera wearing a skull and cross bones top barely covering her boobs as she leaves a nightclub in Hollywood, California on Monday (September 23). Check out the five pictures here.

September 29, 2002 - The new Christina Aguilera 'Dirrty' video featuring Redman is now available for download online. Check it out on either KaZaA, Stars2ya.com, or MP3/WMA Land.

September 28, 2002 - The Washington Times reports Christina Aguilera, who has Ecuadorean roots, and other entertainers will perform for Ecuador's former ambassador to the United States Ivonne A-Baki at Trump Plaza. A-Baki hopes to become Ecuador's first female leader and then work to eliminate corruption, promote the rule of law, create jobs, and support health and education. Read more.

September 28, 2002 - The Sun reports Christina Aguilera's new album 'Stripped', due October 29, has an opening track 'Stripped Part 1 (Without Eminem)' which includes a clip of an MTV interview with Eminem. Aguilera doesn't stop there with an attack on Slim and her other critics in 'Can’t Hold Us Down.' "It’s Christina sticking two fingers up," said an insider. "She really has a go."

September 28, 2002 - alissimo writes "I live in Switzerland and just saw the clip of Christina. It is the best clip ever! Okay, first you see Redman and Christinas mouth. You dont see her face, you just see her mouth. Then Christina puts on this awesome motorcycle jacket and starts riding the motorcycle. You see her mouth, then her nose and then her beautiful eyes. She goes in a cage and stands there. They let the cage down to a boxring. Christina goes out and starts to dance awesome. Her dancing got sooo goood. Then she sits in a corner of the ring and has her legs opened the whole time. Read more.

September 28, 2002 - Video captures of Christina Aguilera's new video for 'Dirrty' have emerged at Stars2ya.com.

September 27, 2002 - After rating Christina Aguilera Dom's Dog's Dinner the other day, The Sun's Dominic Mohan says the singer has sorted herself out and is ready to return in November with new album 'Stripped'. An insider who has heard the album said, "Christina has really arrived. She sounds unbelievable." Read more.

September 27, 2002 - The Click2Music website in Finland has a track listing posted for Christina Aguilera's new album 'Stripped', due October 29. Track one is shown as 'Stripped Pt. 1 (w/o Eminem)', leading many to wonder is track 17 -- 'Stripped pt. 2' -- with Eminem? Given their history, a secret collaboration would be shocking to say the least. Read the full track listing here.

September 26, 2002 - dragonznpiano writes "Here's 8 new pictures of Christina Aguilera arriving at Joseph's nightclub in Los Angeles on Monday (September 23). The second picture is of her boots, apparently she broke her boot's heels and someone took a picture of it. Check out the photos here."

September 24, 2002 - Christina Aguilera fan site The Christina Connection has photos of her appearance at the Linda Perry concert at the Knitting Factory the other night. Check them out here.

September 24, 2002 - dragonznpiano writes "It has now been confirmed by MTV that a new episode of 'Diary' featuring Christina Aguilera will premiere on October 19th at 2pm with repeat on October 20th at 2:30pm. They probably followed her around while she recorded her new album and during her summer! Don't miss it."

September 24, 2002 - The album cover for Christina Aguilera's new album 'Stripped', due out October 29, has been revealed. Check it out here.

September 23, 2002 - The Sunday People reports Christina Aguilera says she wears only sexy lingerie when she is relaxing at home. She keeps her house permanently hot to avoid catching a cold as she lounges around in just a bra and underwear.

September 22, 2002 - Backstreet Boys star Nick Carter will appear on the special Disney show called 'For The Teens'. He will perform with several artist like Enrique Iglesias, Christina Aguilera, Nelly, and Truth Hurts. This show will be aired on Disney Channel, November 29, 2002.

September 21, 2002 - Amazon.com sales rank figures show *NSYNC star Justin Timberlake having the most anticipated upcoming pop release with a sales rank figure of #94 with his solo debut 'Justified'. Backstreet Boys star Nick Carter sees himself in the #360 spot with his 'Now or Never' solo debut. Rounding out the list is Christina Aguilera, whose 'Stripped' is #831 on the Amazon.com sales rank list.

September 21, 2002 - ShockYourMind.org has a fan account of a person who went to Linda Perry's show on Tuesday in Los Angeles: "As Linda completed her first set and was walking off with the band, she came back on-stage and said she forgot she was gonna do a solo number on piano, but, was having such a good time, she called out to someone in the balcony to join her if she wanted too. It seemed like a truly embarrased Christina Aguilera came on and said she couldn't remember the song, had never sung it live, etc. and Linda told her, 'Fu** it, it's rock n' roll. Who cares.' They did a cool version of I think it was called 'Beautiful' that Linda wrote and will be on Christina's new album and it was cool. Christina sang it straight up without her 'how many notes can I fit into this passage', and it was really a special moment (along with Pink's). But the night REALLY belonged to Linda. Pink and Christina were the whipped cream, but, Linda was the ice cream sunday."

September 20, 2002 - Searches for Christina Aguilera spiked up in August on pay-per search engine Overture.com after her eye-popping outfit at the MTV Video Music Awards. 'Christina Aguilera' was searched for 228,417 times, which is still less than 1/10 of interest in Britney Spears. Search references included queries about her nude, her possible breast implants, and her new single 'Dirrty'. For a complete list of Christina Aguilera searches and misspellings, read here.

September 20, 2002 - Steven Cojocaru, Access Hollywood's and People Magazine's fashion guru weighed in on his choices for 'Best & Worst Dressed' in Hollywood in the Sept. 23 issue of People Magazine. On Christina Aguilera, he said, "What she wore to the MTV Awards -- that sort of runaway street-walker look, 'I just got off the Greyhound bus and I have to make some quick cash.'"

September 18, 2002 - dragonznpiano writes "Here's another new picture of Christina Aguilera, it's a promotional pic. Check it out here."

September 18, 2002 - Rolling Stone magazine reports that *NSYNC star Justin Timberlake was nervous before his debut solo performance at the MTV Video Music Awards, so he spent the night before the show partying at Lot 61, at one point with Christina Aguilera. Timberlake explained, "I'm performing, so I have to get loose. I'm gonna drink a lot!"

September 18, 2002 - New captures from Christina Aguilera's new video 'Dirrty' are on ChristinaAguilera.to. Check them out here.

September 18, 2002 - Christina Aguilera's new single cover for 'Dirrty' featuring Redman has emerged. It's a black and white shot seen earlier. Check it out here.

September 17, 2002 - georGtex writes "Hi, my name is Georgie and I just finish watching Making The Video on MTV with Nick Carter. I really was waiting for his video to end so that I could see what episode would be next. And Surprisingly it was Christina Aguilera making the video for 'Dirrty'. The episode showed clipse of her making it. She looked beautiful but she was a lil dirty. Christina was surounded by men, and then they showed her dancing in a cage for the club. Redman was in a Black Leather outfit with a crazy background feautiring a guy dressed as a chicken going crazy. The video looked very club-like."

September 16, 2002 - Christina Aguilera's new song 'Dirrty' featuring Redman moved up from #43 to #29 on this week's Radio & Records' national airplay chart. The song had a total of 1,992 plays and is one of pop's most increased songs with 1,095 more plays than last week. The song has also been added to 31 more radio stations on the week ending September 13th.

September 14, 2002 - Christina Aguilera's official site has finally been updated with some new stuff. They added a pop up window with a link to listen to her new single Dirrty and a page filled with radio stations where you can request the song (link on the top), and they have 2 new pictures, probably from a new promotional photoshoot. The pictures are colored and have text, but they're still cool. The new official site will be up in October, possibly at X-tina.com. Check out the pop-up here.

September 14, 2002 - Edna Gundersen of USA Today profiled the big albums expected out this fall, including albums from Mariah Carey, Christina Aguilera, Whitney Houston, *NSYNC star Justin Timberlake, Kelly Clarkson, and R. Kelly. On Aguilera, Gundersen commented, "If Aguilera places more emphasis on her vocal skills and less on her sometimes curious taste in clothes and makeup, we'll all benefit." Read more.

September 11, 2002 - Popdirt.com's latest poll asking which female pop star was best dressed at the MTV Video Music Awards had a huge response, with fans choosing Christina Aguilera's racy outfit as the best, closely followed by Britney Spears in her black dominatrix outfit. The voting came down to the wire, with 31.6% of 6,135 total respondents voted for Aguilera, followed by 28.46% for Spears. Complete results of the poll can be found here.

September 11, 2002 - The National Enquirer's Mike Walker reports that during a recent visit to a smoothy selling establishment, Christina Aguilera pulled up outside, flipped open her cell phone and called inside- asking them to run a protein drink out to her. The manager fumed to the diva that they weren't a running carhop service, but after Christina promised him an autographed photo, the guy nearly broke his leg racing to serve her outside.

September 9, 2002 - Buddyhead has a new column out this weekend, with their thoughts on the MTV Video Music Awards. "Some fruitcake from N' Sync break danced. Michael Jackson did something... Christina was in the house, not to promote a new record but to let the world to know she now has fake boobs and is on speed... Jesus, remind me not to watch this crap again next year." Read more.

September 9, 2002 - Kelefa Sanneh of the New York Times chatted with Christina Aguilera about her new album 'Stripped'. Describing the album, Aguilera said, "The whole vision for this record was to be really raw and real. Just really baring who I really am." Freelance Hellraiser helped Aguilera come across as less sugary with his 'A Stoke of Genius' mix of Aguilera's 'Genie in a Bottle' and the Strokes 'Hard to Explain'. "I really, really loved it," she said of the unauthorized mix track. "I thought it was dope." And then, only half-joking: "That should have been how I came out with it in the first place!" Read more.

September 8, 2002 - dragonzNpiano writes "Here are 2 new Christina Aguilera pictures. It is possibly going to be on the new album. Check them out here. "

September 7, 2002 - The Los Angeles Times reports pop diva Christina Aguilera threw a fit when Westlife had inhabited her usual VIP partying spot at A.D. the other night. A guest nearly bumped her off the balcony in an attempt to get out of the way. Fortunately, the Westlife guys, who have slammed the singer about an almost identical experience with Aguilera before, graciously gave up the booth. Meanwhile, *NSYNC star Justin Timberlake added fuel to reports that he's dating Alyssa Milano when the two showed up together at the same club on Saturday.

September 6, 2002 - Popbitch.com's weekly newsletter has Nelly explaning the 'rr' in 'Hot in Herre'. Nelly said, "We're in the country part of the US. The only thing different with us is our grammar - the way we talk. We slur our r's, like if you were to say 'here,' we'd say herre." As for Christina Aguilera's new single 'Dirrty'? Popbitch blasted, "Christina Aguilera on the other hand is from Staten Island, New York. The reason her new single is called Dirrty is because she's a bandwagon-jumping little ex-Mouseketeer wannabe."

September 5, 2002 - Comedian Janeane Garofalo chatted with Conan O'Brien on Wednesday's episode of Late Night. Janeane talked about 'American Idol' and the MTV Video Music Awards, where she took shots at *NSYNC star Justin Timberlake, Christina Aguilera, Eminem the state of music on MTV, and more. Read here for a transcript.

September 5, 2002 - Triumph the Comic Insult Dog's appearance on the red carpet at last week's MTV Video Music Awards, along with his Eminem run-in and subsequent press conference were featured on Wednesday's Late Night with Conan O'Brien show. Triumph chatted with *NSYNC's Joey Fatone, Sammy Hagar, David Lee Roth, and others, while cracking jokes at Christina Aguilera, Sean 'P. Diddy' Combs, Busta Rhymes, and others. Read here for a transcript.

September 5, 2002 - The new Lycos 50 is out today, with Britney Spears again topping all other humans in the #5 spot. 'American Idol' drops to #11, Avril Lavigne jumps to #13, Eminem holds at #14, Shakira jumps to #20, the VMA's debut at #30, Jennifer Lopez drops a couple to #37, and Nelly drumps three to #43. The report also says Christina Agulera's search interest also spiked after her barely-there outfit, hitting #61. Read more.

September 5, 2002 - Conan O'Brien joked during his tonight show monologue on Wednesday, "At the VMAs, Christina Aguilera and Eminem ended their feud, which began when Eminem falsely bragged that she had once given him oral sex. And apparently, Aguilera was so happy that the feud was over, she gave Eminem oral sex. I couldn't believe it -- it's true."

September 4, 2002 - Bill O'Reilly spoke with the editor of FHM magazine on Tuesday's 'O'Reilly Factor', and talked about Serena Williams outfit worn at the US Open. They also touched on the outfits worn by Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera at the MTV Video Music Awards, while he didn't think Britney's outfit was too bad, he wondered what kind of example Christina's barely there outfit had to her teenage girl fanbase. For a transcript, read here.

September 4, 2002 -  Carson Daly chatted with Eve on MTV's Total Request Live on Tuesday. Asked about her collaboration with Christina Aguilera on her new album tentatively titled 'Stripped', Eve said "It's hot. A hot, hot song like a girls anthem, talkin' about how people run their mouths." Asked if anyone specifically is called out in the track, like Eminem, Eve said, "Not really. Not really. Most of it is talkin' about guys." She later performed her hit 'Gangsta Lovin'.'

September 4, 2002 - ShockYourMind.org has a few video clips featuring Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera on the red carpet of last week's MTV Video Music Awards. Included was Britney's short interview with Greg The Bunny, the puppet who ended up getting the brush-off from Aguilera -- not before he got a shot in at X-Tina. Watch the clips here.

September 1, 2002 - Gil Kaufman of VH1.com chatted with Andy Dick and asked the comedian about his debut album, and whether guys in real bands ever get mad at him for poking fun at them. "Yeah, Christina [Aguilera] is hot and cold about Daphne Aguilera," he said. "She’ll go from, ‘Why didn’t you come to my party and dress up like me?’ And I’m like, ‘That’s not what I do. I’m doing this thing that’s a parody. It’s not you.’ It was all weird the way she said it. She wanted me to go to her birthday party and do Daphne. But it takes three hours to do the make-up and I just wanted to go to her party. Like, 'Why do you want to make me your f*cking monkey?' So I said 'no' and now she’s mad or whatever. She gets it, but she’s always a liiiiiitle bit rude. But I’m not going to stop. We’re doing a Daphne movie. It’s all in good fun and I’ve told her I think she’s the most talented one out there - she can’t be touched." Read more.

September 1, 2002 - Tony Hicks of the Contra Costa Times reviewed the MTV Video Music Awards explaining the few highs and mostly lows of the show. Amongst the lows were the outfits worn by Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera, Michael Jackson's "award", Jennifer Love Hewitt was introduced as "singer and songwriter Jennifer Love Hewitt," Avril Lavigne winning an award, and *NSYNC star Justin Timberlake's first solo performance. There were no "highs" for pop music acts. Read more.

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