Not Myself Tonight

The meaning behind the song is quite straightforward. She was uncomfortable in the image she put out in her career over the last several years, and now she's expressing what she really wants to.

She was uncomfortable as the 'girl next door', and she's admitting she's... Kind of a dirty slut, I guess.

I don't think the Gaga comparison is very fair, everything slightly unusual is compared to her now, and the video was more fetish than fashion.

I think it's a bold move for Aguilera to be up front and show herself in this image, and it's bound to attract criticism for being sexualised, and now apparently it's also criticised because Gaga is the only person allowed to make slightly avant-garde colourful pop music videos.

First of all, im pretty sure Christina Aguilera was before Lady Gaga. So whatever image she's portraying or trying to now i think is something that she wants to do not to copy lady gaga. Sure it looks alot like Gaga's style.I wouldn't compare her to Gaga when Christina's voice is much better. She's trying to say that she's finally finding herself and there's nothing wrong with that. She's not alittle girl anymore so there's nothing wrong with doing what she wants.

And just because she says "im kissing all the boys and girls" doesn't mean you should automatically hate a song.

She FOUND herself 8 years ago when she released her 2nd album "Stripped", so I'm more than sure that 'phase' is over and done with.

love the synths!

I'm pretty sure their managers/producers/advisors pretty much forced her to make this kind of song (haven't heard the entire album) as a career move, just to bring her back in the spotlight. Were they right in doing so? NO . Christina have always shined because of her voice not because she was the sluttiest or the most eccentric, so trying to impose what's trending right now ended up in this song being half GaGa and half Stripped era. I like this song, though the vocals kinda don't fit in, but the synths and beat in general is brilliant.

I don't think the song is about Christina trying to reinvent herself. If she was trying to reinvent herself (again), why "In the morning when she wakes up will she go back to the girl she used to be?"

In the morning When I wake up I'll go back to the girl I used to be But baby Not tonight

That's just what I think. For all I know, this is a new, reinvented Christina.

i BARELY liked it and thought it would grow on me until she said

I'm kissing all the boys and girls

and now it's done. i don't know why she's still trying to make music. she should stop.