Billboard reviews (raves about) Not Myself Tonight!
ARTIST: CHRISTINA AGUILERA
SINGLE: NOT MYSELF TONIGHT
NEW YORK (Billboard) - In the four years since Christina Aguilera released her last studio album, "Back to Basics," pop ingenues like Katy Perry, Lady Gaga and Ke$ha have built their careers on bold theatrics, neo-feminist personas and throbbing club beats. Aguilera brings all of that to the table on "Not Myself Tonight," her lead single from the upcoming "Bionic," but ups the stakes considerably with her trademark, octave-straddling runs and glory notes. Aguilera channels a more Euro-glamorous version of her former "dirrty" alter-ego Xtina on "Tonight," dashing lyrics about self-reinvention with breathy chants and naughty expletives. Producer Polow Da Don, who co-wrote "Tonight" with "Drop It Low" singer-songwriter Ester Dean, adds dripping synths, pulsing bass lines and tribal house drums that sound appealingly unfinished. Paired with Aguilera's unmatched vocal range, "Tonight" proves that the current dance-pop craze would be incomplete without her.
Source: www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6385FL20100409
Also, from Billboard magazine:
After only seven days of airplay, "Not Myself Tonight" is the No. 1 most requested song at WHTZ (Z100) New York. PD Sharon Dustur says it beats the No. 2 requested song by more than triple the requests.