Christina Aguilera's Incredible Agility, Riffs And Runs 

She has the best voice humanity has ever witnessed !

Her falsetto riffs>>>>>>>

1:22-1:30 is one of my fave runs of hers EVER! Especially how it ends off on falsetto. Christina can run for eons, she does runs and riffs so easy. She's done so many effortless runs on The Voice.

Beautifull collection :))) Her runs are very soulfull and colorfull apart they natural agility :)

Her natural agility is immense. Even years of wear and tear to her voice hasnt diminished too much of her agility. She would've definitely been trained as a coloratura no doubt. That Without you run at 2:45-2:55 is just extraordinary.

fave singer of all time

100% fighter i love you XTINA

The run at 0:42 always gets me no matter how many times I hear it!

Best singer EVER.

However I will say I also enjoyed the runs she did on the Voice! Her natural agility is insane! Oh and I've feel in love with my first Xtina song "Loving Me For Me", hopefully there's more songs for me to fall in love with her. I'm slowly but surely going through her catalogue lol :)

She is so incredible.

4:55

OMFG Queen

Celine Dion also has a few very difficult runs that i cant do such as what she did on the word "whisper" on the last chorus of tell him.

loved it!! Is there a reason why you didn't include Climb Every Mountain?

WOW

please add the riffs and runs from dirrty, and on our way...

her falsettos gasdfhfkg😍😍

1:27 song?

Can someone list the songs there are from please?

1:25

Do you have a link for the video where she sings the run at 2:09

1st

what song is the riff from at the very beginning? 0:02

so what is she? her style cannot be defined i think, coz it frequently changes through the years.

Song 50:00?

Wow on The Voice she just casually did some of the fastest riffs I've heard :o

am i the only one who thinks xtina runs are better than beyonce's?

Wow! I had no idea she had runs like these!!!!!! These are beyond impressive! 😵

Amazing!!! They are so crisp and complex! Some of them are like impossible to understand. I love them. XD Natalie Weiss should break all of them!

Just effortless and extraordinary!

4:58 gets me evertime man

But for me, Christina is the queen of vocal runs

4:58 is when Christina Aguilera goes from a high, fifth octave F sharp to a third octave B.

u should make a megamix with her vocal runs only !

Christina's runs are just SUPER HARD to follow. Beyonce's runs are great but they are easy to copy because they are basic but Christina's runs are just so HARD. This proves how her vocal agility is on another level.

Her runs & riffs are really complex, it takes skill to be able to execute them! Moreover, I personally am a huge fan of her vocal TONE. ♥ #TheVoiceOfHerGeneration You can hear why Christina is one of the #100GreatestSingersOfAllTime Thnx for this video!

Amazing! She has such an agility. 2:21 is one of my favorite runs. Her falsetto notes tho

1:31 The high E flat is my favorite note!

Imagine what she could've done with proper training. I'd dare to say she'd be up there with the Trinity even from her beginnings if that was the case

Btw, I actually love runs and riffs, but Christina's opening run on 'Makes Me Wanna Prey' live performances is almost impossible to nail for me somehow???

Her falsetto is to die for

So playful with her voice...just amazing I love it fav singer ever by a landslide

honorable mentions: her run from the bridge of her song "on our way" around the 2:24 mark, it's one of my favorites. "cuando no es contigo" around the 3:45 mark. "oh holy night" around 3:49. But yeah the one from "on our way" is bananas TO ME.

2:26 killed me. No matter how many times I listen to it, it really does sound easy but gosh, so eargasmic! Downloading this vid already. 😅

Aguilera heaven ;)

Impressive.

Why she gotta be so damn extra all the time XD

1:22

Queen.

I'm surprised that her TRL performance of "So Emotional" from 1999 wasn't included. The live version puts the studio cut to shame and is infinitely better. The gospel bridge and climax she added are absolutely mind-blowing and feature back-to-back runs for days... it was the first time I knew she could really sing and I became a fan that very moment.

Legendtina Slayed!!! By the way, You Lost Me and At Last in Cologne have very nice runs, too

Best Singer Ever! When your compared to the two best singer ever that mean your the best.

Eargasms from start to finish, Queen Xtina Indeed!

someone needs to update this masterpiece !

She is amazing...

This so easy to LEGENDTINA..

You forgot the run in the last new york performance, i loved that! Anyway for me, when she was young she used too much runs and riffs and in some cases they were too similar to each other.. Now i like her runs, some times they are complex but always right, not too much.. And the one i was talking about is beautiful. Thanks for the video! Sorry if i made some mistakes

I changed my mind, she's definitely a coloratura since she could do these complex vocal runs since she was young and she never was classically or professionally trained to sing runs and melisma but I still wonder if she's a soprano or a mezzo and if she has a light or a dark voice

can someone PLEASE tell me what song the run at 2:59 is from??

Omg yass I missed this !!

Really like her falsetto when she was young.

What’s the song name at 1:25

what's the song starting at 2.22?

queen of voice

Best voice ever

2:22 😍😍👏

lets admit it xtina's runs is so hard to do she cant be line to britney maybe in the 2000 but now we can line her to the vocal trinity which we can call the vocal powerhouse

Can somebody tell me What's the title of the song that started from 00:00 to 00:25

The O' Holy Night runs? You totally forgot them.

time to change my undies, cuz i just came!!

3:47 is my fave, plus it's 2014!!

0:38 What song is this?

Thank u for this video 💜💜

Xtina the QUEEN

what is the name of the song 1:00?

1:22 need this songๆๆๆๆๆๆๆๆๆๆๆๆๆๆๆๆ

Amamos

What song is at 1:45?

0:16 WHERE IS THIS FROM?

what is the song at 4:56

This has some really nice gems (1:40-1:47), (2:20-2:26), (2:45-2:55 WAS BEAST❤️🙈🙌🏾) When it comes to melismatic ability, I'm really impressed with her natural agility (which rivals true coloraturas like Beyoncé) and I like her usage of her upper extension, but that's about where it ends ! Her limited sense of interpretation, musically, is a problem for me.. You can tell she only knows about 2 real scale patterns (both based on blues/gospel metric structures) and she tries to fit them into virtually every melody, which only works 20% of the time.. Or she's repeating short 2-note licks over and over in attempt to impress casual onlookers. After that her ornamentations become repetitive and uninspired, musically. They don't really go anywhere ..atleast to the extent of melismatic greats ala Aretha, Ella, Mariah, Beyoncé, Brandy, Jazmine Sullivan etc who has both insane technical proficiency along with extraordinary musicianship

Best Singer Ever! When your compared to the two best singer ever that mean your the best.

1:23 song pleaseeeeeeeeee

4:57

To be honest, this video highlights that Xtinas runs are not connected melodically to her songs and are often random and excessive. Maybe I just don't care too much for her style of runs, I only liked a few (1:40, 3:00, and 2:28 is one of my favs ever!) the rest were a bit to excessive for me. In my opinion Xtina never advanced past that stage Beyoncé was in during her DC days and MC was in during her earliest years. The phase where they just did runs because they could and they had the talent and wanted to impress people (as much as I'm impressed by emotions, as a lamb I can admit...the whistle runs are excessive af lol). Their best runs came when their musical style matured and there was a bit of restraint, subtleness, musicality and razor sharp precision in their runs. Xtina to me hasn't gotten to that level of musicality and complexity in her runs.

@XtinaFan Christina Aguilera is not a "Coloratura Mezzo Soprano"; she never has been one and she never will be one. Do you have the slightest idea of what it genuinely means to be a 'coloratura'- oriented singer? First and foremost, one's voice has to be thoroughly trained in order to sing 'coloratura' passages as it is a technique and skill of which is learned and devloped in its entirety over time - it is not an innate vocal fach. What she sang vocalized here were fast, contemporary-oriented, melismatic runs and riffs which were 'good' but they still do not come close to the execution of genuine 'coloratura' lines and scales sung by operatic singers and for you to say that her level of agility is on par with that of Operatic Soprano's and Mezzo Soprano's is simply comical. Ella Fitzgerald was a genuine 'Coloratura Mezzo Soprano', Sarah Vaughan was a genuine 'Coloratura Mezzo Soprano, Nancy Wilson was a genuine 'Coloratura Mezzo Soprano and, to various degress, Beyonce's voice is in conjunction with that of a Coloratura Mezzo Soprano. Pseudo [vocal] intellectuals such as yourself are absolutely hilarious. There is a chance that you have never heard nor listened to a 'coloratura' singer, male or female, and yet you're ridiculously applying classical voice theory to a singer whose technique has to be one of the worst to ever grace the Pop singing landscape as a whole.

Christina has a naturally agile voice, that much is obvious. However, not a single one of these riffs ever went away from the pentatonic scale and a couple of blues notes, and she seems to employ the same 8 rhythms or so in every riff that goes faster than 2 notes a second. Honestly, after listening to this entire video from start to finish, all of her riffs begin to sound exactly the same. The one riff I really give her a lot of credit for is the 'Ain't No Other Man' riff, as that sucker is intricate and quite the little bitch to execute well. Outside that riff, it's a lot of stuff that doesn't really enhance the melody - it's just her showing off how naturally agile she is.

4:57

4:56

4:55

1:24 yas

i wonder why she isnt consider a coloratura.