page_title: Elastic Love
section_title: Critical reception
hierarchical_section_title: Elastic Love / Critical reception
caption_attribution_description: Gwen Stefani performing "Hollaback Girl" in Duluth, Georgia, United Statesi ain't no hollaback guurrrrrrl
context_page_description: "Elastic Love" is a song recorded by American recording artist Christina Aguilera, taken from her sixth studio album, Bionic. The song was written by Aguilera, M.I.A., John Hill and Switch, while production was handled by the latter two. Originally, "Elastic Love" was recorded by M.I.A., but later it was given to Aguilera. However, M.I.A. was disappointed when Aguilera didn't want to do her "trademark warbling" in the studio. "Elastic Love" is an electro and electropop song with strong elements from 1980s new wave music. Lyrically, Aguilera compares her love to office supplies, from paperclips to rubber-bands.
  Upon its release, "Elastic Love" received favorable reviews from music critics, who praised the track's composition, its musical style and M.I.A.'s appearance on the song. Most of them praised it as the stand-out track on Bionic, while some of whom compared Aguilera's vocals on "Elastic Love" to those of M.I.A. and Gwen Stefani. The track was listed as the twelfth best song of 2010 by Amazon.com.
context_section_description: Upon its release, "Elastic Love" received positive reviews from most music critics. Becky Bain of Idolator provided a positive review, writing it "fresh", "bouncy" and  "interestingly bereft of Aguilera's power notes". Ray Roa for Consequence of Sound wrote that "it sounds like a something that could make the stiffest indie-wallflowers bob their heads", while labeling it as "another forbearer of what looks to be one of the summer's best pop releases". HitFix's Melinda Newman wrote that the track is hypnotic with "adorably inane" lyrics, like "a nursery rhyme for adults set to the most infectious, trance track you can imagine". Stephen Thomas Erlewine for AllMusic picked "Elastic Love" as one of the four best tracks on Bionic and commented that the song has a "glassy chill". UK newspaper The Scotsman called it "eccentric", while Leah Greenblatt from Entertainment Weekly named it a "squiggly, hypnotic banger". Greg Kot from Chicago Tribune wrote that "Elastic Love" has the best moments of the album, with the electro beats and psychedelic arcade of sound effects.
  Richard Wink from Drowned in Sound deemed it a "wonderful" track, which "makes up for the poor beginning to the album". He continued, "Aguilera dramatically simplifying her usual histrionic vocal delivery, which leads to some surprising results. The lyrics are throwaway, but clever like a dunce who has a happy knack of making a lucky guess". The Village Voice editor Drew Hinshaw wrote that her and M.I.A.'s lyrical chemistry acts as a "the real amorous game", calling it "a fun duet, suggesting a two-girls-at-play theme that doubles in size". Alexis Petridis from The Guardian deemed it the best song from the album, praising M.I.A.'s "incredible pop melody" and "off-kilter backing of squelching electronics and sub-bass" and observed how her instrumentation "has also uniquely managed to calm down Aguilera's usual attention-all-shipping vocal approach into something weirder: dead-eyed, thickly smeared with dubby echo". At the end of 2010, "Elastic Love" was listed at number 12 on the list of the year's best songs by Amazon.com.
caption: Aguilera's vocals on "Elastic Love" were compared to those of Gwen Stefani (photo) by Becky Bain for Idolator.[7]
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