Genie in a Bottle by Christina Aguilera

Overview

Key: F minor · Chords used: 5 · Sections: 20

Where these chords come from: an expert transcription of the original recording made for the Uspop2002 chord annotations (Music and Audio Research Lab, New York University). This page shows that transcription as-is: the analysis below is generated directly from it by code, not written by AI. Consecutive repeats of a chord are shown once, and the piano voicings are our playable arrangement of each chord symbol, not a note-for-note transcription.

Section by section

Part 1 (0:00)

• Fm – E♭ – D♭ – Cm7
  i – bVII – bVI – v7

Part 2 (0:03)

• Fm – E♭ – D♭ (×2)
  i – bVII – bVI

Part 3 (0:14)

Same chords as Part 2 (0:03).

Part 4 (0:24)

Same chords as Part 2 (0:03).

Part 5 (0:35)

• Fm – E♭ – D♭ – Cm7 (×2)
  i – bVII – bVI – v7

Part 6 (0:46)

• Fm – E♭ – D♭ – Cm7 – Fm – E♭ – D♭ – C7
  i – bVII – bVI – v7 – i – bVII – bVI – V7

Part 7 (0:57)

Same chords as Part 6 (0:46).

Part 8 (1:08)

Same chords as Part 2 (0:03).

Part 9 (1:19)

Same chords as Part 2 (0:03).

Part 10 (1:30)

Same chords as Part 5 (0:35).

Part 11 (1:41)

Same chords as Part 5 (0:35).

Part 12 (1:52)

Same chords as Part 5 (0:35).

Part 13 (2:03)

Same chords as Part 5 (0:35).

Part 14 (2:14)

Same chords as Part 2 (0:03).

Part 15 (2:25)

• Fm – E♭ – D♭ – Fm – E♭ – Fm
  i – bVII – bVI – i – bVII – i

Part 16 (2:37)

• E♭ – D♭ – Cm7 – Fm – E♭ – D♭ – Fm – E♭
  bVII – bVI – v7 – i – bVII – bVI – i – bVII

Part 17 (2:49)

• D♭ – Cm7 – Fm – E♭ – D♭ – C7 – Fm – E♭
  bVI – v7 – i – bVII – bVI – V7 – i – bVII

Part 18 (3:00)

Same chords as Part 17 (2:49).

Part 19 (3:11)

Same chords as Part 17 (2:49).

Part 20 (3:22)

• D♭ – Cm7 – Fm – E♭ – D♭ – C7
  bVI – v7 – i – bVII – bVI – V7

Chord vocabulary

Sources & accuracy

• Chords: the Uspop2002 chord annotations (Music and Audio Research Lab, New York University). Chord annotation of the original recording (Christina Aguilera), time-stamped by researchers; CC BY 4.0 via ChoCo.
• Section names: this annotation doesn't name verses or choruses, so they aren't guessed. Instead, code used the chord timings to find the bars and cut the song into 8-bar parts. Each part is labelled with the time it starts in the annotated recording (Christina Aguilera), and a part with exactly the same chords as an earlier one says so.
• The key was estimated by code from the chords; this annotation doesn't state it.
• Not verified: only one expert transcription of this song is available so far.
• Rhythm and chord durations aren't shown; each step is one chord change.