Stripped

This was her "dirrty" phase. I still remember SNL mocking this when they had Xtina (played by Sarah Michelle Gellar) saying the video wasn't "dirrrty enough" and a production assistant shouted "Can we get more urine in the fog machine, please?" re: the album - I'm not a pop fan, although there have been albums I've appreciated on the 1001. This isn't bad per se - she has a powerful voice, with a lot of impressive control jumping across notes (although I'd prefer a little less "ooh-ooOOh aaaAAAhh") - but the album is stylistically all over the place and way too long. Again, I can't say I disliked it, but I can't say I'd seek it out again either. Tracks I liked: Fighter, Infatuation, Beautiful, Get Mine, Get Yours.

3 stars I assumed this album would get 1 star. This is not my type of music but I was pleasantly surprised. There are some really good songs on this album. I will definitely listen to it again.

For the most part this is just really solid well produced pop, but this album's length I think it definitely its biggest weakness. I can't point to any particular song or moment that's actually bad, I think they are all at least solid. But going on for as long as it does and never really going through any major sound changes does hold it back quite a bit.

This is challenging for me to get through. It is so very much a product of that very specific era. She's obviously a very good singer but it's all buried under pretty weakly produced tracks that just are bombarding my ears. The guitar solo on Fighter cannot have been a choice that Christina Aguilera made. I don't know enough about her to know if she ever actually did a 'Stripped' doen recording but that's the one I would rather hear

Really surprised by this album. Had the radio hits I knew well but there’s a lot of raw emotion and fantastic vocals to be found in between. Clear to tell she was going through a lot. Wild this came out BEFORE The Diary of Alicia Keys given the similarities in some of the tracks. Not a huge fan of Fighter, Make Over, or Dirrty. I much prefer the sound on the rest of the album than these little breaks. Also surprised by how raw “I’m OK” was, never would have expected a ballad on this album about her father’s physical abuse to her during childhood.

Clearly she's a talented singer. I struggle with the "women's sexuality female empowerment" vibe while also clearly posing for the male gaze and singing songs written and produced by men... also quite embarrassing album artwork to have on your monitor at work, ha. Album kind of lacks cohesiveness and might be a little too long. The song about her father beating her mom is clearly out of place, and the Spanish elements sprinkled throughout are cool but inconsistent. The rapper popping on for 30 seconds of "Dirrty" felt disrespectful to that genre as a whole.

I was finding this boring at first but it picked up around "underappreciated" and was entertaining from there for a bit before petering off again. Great soulful voice but it was too long, some of the filler songs should have been stripped imo. 5/10

Great rhythm and vocals, a classic.

I would have liked this more if it was half the length, but I just don’t think its quality justifies it approaching an hour and a half long.

Bangin’ pop.

This is too long but it's an alright pop album. I can see the expressionism being a big selling point and the rebranding of her career but anything in this vein always feels half manufactured vs purely artistic.

Pretty good example of a pop album of the early 2000s. Probably one of the better ones. Too long, and a few tracks that feel out of place and could be dropped. Get this down below 40 minutes. Not for me, but belongs on the list.

Um fine whatever

A good pop album i guess, but I'm to old for this shit..couldn't get through it

first listen great singer okay music

This album had some strong singles, which carry the rest of the album. The dexterity of Christina's voice is impressive, but she keeps it turned up to 11 so much that it comes off as shouty. I think that is the reason I've never listened to her much, but I will probably add a few of these tunes to my master playlist. 3.5* Standout track: Make Over

140/1089 - After listening, it's better than a lot of disney pop (more like disney poop XD loooool) but it's still really overproduced and I don't like how they treated the vocals. Too many overdubs and melismas that sound impressive to normies. The songs are "varied" but in a way which makes them feel inconsistent. I liked some of the Neo Soul stuff but the pop production and drum sounds they're using get in the way. I respect the craftsmanship but I thought it wasn't very good overall and dislike the effect this album had.

Best song: Inflatulensation

Britney Spears yesterday, Christina Aguilera today. We're in the early 00's again baby! Not so much of that teen/bubblegum pop here however. Aguilera was very much a household name at this point, but she wanted to shake off that cute, bubblegum pop singer label that management essentially molded her into when she debuted on the radio. While I think her debut album is one of the best pop records from that era, I don't blame her for having wanted to break free from all of that and desire more creative control here. This album certainly employs a lot of musical styles and draws on many inspirations. Almost fitting, given Aguilera's generational voice talent. She fits right into the R&B/neo soul vocalist mold. The album as a whole might wander a bit, and runs a bit long, but I still thoroughly enjoyed it. Christina Aguilera is always pleasant to listen to and many of the songs here share important messages; whether it's about self-worth, feminism, or sex (hey, some find that important!). Highlights: Fighter, Underappreciated, Beautiful, Dirrty

Another I was sure I was going to really dislike when going into it. But I didn't. I will never play it again -but I got through it without saying this sucks 10 times.

Beautiful is a great tune. But this entire album feels a little amateurish.

primarily a Diva Delivery Machine ofc, but thats a worthy goal when uve got someone with her voice and charisma...reeks of Effort in a way thats not essential for pop music but certainly a p intoxicating path, and, in what has to one of the big Influential Points of this record, having that effort and power coexist w/ insecurities and vulnerabilities...theres clearly a line from this to everything from reputation to short n sweet. and the songs aint bad either! i do rly need to fill in the big gaps that are my 2000s pop girlie knowledge...britney is clearly the blueprint but reading about this record its p clearly of comparable significance, a huge example of a pop star taking control of her platform and using it for both self-mythologizing and soul-baring ends...v good to be educated in!

I did use a private Spotify session for this one. I never got the allure of Brittany's music and I lumped Christina in that category of just selling sex bundled with bland music, this album cover and title helps justify that.

This is a highly skilled singer with a great voice, but the musical styling is not at all to my taste.

01) Stripped Intro - 6,0 02) Can't Hold Us Down - 9,0 03) Walk Away - 8,0 04) Fighter - 9,0 05) Primer Amor Interlude - / 06) Infatuation - 8,0 07) Loves Embrace Interlude - / 08) Loving Me 4 Me - 8,0 09) Impossible - 7,5 10) Underappreciated - 7,5 11) Beautiful - 10,0 12) Make Over - 8,0 13) Cruz - 7,0 14) Soar - 6,5 15) Get Mine, Get Yours - 7,5 16) Dirrty - 7,0 17) Stripped Pt. 2 - / 18) The Voice Within - 8,0 19) I'm OK - 7,5 20) Keep on Singin' My Song - 7,0 TOTAL: 7,74 (77/100) Current ranking: 218/566

This album is a lot more fun than I wanted to admit as I was listening through it. Christina sure can sing and the album is full of R&B and latin influences that really escalate this. Now the album is like twice as long as it has any right to be, but she totally owns her own identity and expresses herself in a way that is bold and fairly emotional. My favorites are probably Can't Hold Us Down, Loving Me 4 Me, Beautiful, and maybe Make Over.

need half stars! there are some major hits for me on here that were super transformative

4,5

# 491 : Stripped : 29/05/2025 They've done a pretty decent job, it’s a good album, it’s enjoyable and fun overall. Some good hits and bangers, but drags out a bit. It's ok, but not 5 star material. I liked Fighter and Beautiful

Extra star for the Latin influence, her vocals, and the nostalgia.

Like it. Favourite song is Beautiful 3/5

- Have to highlight the diversity of styles put on display here. Somewhat works against the record as a whole, but the eclectic mix is fun. - Some stellar tracks on here, namely "Impossible," "Beautiful," "Cruz," and even "Dirrty." - Thought I preferred more somber Christina, but did not care for "I'm OK." - Why is this so long? Some of these tracks are over 6 minutes.

Peak 2002: a TRL video star, expensive production aiming for lush but ultimately kind of chintzy crappy digital sounding, ubiquitous hip hop elements, RnB slow jams, psuedo heavy guitar riffs for no reason with the worst tone imaginable, pop discovering Latinos, horniness as feminism and generic empowerment, ultra low rise jeans and terrible haircuts, all stuffed into a sprawling 78 minutes. Her voice is powerful, she's good at going real low into a growl to gather force for an alto explosion, hitting those glass shattering high notes; it's a strong and pretty varied vocal performance - the ballads are too much though. A couple of good songs but sooo much garbage to wade through - lots just bland and boring but some aggressively bad (Fighter, Cruz, voice within). Favorites: Get Mine Get Yours, Walk Away, Dirrty

Wow, well I had a sneaking suspicion I might quite like this but it completely blew me away. Fair play, a bold and fabulous album from start to finish. It probably spawned a million dud and/or fake imitators unfortunately, but hardly her fault. And what a wonderful voice. Beautiful is just the most beautiful and uplifting song, written I note with great joy by Linda Perry of 4 Non Blondes.

Several bangers, no lowlights, great vocals and great tracks behind it. FS: Beautiful

The birth of Xtina, one of the greatest vocalists to ever do it. There are a few fillers in the middle here but even those are top drawer honestly. Jam packed with hits that changed pop. Each of Can't hold us down, Fighter, Beautiful, Dirrty and especially the Voice Within are all timers, no notes.

eh

5/1001 This is the first time I listened to a full album of Aguilera. But hey, we all have to test our limits someday. It is worrying and troubling that a singer / star of such proprtion has to convince herself that she is good and shouldn't be looked down upon. What does that mean to an average 13-year old trying to survive in the pressure of today's surface-is-what-counts-world? The music is so pathetic as well, how much pain does she really hold inside? Or is it just a big performance of something totally empty inside? Do I smell Mickey Mouse club here? While I am sure this speaks to millions out there it left me more wondering than admiring. And yes, I do own quite a many R&B albums. Beautiful stuff here and there, awesome production, but when this doesn't speak to me then it doesn't. I am sort of sorry to say I am glad I don't have to listen to another album of her again.

Not my usual thing, but there is serious talent here. There is a great blend of genres, hip hop mixed with Spanish guitar etc. Some good guest vocal work from Lil Kim. The singles are bangers with 'Fighter' and 'Beautiful' leading the charge. The album works as a great concept album of feminist anthems. Impressive

Damn, this woman's voice is incredible. The music beneath is is pure 90's pop garbage tho. Stripped occupies a unique time in America that includes The Simple Life, Von Dutch trucker hats, The Roxbury, Girls Gone Wild, KFed and Brittany Spears' bald head ... and more things I'd rather forget. But Beautiful... well, that is somewhat redeeming.

Xtina got “Dirrty” on “Stripped.” But the impression that I got from that song and music video (and the dyed hair and tattoos and chaps) did not really prepare me for this album. Much more of the album is slow R&B than dirty club bangers. It would have been more interesting if the over-the-top sound had been what was stripped - simpler production, piano, acoustic - it would be interesting to hear Christina more in that setting. Christina Aguilera has been stripped from the 1001. But as with “Back to Basics,” she clearly has one of the most remarkable voices in pop music history.

Despite Christina's great voice, this album feels very sophomoric. Infatuation seems way out of place on an album that is generally trying to declare she is a strong, independent woman...except when she can't help herself? Beautiful is in fact beautiful, but the rest of the slow jamz are snooze fests.

Remembering the bubblegum pop start to Christina’s career and seeing that this album is 78 minutes, I did not have high hopes. I was surprised, not blown away, but pleasantly surprised. Christina has a hell of a voice. The music mostly takes a back seat and that kept me focused on her voice which I can apparently listen to for 78 minutes and continue enjoying. Beautiful is a great song with an important message. It reminds me of Dolly Parton, not musically but rather for its supportive wholesomeness. Ironically wholesomeness is a trait Christina was trying to get away from with Stripped. I think she successfully stripped away the facade and showed more of her true artistic self. And that’s always a good thing.

I grew up in the 2000's so I have a love for the pop from that decade and this album captures both the highs and lows from that era. For the highs the hooks and melodies are catchy and blending of genres makes for great features from Lil' Kim and Redman. For the lows this album is bloated and over-produced in parts. Overall it was a fun listening experience.

I enjoyed this much more than I thought I would

Repeat listen

I don’t really know anything from this album except, of course, Beautiful. I’ll admit that this isn’t what I usually listen to, but it’s pretty good. I like the coherence of the album, love the interludes, especially Primer Amor Interlude, and the jazzy sound that comes through in a lot of the tracks. Will I listen to it again? Probably not, and that’s why I’m giving it a 3.

Stripped is a pretty alright album. The last Christina Aguilera album i looked at is quite different from this one as while the former has two different styles for two sides, This one seems to combine the two styles. This one also has some of the same vibes that the Justin Timberlake album i did which makes sense since the two artists did eventually perform this album live together but this album does lack that one's absurdity. The album itself is decent with the singles being some pretty good songs and the other ones being decent but forgettable. This album was really long though without much change or interestingness. This is an alright album, just kinda forgettable. Best Song: Fighter Worst Song: I'm OK

The rockier cuts on this are not great but i get she's attempting to be like "i can do all sides of pop music" and this was still the numetal/pop punk era so i get it but they're just rough. The rnb/pop stuff tho, goddamn some of this stuff is wonderful

Back when Aguilera was at her height, it was Britney or Christina and if I had to choose in 2002 when I was 13, I would’ve gone Britney. That said, I’ve never liked this type of pop music and this is pretty standard pop fare. There’s nothing groundbreaking here, but it’s not trying to be anything it’s not, and that’s fine.

1. Stripped Intro - intro 2. Can't Hold Us Down - 7/10 3. Walk Away - 8/10 4. Fighter - 7/10 5. Primer Amor Interlude - ?? 6. Infatuation - 6.5/10 7. Loves Embrace Interlude - ?? 8. Loving Me 4 Me - 8/10 9. Impossible - 7.5/10 10. Underappreciated - 9/10 11. Beautiful - 6.5/10 12. Make Over - 7/10 13. Cruz - 7/10 14. Soar - 7/10 15. Get Mine, Get Yours - 8/10 16. Dirrty - 8/10 17. Stripped, Pt.2 - ?? 18. The Voice Within - 8/10 19. I'm OK - 7/10 20. Keep on Singin' My Song - 8/10 7.5/10

Don’t make pop music like they used to

It’s definitely a lot to listen to, and I think it is good for what it is. There are a couple pretty good songs on there, the vibe is pretty good overall, a lot of interesting variety when it comes to the styles of music. Her voice is very whimsical, and I didn’t realize how well Christina could sing, Definitely a solid album overall. I’ll give it a three out of five because it’s not my vibe, but I think it is very well made overall and I can see the influence on a lot of younger female artists, especially.

sorry i'm not going to finish this, i just don't know why basic stuff like this is on the list

Xtina has so many things to say on this one, it just had to be a double album. And it's a good thing I listened all the way through: Banger Dirrrty sits all the way at the end. What a daring placement!

Ok so she’s not a bad singer. No matter much everyone loves to hate on her, her talent is undeniable. She wouldn’t be such a huge star if she sucked. And this isn’t even a bad pop album. Sure, it’s dated now; and very much a product of its time, but it isn’t bad. It’s just an early 2000’s pop album and I don’t like it. Lots of people do, and I get it, I just don’t.

Interesting experience - so as an album it’s a bit too long and has too many ballads for my taste but some songs are really good here. It’s funny how one changes over the years - the attitude my world had - and to a degree myself - towards Aguilera was a little too hostile but now - with the benefit of some clarity of thought and the wisdom from the passage of time and better awareness - she was going through a world of misogyny that was quite accepted at the time and she had the audacity to call it out. The intro track quotes music news (wow what a quaint concept nowadays) shows talking casually about Fred Durst being a creep toasted her - and the rest of the album goes on to talk about the double standards towards women and anthems towards being self appreciative and see one’s own beauty while also having fun. And to think at the time it was considered risqué - while today it’s considered par for the course…. Then again this was a time when Fred Durst - a douchebag - had an impact on popular culture. It has been funny revisiting my contemporary artists - Eminem, Britney, Slipknot, Limp Bizkit and see how I, and the world had grown since. Some stood the test of time and some didn’t - but Christina’s actual and artistic voice stands.

I enjoyed this more than I was expecting! I mean there is quite a lot of filler and way too many songs, but the high points had me and the missus bopping around the lounge room! 6/10

This is not for me, too much sugar is bad for your health and your ears

There is no way there aren't 1001 other albums to listen to before you die ahead of this one. It pisses me off that this even made this list. Also, very few albums in any genre earn a 77 minute run time.

I remember the dirty video and how it signaled a loss of innocence for our millennial pop superstars. Ehh who am I kidding it was hot. and Beautiful is a signature song.

Its a good album. It had influences from rap, latin and rock which made it a bit versatile. Unless from the few Bangers its not much of an Album i would listen as a whole. Christina Aguileras voice is a force and this fact stands even if i love or less liked the album in the end. (3.0/5.0)

Not my sounds

Really solid but too bloated. Could do with being 5-6 songs shorter.

2,5

yes okay now wheres shakira

I liked this more than expected, but…. After the seventh song about accepting myself for who I am, I had my fill. Docked a star for being too long - curse of the cd age. I really prefer an album that’s five a side and all killer.

I found this album surprisingly enjoyable. I listened to it on Monday morning going to work and it was raining. Beautiful, is a song I used to listen to a lot growing up on those So Fresh CDs, and it still holds up. To me she sounds like at this point in her life she had taken everyones criticism very personally and to heart, this album is her way of saying fu*k you this is me, take it or leave it, I don't care what you think anymore. Dad, I don't think you will like this album, Kieran you are a maybe, I really don't know what you would think of this album haha.

A bland, timid entry - suitable perhaps for patients recovering from surgery!

Fun!

I was really surprised by the amount of nostalgia that came from listening to this album. I’ve never particularly been a Christina fan, but my parents must have played this a lot when it was released as I found myself recognising every song. The songs here are catchy, but it’s definitely the vocals that are the standout feature here. I usually don’t enjoy overly complicated vocal runs, as are often found in pop albums like this, but I guess the nostalgia made this easier to listen to.

I know she's talented, but I don't like the style, songwriting or production

Apparently I like Dire Straits. Great mellow listen front to back. sultans of Swing indeed.

Favorite Track: Walk Away

Ummmm what kind of thirst trap is this? I feel very thirsty and obviously entrapped by the classic soft rock beats of the 2000’s that I over gelled my hair, sprayed myself with 3 full cans of axe body spray before forming a 5 member boy band. For real tho… why is this on the list?

This comment is surely going to be too meta. This album-a-day exercise is challenging me in unexpected ways. For starters, I'm now only getting to about 2 albums a week. But more importantly, when an artist or album doesn't resonate with me -- as is the case here -- I feel completely lost on how to rate it. I know Christina Aguilera has a great voice. I don't care. I know there are interesting Latin rhythms here. I don't care. I am not the audience for this album. But it might still be a great album. I will never choose to listen to it again -- like, *ever* -- and it took effort for me to sit through it all. But I'll also not react negatively if someone else is playing it in their home. It's just not something I enjoy. What score is this?! Should it be based solely on my preferences? Should I be trying to score it based on some objective qualities that somehow reach beyond my personal preferences?? Does my paralysis in making this decision mean I need to take a step back from this whole endeavor? My apologies to the Christina fans out there.

Not my kind of music, but Christina has a great voice and the song lyrics are uplifting so I get why this album is seen as an anthem for many women.

Das Album Stripped wurde in mehreren Studios in Kalifornien aufgenommen, darunter Record Plant in Los Angeles und Enterprise Studios in Burbank. Christina Aguilera stammt aus den USA und zählt zu den international bekannten Pop-Sängerinnen der frühen 2000er-Jahre. Musikalisch bewegt sich das Album zwischen Pop, R&B, Soul und Elementen von Hip-Hop und Rock. Zu den besonders bekannten Stücken gehören „Beautiful“, eine ruhige Ballade mit introspektivem Charakter, sowie das selbstbewusste „Fighter“ und das cluborientierte „Dirrty“ mit einem Gastauftritt von Redman. Einige Songs des Albums zeichnen sich durch persönliche Themen und stilistische Experimente aus, was es von Aguileras vorherigen Veröffentlichungen unterscheidet. Insgesamt zeigt Stripped eine Künstlerin, die nach mehr künstlerischer Eigenständigkeit strebt und sich von einem rein kommerziellen Pop-Image lösen möchte. Die Mischung aus unterschiedlichen Stilen und der persönliche Ton machen das Album zu einem Wendepunkt in ihrer Diskografie.

I wasn't a huge fan, although there were some good parts.

That's a name I haven't heard in a long time. Honestly, most of this music is fine, in the same way that highly-processed junk food from a gas station is fine. Best track: "Walk Away"

I didn't dislike it, but also didn't really enjoy it. Better than Tom Petty, worse than Elvis

2002 in radio charts: boring white chicks singing about getting their pussy worked over on top of an R&B beat. While that's plenty to get nostalgic about, and while I'd be lying if I said I found nothing to like or respect here (one of these stars is just for Beautiful), this is mostly a lot of oversexed pop filler (is that a fucking thong sewn into your jeans, Christina?!)

I’m not a pop guy so this was a bit of a labour to listen to for me. Xtina is undeniably a talent with that voice, and I can’t help but feel that talent is wasted in the pop genre when listening to rock infused tracks like Fighter. In any case, the hits hit hard, but as with many pop artists of this era the rest of the album feels less intentional and more like a vehicle to sell those hits. A very ‘Dirty’ two stars for Xtina. ⭐️⭐️

I felt like this would never end. No doubt she’s a great singer just not my music at all. Never liked all these dance party albums of the 2000s

Overall: 6/10 I liked this a lot more than I expected. I already got the other Aguilera album on the list before this (does she really need 2???) and wasn't a huge fan but this one caught me off guard. There's quite a bit of variety, and I enjoyed the latin vibes. Christina has such an incredible voice and the songs on here are a great showcase for her talent. I personally wouldn't have included it in this list but compared to some of the other garbage that the listmakers added, this isn't a bad addition. Fav Song: Fighter Least Fav Song: I'm OK

In a nutshell: Y2K girl power. In retrospect, I can't believe how close-minded we were in the 90s and 2000's. This is feminist millennial pop. It's a sharp turn from her innuendo ladden hit Genie In A Bottle, instead taking cues from Lil Kim and Alicia Keys. It didn't need to be a double album. The songs didn't need to be over 4 minutes. I didn't like it that much. But it was the album young women doubting their worth after a one night stand or being called ugly needed in the early 2000's. Overall: 4/10

really testing my poptimist tendencies. Still no Seger.

Christina Aguilera's *Stripped* (2002) is widely regarded as a landmark album in pop music, marking a bold departure from her teen pop beginnings into a more mature, personal, and experimental sound. The album explores themes of self-empowerment, vulnerability, feminism, and sexuality while incorporating diverse musical styles. Below is an in-depth analysis of the album's lyrics, music, production, themes, and influence, along with its strengths and weaknesses. --- ## **Lyrics** The lyrical content of *Stripped* is one of its defining features. Aguilera delves deeply into personal experiences, tackling issues such as self-respect, heartbreak, empowerment, and trauma: - **Empowerment and Feminism**: Tracks like "Can't Hold Us Down" (featuring Lil' Kim) challenge gender double standards and advocate for women's voices in a patriarchal society. However, some critics have noted that the song's approach to feminism could feel combative or flawed in its messaging[3][4]. - **Vulnerability**: "Beautiful," the album's most iconic track, delivers a universal message of self-acceptance and resilience. Similarly, "I'm OK" is a harrowing recount of Aguilera's experience with domestic abuse during her childhood, showcasing raw emotional depth[1][3]. - **Sexuality**: Songs such as "Dirrty" and "Get Mine Get Yours" embrace Aguilera's sexual agency. While celebrated for breaking taboos around female sexuality in pop music, these tracks were controversial at the time for their explicitness[4][5]. - **Self-Reflection**: Tracks like "The Voice Within" encourage listeners to trust their inner strength and intuition. Other songs like "Walk Away" explore toxic relationships with poetic vulnerability[1][3]. Aguilera's lyrics are deeply personal yet universal, resonating with listeners on multiple levels. However, some critics argue that the album's thematic repetition—centered heavily on empowerment—can feel redundant over its lengthy runtime[3][5]. --- ## **Music** Musically, *Stripped* is eclectic, blending pop and R&B with elements of rock, soul, hip-hop, gospel, and Latin music: - **Diverse Genres**: The album moves seamlessly between different styles. For example: - "Fighter" incorporates rock influences with aggressive guitar riffs. - "Infatuation" blends Latin rhythms with pop sensibilities. - "Cruz" channels 1970s soul-rock balladry[3][5]. - **Vocal Performance**: Aguilera showcases her vocal prowess throughout the album but exercises restraint on tracks like "Walk Away," allowing emotions to take precedence over vocal gymnastics[3]. - **Production**: Producers like Linda Perry ("Beautiful"), Scott Storch ("Fighter"), and Alicia Keys ("Impossible") bring distinct sonic textures to the album. Perry’s raw production style complements Aguilera’s emotional delivery[5]. Despite its strengths, critics have pointed out that the album occasionally lacks cohesion due to its genre-hopping nature. Some tracks feel overproduced or repetitive in tone[3][5]. --- ## **Production** Aguilera took significant creative control over *Stripped*, serving as an executive producer alongside collaborators like Linda Perry and Scott Storch: - **Rawness and Authenticity**: The production emphasizes imperfections to enhance emotional authenticity. For instance, Perry encouraged Aguilera to retain vocal imperfections in "Beautiful," which added to its sincerity[5]. - **Lengthy Runtime**: At 77 minutes with 20 tracks (including interludes), *Stripped* has been criticized for being overly long. Critics suggest that trimming filler tracks like "Soar" or interludes could have improved the album's focus[3][5]. The production reflects Aguilera’s artistic ambition but occasionally falters under its own weight. --- ## **Themes** Thematically, *Stripped* is a deeply personal exploration of identity and liberation: 1. **Self-Empowerment**: Songs like "Fighter" and "The Voice Within" encourage resilience and inner strength. 2. **Sexual Liberation**: Tracks such as "Dirrty" challenge societal norms about female sexuality. 3. **Emotional Vulnerability**: Songs like "I'm OK" confront painful memories with unflinching honesty. 4. **Feminism**: The album critiques gender inequalities while celebrating female solidarity in tracks like "Can't Hold Us Down"[1][2][4]. These themes resonated strongly with listeners at the time of release and continue to influence contemporary artists. --- ## **Influence** *Stripped* has had a lasting impact on pop music: - It paved the way for artists like Demi Lovato and Miley Cyrus to explore personal themes and embrace their sexuality unapologetically[1]. - The album's bold visuals—such as the provocative video for "Dirrty"—set new standards for artistic expression in pop culture[2]. - Tracks like "Beautiful" remain timeless anthems of self-love and acceptance. While initially polarizing due to its provocative content and Aguilera’s image reinvention as “Xtina,” *Stripped* has since been recognized as a groundbreaking work that redefined pop music for the 21st century[1][5]. --- ## **Pros** 1. **Emotional Depth**: The lyrics are raw and deeply personal, offering listeners a glimpse into Aguilera’s life experiences. 2. **Vocal Prowess**: Aguilera’s voice shines throughout the album, showcasing versatility across genres. 3. **Diverse Musical Styles**: The blend of pop, R&B, rock, soul, gospel, and Latin influences makes for an adventurous listening experience. 4. **Empowering Themes**: The messages of self-respect, resilience, and empowerment resonate universally. 5. **Cultural Impact**: The album influenced a generation of artists and opened conversations about female empowerment and sexuality in mainstream music. --- ## **Cons** 1. **Lack of Cohesion**: The genre-hopping nature of the album can feel disjointed at times. 2. **Overly Long Runtime**: At 20 tracks (including interludes), the album could have benefited from tighter editing. 3. **Controversial Lead Single**: The choice of “Dirrty” as the lead single overshadowed the album’s deeper themes due to its provocative imagery. 4. **Repetitive Themes**: While empowering overall, some tracks reiterate similar messages without adding much new insight. 5. **Polarizing Reception**: Upon release, critics were divided on whether Aguilera’s bold reinvention felt authentic or contrived. --- ## Conclusion *Stripped* is a bold artistic statement that redefined Christina Aguilera’s career while influencing pop music for years to come. Its strengths lie in its emotional depth, vocal brilliance, thematic ambition, and cultural impact. However, it suffers from issues related to cohesion and length. Despite its flaws, *Stripped* remains an enduring testament to Aguilera’s artistic evolution—a fearless declaration of independence that resonates as strongly today as it did over two decades ago.

I remember back when the single Dirrty came out and not thinking much of it, considering it done just for shock value. I liked the singles Fighter and Beautiful, but never listened to the rest so I'm curious to dive into this one. This is a good pop album, although a little bloated. Christina has a great voice and shows it off in a multitude of ways. I feel if some of the weaker songs had been cut that this would be an easy 5 star album.

Rating: 2/5 | Favorite Track: Beautiful --- Admittedly, this album is not made for me. I found it to be bland and got nothing out of this.

Skipped

lots of bops

Lol some sappy one smash hit. She’s got pipes tho

Se hace laaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaargo. Yo que sé, música de una época apuntada a un público femenino que se cansó de ser maltratada por la sociedad. Fighter es un clásico y hasta ahí. Es un meh para mi.

Feminist themes, something about Fred Durst? Latin infused hip hop/neo soul pop Bit of gospel too Funky elements on Underappreciated Source of Fighter, which is a banger! A bit warbly at times.. Best track (previous unknown) - Cant Hold Us Down

I'm not a huge fan of the talking at the beginning of each song, but the songs are otherwise solid - great harmonies and variety. Some songs are much better than others (Fighter, Can't hold us down, Beautiful, Dirrty, The voice within). Songs like "Loving me 4 me" drag on and don't seem to go anywhere.

Surprisingly good pop album! The songs hold a consistently high quality throughout, and the variation in styles makes the (too) long runtime seem less unbearable than I feared. I’m not too into RnB though, so songs like Loving Me 4 Me make my annoyed&bored-muscle twitch. A solid 6/10

Oväntat många starka låtar

Aight

Gir meg ikkje så masse

Two records by CA is silly as who really cares about this anymore, if anyone ever did.

I like the content of this album it seems like it was her coming of age album. Very introspective, the control she has over her voice was able to amplify that for me. Not to mention her voice is just phenomenal so that also makes me rate this album high. For an early 2000’s pop album it has more depth than I anticipated. I’m a fan and pop music usually isn’t my bag but this album surprised me! Only criticism is the length, I felt she could’ve shortened this album and kept the same impact. 4.2/5

Not my style, but WOW she has an amazing voice 😍

Christina has one of those strong, memorable, and recognizable voices that everyone likes. Her album was very headstrong and showed off her independence and feminism, maybe even a little too much. She also showed intense emotion and vulnerability. I thought this was a good album.

= The Beatles There's a great 45 minute album in here

X-Tina’s voice is powerful and flexible, gliding from spoken purrs to glissandos and roars. The production on this is the best money could buy at the time. But this album feels very much of its time. It screams pop girlie/r’n’b diva 2002. I liked the couple bangers, but too much of the album settled into middling r’n’b and midrange tempo to hold my interest. The deliberate switch from teen pop princess in the late 90s to sexed-up grown woman here is kinda cringe too. It’s a high 2/low 3 for me.

-everyone was clowning tf out of this on RYM for some reason. I don’t know why. I thought it was quite good even though im really not big on early 2000s R&B stuff. maybe ALMOST 4 stars -her voice is absolutely phenomenal and automatically makes songs stand out even if they’re otherwise a bit generic -Favorites are Fighter, Loving Me 4 Me, and Make Over

Christina, Mariah, it’s all the same wibbly-wobbly whiny vocal gymnastics garbage. Yeah she’s talented but this kind of music grinds my gears.

First off, at first I thought using Jay Z's Public Service Announcement to kick off the album was a cool idea with some cultural context that I don't understand, but doing some research I see no online discussions of the PSA sample, so I guess that's lost to history. Regardless, her voice is out of this world. Also the transition from Walk Away and Fighter is flawless. The album in general dragged on a little too long for me, so it's a 3.5 instead of a 4, and it gets the round up since this was better than a lot of other albums we've had. 4/5

Never listening to this again. It's alright for what it is and I recognise quite a few of the songs, that's as much as I can say.

Classic cover, that's where the good review ends. She can certainly sing, but her music sucks. She oversings and overpowers everything. There are a lot of people who would disagree based on listen counts for "Fighter" (230M), "Dirrty" (250M) and "Beautiful" (351M). The later being the only song I could tolerate, but I did know the others from the radio. Not my thing, not even close. I respect her popularity and hit making ability but the songs suck.

This was absolute heat that I wasn’t prepared for

i'm writing this before looking at the reviews, but i can only assume they're abysmal because this album is 1) by a woman and 2) mainstream top 40 pop. it sucks that a lot of people probably built those walls of bias before they even pressed play. all that being said, i didn't find this to be a terribly noteworthy album. christina is an incredible vocalist (seriously, if you're reading this in 2025, looking up the video of her dueting current pop darling Sabrina Carpenter. sabrina has a good voice, but next to christina? it's just night and day), but i didn't find a ton of stuff to dig into here beyond the vocal performance. i'm curious if there's more history to this album that makes it noteworthy. it's also incredibly long, and the novelty wears thin. still, i found it largely listenable. idk!

while i appreciate that this album has more depth than a lot of pop music, i'm not sure it's worth sifting through 77 minutes of music to find the hidden gems. luckily, there are also some huge hits of the early aughts on here to make the obvious gems much easier to find. not sure i'll come back to this one but it's decent overall. favorites: can't hold us down, fighter, beautiful, make over, dirrty, i'm ok

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8/10. I wasn't expecting myself to like it, but this is actually a really enjoyable album. The vocals are incredible, and the production is really nice!

Way too long. Each song was on average 90 seconds too much. Get rid of the interludes.

Was kinda getting her confused with gwen stefani and was gonna do a rant about how no doubt should be on the list but no completely different entity. Then I realised there was a link as linda perry off the 4 non blondes both wrote songs for them, and yeah the song ‘beautiful’ is amazing. And I was also shocked to find out linda perry was in a relationship with leslie winkle off the Big Bang theory… anyway I keep going on tangents, I’ll say fighter is a strong ‘rocky’ track and christina can really sing and infatuation just felt familiar, not even a single but it sounds like something I’ve heard 1000 times on the radio, maybe early Beyoncé??? Which makes sense when you look into it because it’s partly written by Scott Storch who has written tracks for… Beyoncé. SO many guests on here like we then go to a number with Alicia keys, who to me is simply just a name I’ve heard of but don’t care about. I was horrified when I saw the myriad of credits on make over, was really just the sugarbabes but still I didn’t think we got credits that long till the 2010’s, still thought I love the Spanish flair to this one. Let’s circle back to beautiful, what a perfect pop song seriously it’s the one moment the album stops for something particularly good/ special, me first and the gimmie gimmies have such a good cover of this. I think the album deserves its place though even if I keep getting sidetracked, literally two of the hugest popstars of today (Sabrina Carpenter and Charli XCX) noted this as an influence…. And when this came out Sabrina would’ve been 3, according to wikipedia, I would’ve been minus 3 but yeah. Charli XCX is that bit older so would’ve remembered it coming out etc… but the only things I’m mentioning that I remember coming out were brat and short and sweet. And now espresso is stuck in my head… and now I’m thinking of that snl thing where Jake Peralta off brooklyn 99 made me cringe so hard. And ariana grande made me cringe in the same skit though, but honestly I saw wicked in the theatre before it became a film/ never liked it. And now I’m thinking of how SNL sounds like SML and cringing on how I used to find jeffy funny. Okay let’s go back to the album… dirty (feat redman) who’s redman??? I’m cringing at his Spotify picture and the names of his top 5 songs right now, it’s alright too in my face for me honestly

There are some good songs on here and she can definitely sing

first half was very gospelly and fun, but it sort of dragged on way way too long and didn't stay fun

"Beautiful" = 5 stars. The rest is pleasing R&B-inflected pop.

I like that she tried to fit in personal and feminine messaging, but both the music and vocal melodies are very uninteresting

Indie, hip hop Latin music, an outstanding pop.album, very pleasant. Her voice is so beautiful too, a perfect vocal performance. I like this album. Great music!

Walk Away - great ballad, great intro to Fighter Fighter - probably her best song Underappreaciated - really decent Soar - Interesting song The singles are humongous. Voice Within, Beautiful, Fighter, Diiiirty

Far more diverse genre-wise than expected, and it deserves credit for foregrounding the R&B and hip-hop influences that other pop stars of the era treated like dirty secrets. This is as much Max Martin vs. Scott Storch as it is Britney vs. Christina. Still, TWENTY songs? Woof.

I'm a hater of modern pop as much as the next guy, but this is some seriously great material. Stripped showcases an array of musically diverse, tonally diverse (importantly!), and complex songs in a sort of R&B-riffing style. The album goes back and forth between catchy and heartfelt – sometimes even both at the same time – and it makes for a good album experience overall. I enjoy the use of electric guitars (and human-played instruments in general) that tend to be absent from 90s and 00s hip-hop/R&B. There's a lot of piano, so a plus there. I wouldn't say there are any huge standouts, but certainly Aguilera picked her singles wisely. The anthem-like songs Fighter and Beautiful are my two favourite tracks here – barely edging out groovier tracks like Make Over and smooth lilting hits like Impossible and Keep on Singin' My Song. But perhaps the biggest factor pushing this above the rest of the pop-R&B pack is that the vocals (including the melodies) are fantastic. This gal has some chops. One thing Aguilera fails to shake from the R&B meta, though, is the interludes. There are four songs in here that the album could do without. And it's not like they were added to pad runtime (since they cumulatively only make up 4 minutes of the 77-minute-long record). Missy Chrissy could have removed these empty and relatively pointless tracks without any loss in engagement. (Well, at least they're pretty good as far as interludes go. The acoustic guitar picking in Primer Amor is nice and a cool transition into Infatuation.) I also disapprove of an album being this long unless there's a running theme/concept. But all in all, Aguilera exceeded my expectations. 4/5 Key tracks: Fighter, Impossible, Beautiful, Keep on Singin' My Song

Why is it that any time a woman expresses her sexuality she's a slut or a skank? I don't know, but maybe one of the guys here can provide an answer after they're done watching their 30 minute videos on how to be an alpha male. But anyway, as someone who never listens to Pop music or the radio, this album exceeded my expectations. There are some really great tracks here and the vocals are top notch. It runs a little long but I grew up with vinyl and I think 36-44 minutes is the perfect all killer no filler zone. As is this is outstanding, but make your own playlist with 12 to 14 tracks and this album becomes stellar. Xtina is rockin' those pants. It takes me back to the days of lo-rise jeans with a thong peaking out and lower back tattoos. Heck yeah that look was delicious. 5 stars for the music and 5 stars for the album cover.

Feminisme before it was cool - that’s cool. Great pop album. Catchy tracks and huge vocal. Too long.

#524. Pop music that is past it's expiration date. 2/5: meh

Not as much of a slog as I thought it would be. Still, can’t say I’ll ever want to listen again. 2.5 stars.

Not a mark against the quality of music, Christina is a great singer and the production quality was fine on this album. Just not my genre nor am I the intended audience.

Stripped Intro - no rating Can't Hold Us Down - 3/5 Walk Away - 4/5 Fighter - 4/5 Primer Amor Interlude - no rating Infatuation - 3/5 Loves Embrace Interlude - no rating Loving Me 4 Me - 3/5 Impossible - 3/5 Underappreciated - 4/5 Beautiful - 4/5 Make Over - 2/5 Cruz - 3/5 Soar - 3/5 Get Mine, Get Yours - 3/5 Dirrty - 2/5 Stripped, Pt. 2 - no rating The Voice Within - 3/5 I'm OK - 2/5 Keep on Singin' My Song - 3/5 Overall rating - 3/5 ⭐️⭐️⭐️ surprisingly i didn't hate this. in fact, i liked some of the less popular tracks more than i did the commercially successful. it was faaaar too long of an album though, this could've been at least 5 tracks less.

I liked this A WHOLE LOT MORE than I thought I would. The ballads were not too ballady, the pop songs were pretty poppy. The early-00s were absolutely nightmarish to female stars and she had *been through it*, so i don't need to remember the specifics to understand why she was mad.

with the benefit of hindsight it is wild to go back to the "the studio is no longer in control of me i am independent and sexy in a grown adult way instead of a lolita way" era of pop music where the studios made all their "aging" female pop stars do an album about how independent and free from control of the studio and sexy they are now. the singles are still good though

Oops! I listened to this and forgot to rate it so now I don't remember if I had any specific references besides - another xtina album, another overly long album with some good singles and an incredible amount of filler!!! 2.5

Stripped – Christina Aguilera – 1/5 Some songs were fun when I was 10-11, mostly at disco parties, but nothing special. Listening to it now, the album doesn’t do much for me.

Unmemorable but unoffensive pop, I'm fine with it

I'm not really a fan of this style of Pop / R&B, because after a while it all sounds the same to me, but I liked the single "Fighter" which was more Rock than Pop; I also liked the singles "Beautiful" and "Dirrty".

Except for one song (maybe), it's pure product, every aspect carefully crafted for maximum selling power.

this is such a hard mixed bag album for me. on one hand i had a lot of fun growing up in this era of music. christina and brittney were sing along icons and i saw them as super cool and powerful for the time. however now this album doesn’t past the “feminism test” because all the songs are about some bum ass man, either kicking him to the curb or praising him for doing the bare minimum. damn i’m tired of that. this album doesn’t hold up to my current standard and i think growing up w it as an example of girl power had serious consequences for women in my age range. anyway i had fun dancing to it when i was a younger person

Uhhh idk why exactly I’m giving this 4 stars except that shawty obviously has like god tier vocal range… a few songs almost made me hard with how Disney they were

Great voice and booty shaking music, not really my thing but it's ok

It's like she couldn't make up her mind what genre of music she wants to sing, it's all over the place and waaaayyyyyy to long.

Utter despair

I appreciate that I'm hardly the target demographic, but this wailing nonsense isn't my thing

I have nothing positive to say about this album.

Just another ex-1001 album!™ http://1001albumsyoumusthearbeforeyoudie.wikidot.com/album-artists-a-z-ex I was fully expecting to dislike this album, and I mostly did... but there were a few tracks that stood out and, dare I say, enjoyed! It's an odd album, Aguilera seems to want to be both a modern R&B soulstress and Xtina dirty sex siren, which seems disastrous, probably why she went "Back to Basics" for her follow-up album.

The late 90s and early 2000s was such a weird time. Including popular music from that era on this list seems odd to me. Yeah the singles were huge and are instantly recognizable, but these CD era album lengths are too drawn out. The albums themselves are bloated and overstuffed, especially the backends. There is a track on this featuring Redman? Crazy! Anyway this was fine. Yesterday I had Incubus and it was horrible. I'll take 77 minutes of Christina Aguilera over 48 minutes of Incubus every time.

20 tracks?! I have to give her credit for having a great voice but it feels so forced. All these little flourishes. Stop jerking yourself off and just sing, Christina. How many massively talented Black soul singers that she's taken inspiration from aren't on this list? She's kind of a poor mans Adele. 2.5 rounding down

Tiene un par de canciones buenas pero no mamar, hora y 20 en 20 tracks? Es DEMASIADO.

big album with multiple hits. pretty good in retrospect

Meh. I like Fighter, but I think there are others who do this style better.

team xtina first full album listen & u know what, i get it

Got to be careful here. When I was just 4 albums in I got Taylor Swift’s 1989 album. I dismissed this out of hand and slagged it off somewhat. This was before I’d heard TTPD which lead me onto Folklore and Evermore. Now I’m a 72 year old male brought up on a diet of Prog Rock and a confirmed Swifty. I have a similar ambivalence to CA as I did for TS so not so quick to dismiss this album out of hand. However after listening I can confidently say that CA is no TS. She might well be to millions of other ears but she lacks a lot the sophistication of Taylor. This is pure mindless bubblegum. Although it is a well produced record and sonically sounds very good. For this I give it an extra star. 2/5 26/2/25

This was mixed by someone with severe hearing loss in the 4kHz range. Hurts my ears. Otherwise pretty much the same review as Back to Basic. About twice as long as it should have been. Not bad, but could have been better with some more emotion in the backing tracks. Sounds like it came out of a lab. In general the singles are the best songs, but my favorite song is Make Over.

Meh - bleurgh - not a good time for pop

I was at a strip mall parking lot holding two birds trying to keeps them from flying into helicopter blades. My bully was back (V) he keeps showing up but that was 30 years ago. He wants me to price comics for him. One of the birds gets loose and flies right into the helicopter blades. In this parking lot is a one room house. A lot of my old friends are there. Amorphous versions of them. The only one I recognized was Jeremy K. Things I don't remember happened. I did end up in bed with a slightly heavy girl with long dark hair and a voice like Shirley Temple. She was a bit dim. Her breast was in my hand but I wasn't trying to really do anything with her (the Miller H.) She pulled a Swiss army knife out of my pants showing me she was willing to cut my...off if I had tried anything. Then the whole thing turned into my mother's funeral. She wasn't dead yet though. The building was dimly lit. A place I've been but don't remember. Her family was there as well as a Subway Sandwich type thing. My mind kept going back to the birds. My cousin was next to me and my uncle came up and told him he had to be the one to keep it together. Uncle walked off and issued him 'did he have to be the one to keep it together? What I was really asking was his family really so perfect. He said no and started to spill the tea. My mom walked up and said this is the music that should be playing. It was a tin boxed set of Neil Diamond. Inside though was one double cd. There were 3 more spots for more double cds but they were filled with plastic toy parts, broken off candles. She said her favorite Neil Diamond song but I don't remember. Everything was going wrong. The girl that talked liked Shirley Temple was standing and staring at.me with empty eyes and I noticed a painting then my cousin held me as I started crying that my mother was going to die.

Gave up on it. Really not my thing.

I think the biggest problem with this album is the amount of tracks, because half of it is garbage. There are some good tracks on there, and she has a good voice, but the album is boring and tiring. I'm gonna give it 2 stars.

Good pop album for the time with some truly exceptional vocal performances and impeccable production. Songwriting is a bit too cheesy for me to want to listen to again but I didn’t hate this. The grunge rip off “Make Over” made me laugh.

Always loved her voice and her step away from her Disney image was an important one. Lots of really good stuff here, but this was a bit of an overachiever. Excellent production, despite all the producers and studios involved. Seems that she had trouble deciding which of the fully produced tracks should be on the album so she chose all. And made it too long.

Solid, and I enjoyed most of it, but it is just too damn long and suffers for it. If this was trimmed down to even 50 minutes, I'd be inclined to call this a classic of its era. It probably still is, but a 77 minute runtime has a way of wearing one down. At some point I was hearing her, but not really listening. This is more consistent than 'Back to Basics', but I enjoyed the highs of that album more than this one.

Of all the Disney kids, she is the voice. Her range and power was/is matched by no other from that era.

A surprise, I wouldn’t have chosen to listen to early 2000s pop. I like her voice and kind of enjoyed it, even if I don’t know how often I will return to it.

Очень разносторонний альбом, разные стили, безумно нравится.

This one is a bit long, however it has some undeniable huge pop hits. I think some of the reviews are being a bit harsh. I wouldn't regularly listen to this kind of music, but I can appreciate its cultural impact having lived through it. She has an amazing voice.

Spykidz music. Dirrty goes hard.

Excelentes singles. A primeira metade é meio morna, mas a segunda é só tiro atrás de tiro

Surprised by 1) how much I like this, though also not a surprise because Christina makes her own mark in R&B (and some rock too!); 2) the mention of Britney from track #1. Christina was always such an amzing vocalist but perhaps her style was not as mainstream/groundbreaking/diva-status. She definitely has some nice surprise tracks in here, and I love her vulnerability

First off, at first I thought using Jay Z's Public Service Announcement to kick off the album was a cool idea with some cultural context that I don't understand, but doing some research I see no online discussions of the PSA sample, so I guess that's lost to history. Regardless, her voice is out of this world. Also the transition from Walk Away and Fighter is flawless. The album in general dragged on a little too long for me, so it's a 3.5 instead of a 4, and it gets the round up since this was better than a lot of other albums we've had. 4/5

This isn't super "my genre", but Can't hold us down is pretty good. We'll see how this goes. Feel like its important to acknowledge that her vocal range and general vocal talent are off the charts, but I don't really think what she's doing with them is that interesting. The beats feel uninspired, the lyrics vapid, but at least she has pipes.

A throw back to my teen years of the early '00s. It holds up better than the work of some of her peers of the time.

There is a vulnerability and girl boss feminism to this album that positions this as a clear predecessor to Beyonce's self-titled album. I've actually never listened to this album the whole way through until now, and I've gained a deep appreciation of Christina Aguilera's powerhouse vocals. I did find certain parts super lame in terms of emotional timbre, which I don't think is of the time considering this was basically when Miseducation came out

Dull corporate nonsense

This is high quality, and she is an excellent singer. My only criticism is that it could've done with an edit, there's a great 50 min album in here.

Si à l'époque je trouvais le virage de Christina Aguilera m'as-tu-vu, avec mon oreille d'adulte je comprends les messages qu'elle souhaitait véhiculer. STRIPPED ne fait pas dans la subtilité, mais on peut en dire autant de la plupart des albums hip-hop ou R&B de l'époque. La voix est mature, la production léchée. J'ai bien aimé.

February 12, 2025 (it’s nippy 🥶) HL: “Walk Away”, “Beautiful”, “Make Over”, “Dirty” On the one hand, I will probably never be a true fan of this era of pop (see also: Destiny's Child, Britney Spears), but on the other, some of the lyrics (“I’m OK”) evoke some real pathos, and there are just enough uptempo bits (“Dirty”, “Fighter”) to offset the many, many slow burns. Rolling Stone’s review calling it “almost” an album for grown-ups is a hilarious backhanded compliment I find the cheesy, retro Back to Basics much more appealing I did the math at the end of January, and the math said that I had about an equal spread of 70s, 80s, 90s, and 21st century albums left before I'm finished with this list for good (about 11 each. oh and a couple from the 60s). Seems like I'm getting all the newest albums out of the way first, as not even two weeks later I've had seven of the 11 albums from the new millenium. Statistics is fun :)

It was better than expected.

I knew I’d bought this ages ago, but when my library contains only “Beautiful” and “Dirrty”; I’d dumped the rest during a late-noughties iPod memory shortage. Ominous. As I’ve written elsewhere, Aguilera’s voice has this narcotic effect on me, an effect that seems so arbitrary - why not Whitney Houston or Celine Dion? - that it must be a decision that I’m unaware I ever took, a binding one. Even more weirdly, after spending a little time on her Wikipedia page followed by an algorithmic slug of recent news articles, I’ve concluded that I don’t understand what she looks like, what age she is on any given record over any given playthrough, and thus another layer of abstraction is added - she’s a disembodied voice with a collection of spectral associations that grip me from behind, familiar but unknowable: in short, lost time from my early to mid-20s when this album would’ve stalked me from store playlists and radios I passed, a three-year or so near-complete blank apart from one road trip across the Deep South in 2003 when “Beautiful” was on my mixtape and Simon sang to me, you are beautiful no matter what they say. And this is one of my few firm memories of the first four years of that decade, along with the contemporaneous deployment of the worst accent I’ve ever heard by our friend Howard on asking a couple of Louisiana fishermen where to find the Bayou alligator tour we’d booked, and out came Christopher Walken doing an impression of Stephen Hawking guest-starring in “The Dukes of Hazzard”, “so do Y’AWWWL know WHERE BOB’S swamp boat tour IS?” The music’s compellingly all over the place. Aguilera’s like one of those mischievous spirits from a horror movie that come at you from different forms she’s possessed, both incongruous and scarily recognisable, and perhaps it’s from the best I managed only a single listen today, as otherwise she’d have my throat.

"Beautiful" is a pop tune of rare quality, so good it redeems this hollow artifact from a vapid, self-obsessed era. So fucking long, with so many unnecessary syllables and eponymous references, but Linda Perry's songwriting and Xtina's tuneful warbling make it almost bearable.

The only prior exposure I had to Christina Aguilera is that I once heard the end of “Beautiful” on the radio, and liked what I heard. After listening to the album, I found that I rather enjoyed the ballads, but the other stuff, not so much. Hip-hop just isn’t my thing, so the more the songs leaned towards that the less I liked them. I also thought that overall the album was just too long, and many of the songs lingered on too long as well. Overall, I give it a three.

Good music but it’s kinda just generic pop for me. High 3

Wasn’t amazing but an enjoyable nostalgia album

Did not expect to see this here, but having been 17yo girl when this came out, I know most of these tracks intimately. Wouldn't say this ages well, but definitely gives me nostalgia.

slightly confused by that one part of the album where she starts hopeposting before going straight back to singing about FFUCKING, but overall i liked it a lot

Giving this another chance. She has a very strong voice. Great control and skill. But this music still sucks.

Fav: The Voice Within Least Fav: Get Mine, Get Yours I’ll be honest, I don’t care for about 3/4 of this album, but that 1/4 is pretty good

One for the girls.

Fine? I like the song with Lil Kim.

Stripped is really good in places but is also massively overproduced and way way way too long. As it's from 2002 there's a really strong nostalgic sound in the first half of the album from anyone who grew up around that time, and the hit songs off the album are truly excellent. There's just so much filler, it doesn't need to be 1hr20, you could cut everything between Beautiful and Dirrty and save 16 minutes alone, and you'd improve the quality and consistency. Gets a decent 3/5, could've been a 4 but, and I know this was an era of indulgence, leave some of it out and leave some of it a bit less well defined. You want to make an album that's simultaneously vulnerable and punchy, you need to expose the track as well as the content, and it's all just a bit too polished.

I said it when we had her previous album, but she has such a good voice, and a lot of this really fails to make the most of it. Beautiful really showcases it, and is great, but there's not enough like that on this album. It's probably twice the length that it needs to be, at 40 minutes this would be an album that felt packed with hits, this just isn't. I think it squeaks a low, low three on the strength of her voice. 3/5.

Was disappointed by this. I know some of the songs and they were big when this came out but for an album called "Stripped" I would categorize it more as bloated... Xtina's romp through R&B and soul inspired pop tunes left me wondering when the 77 minute runtime was going to be up. The production is undeniably solid though. Favourite tracks: Can't Hold Us Down, Fighter, Make Over & Get Mine, Get Yours.

My first reaction was this is a tacky record cover and my second reaction was this album is 77 mins too long. But then I closed the browser window and tried to put all my judgement aside for an extended, focused listen. Generally speaking, she's got pipes and some tracks got beats and a few tracks mix them together nicely enough. Working through it like an equation for the illusion of impartiality: 77 total minutes - 23 mins of enjoyable musical moments = this album is 54 minutes too long and of that total 54 mins, 1/2 is truly terrible and the other half is merely mid. If we strip it all down, in conclusion, it's roughly a 1/3 good, 1/3 meh, 1/3 trash split. Given the categories the minutes find themselves in, however, we're looking at a two star rating and still wishing something else had come across the page today.

Dosta zanimljivi ne singlovi na ovom albumu

нормалек. жанр не очень нравится.

A perfect encapsulation of early 00s pop

there is a certain "trying soo hard" that i both admire and can't take entirely seriously. she wants to be so many things!

From the bottom of my heart, thank you Christina, you and your ugly pants managed to shine a light through the super bleak and boring tunnel of shitty albums I've been forced to listen to for I don't even remember how long. Truly, expecting the worst is sometimes the best you can do.

Going to give this three stars. Not for me, but no denying the talent. A couple of gems in there. Overall annoying to me. More runs than a taco bell bathroom.....

Pretty good

Pleasantly surprised by how much I actually knew off this album. Not my genre, but I grew up with a lot of these. I was also impressed by the range of style of both Aguilera and the production . It was dreadfully long, though. I made it through ‘soar’, thought that Must be the end, and realized there were 6 more songs. 1 hr 17 minutes? Have mercy please.

Not a huge fan. See its significance but can’t get past the vocal delivery - I simply do not fw the over exaggerated growly tone :/

Couldn’t help but bob along with this. Solidly a 2000s pop album, lots of Christina’s hits off of here. Enjoyed the more R&B centric tracks. Not really a repeat album for me, and it’s way too long for a pop album.

I wonder what my 22 year old self would think of my 44 year old self for sitting and listening to an entire Christina Aguilera album with an open mind..... Anyway I can see why some people might like it, but like eating seafood and cold water swimming. It's not for me.

- Solides Pop-Album. Latin-, Jazz- und R&B-Einflüsse wechseln sich ab und lassen das Album selten langweilig klingen - ihr Gesang ist durchweg gut - auch wenn mal wieder nichts herausstach, kann man das wirklich gut hören (auch wenn ich weiterhin wohl eher nicht denken werde "ah jetzt höre ich mal eine Runde Aguilera") - das Album hätte auch gut etwas kürzer sein dürfen 2,25

Impressive range of vocals, musicality and genres.

Some pleasant songs

undeniably talented and extraordinary voice, not my usual genre but still great

Non-offensive pop music from the early 2000s that has a couple standout songs (Beautiful and Fighter spring to mind) and a wide variety of styles. ENjoyable but probably twice as long as necessary. I blame digital media, where you can have a literal infinite number of tracks (8, 12, 24 - what the hell, why not 128? 256?) and an unlimited amount of recording time (in the past, you would only want to buy so much tape, noiw that doesn't matter, the artist can burn through digital media without consequence). It's ok. More of a 2 1/2 star out of five but you have to round and I'll round up because Christina Aguilera is a better singer than most of her contemporaries including Madonna.

I don't even hate her but having two of her albums in this challenge is just ridiculous. At least this one is a bit more justified since it was at her peak of popularity.

Hey this just isn't my kind of music, but I get it.

Well... It's really not my kind of music, the album was too long winded, but to represent Christina Aguilera and her impact on early 2000s pop, it's a good choice I guess.

hade nog fan i mig kunnat ge det här en trea om det var hälften så långt.

There's a 3 star 25 minutes album in here.

Oh my god we get it - you’re a feminist and a victim of your own talent. What else do you have to sing about?

It started so good, but it didn't need to be 1 hour a 17 minutes, specially when almost every song sounds the same

I understand the last impact and there are some genuinely good songs on here, but it was a bit of a slog at an hour and 17 minutes.

picks: fighter, beautiful, dirty loving me 4 me sounds like a harris jeyaraj track 😀

I’ve honestly never really listened to her, so glad just to have a pop album on this list

An excellent snapshot of 2000s pop divas. Album is balanced with harder dance pop songs, ballads, and everything between showcasing how unbelievable CA is as a singer. I always felt it was very unfair how she was portrayed when this album dropped. She was lumped in with Spears was no where on the spectrum of CA. This album is a little dated, but hits all the notes you expect and is a good snapshot of CA’s total work.

No denying the talent. A few great tunes. Peak CA. Just not my music. But she’s got talent for sure.

Solid. Amazing vocals

Beautiful.

Well this really was an example of do not pre-judge, and first impressions can be deceptive. The first track 100 seconds of stripped intro, destroyed all of my preconceptions of this album. Unfortunately, they were the only 100 seconds worth listening to. Don't get me wrong, this was far and away better than that Beyonce album we had some time ago, but I'd be happier if it had stayed far and away. The further the better in fact. It wasn't unpleasant but it wasn't worth the effort either. 1

That was as terrible as I anticipated. In fact is was pretty good. The fact is, she can really sing. There were a few tracks that were scoring slightly too high on the Mariah-ometer. It’s a pet hate of mine when singers sing about 9 different quick notes, when 1 would absolutely do just fine. But a lot of it was great. A lot of the album tracks were better than the big singles, which made it all very listenable.

Ah Xtina! I prefered her over Britney in every way, better singing, songs and videos. Should I admit to that last one? 'Dirty' and 'Beautiful' are 2 of her best songs, the rest of it is just ok. I bought this years ago, and I haven't played it since 2002 probably, which must say something.

1 star. 1 good song.

Good album. Not my thing musically but Aguilera sure can sing. The vocal gymnastics wear on me after a while. My favorite song was “Make Over”.

Fire

held my attention, but outside of a couple tracks, didn't really do much else.

I always thought Christina Aguilera hit this phase later in her career. Anyway, I’ve never been a fan of hers. She over sings and just doesn’t feel authentic in some ways. This album is way too long and Aguilera definitely gets exhausting halfway through despite support from other artists.

laiheliini taas ruudulla huoh... voikko plz bulkkaa pikkasen ees.. heikko ääni.. heikko kuiskuääni kun ei tarpeeksi voimaa.. muuten hyvää popitusta staralta.. omg tietää et on niin stara.. muttatotamiksi miksi tota miksi tota yksi tunti sekä seitsemäntoista minuuttia menee ehkä vähän ohi meikä pokan ymmärryksestä että kuitenkin ei kovin kauas vaellella tässä niin miksi ei vähän yli puolituntisen verran vaikkapa ne parhaimmat biisit jättää ja ehkä muut ottaa pois niintota olisi vähän parempi tämä on ymmärryksessäni että tota olisi parempi albumi mahdolllisesti jos ei vittu venytettäisi tätä paskaa niin helvetisti... degradation. degeneration degeneaates of society. debauchery, jesus is king. impossible

I never cared for Christina Aguilera's R&B stuff really and cringed at some of the tracks on this album. However, "Can't hold us down" is a feminist anthem. "Fighter" and "Dirrty" are absolute bangers.

I just lost interest in this a little over halfway through. It's not interesting or unique in any way and it's not good enough at being unoriginal to hold one's attention.

A couple of fun, nostalgic singles. But this album being 77 minutes long is insane. Pure excess.

Meh

2.5. I admire that Christina Aguliera wrote her own songs for this album and included positive messages and topics important to her. But the music is really boring.

Pretty solid pop although it was really long. Her voice is nice as long as she doesn't go super over the top with it

Not that bad, but not my style so much.

Christina Aguilera's R&B pop sound is generally not my cup of tea but this album pleasantly surprised me - interesting song topics and lyrics, and other genre influences - pretty good actually.

Definitely more bangers than I would have guessed, there is probably another pop/r&b album of the era that could have taken its place though.

Jao ne bih baš to sad slušala hahahaha. Ali totalni blast from the past! Znam album naravno. Iskreno iznenadilo me da se ovaj album našao tu, očekivala bih neke druge prije iz tog doba komercijale. Zapravo, tko zna šta nas još čeka haha, bit će zanimljivo to vidjeti. Ne znam, ona mi ima lijep glas i jedna je od rijetkih koja ekšli može otpjevati svoje pjesme lajv, ali mi nikad nije imala karizmu. Mislim da je ona bila napetija dečkima u pubertetu. Ne mogu ovome dati više od jedan iz respecta prema svim albumima iz projekta. 1/5, 2/10.

4/10 Prvi album koji nisam poslusao do kraja, vec negdje 3/4 jer je zivot ipak prekratak, 20 stvari je ono, ipak too much i ceka me jos 10 albuma u zaostatku. Ovo sto sam cuo, cak mi je Underappreciated skroz oke, a mom tinejdžerskom pimpeku prije 22 godine je Dirrty bio super spot pa ovaj album nikako ne zasluzuju dobiti neku ful nisku ocjenu.

This album definitely wasn't for me, and the from-your-toes diva singing isn't my favorite, but I found somethings to like in some of the lyrics. I think if I were a 15-25 year old girls in 2002 this album would have destroyed me, and even outside of that scenario I think beautiful is a genuinely good and important song. I will never put this on again (with the possible exception of Make Over, which I found interesting), but I'm surprised at how glad I am that I listened to it. 3

I guess I liked this a little more than I expected, but I’m still not running out to buy a copy. Beautiful l, powerful voice, but the style isn’t exactly my jam. The Redman feature was easily my favorite track.

Uh, no thanks. Not my thing, wasn’t enjoyable at all.

# Album Name: Stripped # Artist: Christina Aguilera # Rating: 2/5 # Comments: God dammit. This was long AF. Who actually thinks its a good idea to have 1hr 20 or mediocre pop music. I do understand there were some very big hit singles from this album like beautiful, dirty etc but it just wayyyyyy too long. She has a great voice but this album is drowning with filler tracks. # Top Tunes: Beautiful / Dirty # Would I listen to it again? Fuck no.

Not my style of music but she can really sing.

Christina Aguilera has an incredible voice. I've been a fan of hers since she first dropped Genie In A Bottle. I like her self titled album better, but Stripped is still great. Can't Hold Us Down, Fighter, Beautiful, Dirty I've always loved. I hadn't heard the whole album before, there were some nice surprises. Especially the slower jams, like Walk Away, Infatuation, Cruise, and Soar. Absolute banger of an album, love it! Best song: Beautiful

Why?

Aguilera has such a strong voice and complete command of it. Sure it’s mostly candy and half of it shouldn’t have been committed to record but there are several tracks that I found, um, … enjoyable. Also, this review is anonymous, right? Nobody will know I actually liked this?

I guess Dirty is still listenable. Probably has more to do with Redman. The rest of this album is rough. I'm sure she's a good singer but these songs feel so cookie cutter.

I liked this one less than the other Aguilera we had to listen to (and I didn't like that one.) It's just so overproduced and boring. Her voice is strong, but it can't redeem what else is going on here. And it falls into that late 90s, early 2000s trap of *Hey* we have 80 mins that we can fit on a CD, let's fill the thing up. No, it's too long. You could've cut 4 or 5 songs and it still would've gotten the same point across.

There’s a decent amount of variety in the genres here, and I won’t pretend Beautiful isn’t a little nostalgic for me. But I’d like Christina so much more if she wasn’t prone to over singing.

Ultimately forgettable. There are a few choice tracks (Beautiful, Fighter) but those don’t elevate the rest of the album enough to be worthwhile. I suppose it is a decent time capsule.

cool stuff: - it's alright that Beautiful became a queer anthem, even if it's not a very good song. being unambiguously queer positive for a pop megastar wasn't nothing in 2002. not cool: - "you can have a little bit of a say in how we sell your body, just so long as you don't say no to the stuff that makes a lot of money. that's feminism, right?" - the music. hated. (⌐■_■)

This was musically marginally better than the later one that came up a week or two ago. But it also felt a lot more kinda gross ya know? Spiritually damaging to listen to, in the same way as Britney Spears was.

The VOICE on this woman. This album was the soundtrack to my teenage years, and got me through some of the worst times of my life. Dirty? The voice within?? INFATUATION?? It’s a 10/10 for me.

meow 4/5

This was much more enjoyable to listen to than expected. I realized my opinion of Xtina was completely skewed by watching so much american idol in my tweens. She's got a really powerful voice. Album itself got a little long in the tooth near the end.

I was expecting this to be much worse that it is. Can't deny Christina Aguilera has a powerful voice, but I don't think think this album was warranted being almost an hour and a half long.

There's worse out there but I really don't like this type of commercial crap

I really hate 2000's pop (not as much as I hate 2010's pop though), so going into this I thought I was going to give it a 1, but honestly it isn't that bad. I definitely have some problems but it isn't as unlistenable and annoying as I thought it would be. Pros: - She has a good voice - The songs are written well (especially for pop music) - She tries a bunch of different ideas / styles of music so the album doesn't get stale Cons: - The production feels a little cheap in some areas (the strings feel really artificial) - I hate how the introduction of the CD made everyone think they needed to add as much music as they could. The track length really hurts this album. - The guitar tone in Fighter is god awful - This album was a victim of the loudness war - The 2nd half of this album drags and could have been trimmed A lot of people are really over reacting with this one, it has problems but it isn't that bad. I probably would have given this a low 3 if it was 1/2 the length Mid 2.

This album was better than I was thinking it would be. It goes across multiple genres and has some really good songs. Her voice is excellent. "Beautiful" is a timeless classic. Despite this not really being something I would ordinarily seek out, I would listen to this again for sure.

I skipped this on lol

Actually really enjoyed it. A perfect example of well crafted pop with just enough variety to keep it interesting

I wrote a whole decently long and detailed review but it looks like I lost it. This album did not merit such dissection. In the end a couple of decent songs on a typically formulaic album, just like hundreds of other albums from pop-diva artists of this genre. And to add insult to injury 22 songs at 1h18??? No wonder no one listens to full albums anymore! How anyone would think that anyone needs to hear THIS album before they die is beyond me. 2 stars for artistic merit, 1/2 a star for inclusion on this list.

жесть, как не надо петь (не говоря уже про контент). даже первый альбом с джинном был приятный, а это просто уровня Ника Кейва отвращение

Went in skeptical about what would resonate for me 20 years from its release (when I, like most teenage girls, sang along to all the major hits). Not sure the lyrics always resonate but pleasantly surprised by melodies and her voice in general.

Nice voice, brutal songs

Other than the few I knew, this was underwhelming

Really enjoyable pop album. Covers a fair bit of ground stylistically, some rock stuff, some RnB, some jazzy elements. This is not the sort of thing i would usually chose to listen to, but i enjoyed it on the whole!

Generic corpo-pop. It's too all over the place to really have its own identity.

as somebody who loves pop music: wow 76 minutes of horribly produced early 2000s pop music 🥰

more albums should be like this!

Ooft. Had to break this down into separate segments as it got too annoying for me to listen to more than about half an hour at a time. An act of pointless endurance. A technically decent singer, I just don't like the vibe or the songs.

She shines in the uptempo songs, of which there are too few

A lot of bangers, also a lot of filler. Amazing vocals though.

It's early 2000's pop. I was in elementary school when this came out and I wasn't a huge fan then. By today's standards, it's fine. Pop just isn't my genre.

So there was a moment in time in the new millennium when the music industry decided that mediocracy was the new norm this album is proof of that.

A few good songs but most fell flat.

Christina returned as X-Tina and basically embraced her sluttyness - good for her. Couple of pure pop bangers on here the rest is just too many ballads. Best Tracks: Fighter; Beautiful; Dirrty (feat. Redman)

Not bad. Just not my style

Well. Listen. I can’t take too many potshots at this. Yes, it’s in front of me, and yes I’m a huge nerd who likes to say mean stuff, but this is like critiquing a kids movie. It’s chart targeted pop. With that being said, I’ll probably be so enraged by the end that I lash out at the world but at poor Xtina??? I couldn’t dream. Feminist anthem. Pretty cool lyrically but obviously devoid of music. Next. GRRRRRRRRRR. I stuck my key into the side of my ears and dug until I forgot that I’m listening to this and also I need new keys and a ride home. I threw up and I’m scared. HUH HAMAS??? Didn’t expect a political queen. He intrigues her with every move BUT her mother was thankfully racist and warned her against the scourge of Latin lovers. Wait. Is this a Latin American Romeo and Juliet???? “Hey Christina, listen, before we continue dancing to Ricky Martin I gotta tell you, I’m full-blood borricua.” “Thank you for telling me, Oscar, it’s ok, as I am also partial Boricua, esé.” The dumbest club love song ever recorded. I love it. A self love spectacle. My god did this drag forever. Girl. Speak on it. I like some of the original songs that this is based on (70s R&B) I do not like glorified covers from 2002. What is happening? Because this kind of music has been in the radio for so long, I feel like I’m in a dentist chair having phantom tooth pain. The brain is powerful. If only one or two was used to write this music. Ugh where are we. Uhhhh who really cares. I wasn’t supposed to say mean stuff. So let’s take an interlude to remind everybody that while this is terrible to me, the nature of music review and any art consumption is wholly subjective. If you like this, fantastic. If you don’t, fantastic. Anyway. Now we’re on the makeup commercial song. Bad. NINE songs to go. ELEVEN have elapsed. That wasn’t even an intention 9/11 reference. Just a sign of the times I suppose. “Make Over” is probably the worst song thus far. No redeeming value as a musical experience. The back to back four letter word songs feel like filler. Brings to mind other four letter words like “shit” and “next.” Mutual masturbation song. That’s good. Redman is here for some reason. He was rapping and stuff. ANOTHER Rottweiler production? Wow. I’m still reeling from the first one. You have to say, for a dog, this fella can really produce. This one’s for the dreamers. Is there an emptier statement than that? Maybe “thoughts and prayers.” I wouldn’t say that the music is “ok” but another ballad. This is not what I’d call “music to sit and listen to.” Personally, I feel like that’s the point of music, but there is a large group of people who like to sweat and attempt to mate and they need a backing track for that activity. There’s also the moms and kids listening to the radio which is innocent enough. I for one do not fit into either caregory. This is not for me and not what I intend to review for this project. HOWEVER, there were obvious moments of passion and I feel like Christina Aguilera actually comes across as genuine and like she cares about the words she is saying. That means something. I still despise the music and it’s way too long and boring for me, but I can respect aspects of the performance. Despite all of that, please hand me my early 2000s pop diva conductor hat which I will neglect to respectfully tip, but will instead, hurl to the ground, ruining its trademark poof. That breaks my heart as an enthusiastic enjoyer of terrible hats. See what you did to me, radio pop? I’m a broken man. 0.5 HIGHLIGHTS: The Cholita Love narrative and imagining that sweet conductor hat dashed upon the damned soil of this toilet earth

I was ready to come out blasting the big 4s and 5s but thankfully this album isn’t all that. Back to Basics surprised me and i gave it a 4, so if this was as good as I was expecting it might be, she lands a spot in my top rated artists, and that’s simply not true. Too long, too many boring ballads.

The production is pretty good/ at least timeless - genie in a bottle came next on spotify and sounded notably dated, while this sounds like it could have come out last year, probably any year. Singings good, some hooks, some beyonce-ish trilling. little corny self actualization stuff. But it's all alright, solid pop.

Good pop album. bit dated. Definitely too long

It's hard to talk about Christina Aguilera without mentioning Britney Spears. They were both former Disney child stars who appeared on the bubblegum pop music scene in the late 90s. Both had the same sort of creepy manufactured, highly lucrative, innocent but sexualized school girl image. Spears kind of leaned into that image (no doubt under tremendous pressure from record labels and hoards of fans) but Aguilera broke free. It sounds surprising to me now that this album was considered risky at the time and panned by so many critics. This is the best kind of pop album. It's honest, diverse, and alive. The ballads are larger than life and balance out the other tracks. There's a lot happening here, including R&B, rock, salsa, hip hop and soul. It works because it doesn't stay in one place long enough to get boring. The lyrics don't shy away from sex but turn it into something empowering rather than encouraging objectification. In some ways, this album didn't just allow Aguilera to better define herself, but also helped to usher in the (thankful) end to the wave of Disney-bred bubblegum pop that was inescapable for a few years before it. It was hugely influential on a lot of later pop artists who wanted to do something a bit more interesting than simply fit into the old cookie cutter mold.

Seriously cringed when I revealed this album. 15 when it came out and was not a fan of pop music at the time. Went into it with an open mind and it was better than expected. Still not my favorite thing but much better than the Aguilera stuff I remember, probably from her first couple records. This is much more mature musically, the lyrics feel like they're trying too hard to be mature though, "I'm not a little girl anymore, I talk about sex and stuff". Other than some of the lyrics, this album is a good R&B/pop record, not exactly my thing but I can appreciate it and she does have a lot of soul in her voice for being so young at the time, those Disney years were hard on these kids but I think she turned out alright compared to Britney. The song "Beautiful" really is beautiful though, check out the cover by Clem Snide

Her looks get her much farther in my books than her music does. Not that she doesn’t have any good songs, it’s just that the music isn’t anything great. Her list of “non hit” music is well deserved to be not largely listened to. There’s party type anthems on here. There’s some blusey, sultry sounding ones as well. There’s some that should have been left on the cutting room floor. The album isn’t as seductive sounding as I was personally left to believe. This also isn’t the album for you if you don’t like good voices who carry notes for too long. I’d much rather listen to Fiona Apple than this. As in she has a much better product, not that I’m picking out the better of two shit products. Choice cut: walk away

Incredible Pop icon

Whilst the vocals and music is good, don't think there is anything exceptional to place it on this must listen to album list. There are far more iconic albums out there worthy of a placing.

Frustratingly great pop music. Impossible not to love. Some might say ‘that’s the Houmous & Chutney sound’…..3.6

What an amazing fucking album cover. I’m not surprised that it’s an hour and eighteen minutes long. The album uses its length well, but falls a little short of being justified. Can say I never got bored. Plenty of range. Great arrangement. Beautiful composition and production. Her voice is beautiful, although they use it a little too much to the point that it almost becomes a crutch. Great intro, a perfect initiation to the album. Fighter is a bop. I was pleasantly surprised how many songs I knew of off this. I probably wouldn’t listen to the whole thing again, but certainly some songs. 4/5

5 stars for shouting and giving someone a headache

Much better than I expected.

Not too fond of this vocal acrobatics.

To whomever put this "artist" and this album on this list: damn you to hell.

En oikein ymmärrä mikä tässä levyssä on poikkeuksellista 2/5

vähän geneeriseksi jäävää nollaripoppia.