Stripped

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

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. ⭐️⭐️

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.

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.

Gir meg ikkje så masse

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

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.

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.

для девочков

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

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

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

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.

#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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

Spykidz music. Dirrty goes hard.

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.

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.

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.

Pretty good

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 :/

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

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.

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 😀

Beautiful.

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.

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

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.

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.

# 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.

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.

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

Nice voice, brutal songs

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.

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)

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

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.

Not too fond of this vocal acrobatics.

En oikein ymmärrä mikä tässä levyssä on poikkeuksellista 2/5

vähän geneeriseksi jäävää nollaripoppia.

Итс окэй, на самом деле. Альбом очень затянутый и как бы хаотичный. Но в сущности это нормальная радио-поп-музыка, прилично сделанная, как бы немного пластмассовая и для всех сразу. Что противоречит идее, насколько я могу ее понять без контекста начала нулевых, но допустим. Лучшая песня - Make Over.

I am not a fan of soulless pop music but there were some solid tunes on here but feels over engineered at times

A second Christina Aguilera album has hit the 1001 album project. That is too much Christina Aguilera, c'mon. And, unlike "Back to Basics", I heard the singles from this one far too often. I am trying not to have a tantrum about this, but it's the morning after america decided to shit the planetary bed, so it's a struggle. Fave track - "Make Over", which apparently ripped off the Sugababes and got her sued.

Definitely one of her best albums. Goes away from the sugar pop music she had from her early releases and definitely hits more to home and she opens up a lot about herself. I enjoyed it, but it's nothing to write home about. Beautiful is a great song, along with Dirrty, and I liked Loving Me 4 Me too. 2/5

i just didn’t freak with this the way i thought i would, maybe one or two songs but over all this felt kind of overdone or generally like a shoulder shrug

‘Stripped’, it is not. Over produced and takes itself a bit too serious for a pop record with not much to say. Great voice and all that but aside from a couple of tracks, most of it a bit bland for my taste.

Och it’s alright isn’t it? The thing with highly polished and expensive pop releases is not expense spared on production. Some good production and tracks here and Christina can belt them. Worst ways for folks to get rich.

It's fine. Mid level turn of the century pop.

Muy largo y disperso, lo encontré.

Not actively objectionable but boring. New Look or H&M changing room music.

Doubtlessly a professional voice. It might have its songs and moods where it fits. Yet I can't like it longer than two songs in a row. Too theatrical and generally too much. 2,3

She’s a good singer. This is way too long and not really sure of it’s impact overall. Got pretty old

it was definitely 2002

20 tracks. Damn. 20 tracks to prove she has a very strong voice. But there's still nothing here that has me coming back.

Lots of vocal talent, but the music doesn't resonate with me

I haven't listened to Christina Aguilera since I was in elementary school. This album aged poorly. I especially like Redmans barking. Somewhere in this record is a great meaning about woman empowerment. How it's unfair and ridiculous how women get chastised, and deemed a whore or a slut for being sexual. Whereas men do not get the same feedback. I like that about this record. But it's hidden between songs with horrible vocal runs. There are too many songs that try to be this huge epic piece. Filled with choirs and large crescendos. But it's literally the same songs with synonymous lyrics. There's a lot of bullshit on here. There are some 2000s dance anthems for sure. But all of the ballads are seriously ruined by her vocal runs. I don't think she can be happy with a sustained note. It has to go up and down and up and down and up and down. I especially like Redmans barking. Make Over was a great song. It was punchy and kind of heavy? It's definitely less poppy than the rest. There was was a random Sheryl Crow type song that seemed very out of place but it was not horrible. The songs aren't completely terrible. She does have a great voice. She has talent. We know this... But maybe it's because I came off an Aretha Franklin album... But this record is just not good. It's dated. It's not going to be a classic. It really doesn't deserve this list. I think this list could be condensed to 200 albums. But I must say... I especially like Redmans barking.

Ylipitkä albumillinen 2000-luvun alun latinavibapoppia. Emt, kai joku saa tästä nostalgiakiksejä.

This album is difficult to review as it inspires neither amusement nor displeasure. It is rather boring and overly long. Out of 77 minutes there might be 5 minutes worth your time (“I’m OK”).

The girl has soul and she can definitely sing but her throaty growls and other vocal gymnastics rub me the wrong way. This album is way too long and it's just not my thing. Some of the songs are OK but there's nothing here that would make me want to come back. I can't hear "Beautiful" without thinking of Damian in "Mean Girls". : D

She’s got a great voice, but definitely overdoes it a bit. A lot of the songs sound very similar.

boring.

Not my thing.

Some of these songs brought back a lot of memories. Summer holidays: on the way to Blackpool in the car for a day out at the theme park. Listening on my mp3 player and singing along out of tune. Life was good Sadly apart from the singles, the rest of the album was pretty boring and was too long. Some of these songs were absolutely terrible It gets a star for nostalgia and the fact that dirrty is a banger 2 ⭐️

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The kind of album you’re not just meant to listen to, but one you’re meant to get up and dance to! Unfortunately I was listening to it

Pas un 3e comme ça svp

oh. whys it 20 songs stripped intro- 3 or 4 cant hold us down- 3 or 4 walk away- 2 fighter- 3. sing movie. shed be like an iguana primer amor interlude- 5 infatuation- 4 or 5 loves embrace interlude- didnt realize music was playing loving me for me- 4 impossible- 2 or 3 underappreciated- 3

This went down in my estimation on the second listen through headphones. Yes, there are a handful of bangers but the rest is kind of dull. They are going for raw and authentic but I’m not buying it

whilst working my way through these 1001 albums, i try my best to look at each one from the perspective of a fan of the album, and try as best i can to remove to bias of preference. despite this, i found “stripped” uninspiring, and quite frankly about half an hour too long. in saying that, i do also want to recognise aguilera’s vocal talent which is evident throughout this album, and at certain times, she really does show it. i think i just don’t get on with the sound - hence my overall rating.

6/20 songs added to playlist and it actually wasn’t terrible just not my taste. I can understand if someone actually fucks with it. Not me tho. Didn’t have a favorite track, I liked all the ones that I added equally for the first time.

Christina wil niet meer het popje zijn. Waarom straalt de hoes dan niets muzikaals uit en staat er dan niets anders op dan haarzelf als popje? Goed, daar gaat het niet over. We moeten luisteren. En ik ben wel nieuwsgierig. Want dit album bevat wel de hits die iets meer van haar laten zien. Ik zou nummers als Fighter niet snel zelf spontaal opzetten. Maar zouden er meer van dat soort kracht-nummers langskomen? Het eerste echte nummer stelt wat teleur. Maar goed dat komt ook wel door de 'bijdrage' van Kleine Kim. Het volgende nummer is wel een solo-optreden, maar pff...wat saai. Het belooft wat gevoel over te brengen, maar maakt die belofte niet echt waar. En dat wordt een beetje het thema van dit album. De nummers scheppen verwachting, maar vervullen die verwachting nauwelijks. Het album is wel goed gevarieerd, zodat het toch wel uit kon zitten. Maar kom op. Dit hoort toch niet in deze lijst...

This album is too long. I was vibin to some songs but mostly wanted it end. There was also a song in there that sounded like a Phineas and Ferb song, but you know bad. - 4/10

3/10 - It was boring and repetitive feeling. She has the raspy singing on lock but I do not enjoy it that much. I just thought it was bad.

Good singer, okay songs but not my genre

I guess we needed early 2000s pop star representation on here? It's funny - here we are 20+ years out from this era of music, and none of it has aged terribly well. Are people still listening to these artists in 2024? None of the big 2000s artists really maintained their super-stardom into the 2010s. Christina, Britney, Backstreet Boys, Nsync, all died in under a decade. Sure they are still super famous, but none really had a smash hit after 10 years of being on the scene. Idk. Christina has a good voice.

A fine pop album. Not particularly memorable.

Here we go. Thanks 1001 Album Generator for exposing me to music I would never listen to otherwise. I liked 'Walk Away', it hearkened back to old school (original) R&B. 'Fighter' is a bit naff for mine. 'Infatuation' is a Latin styled love song which is clearly not for 50YO cis-gendered white man. 'Loving Me 4 Me' is another love song and it's clear right now that I'm not the target audience for this. I'm going to stop listening now, before I even get to the empowering 'Beautiful'. I understand if 'Stripped' is a 4 or 5 for you, but its a 2 for me for CA's talent is clear, but the content is off target here.

4/10

This nearly-80-minute commercial pop album is actually separated in two very distinct halves. And the first half is an utter disaster of major proportions. No matter how many times Christina cosplays as a "different" sort of artist going beyond the usual expected modern r'n'b shenanigans, she fails miserably to leave a lasting impression, and this with almost every dud presented here. "Walk Away" is supposedly a moving torch song that unfortunately overstays its welcome due to its interminable runtime of pointless, undynamic vocal meanderings. "Fighter" is a terrible attempt to use the (arena) rock idiom to hide the same endlessly copied-and-pasted r'n'b formula found elsewhere on the first part of the album. Everything sounds *fake* on it: the guitar, the drums, the overall artistic intent. And the vocal performance is so artificially placed over this shitcake that the whole thing ends up not making a shred of sense. "Infatuation" uses the "latin" card--acoustic-guitar chords and Spanish-sung hooks included--but forgets to showcase a proper chorus. The chord progressions are so lame and lazy on this one that the whole burrito comes off as stale and cold in spite of the time it spent in the microwave oven. Worse, musically bland "Loving Me 4 Me" displays the ABSOLUTE WORST lyrics I have ever had the displeasure to hear on this app. 6th-grade / 7th-grade level poetry--so dumb, naive and cringeworthy that anyone even only remotely interested in proper songwriting will probably want to puke. After that, Alicia Keys gives a song to Christina (and performs its piano parts)--a soul ballad that's obviously in better taste than the track before it--but she forgets to write a real hook in it, sadly. I'll leave the other duds aside... The only time Christina and her producers' reach don't exceed their grasp in this first half of the record is with the "undisguised" modern r'n'b opener (or at least proper song on the album), "Can't Hold Us Down", which conveys a distinctive feminist message, a little on-the-nose, but not too awkward either. But as "effective" as that cut is, it's nothing that Destiny's Child or TLC had not already done ten times better before. At least when it comes to their hits. The fact that this album was a commercial success in spite of how bad its first part is is a testament to the terrible, *terrible* tastes of general audiences in the Western world during the early years of the second millenium. Here, the fault mostly lies on Aguilera's producer and music writer Scott Storch (a cocaine addict, by the way, who lost his personal way as he recklessly navigated into that fake world of pop stars), along with "vocal producer" E. Dawk, who probably pushed Christina to the worst sorts of "performative" shenanigans, ruining the very few things that could have been salvaged in those compositions, through her overuse of endless "ooh-oohs" and "aahs-aahs". I guess restraint is rarely your strong suit when you have unlimited access to ressources and personnel, is it? So that was for the first half. But *very* curiously, the second half of the record turns everything on its head as soon as the hit ballad "Beautiful" enters the scene. Former 4-Non-Blondes Linda Perry wrote that song (both the music and the lyrics), which bears its name well and has everything that *all* the others songs before lacked--a good chorus, memorable hooks, pretty arrangements, a heartfelt feeling... Music coming from someone's individual soul is most often better than writing-in-committee, isn't it? Linda Perry is also in charge of three other cuts as a producer / music writer on this second part of the record, and it's good stuff. Especially the tearful acoutic ballad "I'm OK", along with the oriental-sounding, alt-rock / Beck-adjacent "Make Over", which, miraculously, doesn't come off as an artificial and cynical attempt to co-opt a different music style (contrary to "Fighter"). Most of the other cuts in that second half, produced by a bunch of other people than Storch or Perry, are also fun, lively or effective. The hooks are nice and memorable, the production is on point, the string sections are cinematic, and the dynamic tracklisting goes from one interesting place to the next. "Get Mine, Get yours" is a genuine banger, sexy and catchy as hell (those idiot music executives should have chosen it as a single), and this song proves that Aguilera sometimes had the chops to go up to the level of Beyoncé Knowles. "Dirrty" is in that same dancefloor banger league, even if sounds a little more derivatory to the whole Destiny's Child thing. And the laidback-yet-bouncy "Soar* builds up to the sort of climax that was nowhere in sight in the first half of the record. Actually this is exactly where Aguilera's vocal chops and ad-libs come off as justified and useful, instead of gratuitous and pointless--simply because the composition is good enough to justify getting excited about it. And even when Scott Storch returns to the picture as a producer / music writer for closer "Keep Singing My Song", it's actually not too bad, thanks to the moody atmosphere and a nice drum'n'bass-inspired rhythm at the end of the track. It's not a killer song by all means. But I guess Scott deserved to enjoy his bag of coke after a hard day's work for this one, at least. Does that far better second half save the whole album? Nope. The first half is too terrible for that, and there's not a precise musical throughline in the second half to imagine an alternate universe where its many good moments could have been reorganized into a genuinely cohesive project. Plus, the latter would still lack an absolute banger that would have a timeless nature (for that, see Aaliyah or Beyoncé). It's what those sorts of commercial pop albums aim at after all: strings of pop bangers + some truly adventurous by-sides to make them the records more interesting in the long run. And as far as *Stripped* is concerned, there are problems on both sides of the picture here. Honestly, *Stripped* is still a better album than *Back To Basics*. Yet in the end, it does not really matter. Because what we have here is a strong piece of evidence proving that Dimery should fire the ass of whoever is responsible for the inclusion of TWO Christina Aguilera albums in the 1001 Albums To Listen To Before You Die book. 2/5 for the purposes of this list. 7/10 for more general purposes. Number of albums left to review: 147 Number of albums from the list I find relevant enough to be mandatory listens: 367 Albums from the list I *might* include in mine later on: 216 Albums from the list I won't include in mine: 274 (including this one)

2.5 decent had some good songs and some stinkers. Actually sang instead of doing that annoying baby voice most pop stars do

At times I wanted to give this a one, and at times it came up to a three but it wasn't an enjoyable listen I'll be honest. Starting with the good stuff, I was 20 when this came out and a woman who marketed herself in the way she did was always going to attract my attention as well as a lot of media coverage. The singles all remain firmly lodged in my brain via ubiquitous radio play and can't be faulted. The message of self empowerment for women is a good step forward and no one can deny she has a powerful voice. However, the album tracks really didn't hit any heights. 77 minutes was too long and the vocal wanking really takes its toll after a while. It's not often I find I physically can't listen to stuff but I only made it through the whole album by giving each track about a minute to get the gist and then skipping onto the next. I was hoping I'd find gold but i didn't. Later on I talked to my wife about who is the same age and who was a big fan when it came out. Looking at female led pop across decades, this really doesn't hold up against the 60's, 70's, 80's or 90's.

Segundo y, desde la mismísma portada, hipersexualizado álbum de Christina Aguilera. Stripped sigue el estilo pop adolescente de Britney Spears y, en algún momento, el fantástico dance-rock de Pink, con el añadido de algunas gotas de hip-hop, evidentes en el tema "Can't Hold Us Down". Obtuvo un cierto éxito con su primer single, "Dirrty", y en todo el disco brilla de nuevo la capacidad vocal de Aguilera y su dedicación al R&B callejero, especialmente en sus mejores temas: "Fighter" y "Beautiful". Desigual y caótico en el concepto, no es un disco que me emocione especialmente.

An instantly recognizable voice with great talent, but this project was unnecessarily long and unfortunately felt repetitive and full of filler by the end. That said, there are a few lesser-played tracks I'd come back for again

Everything in here is less impressive and longer than you remember.

way too long. kinda reminds me of early beyonce. some real bops on here though. takes me back to TRL days.

Your great-grandma listens to Stripped by Christina Aguilera.

Christina Aguilera, the artist: Otherworldly talent. Slick pop prowess. Stripped, the album: Some great beats. Overlong. Tepid songwriting.

Why would this be on a list of albums that everyone should hear? Its aggressively mid in every possible way. 2/5

not for me

If you ain’t dirrty (the intro to that song is ridiculous, why are we throwing elbows?). …i grew up around this music, so it’s interesting to hear it again as an adult. This is an overly long pop album that covers sounds from an array of genres - hip hop, rock, jazz, Latin, r&b, etc. Xtina is a solid singer. A handful of the songs are catchy pop tunes or soulful ballads, but a lot of it isn’t memorable. Would have been better at half the length - this seems to be a throw it all at the wall and see what sticks approach (which isn’t bad, just too much stuff thrown). Wouldn’t care if I never heard it again but I didn’t feel the need to turn it off the whole time. A fine (but too long) pop album, but not really my thing.

I am not a fan of the late 90s, early 2000s R&B infused pop sound. That made it so that this album had an uphill battle from the start. It did not succeed in overcoming these prior biases, but it was inoffensive, at least. I agreed with most of the messages presented on the album, but found them getting repetitive over its nearly hour-and-a-half runtime, and the sound itself changed very little as well. There were more hits here than expected, but I still fail to remember them despite their popularity, and the whole thing is just of its time. It isn't bad, but every passing day makes this age worse, not due to its message, but rather the aesthetic behind it. Just a bleh feeling, it's hard to put into words, but it is easy to recognize when you go through it all.

No soporto la voz de Christina Aguilera

a few bangers. unlistenably long.

Warble, weeble, wibble, wobble, wubble ad infinitum.

Not my style of music. I can see how some people might like it, but it leaves me cold.

i didn't hate this. but i didn't enjoy it either. A few songs were pretty decent, but overall, my problem with this album is that the material is lacking. there are very few melodies that drew me in. Plus, I don't find her especially compelling as a singer.

Undeniably an excellent singer at the same time it booooorrrrres me. Seems totally insulting to casually dismiss a talent that few people have but when it's presented in such an overproduced / massively compressed package i don't know.... the music overall loses most impact it might have had. And it's such a LONG album enough already. "Beautiful" is the track I know and it's a good song that's just ... eh, it's the aural equivalent of a sausage. So tightly packed, let that thing breathe. Nothing in and of itself is bad here (well "Make Over" is pretty awful) - but it mostly all rolls together into one "oh yeah I listened to highly and expensively produced turn of the century pop for the last hour" ho hum. Actually... if this album had 8 songs and were ~43 minutes long (old school LP length) I think it would have had a much bigger impact on me. Worst part of the CD era was jamming as much into an album as possible. Shed some dead weight / trim it down and I probably could have given this a 3. Mostly it's just too slick (and long - did i mention that?) for my taste - admittedly I know almost nothing about her career other than she's a "star" so maybe she's done it but what Miley Cyrus did by playing with an actual live band, releasing some acoustic type songs.... would love to hear that. It's not that it needs to be stripped down (necessarily) it's just too much sheen - can't get into it. 4/10 2 stars.

Well that sort of sucks... I actually had written stuff out, but my browser tanked. Going from memory; Can't Hold Us Down is a fine confident strut about the double standards imposed on women featuring solid sing-rap from Aguilera and a fine feature from Lil' Kim. Walk Away -> Fighter is a nice seamless segue, but Fighter adopts one of my least favorite tropes of early 2000s pop: soulless heavy rock guitar to signify an "aggressive" tone. Loving Me 4 Me is a high point; love the toned down R&B atmosphere -- same for Impossible. Beautiful is the song I know Aguilera for. To be sure, her vocals are super strong here. Unfortunately Make Over that immediately follows blows. Takes her strength in vocals and shoves them through a distorted, compression microphone effect. Lot of bloat that I don't care about and weird sequencing decisions on this album. Prime example, Soar is a gospel R&B song about self-empowerment that feels weird sitting right next to sexual opus Get Mine, Get Yours featuring the line "gotta hit that spot just right, work me like a 9 to 5." Dirrty is fun in a nostalgic sort of way. I miss this era of hip-hop and pop, before trap became everything. Her vocals are kind of annoying in the chorus tbh, but I enjoy the overall vibe and Redman gives a solid verse. I'm tapping out early on this one as it is just not my cup of tea and it keeps going. I actually enjoy her voice -- lot of power and range to her ability -- but my attention has been ground down by 70 minutes of it. I think there are some really solid tracks buried in here, but a lot of this misses for me. I feel like where this shone was when there was less going on (Loving Me 4 Me, Beautiful, Impossible). The rest felt a bit overstuffed for my liking. This is a high 2 for me; were there better editing, there is a case to be made for a 3-4.

Ugh why is this so long. This Lil Kim song is peak early 2000's Pop/R&B. Honestly just expecting a bunch of this the whole album. Not really for me but whatever. She really does have a great voice and it shows on a lot of songs especially Walk Away. I actually know Fighter. Just some throwaways songs imo until we get to Beautiful which is, you guessed it - beautiful. As soon as the next song started I just wanted to fast forward to the song with Redman. Hell yeah i have heard this one and it rules. Pretty much only liked those 3 main songs and the rest I was waiting for it to end. Sorry Xtina way too long.

I’m sure a lot of clever, talented, determined and imaginative people worked together to make the latest Ford Pickup Truck. But I don’t care and never will because I am not the target market demographic for that consumer product. I do not need a Ford Pickup Truck in my life. Same thing with this album, no doubt the product of endless toil by top notch professionals to target the specific market segment they wanted to milk. Well done everyone. Big each other up on LinkedIn or something. On top of that I really don’t like the shouting instead of singing thing. Competent pop music that says literally nothing to me.

I didn't hate this as much as I thought, but not for me

this white lady needa stay off these latin beats

J'ai honnêtement mieux aimé que son autre album que j'ai eu d'elle. Fighter est un bon banger. Mon principal problème est que je trouve cela encore trop unidimensionnel et sa voix ne vient toujours pas m'allumer. L'album est aussi trop long pour son propre bien. 4.5/10

This album has 20 tracks and it's evident from the start that Ms. Aguilera is fully capable of pulling off impressive vocal runs. Even if asked to do it 20 times in a row. Ultimately, it's girl pop from 2002 and I found absolutely no connection whatsoever to this music.

Remember this from back then, never quite my thing.

She made it a little bit lonnnngerrrr. Albums of this era were consistently too long, I guess to give people value for their cd purchase

Bit too shouty on this one.

There were some hits and there were some misses. 2.5 if there were halves….but I can’t say I would listen to the entire album again.

not quite a 2 but not quite a 3. hit and miss could i write poetry to this? n

I’ve always thought she had a great voice, although her warbling to show off her vocal prowess gets old quickly. I generally like the slower songs here. The album is way too long. Lop off 30-40 minutes of so-so tracks and this coulda been a 3.

Rigtig 00’er pop, kærlighedssange, et par bangers, men for ufokuseret

She is clearly a talented singer, but the style of music just isn't for me. I like some of the songs that are a bit more old school/traditional in nature, but overall I'm not a fan of this style of singing where the singer feels the need to turn one note into six. Also when I look at the personnel list on Google and I have to scroll to see the entire list that always is a sign to me that this is a corporate production, not an artist's vision. My final complaint? Did it really need to be an hour and 17 minutes? No, it did not. 2 stars.

She tries sexy but makes it boring. A ballad: long and boring. Empowerment is extra boring. Factory music by someone who's trying way too hard.

When I was younger, iirc my older sister wanted to be Christina Aguilerra. Never a fan of this style of music, but I can recognize that this is generally better than the rest of it's kind.

good voice. good production. some good composition. all wasted on a terrible album

Thought I’d enjoy this more based on Fighter and Beautiful, but the non-album tracks are pretty average. And there are far too many of them - a tight 10-tracker would’ve been much more to my liking. 2.5 starrs

Didin't like

I won't even pretend I like this album. Clearly, I'm not the target audience of Christina Aguilera or any other female "pop stars" from this era. This is music for people that buy their music at shopping malls, watch too many music videos and "cool" moms who think Christina and Britney are good role models for their daughters. "Empowering", "feminist", "sexualized"...Stripped? More like corporate manipulative image-based "music". As for the music, she can definitely sing and some of the songs are quite good, but the fact she's still relevant today amazes me and at the same time doesn't surprise me. If you like this kind of music, good for you...next please!

Fighter is wel een cool nummer, verder kan ze vet goed zingen maar tis gewoon niet helemaal mijn ding en vind 't album echt te lang haha Would not buy 3

Way overlong, Christina obviously can sing but in the main the material here isn't that great.

4/10 just total cringe really can’t stand this kinda shit

Better than Britney, but she's always been better than Britney, even during - especially during - her Genie In A Bottle era. Which is something. Apparently this is Xtina's attempt to get everyone to start taking her seriously. Whatever. No one was begging for another Maria. We just wanted something better.

Beter dan dat andere plaatje die we van haar voorgeschoteld kregen, maar toch niet echt 3 sterren waard.

Het zit allemaal wel goed in elkaar en ze kan uiteraard goed zingen, maar het is me allemaal te glad en veel te veel adlibs

Madam kan een mopje zingen, maar het is gewoon niet mijn genre. Niet vervelend, maar ook niet indrukwekkend voor mij.

Same complaint as the other Aguilera album: it's too fucking long. Did this need to be 80 minutes long? Absolutely not. Could you have cut half of it and have a decent product? Absolutely. Hearing the same shitty early 2000s production gets very exhausting.

Very samey. I swear I heard the same track about 5 times.

i've turned on the radio at it's 2002. Very poppy. Is it groundbreaking stuff?

better than expected, but too long

I just don’t care. Saccharine, whiny relationship bollocks. Sure it’s got Hugh production values and clearly they hired a bunch of talented songwriters. But it’s pop R&B. For over an HOUR. Yikes.

I was not expecting much, and much is exactly what I didn't get, so it has that going for it. To be charitable I'd say that it wasn't appalling, but boy was I glad when it was over.

Someone could have edited this down to 10 or 11 songs, 35 minsish and got a 3 star, but an hour and 17?! Who do you think you are girl?

The singles on this aren't enough to carry the rest of it.

I recognize a couple of the hits here. I can kind of appreciate the sentiment behind this album but overall it feels hollow. Wouldn't listen again.

One of the best voices in pop at that time. One of the only pop stars that could actually sing. Not something I would seek out, either when it was released or now. The songs are decent, but don't care for the style.

Easy for music snobs to slate this album. It was huge at the time and clearly influenced a lot of female pop stars, and marked a huge change in Christina’s image. It’s also very well produced. But still isn’t my cup of tea and not sure it’s really an album you need to listen to in 2023

There are things here I enjoy, but overall I'm not really feeling the vibes of the music here. R&B is a little hit or miss for me, and there's a lot of that DNA here. It's good for early 00s radio pop I guess? Ie, Still not very good. Probably like double the run time it should've been given too. From an enjoyment perspective, I think a 2 is fair. There are things here I can certainly appreciate, but not for me overall.

Not one of my 1,000 best albums but epic in scale and execution. The single “Beautiful” is still anthemic after 20+ years.

Xtine, millenium pop royalty, had started her career in the late 90's with the bonafide hit Genie in a Bottle. After a bit of meandering, she decided to strike back at many of the issues in her life with Stripped. This would be the rallying cry for her and others to stand strong. Uplifting anthems like Fighter, Can't Hold Us Down, and Beautiful would be strong, albeit shallow, feminist messages needed in a post-9/11 America. They're not bad. Perfectly serviceable pop songs with an r&b influence. It's overly long so I checked out a few times but there's clear highlights. People probably got their money's worth for this.

Fine for what it is. I'm not familiar with her previous work, so I'm not sure how much of a departure this album was, but it does seem fairly ambitious for teen pop. I know Dirty was the big hit, but it's probably my least favorite song. There's just too much stuffed into one song.

Fighter! nice voice

I mean. Those trousers. Christina Aguilar has an amazing voice and talent but as was the style in those days, everything was a little too engineered and contrived. I include the sound, the lyrics and the image. Not her fault though.

Belle voix, moins qu'Adele c'est certain. Quelques bonnes chansons, mais j'ai préféré Back to Basics. Mi-chaud mi-froid, un genre de 2-2.5.

Love Christina and her voice but honestly, not a huge fan of her music in general. Just not my style but major probs and respect becuase she's amazing.

I did not like this. I don't like her voice and it was too long.

Why are her albums so long?

Very 2000s pop, not my thing

I am bored 2

Better than expected...

BL. Bad length. Soft 2.

way too long. good message in beautiful and fighter 2.5

Pisstina Agaylera

Can’t Hold Us Down // Walk Away // Fighter // Loving Me 4 Me // Beautiful // Dirrrty 1.5/5

Heavy and commercial.

Meh.

I don't really think this should be on the list. There are plenty of technically good singers in the world- it doesn't make you particularly groundbreaking. And while I didn't hate this album- I even enjoyed parts of it- it's a miss in a lot of ways. Could someone please tell me why there needed to be 20 SONGS on this??? Especially since this album is mostly filler. Most of the songs just aren't catchy, and this is the kind of music that should be catchy. There are a few songs which just didn't work and were painful to listen to, most notably "Make Over." I will say, however, that it was a well intentioned album. It's also not as sexual as its image would suggest. I've gotten several albums on this list with lyrics that constantly obsess over sex. This is not one of them. Outside of "Dirty" (which to be honest doesn't fit on the album) those lyrical themes are minimal. This album mostly focusses on themes of empowerment, and that is often looked at in a relationship context, but the focus is generally on the emotional side of things. I love inspirational themes, but this album doesn't do it very imaginatively and it become quite repetitive by the end. For the love of God, Aguilera feels the need to say "YOU CAN'T KEEP ME DOWN" in every other song. In almost these exact words every time. Despite enjoying several songs, I couldn't bring myself to give this a 3. Something about this album rubbed me the wrong way, although I'm not sure what. Maybe it was her vocal tone. She went for harsh and grating more often than not, although she does demonstrate an ability to sing with a more pleasing tone. Favourite tracks: Beautiful, Cruz, The Voice Within, I'm Okay

Eine schöne Stimme macht noch lange kein gutes Album, leider. Hier wurde mit zu vielen Songschreibern und Produzenten, unter anderem der von mir sehr geschätzten Linda Perry, eine inhomogene und größtenteils wenig interessante Soße kreiert - weswegen sich dieses Album wohl auch so gut verkauft hat. Erschreckend, wie wenig es dazu braucht. Klingt wie alles aus der Zeit - ich referenzierte Toxic von von Britney Spears, von der hätte der ganze Quark auch sein können.

Oh my god this is sooooooo long. There are a fistful of decent pop tunes, not my thing but I get why they are good (Dirty, Beatiful etc) but at least ten tracks of filler. Just because you can does not mean you should. Pop albums - twelve tracks, 3 - 4 mins each, 48 mins tops. Simple.

man the 2000s was a wild time. i really don't like this style of music at all and i had to suffer a load of it in the early days of my drinking career. thank fuck for the lack of cameras in shitty satellite town nightclubs. i dread to picture how young not-nigel used to woo the women in this environment.

There's some good songs on here, but in the end, the album is too long and repetitive.

4/10 du christina aguilera. on se tanne

Her voice is impressive, the music not so much

4th July 2023 Finished in the office on Wednesday. Had Seb round, tried to sort the battery in the fiat in the rain. too long and each is a vehicle for her voice which is very good.

An iconic voice from the early 2000’s pop era. Unquestionable talent, but not my favorite work of hers. (However I am far from connoisseur of music from this time.) Girl can sing but the only song that really stood out to me on this album was the duo with Lil Kim, Can’t Hold Us Down.

This brought me back, but not really in a good way, and also not as much as I thought it would. I recognized 3 or 4 of these because they were on pop radio at the time, but this was a very long album with a few too many overblown "inspirational" anthems.

Hmmm, what to say here. Much like a lot of pop albums in the early 2000s, this one falls victim to an overly long tracklist. This really isn't a terrible album, but the production gets gratingly repetitive and there just isn't enough versatility. Aguilera undeniably has a great voice, and a lot of the songwriting is fairly memorable, its the length and lack of variety within the record that really drags it down.

En anys de competència comercial amb Britney Spears, Christina Aguilera va voler distanciar-se del pop més comercial i apostar per un r&b més ambiciós, donant més protagonisme a la seva veu privilegiada. El resultat ha estat vanagloriat i reivindicat en el temps, però no és més que un exercici insuls i absurdament llarg, de gairebé 80 minuts, d'r&b blanc sense gaire substància. La portada és icònica, això sí

The first half of the album is pretty tough. The second half of the album is a little better, but not enough to bump it up. The hits hold up, but they’re drowned out by way too many other tracks

if this album was 30-40mins long it would be a solid 4, i think — there’s enough good stuff that you’re pleasantly surprised when it shows up, but it’s surrounded by really bad naughts pop, and it’s a Lot of really bad naughts pop

not my style of music, far too "produced"

It’s pop, power pop!

Album was nearly entirely belting and soul-sister singing. Dirrty = slapper intro = got me hype to go back in time beautiful = pretty good 20 songs = too long

A couple of okay songs. Beautiful = v good. But I feel like this is a situation where the sum is not better than the parts and I would rather listen to a song here or there rather than the whole hour twenty album.

We're in that age of pop where the focus was on singers showing off how impressive their voices were. Aguilera is a teen pop star that followed the trail Britney Spears left behind, and I'm a fan of a couple of her hits like "Genie in a Bottle" and "Ain't No Other Man." Here, we have an entire double album where I've somehow heard half the songs despite having never heard any of them (except the two massive hits). It's really generic and follows pop trends of the time in R&B and Latin. She overlays things like guitars to make things seem more interesting, but they all act like lackeys to add glamour to her otherwise boring lyrics and vocals. Of course the production is top notch, and I do like the backtracking (sometimes the only thing I liked in a track), but there was very little to like about it. The hits "Fighter", "Beautiful", and "Drrrty" are memorable singles (but I wonder how much if they were spammed in society). I did like the transition from "Walk Away" to "Fighter." The song "Loving Me 4 Me" had the coolest production, love that dreamy sound, even if it repeated itself too much. "Make Over" was also a cool song with all that energy. "Get Mine Get Yours" had a cool reggae production effect but was too much in the shadows. Two obvious faults: the album is too long, and each song is too long. I've just listed everything I liked about the album. Everything else was at best ok. There should be no reason why the shortest song is 3:44 and the longest is 6:29. With how repetition there is, even the songs I thought were decent dragged on way too much. And you can imagine how unbearable the rest of the album was. I wanted to see how popheads liked these songs, and of course they rank the hits the highest, probably because that's all they've ever heard. I honestly can't see anything to like out of "The Voice Within" or "Can't Hold Us Down" (and I did sorta like Lil Kim's La Bella Mafia).

Went in with a determined open mind; and in general it's ok 2000's pop. However it's the overt sexualisation and claim it's in the name female empowerment which is both the reason I listened (or watched the video) at the time and cringe mightily now. Hilariously the same people who love this freak out over 90s rap when it's the same lyrics and themes. In terms of a listen, basic pop with some nice energetic tunes and a pretty good voice. 2

Her best time

A bit too formulaic for my taste, but Dirty is a certified banger, and the Redman appearance doesn't hurt. 2 stripper poles out of 5

Christina Aguilera is one of those people whose name is familiar to me and nothing else is. I mean... I know she's a '00s icon but how come I don't remember a single song from her? But I do know that she's the one who sang the (boring) bridge of Maroon 5's "Move Like Jagger". Fun fact: that's her number 1 song in Spotify lol. And OH! She's the gal in Pitbull's "Feel this Moment"?! Interesting. I do like her performance in that song. The nostalgia in that cheap EDM spiced song lol. Anyway, "Stripped" shows the probable reason why I don't remember her: she sounds generic. She didn't even care to put any of those cheap glams associated with '00s R&B and I guess that's something. I don't hate it, it's just uninteresting. Although the rock-based "Fighter" was surprisingly nice. Also, I didn't know she sang "Beautiful". I thought it was decent, but unfortunately, I associate it with beauty product ads with "advocacies" nowadays. Not that it's her fault though. But thinking about it, it's nothing beyond decent.

alltof langt en ágætis lög inn á milli. á köflum of yfirkeyrður tónskalaæfingasöngur fyrr minn smekk. sóðaskapur fyrsta áratugs aldarinnar. 2,5.

Britney Spears yesterday and Christina Aguiler today. It was impossible to find anything positive to say about Britney until today when I found that having listened to Britney yesterday made Christina sound better! With that as a kickstart, I got through half of the album. I like how she fuses Latin music into other genres. The album is way too long.

Wow! Christina Aguilera & Brittany Spears were both in The Mickey Mouse Club at the same time! I prefer Christina, she's a more talented, soulful vocalist and the songs are less pop-fluff & better-written, though she didn't write them. Still, there are a few stinkers.

She’s a very skilled singer. The songs do little for me, and this came out about a year before I became aware of top 40 radio, so the nostalgia factor isn’t there. The album is a bit long.

Just such meh pop.

Beautiful is beautiful, the rest is not for me. Her voice overdramatic, her lyrics for other target group.

There were many albums like this in the CD era - 1 hour and 17 minutes of sameyness. "Never mind the quality, feel the width". No nourishment - the aural equivalent of a burger from a fast food chain, heavily processed.

No thank you

Hell. No.

why? Why is this album important? It suffers greatly from quantity over quality, and the ridiculous vibrato on every fucking song is completely overdone. The only thing that this album will be remembered for is the music video for Dirty.

Beautiful Dirrty

To be 17 again, and having to define yourself as either Team-Britney or Team-Christina, because obviously you cannot be both. Can't say this ages well.

My hopes were really high, but it was just a big disappointment.

Didnt listen

The review I saw talked about a "ceaseless 70 minutes running time and a seemingly endless 20 songs" which is about right.

Skipped by most tracks, a handle full of seconds that feel like hours is enough for me. Days are too short for this.

One Christina Aguilera album was painful but at least vaguely understandable in the context of the list. Two is appalling, can only assume her mam was one of the contributing critics. Not sure which of her albums was worse, I think the first album had some vague brass bits that were better than the rest but had a lot more self aggrandising which annoyed me. This album was just painfully, endlessly bland. Dirty is pretty iconic, if not really for me I sort of think it's alright. But the length and relentless poor quality of this album is obviously a one star.

I really thought 1 Christina Aguilera album on the list would be enough, apparently not. I think I remember disliking the first one more than I disliked this. But still disliked this! Her weird vocal trilling and growls are there. Think she was trying to be a bit more serious and less "dirty" here. It's way too long for a pop album too. Sorry Xtina, it's 1 again

sloppy

Look I'm sure it has its merits in context, but this is something I should listen before I die? Why?

Oh god. This has not aged well.

First album I really, really did not want to listen to and could barely get to finish it. It being 70 minutes also is another reason to stay away.

This is the first time going through these albums that I've skipped through songs. There have been albums I haven't liked and have even given one star to. But this is aggravating. Just because a pop star makes an album that isn't completely saccharin, that doesn't make it great. There were some hits on this album, but nothing on here, including those hits, are particularly memorable. Songs like Make Over might end up being memorable due to how awful it is. Aguilera is certainly a talented singer, but these songs are awful. I can't believe this album is on this list. There's nothing wrong with pop or even unserious music. Something like Justin Timberlake's Justified is a great example of a pop album that's great. This is not that. This is just plain bad.

I did not listen to this.

R&B pop is straight up boring

This is exactly the kind of commercial music I avoid. Yet I did my best to approach this album with an open heart/mind and willed it to change my mind. I really tried. I'm not a quiet listener. I talk about what I am hearing. And I did a lot of 'fuck no' complaining through this. I can't even work out why I had such a negative reaction to it. It's clearly musically accomplished, tight band, big sound. Just feels like fancy dress to me. I'm still gritting my teeth and listening because I promised I would listen to all these albums from top to bottom but it is making me feel sad/uncomfortable. AND ITS SOOOOO LOOOOONG. It has to be a 1. Sorry Xtina. Glad that so many people buy your albums that I don't have to feel guilty that I don't like it. Total number of tracks 20 !!! 'Fave' track: Make Over. Others: No. 05/03/26

Life is too short to listen to even 30 minutes of this bullshit

Way to long.. Fucking Christina...

Bored.

In de Jaren 00 waren we het echt even helemaal kwijt wat popmuziek betreft, backstreetboys, spice girls, Britney Spears en natuurlijk Christina Aguilera. Tis echt cringe om naar te luisteren, didn’t age well. Kheb ook geen jeugdsentiment, vroeger als pubertje vond ik t ook al niet vet, helaas is dit ook prime CD tijd wat betekent dat artiesten langere albums konden maken. (k vond die Lets get dirty videoclip op mtv stiekem wel best wel hot)

Just can’t get to it.

This isn't really pop music, it's more like r&b with some hip-hop influences. Unfortunately, that's the sort of music I don't like. She's a talented vocalist as well, but her singing also doesn't do much for me. And I'm not enthusiastic about her brand of feminism. And the album cover is ick. And the song ‘Beautiful’ feels like an ugly lie in an ugly world. Favorite part: I guess Redman's appearance on "Dirrty" [sic] is decent.

Another pop record that feels like it ends much more credibly than it starts. From the strength within onwards was a nice few tracks. It's very vocal focused in a way that I struggle with

Let me start by saying this: I know virtually nothing about Christina Aguilera. I believe she’s a fairly major star. No fewer than two of her albums appear on this list. Why? I genuinely have no idea. This is absolutely dreadful. Utterly meaningless pop music, with not a single discernible quality — not even when judged by the standards of that particular corner of the music market. Of course, that’s hard for me to assess, and perhaps I’m just talking nonsense, since this aesthetic is about as far removed from mine as it could possibly be. So who knows: maybe I’m just a sad, whiny man with grey hatred. But surely this is just garbage? Just listen to Infatuation! Garbage. Horrendous garbage. Please explain to me what I’m supposed to find good about this. In Impossible we once again get 132 million octaves per word. Very impressive, completely unlistenable. There is no music here at all. Someone banging a cardboard box with a ladle — at least that’s what it sounds like — is the musical highlight. Ugh. Fine. I’ll concede this much: Make Over is slightly easier on the ears. It has a bit of bite, some surprising arrangement choices, even a touch of daring. Naturally, it has very few streams, because the audience for this “music,” in quotation marks, obviously doesn’t want to be challenged — what are you thinking, behave yourself. On the other hand, one of the big hits, Fighter, is also marginally more tolerable. At the same time it’s painfully fake, dripping with that “I’m going to make a tough rock song with distorted guitars and stuff, you know, because then I’m tough” energy. Did I mention this album runs for 77 minutes? My god. If there is a god, then this is not his work but that of his good old counterpart with the cloven hooves and pointy tail. That little red guy. This album is utterly exhausting to listen to. Almost any 77-minute album is, but this one is extreme. And that’s entirely down to La Aguilera herself. She is belting at such a level that it’s borderline surreal. Track after track she screams the diaphragms out of the studio microphones. And to maximise the odds of success, every single song spans roughly 132 billion octaves — after all, you can’t be sure where the membrane’s weak spot is, so you might as well hit every frequency with every word. A quick Google search yields mixed verdicts. Some say this is a textbook example of the loudness wars; others claim it isn’t, because there’s supposedly more dynamic range. All I know is that I repeatedly found myself reaching for the volume knob to turn it down again. Aguilera’s shrieking practically bruises my ribs. It is genuinely exhausting to be subjected to this. Utter trash. Why am I supposed to listen to this?

2/10

I can’t believe an album with a 55/100 on Metacritic is on here.

Never listened to something so schizophrenically produced yet so profoundly boring.

Nah, can't be having this on my algo.

this is not for me. thank you please.

Thanks to when this came out I unfortunately remember a few of the songs from this due to its play on the radio and MTV. Started listening to it track by track and then skipped around because I didn't want to listen to all of this. Teenage me sure loved the Dirty music video. Regardless, still not my jam.

Annoying

Utter crap

Goddamn this was a slog. I don't care if she has a good voice, that's literally the only thing this has going for it. Nearly an hour and a half of lowest common denominator radio slop.

Absolute shit.

Wow.

Pop albums are all kind of the same; regardless of genre, regardless of decade. No singular point of view or vision. Rather a parade of songs written by different songwriters, dressed, by a producer chosen by the suits at the label, in the sonic cliches of the day in hopes of landing one or two radio hits. That's how this plays to me. One great hit, and 19 misses. Why any music fan would need to here it before they died is beyond me.

Nah

waste of a good bit of vinyl

cant get past the intro, for me the horror is still to real

Couldn’t make it through the album

Possibly the most painful listen of all the albums I have listened to so far. A messy mix of styles, where nothing works and everything is ruined by her over zealous singing. Didn’t even like the hits.

This is way too much and all at once. What exactly was stripped… other than her cover photo? They say a true artist knows what to leave out … well, not the case here. The majority of the album is vocal cacophony and over-mixing, although the slower songs are more enjoyable. And there’s just no excuse for 20 tracks at all. Ever. Like in the whole career. Looks like she needed that producer she fired on this one, after all. But, good news, she is beautiful no matter what I say because my words can’t bring her down.

I think the problem with me and this album is that I already don't enjoy much of the pop-R&B fusions from the late 90s-early 00s because most of that stuff sounds really corny to me. This album is like the picture perfect example of the kind of pop-R&B I find tedious because this album is WAY too long, then that it has WAY too many songs, and then it can't decide between being sexy party bangers or empowerment anthems that may as well be aimed at christian, suburban moms. Yes she sings good, yes I imagine a lot of the lyrics reflect the way people might have put her down in her style but... I just can't really begin to care about anything that is going on or any of its positivity without thinking I could be listening or watching something I find more personally interesting.

well at least the pants on the cover art are cunty as fuck. very much a slice of what early 2000s pop music was like, which is interesting in a way, but i don't find much of this compelling or memorable. Xtina isn't really a strong personality in pop music, and while she's pretty competent as an r&b vocalist, she's not like. special? i tend to forget how huge she was around this time. and the extreme 77 minute length is pretty unforgivable in '02. leave that shit in the 90s. deserves to be one of the 1001? truthfully honestly none of her albums do. it's a puzzling choice even despite my belief that mainstream pop should be represented! especially since this is pretty comparable to The Velvet Rope, which is Much better, provocative, and well-realized. and guess which one's on the list.

More shit

59/1001 :: Christina Aguilera - Stripped Heard before? ❌ Would I revisit? ❌ Rating: 3 Fav Tracks: Make Over, Fighter Listen before you die: No The key to listening to some of these is low expectations. For that I would say I was rewarded. Stripped is a professional pop album put together by talented people. That said, what the hell were these people thinking making a hour and 18 minute, 20 song album? It was never ending… Lastly, the cover art is such a moment. 20 year old girls in 2002 wanted to be this so that’s cool but this is not for me.

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Una porque no puedo menos

czlowiek sie ludzil a jednak popowe popowanie w najgorszym wydaniu go znalazlo, stripped pani aguilery z 2k02 to 20 trakow i prawie godzina dwadziescia minut niezrownanych meczarni dla ucha i duszy, albumik brzmi dokladnie tak jak mozna sobie wyobrazic te mroczne czasy gdy rapowanie stawalo sie mainstreamowe i trzeba bylo je przemycac do popowego spiewania, wiec nie zabraklo tutaj czarnych kolabow, jak z panem redmenem na dirrty czy cant hold us down z mala kim, juz same nazwy trakow czy albumiku wystarczaja mowia o kontencie lirycznym, bo jak uroczo opisuja one feministyczne walczenie o swoje i poznawanie siebie oraz swojej seksualnosci, co oczywiscie jest najlepszymi tematami na gospelowe spiewy, bo przeciez na rapie nie moglo sie skonczyc jako dodatkach, jak nie gospel, to spiewanie w latino, jakies rokowanie czy taneczne wstawki, a to wszystko okraszone wokalem pani christiany ktora juz w tamtych czasach brzmiala jakby byla stara a nie mogla miec wiecej niz 20 pare lat, ale taki urok jej wokalu, dzieki czemu mogla potem zrobic kombeka 10 lat pozniej i spiewac chorki u kazdego prawie jak zenski timberlejk, na plejke nie dodaje nic, bo ciezko wybrac cos z tak duzego smietnika

Too perfect, a boring mainstream album. A little bit from everything for everyone.

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

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

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

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.

Repeat listen

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

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.

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

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

Skipped

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.

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.

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.

Meh - bleurgh - not a good time for pop

Dull corporate nonsense

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

1 star. 1 good song.

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.

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.

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

Why?

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.

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.

I skipped this on lol

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

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