Stripped

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.

"But she can really sing" This album is complete trash, another what the fuck moment for this list.

She is technically great singer but this is completely generic pop-RnB with the worst of that early 00s, smooth production. Way too long, should be half the length, could easily cut 10 songs out of the 20, bloated beyond belief, you'd weep at the money this album probably cost to make, I was losing the will to live way before the end. Soar is some pile of self empowerment shite. Nothing interesting, no melodic surprises, no risks, completely forgettable songs. Genie in a Bottle is a million times better than anything here. Beautiful is saccharine but catchy enough tune in fairness, Impossible was ok, that's it really, Dirrty has aged like milk. 2/10

Christina I just don't get it. All the whoo ooos and woah woahs. It all means nothing to me. There was a little 3 song run that I quite enjoyed: Beautiful - great single Make Over - stolen from Sugababes Cruz - Lynyrd Skynyrd esque But that was it, I'm afraid. 3/10

A manufactured album for manufactured fans.

77 minutes of unlistenable over-produced caterwauling.

I’m old enough to remember 2002 when this kind of crap was force fed to is via Radio Stations. Now, 25 years down the road, when people have freedom to choose what they listen to, and radio stations have no hold on us, crap like this is only listened to by a part of society and the rest of us are free to turn it off. And I did. Seventy Eight minutes of this pretentious shit? FO

Nothing worse than bad, cravenly commercial pop music.

Art Direction & Design: Jeri Heiden and Glen Nakasako aka SMOG Design. Photography: Miranda Penn Turin. This was a pretty succesful repositioning exercise for Christina, moving her from bobblegum to Xtina, a more uninhibited, sexually liberated personality. While not ground breaking the sleeve is good, solid and well crafted, shame the music is crap.

Has this stripped me of the will to go about the rest of my day today? Yes, yes it has. It's just the most cynical R&B chart slop you could ever imagine. Completely hollow, distant and manufactured for a wide-eyed pre-teen demographic. She can sing, but everything about her presence and lyrical writing on this album feels engineered to make the mega bucks rain cause it was what the kids wanted innit!

Didn't finish. Wasn't "bad" but 100% was not my music taste and honestly didn't have the energy to get through an hour album.

eh

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.

A very distinctive voice, disturbing presence. Dirrty is pretty decent and memorable, and as are the other overplayed hits Beautiful and Fighter. But the rest of the album, deary me. Scattered, and really poor. I didn't enjoy Back to Basics, nor did I enjoy this album. Come to think of it, both album titles suggest she's much more of an instrumental artist. Loads of brass on Back to Basics, and one is filled with hollering and some very cheap keyboard sounds. Does she know what an acoustic album is?

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?

First off, it's an hour and 17 minutes long, so the score instantly goes down. Make Over is an atrocious song but Beautiful still goes, Dirrty is a banger and I did like The Voice Within despite it's preachiness. But, the sheer weight of the rough slog that is the rest of this album prevents this from being anything but a 1 it's just not good and I was relieved when it ended

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.

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

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

5 stars for shouting and giving someone a headache

Vilket sömnpiller.

ugh no sorry

Awful pop

Nö! Nicht meins!

Ok pop singer. Can’t listen to her all the time. Some decent songs.

- ... more like 1 hour 18 minutes of my sonic life that I'll never get back ..... boring, weak writing, musically uninspired ..... -

1/5

I needed to take a shower after listening to this.

meh

I listened to the singles and then noped out. This is about as good as early 2000's pop music gets and it's still unlistenable.

No

1.3/5 listened 1x on drive between KC and St Louis with Ashley.

Eigentlich mochte ich schon damals diese Musik nicht besonders.

Nær ómögulegt fyrir mig að hlusta á 75 mínútur af þessum kreistingi. Örfá lög sem vit er í, en túlkunin fer alveg með mig.

Really boring and really bad. The closest I’ve come to just not finishing one of these albums so far

"Hey Siri. Play something vacuous, something with no soul and a big budget with a hottie up front".

Ew no

'Beautiful' is aite

I tried. Definitely not for me

One of those 'modern' pop albums where every style, genre and production trick gets thrown at it. Apart from the neither the songs or the voice grabbing me, this seems like a bit of a stylistic mess. what's the story here? Sounds like loads of other albums / songs from the time, and am not sure why or how it made it onto this list.

Just not my shit. Refused to listen.

Decent pop.

Really not for me

Nah

The two big singles were absolutely everywhere, as was that video. Oh and Fighter, that was about too. No memory at all of the other singles, and I think this is going to be a real slog - hated the music at the time, it was the shite nothing music you had to drown out at the gym with your headphones. 3rd track and I am really really struggling. Can I skip through these? No I made a commitment. Pretty sure I'm going to hate every track but I have to make sure. It's a curse. Even my 12 year old daughter left the room. Doesn't bode well. Ok it's over. I can't claim I listened to all of it, because it wasn't interesting enough, but I was in the room and it was on. Just incredibly bland. There wasn't a single song which broke the mold and pricked up my ears, nothing surprising at all unfortunately. Fucking hell, the last track is 6 and a half minutes, this album just won't die. Don't really want to join the trolls but have to rate it honestly, and I dislike basically all of this. Brings to mind the phrase "well that was terrible, but at least it was long."

should have been called "Sludge"

Nothing says female empowerment quite like 25 dudes writing songs for a pop star. There is good pop out there. There was good pop WHEN this was released. This is just a bunch of bad ideas jammed together. And why is it so long?

1. ztripped - 0 2. cant hold uz douun - 1 3. uualk auuay - 0 4. fighter - 0 5. primer amor - 1 6. infatuation - 0 7. lovez embrace - 1 8. loving me - 1.5 9. impozzible - 1 10. underappreciated - 0 11. beautiful - 1 12. make over - 1 13. cruz - 0 14. zoar - 0 15. get yourz - 0 16. dirty - 0 17. the voice uuithin - 1 18. im ok - 1.5 19. keep on zinging - 0

Doesn’t float my boat

Not my bag, but she’s got pipes.

Fuck off

Ugh. What a bloated, ugly mess of an album. The songs are scattered and disconnected. The vocals are not just over-performed, they're downright FORCED. And the production is so bloated one has to assume they're desperately trying to cover for the fact that these songs completely lack structure and substance. Just a mess from play to stop. Hard pass.

Ugh. This thing is so fucking bloated. Halfway through I was over it and it JUST KEPT GOING. 1/5

Guess what? I don't give a fuck about washed-down pop music!

Christina Aguilera ei tehnyt kaunista albumia aika paska itseasiassa ettei paljoa iloa tästä tullut vaikka lopussa muutama ilonpälkähdys kun hyvää äänentuottoa ja näinh.. seksualiisävytteinen länsimaismusiikille omanlaisensa pitkähapatuksest voidaan jo puhua.. Varmaan aika upea romahdus moraalille vuonna 2002 ja siksi listoilla..... Ei muuta..

Why? No way this is a must listen. Good voice but horrible content, bland musicality and annoyingly similar to Destiny’s Child / Beyoncé

MTV:tä koulun jälkeen tuijottavana esiseksuaalisena lapsenakaan en ollut ihastunut Aguileran pakotettuun raspiin tai kromaattiseen melodisuuteen. Nyt kun voin arvostaa sanoitusten koko korniutta, voin todeta, että tämä ei ole minun juttuni.

I'm gonna do this once and once only, because this album is not worth thinking about for a single minute longer than the 1 hour and 20 minutes runtime. I like singers. I really do. But the problem is that so many singers do not use their immense talents for good. With great power comes great responsibility, and, all too often, singers like this use their incredible, undeniable talent for long parades of slovenly riffs, runs, and frills that truly do nothing whatsoever. When I hear Christina Aguilera sing, I just hear that. I hear that kid guitarist in guitar center who just learned how to shred riffs 25 times faster than you, and won't stop shredding. I really dislike that. Maybe it's jealousy. None of us mere mortals can do that. But really! So many singers are like this. Go on Instagram or TikTok, if you dare, and look up singing culture. This album is an hour and 20 minutes long, there are 20 songs, I listened to every one of them, and she has... three good songs. Whether she wrote them or a team of songwriters did matters not at all to me– plenty of great music was made either way. But she is trying her absolute hardest to *ruin* every single one of the songs, lovingly crafted, for this project, with her obscene riffs that go nowhere. The other songs are not exactly songs... more like platforms. A blank canvas where every conceivable riff can go. It is absurd. 1/5. I could have absolutely seen myself giving it a 2, because some songs are a little touching, but we need to remove a star for "Dirrty" [sic], which is how I feel now after listening. That song is what my freshman year bus driver blasted at full volume for all of us 14 year olds at 6:30 AM. Thanks to Redman for setting my discovery and eventual love of rap music back by at least 5 years with that abomination. Man, the mid 2000's were a rough time for music. Take this album off the list and put on... something! Anything!

She definitely has a better voice than some of her contemporaries but this is not for me. And to be fair she says this almost immediately. "This is for my girls..."

Now I don't consider myself a huge poptimist, but I don't hate that type of music either. This one was just a complete slog though...Dirrty about the only redeeming factor. 1.5/5

Didn't know any songs. It was OK.

A Christina tem uma voz linda e isso não é novidade pra ninguém mas eu nunca consegui gostar do estilo de pop xoxo e sem graça que ela faz..

No. Not interested.

On top of being an awful album it's long af

This is bad. Generic. Well mixed but that’s a gimme with pop artist. Lyrically deficient. Unimaginative beats. 1 star

💩

SHACK AKA Andi McCormick LOVES this album. Wanks to it daily. Look him up on Facebook. He once posted a picture of his dick on there.

Just no

Fucks sake.

meh

Ugh. This is not a good album. It is bad. It is better than some of the albums that have received a one. It is certainly not on the level of other albums that have received a two. It was entirely way too long. I do not want to revisit any of the songs. It will get a one.

Beautiful is the only decent song onthis album The whole thing sounds like it's about as deep as a dimple on a golf ball.

Just not good... Made it halfway in

The audacity of naming an album that has 20 over-produced, over-sung tracks "Stripped." What did you strip? Nothing. Best track: Beautiful

Fighter and Beautiful are good songs, and some what nostalgic of my teenage years, but as for the rest of the album, it's too long and a bit boring. I had to quit about halfway through - I just can't with the weird honking singing and endless vocal runs.