‘The Voice’ Coaches: Christina Aguilera Talks ‘Stripped,’ ‘It Was Me Stripping Anything From That First Record’ [VIDEO]
Christina Aguilera has been in the entertainment industry since she was just a child and the powerhouse vocalist is dishing on her album Stripped in the third installment to The Voice YouTube channel mini series about her.
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Aguilera came onto the pop scene with her hit Genie in a Bottle from her self-titled debut album in 1999 and she followed up that debut album with two additional albums in 2000; Mi Reflejo and My Kind of Christmas, before smacking the world with her reinvented self found on Stripped, which released in 2002.
In the video, which is below of Christina Retrospective, Aguilera divulged that when she recorded Stripped she was 21-years-old and reflected on being amongst the company of fellow Mouseketeers Britney Spears and Justin Timberlake.
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"It was a great time," Aguilera said, but she admitted she "never felt truly connected to the first album" she recorded.
"I didn't feel myself," she said of being clumped into the group of pop stars that came to rise in the late nineties.
"And so Stripped was literally my title for just what it was. It was me stripping anything from that first album that I thought was superficial or not myself and I had a blast with that record," she revealed.
She explained how it was her coming of age and just feeling everything.
"From feeling hurt or burned. That became Fighter," Aguilera shared.
"Feeling vulnerable and insecure. That became Beautiful," she added as well as mentioning, "To feeling 21 and free and sort of experimenting with my own sexuality and what that is creatively. That was Dirrty."
The video divulged that Aguilera's Stripped to date has sold over 10 million copies worldwide.
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