They ended up talking “forever”, but Christina reveals they lost touch after completing their recording sessions in 2016 – before the hip-hop heavyweight suffered a mental breakdown. Kanye was putting the finishing touches to his The Life of Pablo album at the time, and gave Aguilera a preview of his new music. "I'm at the place, even musically, where it's a liberating feeling to be able to strip it all back and appreciate who you are and your raw beauty," she said.The track was produced by Kanye, who also worked on a tune called Maria, which samples The Sound of Music and Michael Jackson, for Christina’s forthcoming Liberation project, after meeting at iconic producer Rick Rubin’s Shangri La studio in Malibu, California in late 2015. The singer-actress explained her ever-transforming look, from "assless chaps and two toned-plaits" to "old Hollywood-inspired retro glam" to her more recent choices. In advance of the 2018 Tribeca Film Festival debut of the sci-fi romance Zoe, in which she enjoyed a starring role, Aguilera gave an interview to Paper magazine and appeared on its cover sans makeup. Proving her vocal abilities remained among the best in the business, Aguilera in 2015 won a Grammy Award with A Great Big World for their ballad "Say Something." That year, the veteran pop star also returned to her early television roots with a recurring role on the country music drama Nashville. Around this time, Aguilera announced that she would be back for the show's fifth season, and she later returned to the judge's chair for Season 8. She fared much better as a featured vocalist on rapper Pitbull's single, "Feel This Moment," which the duo performed together on the Season 4 finale of The Voice. The record received a lukewarm reception. "I knew it was a bold move, and I knew a lot of people would not be ready for it," the singer said of the album in an interview with The New York Times.Īround the time she left The Voice, Aguilera released the album Lotus. Stripped went on to sell more than 4 million copies, and Aguilera, rightly so, was unapologetic about the music or her look.
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Highly sexualized and more commanding than its predecessors, the album featured a number of hit singles, including "Dirrty," "Beautiful" and "Make Over." 'Stripped'Ĭoupled with a series of new piercings and tattoos, Aguilera and her new music startled some critics while endearing her to others. As its title suggests, the pop superstar had embarked down a new path. After teaming up with Pink, Mya and Lil' Kim on the popular single "Lady Marmalade," Aguilera released her second album, Stripped, in October 2002. But she wasn't comfortable maintaining the squeaky clean image this sort of role foisted upon her. With fellow Mouseketeers Spears and Timberlake also lighting up the charts with their respective music, Aguilera became one of the leading faces of a group of teen pop stars. The ambitious singer lasted just two years on the program before she moved with her mother to Japan, where she recorded the hit single "All I Wanna Do" with Japanese pop icon Keizo Nakanishi. Her fellow castmates were a collection of future stars, including Justin Timberlake, Britney Spears, Ryan Gosling and Keri Russell. In 1993 Aguilera earned more national attention when she landed a spot as a "Mouseketeer" on The All New Mickey Mouse Club. There, the nine-year-old prodigy wowed audiences with a mesmerizing rendition of Etta James' "A Sunday Kind of Love," placing second in the competition. Still, Aguilera continued to perform, and in 1990, she earned a spot on the nationally syndicated television program Star Search. It became so bad that Aguilera's mother eventually made the decision to home-school her daughter. By the time she was in elementary school, Aguilera's big voice had swept through a number of local talent shows, causing harsh envy from her schoolmates and even some parents. At an early age, Aguilera developed a deep love of music - a gift she no doubt inherited from her musical mother, an experienced violinist and pianist.