Christina Aguilera's Stripped favourite album of all-time
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Official Charts UK chose their favourite albums of all-time: Stripped included (first listed)!
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Official Charts team reveal their favourite albums of all time
Being a pop kid from a young age, I was more interested in great singles than albums. And during my '90s/'00s childhood, the majority of albums from pop acts were mostly filler with the exception of a killer single or two. But Christina Aguilera’s Stripped changed all that for me. It was different. It was pop, but it was complicated pop. It’s 20 songs long. There are interludes. There are songs about feminism, sex, self-respect and abusive relationships. Some of the songs segue into each other. And all this from an album trailed by a song called Dirrty, accompanied by a music video of Christina simulating masturbation in a pair of leather chaps.
Five reasons why Stripped is my favourite album:
1. The run of tracks 1 to 6 is about as close to pop perfection as it gets.
2. It features self-help songs about loving yourself before self-help songs about loving yourself were a thing (see Fighter, Beautiful, The Voice Within).
3. As I’ve got older, the songs I enjoy the most on it has changed.
4. It features a bizarre pop crossover moment: the track Make Over sounded so similar to Sugababes’ Overload that later pressings of the album include credits to the original line-up of the group.
5. It’s still used as a benchmark of quality singing today – The Voice Within and Impossible are wheeled out as song options on The X Factor every year.
It really is a pop classic. I personally like B2B better, because I like that style and think she was born to sing it, but Stripped's impact can't be denied.
Truly iconic, impactful album.
