History Music / ChristinaAguilera

Soon after, she started embracing a neo-{{Burlesque}} persona, by which time she [[GrowingTheBeard finally found a lyrical constant]], only to retire from touring in 2008 to look after her son Max. She returned to the music scene in 2010 with the album ''Bionic'', which was poorly-received and led to speculation that her career was over, largely due to ''Bionic'''s sound and visuals drawing comparisons to the then rising Music/LadyGaga. Things recovered slightly later in the year as the official soundtrack for the musical film ''{{Film/Burlesque}}'' (which she starred in alongside alongside {{Music/Cher}}), which featured mostly Aguilera performances achieved a gold certification in the US.

** ''Stripped'' (2002)

%%* ZettaiRyouiki: In "Ain't No Other Man".

%%* YourCheatingHeart: "You Lost Me".

Christina Maria Aguilera (born December 18, 1980 in New York City, New York) began her career in the spotlight as a former member of ''Series/TheMickeyMouseClub'' revival as teenager. Known as a [[PintsizedPowerhouse little girl with a big voice]], she signed to a major label in the late 90s and became first marketed as a [[IdolSinger bubblegum pop singer]] before seeking more [[GenreRoulette creative control]] thereafter musically and adopting a more [[{{Stripperific}} 'dirrty']] image on her sophomore album to continued commercial success.

Christina Maria Aguilera (born December 18, 1980) began her career in the spotlight as a former member of ''Series/TheMickeyMouseClub'' revival as teenager. Known as a [[PintsizedPowerhouse little girl with a big voice]], she signed to a major label in the late 90s and became first marketed as a [[IdolSinger bubblegum pop singer]] before seeking more [[GenreRoulette creative control]] thereafter musically and adopting a more [[{{Stripperific}} 'dirrty']] image on her sophomore album to continued commercial success.

%%* BiTheWay: A certain scene in "Not Myself Tonight" outright states this.

* AwardBaitSong: "Reflection", from the ''Disney/{{Mulan}}'' soundtrack. She's also re-recorded it for [[Film/Mulan2020 the 2020 live-action remake's]] soundtrack.

%%* WomanInWhite: "The Voice Within" and the first act of the ''Back To Basics'' tour.

* AwardBaitSong: "Reflection", from the ''Disney/{{Mulan}}'' soundtrack.

* AuthorTract: Her turn on Saturday Night Live during her "Dirrty" phrase spent a lot of time defending her right to do and say, anything she wants. She also wrote a thesis after Lotus under performed defending her choices to not tour since 2007 and telling her fans her music '''IS''' her priority.

* GriefSong: "Hurt"

* LoveIsADrug: Invoked in "Walk Away"

* UnusualEuphemism: "Woohoo", a collaboration with Music/NickiMinaj, "woohoo" as a term for oral sex.

** The music video for "The Voice Within" .
** The introduction to Ain't No Other Man.

->''You gotta rub me the right way''

Christina Maria Aguilera (born December 18th, 1980) began her career in the spotlight as a former member of ''Series/TheMickeyMouseClub'' revival as teenager. Known as a [[PintsizedPowerhouse little girl with a big voice]], she signed to a major label in the late 90s and became first marketed as a [[IdolSinger bubblegum pop singer]] before seeking more [[GenreRoulette creative control]] thereafter musically and adopting a more [[{{Stripperific}} 'dirrty']] image on her sophomore album to continued commercial success.

She became a coach on the talent show ''Series/TheVoice'' in 2011, alternating between seasons to focus on her family and prevent herself from burning out. In the meantime, she released another album, ''Lotus'', which had ever poorer sales than ''Bionic'', and subsequently became CanonDiscontinuity. Aguilera has since made a return to ''The Voice'' after taking time off for her family and has made the suggestion that she will release new music in the near future.

In June 2018, Aguilera released her eighth studio album ''Liberation'' six years after ''Lotus''. It debuted at number six on the US Billboard 200 and received a positive reception much more than ''Lotus'' or ''Bionic''.

She has featured her vocals on up to 25 vocal performances to date, by artists including, but not limited to, Music/{{Maroon 5}}, Music/CeeLoGreen, Nelly, Herbie Hancock, T.I., Diddy, Music/NickiMinaj, Music/TheRollingStones, Music/{{Pink}}, Music/RickyMartin, Mya, Music/MissyElliott, Music/{{Pitbull}} and A Great Big World. Aguilera is a six-time UsefulNotes/GrammyAward winner who has sold 50 million albums worldwide to date. Her number one hits include: "Come On Over" (2000), "What a Girl Wants" (1999), and the ever youthful, "Genie In a Bottle" (1999). Later hits have included "Beautiful", "Candyman", and "Ain't No Other Man".

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* '''Standard Studio Records'''

*** ''Mi Reflejo'' [Spanish-language album] (2000 Sept)
*** ''[[ChristmasSongs My Kind of Christmas]]'' (2000 Oct)
*** ''Just Be Free'' (Aug 2001)(recorded 1994/1995)[[note]]A demo album recorded while she was a pre-teen, released against her will after a long battle with the people who she recorded it with.[[/note]]
** ''[[HotterAndSexier Stripped]]'' (2002)
** ''[[ConceptAlbum Back to Basics]]'' (2006)
** ''[[NewSoundAlbum Bionic]]'' (2010)
** ''[[ConceptAlbum Lotus]]'' (2012)

* '''[=EPs=] and Compilation Albums'''

* '''DVDS'''

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* SillyLoveSongs: ''Back To Basics'' is this idea, made into an album, especially Disc 1.
** "Loving Me 4 Me" "Infatuation".

* TakeThat: "F. U. S. S." on ''Back To Basics'', to Scott Storch, a former producer and she also referred to Music/BritneySpears and Madonna as performers and considered herself a "Real Artist". She also had a feud with Kelly Osbourne, for over 10 years and outright didn't acknowledge Music/LadyGaga when she was newish in 2008.

--> "Some days I'm a super bitch/Up to my old tricks/but it wont last forever."

* UnusualEuphemism: "Woohoo", the song with Music/NickiMinaj, pretty much uses Woohoo as a term for...something else.

* YouAreNotAlone: "The Voice Within", "Beautiful", "Hello" and "Little Dreamer" are four examples. This is a theme in ''Stripped''.
* YourCheatingHeart: "You Lost Me".

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* AllWomenLoveShoes:She has a shoe room in her house..

* BlondeBrunetteRedhead: Playing "triplets" in "Candyman".
* BareYourMidriff: In her first era and Stripped.
* BrainsAndBondage: What certain parts of her fanbase assume based upon that "Not Myself Tonight" video.
* BiTheWay: A certain scene in "Not Myself Tonight" outright states this.
* BareYourMidriff: Particularly her Self Titled and Stripped eras.
* BlondeBrunetteRedhead: Multiple times in the video for ''Candyman'', though most obviously in the callout to {{Music/The Andrews Sisters}}, where Aguilera clones are shown with hair of each color ''simultaneously''.

* CombatStilettos: In Fighter.
* CelebrityEndorsement: She started showing her perfume in her Music Video's since 2010 and she also endorsed everything in Your Body.
* CleavageWindow: Not Myself Tonight, Dirrty, and The Voice Within.
* DarkerAndEdgier: For her early videos, it was usually just a fun, typical, lighthearted video of her and some dancers doing a routine (one exception is "I Turn To You", which depicted a girl surviving a car crash). Then starting with the Stripped era, they became edgier. The videos for "Dirrty" and "Can't Hold Us Down" are her raunchiest to date. The video for "Beautiful" adresses the song's message of loving yourself for who you are. "The Voice Within" is very bleak-looking (see Deliberately Monochrome). "Fighter" is pure NightmareFuel. She still makes some lighter videos like "Candyman", but for the most part, they have depth and edge to them that her first few lacked. Could also count as GrowingTheBeard.
* DeliberatelyMonochrome: "The Voice Within". The introduction to Ain't No Other Man.
* {{Dominatrix}}: "Not Myself Tonight".
* EroticEating: "Not Myself Tonight".

* FairyTaleWeddingDress: In her wedding to her first husband, shown in her Save Me From Myself video.
* ImpossiblyLowNeckline: Often in show.
* DenserAndWackier: Her videos since Back To Basics have been odd and unthematic. Not Myself Tonight has odd symbolism, You Lost Me is spacey, Your Body has blue blood and random endorsements which don't make sense.
* {{Fanservice}}: In "Not Myself Tonight" and "Dirrty".
* FemmeFatale: In her "Your Body" video.
* FightClubbing: In her "Dirrty" video.
* GlamorousWartimeSinger: "Candyman". Includes numerous {{Shout Out}}s to famous pin-up paintings of the era as well.
* GirlOnGirlIsHot: "Not Myself Tonight" and "Dirrty".
* HellBentForLeather: All of her "stripped" era performances.
* InDaClub: In "Dirrty" and "Not Myself Tonight".
* LingerieScene: Most of her music videos.
* LeotardOfPower: Most of Not Myself Tonight

* PaintedOnPants: Live and during the Your Body video,

** Hurt also uses some of these elements.
* RuleOfSymbolism: In the "You Lost Me" video.

* ThreeMinutesOfWrithing: A few videos, especially "Not Myself Tonight" and "Dirrty".
* WomanInWhite: The Voice Within and the first act of the Back To Basics tour.
* WalkingSwimsuitScene: Most of her Stripped and Bionic era performances and videos.
* UsefulNotes/WorldWarII: "Candyman"
* ZettaiRyouiki: In "Ain't No Other Man".

* LighterAndSofter:
** The sequel song to "Dirrty", ''Back to Basics'''s "Still Dirrty" is much more upbeat and light-hearted in tone than its predecessor.
** ''Bionic'' was more fun than ''Back To Basics'' that was very dramatic and deep and ''Lotus'' has less apologetic ballads then ''Bionic''.
* LoudnessWar: ''Bionic'', according to the [[http://www.dr.loudness-war.info/details.php?id=5162 Dynamic Range Database]], has "hideous sound quality" and is "extremely flat sounding and dead". To a lesser extent, ''Back to Basics'' and ''Lotus''.
* LyricalTic: Recording Wahs and Ooh Ooohs all over her songs, even her major collaborator (Linda Perry) told her to cut it out on "Beautiful".

Christina Maria Aguilera (born December 18th 1980) began her career in the spotlight as a former member of ''Series/TheMickeyMouseClub'' revival as teenager. Known as a [[PintsizedPowerhouse little girl with a big voice]], she signed to a major label in the late 90s and became first marketed as a [[IdolSinger bubblegum pop singer]] before seeking more [[GenreRoulette creative control]] thereafter musically and adopting a more [[{{Stripperific}} 'dirrty']] image on her sophomore album to continued commercial success.

She has featured her vocals on up to 25 vocal performances to date, by artists including, but not limited to, Music/{{Maroon 5}}, Music/CeeLoGreen, Nelly, Herbie Hancock, T.I., Diddy, Music/NickiMinaj, Music/TheRollingStones, Music/{{Pink}}, Music/RickyMartin, Mya, Music/MissyElliot, Music/{{Pitbull}} and A Great Big World. Aguilera is a six-time UsefulNotes/GrammyAward winner who has sold 50 million albums worldwide to date. Her number one hits include: "Come On Over" (2000), "What a Girl Wants" (1999), and the ever youthful, "Genie In a Bottle" (1999). Later hits have included "Beautiful", "Candyman", and "Ain't No Other Man".

** Liberation (2018)

Christina Maria Aguilera (December 18th 1980) began her career in the spotlight as a former member of ''Series/TheMickeyMouseClub'' revival as teenager. Known as a [[PintsizedPowerhouse little girl with a big voice]], she signed to a major label in the late 90s and became first marketed as a [[IdolSinger bubblegum pop singer]] before seeking more [[GenreRoulette creative control]] thereafter musically and adopting a more [[{{Stripperific}} 'dirrty']] image on her sophomore album to continued commercial success.

* ItsAllAboutMe: "Vanity". (See Arche Words, for more)

* LighterAndSofter: Bionic was more fun then Back To Basics that was very dramatic and deep and Lotus has less apologetic ballads then Bionic.

** MadonnaWhoreComplex: ''Sorry I'm not a virgin/Sorry I'm not a slut''. from ''Stripped''.

* PeacockGirl: One her Back To Basics tour outfit, second act.

She has featured her vocals on up to 25 vocal performances to date, by artists including, but not limited to, Music/{{Maroon 5}}, Music/CeeLoGreen, Nelly, Herbie Hancock, T.I., Diddy, Music/NickiMinaj, The Rolling Stones, Music/{{Pink}}, Ricky Martin, Mya, Missy Elliot, Music/{{Pitbull}} and A Great Big World. Aguilera is a six-time UsefulNotes/GrammyAward winner who has sold 50 million albums worldwide to date. Her number one hits include: "Come On Over" (2000), "What a Girl Wants" (1999), and the ever youthful, "Genie In a Bottle" (1999). Later hits have included "Beautiful", "Candyman", and "Ain't No Other Man".

Soon after, she started embracing a neo-{{Burlesque}} persona, by which time she [[GrowingTheBeard finally found a lyrical constant]], only to retire from touring in 2008 to look after her son Max. She returned to the music scene in 2010 with the album ''Bionic'', which was poorly-received and led to speculation that her career was over, largely due to ''Bionic'''s sound and visuals drawing comparisons to the then rising Music/LadyGaga. Things recovered slightly in 2010 as the official soundtrack for the musical film ''{{Film/Burlesque}}'' (which she starred in alongside alongside {{Music/Cher}}), which featured mostly Aguilera performances achieved a gold certification in the US.

Christina Maria Aguilera (December 18th 1980) began her career in the spotlight as a former member of ''Series/TheMickeyMouseClub'' revival as teenager, before she became a [[IdolSinger bubblegum pop singer]] who then sought more [[GenreRoulette creative control]] thereafter musically and adopted a more [[{{Stripperific}} 'dirrty']] image on her sophomore album to continued commercial success.

Soon after, she started embracing a neo-{{Burlesque}} persona, by which time she [[GrowingTheBeard finally found a lyrical constant]], only to retire from touring in 2008 to look after her son Max. She returned to the music scene in 2010 with the album ''Bionic'', which was poorly-received and led to speculation that her career was over, largely due to ''Bionic'''s sound and visuals drawing comparisons to the then rising Music/LadyGaga.