CHRISTINA AGUILERA’s first LP
CHRISTINA AGUILERA’s first LP in six years — a concept album about female empowerment — is in no hurry to get going. It drifts in on piano and strings before cutting to an a cappella fragment of Maria from The Sound Of Music — a song Aguilera sang as a child to escape a home of domestic violence.
Themes of childhood innocence and the purifying power of music run through a record that is more interesting to think about than listen to.
Nothing comes close to Aguilera’s own holy trinity: Beautiful, Dirrty, Fighter. Every trill and fill takes her further away from what feels like genuine emotion, and Liberation runs out of energy, ideas and edge about three weak ballads from the end.
Themes of childhood innocence and the purifying power of music run through a record that is more interesting to think about than listen to.
Nothing comes close to Aguilera’s own holy trinity: Beautiful, Dirrty, Fighter. Every trill and fill takes her further away from what feels like genuine emotion, and Liberation runs out of energy, ideas and edge about three weak ballads from the end.
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