She is the song inside the tune. I have never bought an album that has strong lyrics, is unique, and amazing intill I bought this. Christina is beautifully talented. She has been through a lot, and has used these issues, especially the ones in her struggling childhood, to create this magnificent album.

Christina Aguilera was in the limelight the end of her childhood. She was portrayed as an innocent, happy-go-lucky, blonde child that could sing. With her dumb group of pop, girlie-girl songs. She was like tea filled with milk, weak, and destroyed. And that’s what we thought had happened to her in till this album came out. The album that shook the world. The twenty songs on this album change that image that we all had on our head of Christina. No longer is she the tiny, vulnerable girl, that would do whatever anyone would tell her to do, no, she is the woman with a mind of her own, and won’t let anyone boss her around. She speaks and sings freely without caring what people think, and with that attitude she sold her album successfully.

She has changed so much it’s unbelievable. Christina is unquestionable a better and more talented singer than Britney Spears. Britney isn’t even close to her. All she is a plastic porn star that is willing to use her body to make her fans (all of with whom are male to my beliefs) buy her albums. It is ridiculous. Christina on the other hand is willing to live life to the ful, with or without a man by her side, unlike Brtiney. She won’t get too emotionally involved in till she knows it’s worth it. She has the attitude every woman should have; it’s healthy, mentally and physically.

You can tell straight away that this album is coming form the heart. Christina hasn’t made anything up; she has written the lyrics and used her gorgeous voice to declare her feelings. The deep, honest, emotional are amazing, and i can’t praise her enough about this album. The title is true, she has been stripped from all the lies, all the frontage, and everything that her manager told her to be (the blonde, dippy girl), now she is her own self, this album is as real as it gets to Christina, and not many singers say that and mean it.

These are the confident songs that she has on her wonderful, indescribable album:

STRIPPED INTRO

1.39

This is the introduction to the album, it shows her feelings and claims that now this is the “real me,” She says that she has always wanted to be herself. She apologies that it’s not what people expect and hint to them to deal with it. This is excellent attitude to start off the album.

CAN’T HOLD US DOWN

4.14

Written and Composed by Christina Aguilera, Scott Storch and Matt Morris.

She co-sings this song with lil Kim, and it is for the women in the world. This independent song celebrates freedom, and tells them/us not to worry about men that don’t respect them/us, its the man’s problem not theirs. Nice, danceable song.

WALK AWAY

5.47

Written and Composed by Christina Aguilera, Scott Storch and Matt Morris.

This song is very emotional, and declares how she has changed over the years. She tells us about the hurt and pain she has been through and how she has come out a better woman. I love this song. Her voice sounds amazing on this destructive song. Memorable.

Fighter

4.05

Written and Composed by Christina Aguilera and Scott Storch.

This song has such a womanly, independent feeling, which contains Christina fighting back to all the men that messed her around. It is amazing that she can speak so freely about it in her fabulous songs, woman all over the world look up to her for it.
I also love this song. Timeless song – a classic to me.

INFATUATION

4.17

Written and Composed by Christina Aguilera, Scott Storch and Matt Morris.

This spannishy song is all about her childhood and her disagreements with her mother and how they have reflected on her life now. Nice song with good guitar melodies.

LOVES EMBRACE

Interlude 0.46

In this intro, Christina is in love and she shows what she loves about her beloved. Very laid back which suits me perfectly! This is the intro for the next song.

LOVING ME 4 ME

4.36

Written and Composed by Christina Aguilera, Scott Storch and Matt Morris.

This concludes the naturalistic song before it, and adds a bit of rhythm to it. Christina is once again being herself and the awesome lyrics that is contained in each and every song on this album is just as good on this.

IMPOSSIBLE

4.14

Written, arranged and composed by Alicia Keys.

Alicia Keys did all of the behind-the-scenes stuff for this, and she also plays the piano in the song.
This song is more alto than the rest of her songs, which is nice to sing along to. I like this song. Defiantly a cut above the rest.

UNDERAPRECIATED

4.00
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Written and Composed by Christina Aguilera, Scott Storch and Matt Morris

This song is up-beat, you really want to sing along to it, just make sure if you can’t sing that you don’t start to do it suddenly in the shower to this song, your boyfriend whilst walking past will hear you singing these lyrics and start to worry about you! Defiantly not dire.

BEAUTIFUL

3.58

Written and Composed by Linda Perry

I adore this song. This song is one of the best. The lyrics are perfect for anyone, and the melody goes so well with it. I can not stop rating this song! It is unbelievable, it starts off with the feelings a lot of women feel everyday: ”Everyday is so wonderful, the suddenly, it’s hard to breathe,” She shows how she gets insecure and ashamed of her looks but tries to overcome it. And buy the end of the song she has succeeded to get over this problem. “We are beautiful is every single way,” “Words can’t bring you down,” are only some of the lines in this gorgeous song. I love it so much and can relate to it.

MAKEOVER

4.12

Written and Composed by Christina Aguilera and Linda Perry.
In this song, Christina is angry because a boy has tried to make her up as something she isn’t. She is telling him that he can’t brake her down, and that she is who she is and no one can change that. There is a really nice melody in this one; i couldn’t stop singing it for ages!

CRUZ

3.49

Written and Composed by Christina Aguilera and Linda Perry.

Christina sings about her wish to leave, i think this song is very catchy, even though it has a that slowly feeling to it. Many can relate to her feelings in this song. By the end of the song she realises she couldn’t leave because she would miss it. Enjoyable ballad.

SOAR

4.45

Written and Composed by Christina Aguilera, Rob Hoffman and Heather Holley

The lyrics to this song are amazing, well thought of, i love them! The lyrics are proof of real talent, i don’t believe i have heard a song before and listened to the lyrics this carefully and thought “Wow,” most of the times I’m like, “yeah, its alright.” Watch out for this one!

GET MINE GET YOURS

3.44

Written and Composed by Christina Aguilera, Steve Morales, Belewa Muhammad and David Siegel

At the beginning i used to hate this song, and skip it while i listened to the CD, but it grew on me and by now i really like it! This is more of a dancing song than the few before it, and Christina is singing about her facing problems in her relationship and how she would get over them – casual sex! Thought provoking song.

DIRRTY

4.58

FEATURING REDMAN

Written and Composed by Christina Aguilera, D Stinson, B. Muhammad, R. Noble and Jasper Cameron.

Who hasn’t heard off this song? Who hasn’t seen the video? Christina is one dirrty lady! Christina sounds amazing on this, even though there is a basic beat she turns the song around into something groundbreaking.

Enduring song.

STRIPPED PT.2

0.46

This is Christian’s apology for who she is and how she deals with everything she isn’t and concentrates on everything she is. Good attitude girl! Perfect first realise form this magnificent album.

THE VOICE WITHIN

5.04

Written and Composed by Christina Aguilera and Glen Ballard.

This is yet another ballad, but this one is the best. It is gorgeous, i adore it! I can’t really describe it much; you have got to listen to it! I can’t believe it didn’t do that well in the charts, but it was out last Christmas and with all the competition at Christmas time, she didn’t really realise it at the best of times. The song is so great i can’t start to tell you! Especially when the gospel singers come into it. Outstanding song. Full of inspiration.

I’M OK

5.18

Written and Composed by Christina Aguilera and Linda Perry

I cried when i first heard this song. Ironically beautiful. This song is from the heart. Christina sings about her abusing father in this ballad and it can be quite disturbing if you listen to the lyrics carefully. I couldn’t believe how strong she is, being able to speak about something so traumatising, and singing a song about it. You can hear crying noises in this song, and a child’s voice while the guitar plays. The most moving song i have ever listened to. This song is so personal and tells the listener a lot about her life and childhood. The abusing is told in immense detail, but no about the abuse physically, no, about the abuse mentally, and its effect on her. She tells everyone about her pain, and gives an inspiration to everyone who is/was abused or lived/lives in a home full of abuse.
Full of inspiration.

KEEP SINGIN` MY SONG

6.29

Written and Composed by Christina Aguilera and Scott Storch

I love this song (i love them all) It is really good, different to other songs on other albums. NO other album i have bought has a finishing song! It is a very nice way to end the album positively with her talking about how she will keep going on even though she can't please everyone, and this is her and whoever likes it, like it. This is the longest song, but you don’t get bored of it. You want to sing with her. It’s not very upbeat but it’s very powerful. Deep meaning.

What do i think overall about this album?

I am smitten with the album. This is proof that Miss Aguilera has an amazing voice.
The sophistication is declared in the album so powerfully that it overwhelms the listener
She isn’t afraid to show her feelings; this is what probably wins her fans, her determination to show her emotions and independence without any shame.

The tunes are brilliant; she sings what she feels, which is great. I love singing along to them; she has such a powerful voice, she is beautiful, talented and has a mind of her own, I can't wait for her next album! When i bought this album i was dubious if all her song would be as good as her realised singles, i was wrong, they are even better!

Usually a reviewer is some crazed fan and that is what i probably sound like. Before this album, I didn't even like her or her music, and that she would faze away.

"Her first incarnation as a bubble-gum pop princess got really tired really quickly. Then there was Lady Marmalade, which was excellent - but considered by many a one-off. This album was not something many people saw coming."
(Information off internet site)
And when you listen to the first track the Introduction, it truly feels like this album is something special. The song voice within is the peak of the album to me, alongside with beautiful because in these both songs she declares her feelings so clearly in a unique way.

The entire Stripped album is just so amazing; I am speechless after hearing the whole CD from start to finish. Wow, Christina Aguilera just gives a whole new meaning to music; her voice embraces every track and just leaves fans wanting more...

Buy this album, it is highly recommended. Ebay etc. Do great deals on it, and i promise you that you won’t regret it!

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PS
It took me AGEEEES to write this review, hours literally. About 6+hours. Please comment on it, please, even just to say that you’ve read it. I’d hate to think that I’d put some much work and hours into it and no one had read it. Thank you so much, not only is this practice for my exams and stuff, it is also practice for the career i would like to be in (Journalism).

Love Eleri xxxxxxxxx