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With its lack of gimmickry and a surplus of sweet Seventies soul, Stripped is almost an album for grown-ups.
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It looks like a Mariah Carey album, it sounds like a Mariah Carey album.
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BlenderAguilera cowrote most of the songs, and she sounds surer of her themes than [Britney] Spears did in a similar I'm-coming-out role last year. [#12, p.138]
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If she had just shown up and sang her ass off, Stripped would've been a better show.
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Q MagazineSadly, bra-burning rhetoric and gospel warbling make poor substitutes for addictive songs, and nothing here rivals her previous best, Genie In A Bottle. [Jan 2003, p.112]
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SpinAs an artistic statement, Stripped is all over the place--it's a move toward hip-hop, it's a move toward rock, it's ghetto, it's Disney. [Dec 2002, p.137]
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It's the sound of an artist who's given too much freedom too early and has no idea what to do with it.
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Nearly every second of this overlong, 20-track workshop communicates the overwhelming struggles she endured -- while trying to become a superstar by age 18.
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 538 out of 599
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Mixed: 19 out of 599
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Negative: 42 out of 599
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Sep 13, 2011
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Jun 18, 2018Amazing album! Ahead of its time! A masterpiece and one of Christina's best works.
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Jun 18, 2018One of the most iconic album of xtina. Full of anthens. musics that changes people life.