Christina Aguilera is “really proud” of the “risks and chances” she’s taken all through her 25-year profession within the music trade, regardless of how they might be obtained by the general public.
In a current interview with Paper journal, the pop icon opened up in regards to the considerate choices behind every of her initiatives through the years, noting that she by no means launched something only for “noise” and “attention.” This included her tune “Dirrty” from her 2002 album Stripped, which noticed her embrace her sexual facet, a significant shift from her self-titled 1999 debut album.
“You can make these choices. You can make them to play it safe and go along with the flow, or you can do things that really move people and shake it up,” she defined. “And I don’t intentionally, I think it’s corny to do things intentionally for pop culture, noise and for attention to stay quote-unquote ‘relevant.’ That becomes its own weird animal that gets away from artistry, period.”
The “Genie In A Bottle” singer continued, “So you can be a pop artist and genuinely do what you do, and still come through with messages and change it up. I never was interested in making the same record over and over again, that’s my worst idea of music. It’s part of our jobs as musicians to see where music is moving and see what’s happening socially. It really is about connecting and trying to bring people together.”
For Aguilera, artistry is about “wanting to experiment and not wanting to stay the same,” which is why she described her 2010 album Bionic as “an adventurous album,” whereas 2006’s Again to Fundamentals was a “bit more relatable.”
“I have to feel strong in my message and my core and what I’m doing out there,” the Grammy-winning artist mentioned. “I think it’s been apparent throughout my career that I’ve taken risks and chances. It’s very easy to play it safe for public perspective, so that they feel safe. People are comfortable with what they know, and when you change the script on them and change your sound — which I purposely did with every record — wanting to explore, wanting to experiment and not wanting to stay the same. I didn’t want to be a one-dimensional ballad singer, I didn’t want to be known for one specific thing.”
