Christina Aguilera felt ’empowered’ by ‘Dirrty’ despite backlash

Christina Aguilera did not let the enemies make her fall early in her career.

When the singer recently thought of her 2002 successful song “Dirrty”, she revealed that she felt “empowered” by her new more mature and risky image, despite a lot of criticism at the time.

“I remember, just free my Stripped Album, I faced a bit of a counter coupling with my song “Dirrty”, “said Aguilera during a panel of the Bare It All event on Monday, where she promoted her brand of sexual well-being, Playground.” And for me, I felt incredibly empowered. [by] Have my body and express myself as I wanted and not install this strange manufacturer of labeled pop bubbles, a robotic thing that I knew that I was not. “”

Aguilera added that it was “very interesting” to “hear the opinions of others” on the reason why she “should not do that” and “why I had no right in my own voice on my own body”.

It was then that she was inspired to explore more why people felt the need to comment on her image.

“What is the conversation?” She said. “What’s going on in your life, or the lack of, that we have so hard to be open to let women discover their bodies for themselves? And then, it came to attack information. As I get older, I have a daughter now, so it is really important for me to make sure that she is informed, that she is not afraid to ask questions and why.”

Aguilera released “Dirrty” on September 3, 2002, as the main single of his fourth studio album, Stripped. The song, which also featured rapper Redman, was the singer’s rebellion not to have creative control over his music or his image for his first three albums.

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“The label wanted to push imagery to cookies and almost virginal that was not me,” said Aguilera at the time. “I really wanted to go away, because I really thought it was really false and superficial and false of what I was.”

Over the years, the grammy winner spoke several times against criticism who, according to her, have set her body and her sexuality throughout her career.

“I now have a maturity where I just don’t give an F — on your opinion,” she said last year. “I’m not going to take it.