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The album is what got her the respect of the industry legends. Even interviewers noticed her singles were unconventional on purpose. That album is really what solidified her as a musician and not just a pop artist. Her peers were concerned with making conventional bops at the time while she wanted to establish herself as a real musician. Most of the TRL audience didn’t understand, but you could tell she was very passionate and committed. This was always an album she was going to make as she was the little girl who went to record stores to listen to Billie Holiday and Ella Fitzgerald.

She took the time to put a modern twist on these sounds instead of doing a copy and paste. I always liked that she didn’t just make an album that sounded old. This is where she best showcased her musicianship and established herself as an artist that does what she wants. This is her best album vocally, musically and aesthetically although lyric wise Stripped is better. And plus Christina ended up winning a Grammy for ANOM which I'm sure she'd never trade. Not sure how she feels in retrospect of the album era today but it was really cool to see different styles of pop during that time between her, Pink, Fergie, Nelly Furtado, Gwen Stefani and Britney.

The big horn sound was also very popular then thanks to Rich Harrison's production of Beyonce, Amerie, and Jennifer Lopez singles. It felt to me like a continuation of Lady Marmalade and Shake A Tail Feather. I also really liked this album era as it showed off her artistic influences and the videos paid homage to the 1930s and 1940s. I didn't know that 20 years later she would be the only singer to have done it, lol. She was married at that time to one of those really boring nice guys (I personally liked him but don't know what truly happened with them). I thought it was the norm back then for a female artist to do a xesually liberated album and then if married or in a long-term relationship, their next body of work be more mature and classy (if that makes sense).

Back to basics christina aguilera cd in south africa