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One of pop’s biggest voices gets a new style

Aguilera’s last album was 2012’s Lotus, though she’s been a frequent feature on other artists’ hits

CHRISTINA AGUILERA HAS ALWAYS BEEN DRIVEN by reinvention. She shakes off a part of herself with each new album cycle, tapping into a character or concept that can house whatever is energizing her creatively. First she left her teen-pop roots behind and demanded respect on 2002’s Stripped, becoming a defiant adult star; four years later, she shedded that album’s raunchy

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