THE OFFICIAL #STRIPPED TOUR BOOK

Holy fuck guys! I cannot believe I'm actually posting something on here again.

Looks like I'm finally going to revive this baby back to life seeing that I have nothing but time on my hands because of the COVID-19 mess. 
I hope you and your loved ones find yourselves in a safe and healthy state.
I know the I promised you the scans of both the Stripped  and Back to Basics tour books earlier this week but it was quite honestly a lot more than I had originally expected.
I decided to post them independently of each other but I think they each deserve their own time to shine. 
Check out the scans of the "Stripped Tour Book" after the jump.

[VIDEO] ED SHEERAN DOES AN AMAZING COVER OF XTINA'S #DIRRTY

During season 5 of 'The Voice' Ed Sheeran was Xtina's mentor. While mentoring for the queen of 'The Voice' we learned that Ed has been a huge fan of Xtina's Stripped and Back to Basics albums.

3 seasons later Ed covers 'Dirrty' on BBC 1 Radio and does an amazing job. He put his own spin on it and it definitely worked.

What do you guys think?

[NEWS] BILLBOARD: CHRISTINA AGUILERA'S TOP 10 BIGGEST CAREER MOMENTS

With her new album, "Lotus," debuting at No. 7 on this week's Billboard 200 chart, Christina Aguilera has once again transmitted her bold pop stylings to a wide audience. It shouldn't be a surprise: the 31-year-old has been commanding the spotlight for nearly two decades, first as a Mouseketeer, then as a pop superstar, and now as a reliable voice in the world of film, television and music. Aguilera has said that "Lotus" is a rebirth, but rarely has a pop music career been so alive for so long.

In honor of Christina Aguilera's return to the spotlight and the arrival of "Lotus," check out the 10 moments that have thus far defined her career. Read all about the multifaceted achievements of the singing star, and tell us what you'll always remember about Xtina in the comments section below.

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[NEWS] CHRISTINA AGUILERA SAYS 'LOTUS' LP WILL BE 'MULTI-LAYERED, HEARTFELT'

Christina Aguilera admits that her last album, 2010's Bionic, didn't connect with her fans. "It had a lot of amazing sounds and a futuristic twist to it," she says. "But if you weren't a music person, it was just going to go over your head. A lot of the collaborations were with people that were either very underground or weren't necessarily from the pop world. I really think it was far ahead of its time and it'll be fully appreciated in the years to come."

On her follow-up, Lotus – her first LP since getting a divorce and becoming a judge on The Voice – Aguilera goes for a sleeker mainstream pop sound, working with producers like Max Martin, Lucas Secon and Shellback. "I don't really push myself to have those formulaic commercial successes," Aguilera says. "It's dishonest and it starts lacking creativity. I embraced being a pop artist, but I like doing it on my own terms, at my own pace."

Aguilera sees Lotus (in stores on November 9th) as a companion piece of sorts to her 2002 album, Stripped. "It really takes me back to that time," she says. "I was shedding a skin in a sense. I had been pigeonholed as formula-pop driven, or molded or forced to be something I didn't feel was true to me. I was labeled from 'Genie in a Bottle,' and I had a lot of things to say and share as a 21-year-old woman. Now I've come full circle a decade later. I had a greatest hits album and I experienced a decade in this crazy business. It's a time of celebration, of embracing being a pop star."

The songs span a range of emotions, from the pain of loss through a spiritual rebirth to a celebration of life. "It's a very multi-layered, very heartfelt record," she says. "I wanted to share all the different sides of me, as a woman, and as a creator and an artist. Part of that is being a mom. Part of that is sexuality. Part of that is vulnerability. Part of that is aggression and angst. All those pieces make me who I am."

[VIDEO] CHRISTINA AGUILERA DISHES ABOUT 'YOUR BODY' + 'LOTUS' + 'THE VOICE'

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[VIDEO] X FACTOR (AUSTRALIA) CONTESTANT PERFORMS 'BEAUTIFUL'

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Editor's Note:

I liked this version of 'Beautiful'. This girl's voice, tone, and understated approach to singing it was different and unique. I also liked her signature voice... can't say I've heard anyone that sounds similar. Hope you enjoy! Let us know what you think in the comments! - Joel

[NEWS] LUCKY MAGAZINE: 'THE XTINA FACTOR' FULL INTERVIEW

Christina Aguilera is insanely talented, mind-bogglingly famous and totally not freaking out about it.

In the four minutes I spend waiting on the sidewalk outside Christina Aguilera’s Beverly Hills mansion, I get a sense of why being an international superstar might suck. No fewer than seven celebrity star tour vehicles pass by the well-polished gates. “Is this Christina Aguilera’s house?” someone shouts. Two parties on foot want to know the same thing. “I don’t know,” I say.

Eventually, a young man in cargo shorts ushers me into the cool, high-ceilinged foyer. An enormous red crystal chandelier hovers, oddly reminiscent of the spaceship in Independence Day. Underfoot, a lush patterned rug proclaims “CA & JB.” Since Aguilera and music executive Jordan Bratman split in 2011, it is the decor equivalent of a tattoo, and I wonder if it could somehow be rewoven to read, I don’t know, “Cats Get the Job Done!” à la Johnny Depp’s “Wino Forever.”

I’m examining a framed photo of her four-year-old son, Max, atop a black lacquer table—one where his dimpled smile is particularly adorable—when Aguilera appears. As a judge/coach on The Voice she’s routinely red-lipped, coiffed and either very fashionable (peplum jacket, fishnets) or mega-fashionable (studded hot pants). Here, she’s barefaced, in black leggings and a red sweatshirt, her platinum hair apparently towel-dried. She looks cute, like a college junior about to curl up with her statistics book. “Hi, I’m Christina,” she says. The “Hi, I’m … ” part of the greeting, like her handshake, is light and sweet, very ex-Mouseketeer. But the “Christina” part has a sultriness to it that seems less an overt attempt to be sexy than it is just the natural grain of her voice. I abandon the intelligent professional thing I was going to say in favor of crying out: “Me and a bunch of friends dressed up and went to see you and Cher in Burlesque on opening night at a mall in rural Pennsylvania.”

“That’s cute,” she says. “Awww.” She will issue this response every time I compliment her. We move into another emphatically red room—red rug, red patterned wallpaper, tan velvet couch with red tassels—with a movie screen at one end and a grand piano and bar at the other. I’m directed to a silk brocade chair in easy reach of a glass jar of lollipops. “And the song "Fighter" is incredibly important to me,” I say. “I listen to it when—well … I feel bad about myself and I want to persevere instead of just, uh, die.”

“Awww. That’s why I wrote ‘Fighter,’ ” she says. “I have that need in me to help people. I am all about the underdog.” And then Aguilera sits in the corner of the velvet couch farthest from me, and I’m tempted to say, “Hey, I’m an underdog! Why don’t you want to sit near the underdog?” Then I remember the hordes of people outside, all wanting a piece of her, and resolve not to take it personally.

As we talk, her actual dogs—the papillons Chewy and Stinky and the pint-size mutt Nugget—scramble over the couch, alighting on Aguilera as if she were a station on their doggy interval-training course. Nugget slaloms around the enormous mug of coffee Aguilera has left on the table and vaults off her lap. “Nugget!” she shouts. “Stop.”

Nugget’s behavior only devolves, but Aguilera seems okay with that. She exudes a calm, almost imperturbable presence and intense star power. She does giggle a fair amount, but once she stops, she looks expectant, almost arch. Should I ask about her upcoming fragrance, Red Sin; her charity work with World Hunger Relief; or the Alexander Wang tracksuit dress she wore to a recent dinner with her boyfriend, Matt Rutler? I cut to the chase: “Was there a day when you realized: ‘Oh my God, this is it. I am going to be huge’?”

Now Aguilera full-on laughs—like it’s either funny that people think of her as that famous or funny that I would ask her about it—and tells me a story about one pivotal day in 1997 when she got two phone calls, one offering her a record contract and one offering her a song in the movie Mulan. Within two years (is there anyone left in the world who hasn’t heard "Genie in a Bottle"?), Aguilera was a big star, but her rise was far from idyllic.

“When you’re young, it’s so easy to get bull­dozed,” she says. She was surrounded by people trying to control what she said, what she sang and what she wore. “There were these two ladies who worked at the record label who always wanted to come to fittings and dress me up like a Barbie doll. It was disgusting.”

But two years later, she’d freed herself of every stifling influence and in Stripped offered songs truly worthy of her talent. “I am beautiful, you are beautiful, we are beautiful,” she sang, and we believed her. In the video for “Fighter,” she burst out of a glass cage singing, “Thanks for making me a fighter,” and we all decided, about those ex-boyfriends, -bosses and -BFFs, “Hey, it’s actually good you were a jerk, because that motivated me to walk away from your sorry ass.” Madonna might have given us girl power, but Aguilera let us cry, get angry and have empowerment for dessert, all with a voice that made her contemporaries sound like they were practicing scales. Recalling the staggering success of Stripped, Aguilera doesn’t even shift on her velvet perch, only runs a hand down Nugget’s spine and says, “I was 21 and fearless. It was a really great turning point for me to be the artist I’d always wanted to be.”

That same steadiness allows her to stay grounded during setbacks. Her 2010 album, Bionic, underperformed, Burlesque was savaged by critics, she flubbed the national anthem at some Supposedly Important Football Game. Aguilera remains philosophical. “Difficult moments in life can either get you down or they can inspire you.” In the next few months, she'll drop a new album. “If you love ‘Fighter,’ ” she says, “you’re going to love my new album. As a 30-year-old woman, I’ve been uncovering my independence, and it’s been really fun to explore in the new songs.”

The Voice is just about the most perfect place Aguilera could find inspiration at this time in her life. (Cliffs Notes to the show’s format: Singers audition, judges listen with their backs turned. If they like the singer, they swing the chair around. Crying and competition ensue.) The only woman alongside CeeLo Green, Adam Levine of Maroon 5 and country singer Blake Shelton, Aguilera is sassy and not to be messed with. “You’re one-dimensional,” she informed one contestant, and another time, when Levine gave her some of his trademark pushback, she cut him off midsentence and just laughed. But she also dispenses lots of snuggly hugs and gushing tearful words of praise. As she talks about the show, a glow comes into her delicate, pale face. “It’s a big responsibility to help someone express themselves as an artist. I take it seriously,” she says.

An added bonus of The Voice is how its signature swivel chair—voilà!—allows for high-impact Aguilera fashion moments. Highlights have included a L’Agence silk maxi dress, a yellow Roland Mouret cocktail dress with sly bustline cutouts and an Alexander McQueen skull T-shirt. “I have always loved dressing up, being theatrical.”

She says she’s totally unrepentant about the way her clothes advertise her assets. “Actually, the challenge I’ve always had is being too thin, so I love that now I have a booty, and obviously I love showing my cleavage.” Her advice for her curvy sisters? “Hey, if you can work it and you can own it, that confidence is going to shine through.”

When she hugs me goodbye, I feel the melancholy of missed opportunity. I so wanted to come face to face with the Aguilera who unleashes such explosive and unguarded feeling in her music—in a way few musicians do. And as I exit, it occurs to me that all these people dying to get into this inner sanctum should know that as red as it is, it’s not the place to find the secret to her heart, which is, however, available on iTunes for $1.29.

Outside, the tour buses are still coming and going. “Hey,” someone asks. “Is that where Christina Aguilera lives?”

“I don’t think so,” I say.

The guy looks crestfallen. “I really want to meet Christina Aguilera.”

“Awww.”

“Hey,” he says, hopeful again. “Are you famous?”

“No.” Then I get in my car and drive home, “Bound to You” playing loud, on repeat.

Source: Lucky Magazine
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[NEWS] A RCA RECORDS INSIDER DETAILS CHRISTINA AGUILERA'S UPCOMING PROMO SCHEDULE

• The Radio Edit of 'Your Body' will not remove the lyric 'fuck' but will be replaced with either 'touch' or 'love'
• iTunes will list both a clean and explicit version of 'Your Body' which will garner more sales
• The Final Copy of 'Your Body' will feature harder beats, and more vocal riffs
• RCA is receiving a follow up single - a ballad - within the coming weeks
• The second single will likely see a release more towards the end of 4th quarter
• The second single is mid-tempo and similar to the pace of 'What A Girl Wants'
• Christina and RCA have a massive promo plan in place
• The promo plan in place will rival her promo schedule during the 'Stripped' era
• Christina has her sights set on making this era a success and reclaiming her Pop Royalty Throne
• 'Your Body' is being sent to all radio formats including: Top 40, Rhythmic, Urban, AC, etc
• The second single is initially going to be sent to the following radio formats: Top 40 & AC
• The second single will have different versions including midtempo and a HUGE ballad version
• Christina is allowed to make an appearance at the 2012 MTV Video Music Awards, however, she may be contractually not allowed to perform due to the exclusive contract she signed to debut her first single/performance on 'The Voice'
• NBC is planning to air an exclusive special for Christina in late November/early December and will be similar to 'My Reflection' Christmas special which featured Brian McKnight, etc

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[NEWS] WETPAINT: TOP 5 CHRISTINA AGUILERA LIVE PERFORMANCES OF ALL TIME

Long before her days as a judge on The Voice, Christina Aguilera was first and foremost a fantastic performer.

She’s won four Grammys and numerous other awards for her groundbreaking music. Here are our Top 5 live Xtina performances of all time.

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1) “Lady Marmalade” With Lil’ Kim, Mya, P!nk, and Missy Elliott at the 2002 Grammy Awards.

It’s hard to top this electrifying group performance at the 2002 Grammy Awards. This song also won the Grammy for Best Pop Collaboration With Vocals that year.

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2) “It’s a Man’s Man’s Man’s World” at the 2007 Grammy Awards

Many years before Season 2 contestant Juliet Simms brought down the house with this iconic song, Christina blew it out of the park. It was also the year of the white pants suit. Ah, memories.

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3) “Dirrty” at TRL Presents: Christina Aguilera Stripped in NYC 2002

We all remember the days of Xtina’s revealing chaps, fondly referred to as the “Dirrty” years, from 2002-2003.

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4) “Genie in a Bottle/ Come on Over” Medley at the 2000 MTV Video Music Awards

It all started with a little song called “Genie in a Bottle.” When the post- Mickey Mouse Club Christina debuted her new song at the 2000 VMAs, she did it with this creative mashup (and, of course, wearing red spandex pants).

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5) “At Last” at Stripped Live in London in 2003

Xtina has become famous for covering Etta James’s classic “At Last.” The pop diva even sang the legendary song at Etta’s funeral last year. This 2003 performance was especially impressive.

Source: Wetpaint

[NEWS] 'BEAUTIFUL' BY CHRISTINA AGUILERA IS BEST POP SONG OF PAST 20 YEARS

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Peak chart position: #2

Lady Gaga wants you to think she invented songs about gay rights and self acceptance. However, the song "Beautiful" by Christina Aguilera is the ultimate song about self acceptance that came out in 2002. Unlike Lady Gaga, Christina Aguilera didn't need to take a 20-year old song, copy it note for note, and just change the words.

I'll never forget driving back from work in October of 2002. After Christina's previously released song "Dirrty" caused a backlash, I wasn't too excited when it was announced that a new Christina Aguilera song was coming up. Once the song came on, I was transfixed. "Wow! This is amazing," I thought. I was so touched by the song I had to pull over. I couldn't believe such a song had a profound effect on me, even though I only heard it once.

"Beautiful" was written by Linda Perry and is often considered one of the best written pop songs of all time. However, it's Christina Aguilera's voice that is the biggest charm in this mega-hit. Too often, Aguilera oversings her songs and leaves them void of an emotional connection. This certainly isn't the case with "Beautiful."

My brother, who was often picked on in high school, told me that the song "Beautiful" changed his life in a profound way. For a generation that grew up in the '00s, "Beautiful" remains their theme song.

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[VIDEO] 'DIRRTY' CHOREOGRAPHY BY: SONYA DANCE

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[AUDIO] FAN-MADE COMPILATION OF 100 FAVORITE CHRISTINA AGUILERA SONGS

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[VIDEO] 'BEAUTIFUL' COVER BY: SAMDASINGA

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[NEWS] CHRISTINA AGUILERA - AN EXERCISE IN FEMINIST EVOLUTION

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Yes, there were ass-less chaps. We’ll get to those in a minute.

The world met Christina Aguilera in that teen-pop-saturated year of 1999. The former All-New Mickey Mouse Club kid stood out among the flaxen-haired, dimple-cheeked masses because of her voice. It was bigger, stronger, and more dimensional than anything we’d heard since Mariah Carey. So we listened. And what we heard within the mix of sexualized coming-of-age fluff like “Genie in a Bottle” were girl anthems about empowerment, individualism, and standing up for yourself. “Fighter,” “What a Girl Wants,” and “Can’t Hold Us Down” championed a woman’s rights to call the shots and reject the double standards set forth by sexism and patriarchy.

As she sang in “Can’t Hold Us Down”: “Am I not supposed to have an opinion?/Should I keep quiet just because I’m a woman?” Those are some lyrics we’re happy to have stuck in our heads to a catchy tune—and even better, stuck in the heads of young girls around the world.

In Christina’s world, women are never reduced to pining for a man or cowering from his abuse. They’re loud-mouthed, opinionated bitches (a title she owns, Tina Fey-style) who get what they want when they want it. It’s a ballsy message Madonna could get behind. She also has a softer side: Her song “Beautiful” is a powerful celebration of individuality and difference, with a video featuring young people of all genders, sexual orientations, and backgrounds, proclaiming their common beauty. No matter how you dress up the package, her message is one of the more feminist in popular music today.

Aguilera has often talked about the Catch-22 of being a female performer who’s pressured to showcase her physical attributes while being criticized for doing so. “How do I not be exploited whilst selling my sexuality? For me it’s a matter of opinion about how far is too far. … I am not an object. I am in control. I’m in the power position. I decide who I am and it’s too bad if you don’t get it—or want it,” she told Cosmopolitan. The lesson: Giving into a short-shorts trend or stuffing our bra at some point in our lives doesn’t mean we can’t evolve into self-aware feminists. As humans, we experiment and explore the extremes of ourselves to see where we feel most at home within our bodies. Aguilera simply did it in the public eye.

So as Aguilera evolved, she may have made mistakes—and when we say mistakes, we mean those ass-less chaps from the “Dirrrty” video. But most young women have a pair of ass-less chaps in their past—metaphorically speaking. Learning from them is what matters.

Feminist Lessons Learned

Take control of your own image: What we like best about Aguilera is her evolution—from pop pawn to “Dirrrty” girl to retro pinup to mom who’s not afraid to still be sexy. Having the confidence to go through growing pains in public and never apologize for them is downright admirable.

As soon as she wielded a bit of control over her career (a quadruple-platinum debut album will do that), Aguilera challenged the status quo, consciously projecting a sex-positive feminist image of herself. In a sense, she became a modern-day Riot Girrl. Just as Bikini Kill and its ilk called for the emancipation of women’s sexuality during the grunge-rock era, Christina shrugged off the suggestion that it’s something to be ridiculed. As she told Cosmopolitan, “If a man does this kind of thing, he’s allowed to get away with it. If a woman does it, she’s labeled a slut or whatever. That’s not going to stop me. I’m just going to show that it’s the wrong way of thinking.”


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Activism is sexy: For as long as she’s had money and pop-star cachet, Christina has been an activist, advocating on behalf of women and children. She was named the Ambassador Against Hunger for the United Nations, and is a spokesperson for World Hunger Relief, a global campaign that targets maternal and child hunger worldwide. “A child dies every six seconds of hunger, which is a huge statistic for me. After having my own child I just had to do something about it and help change that situation,” she told The Oprah Winfrey Show.

Her philanthropy doesn’t end there. She drew from the personal pain of being the witness to and victim of domestic violence as a child and made it a rallying cry—something the best feminist icons have always done. “I’ve suffered too much hurt in my life to be in that place again. I’m through being the victim,” she told Blender. She promotes self-confidence and courage to women in domestic violence safe houses around the country—most notably in her hometown of Pittsburgh, where she’s given hundreds of thousands of dollars to the city’s The Women’s Center and Shelter. She’s become a regular visitor there, donating her time, money, and music to help the women who most need a feminist icon in their lives.

[VIDEO] CHRIS MANN PERFORMS 'THE VOICE WITHIN' ON 'THE VOICE'

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[TWEET] @PAMELADANDERSON: 'CHRISTINA AGUILERA - CAN'T HOLD US DOWN...'

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— Pamela Anderson (@PamelaDAnderson) May 1, 2012

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[AUDIO] 'FIGHTER' COVER BY: GLEE CAST

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[VIDEO] PREVIEW OF GLEE'S RENDITION OF CHRISTINA AGUILERA'S 'FIGHTER'

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