Christina Aguilera - Stripped

R&B Underworld would be GREBT. "Two Months Off" featuring Usher and Mary J. Blige!

I'd like to take this opportunity to interrupt the Dan & Ned Show to report that this album (_Stripped_) is pretty damn good (assuming you can stomach the more histrionic / Linda Perry-esque moments to be had throughout this album) (and that you have an affinity for this dastardly Chart Pop stuff). I'd offer more to counter the "tough love" exercised by these two upstanding gentleman, but I've only heard the album once - suffice it to say that "Dirrty" is buried at the back end of the album for a reason, and while it is a bit of a red herring, it isn't the distracting sparkly thing that "Get This Party Started" was. (But, then, I'll have to actually listen to the entirety of _Mizundastood_ to really know.)

And now, back to your originally scheduled programming.

It's all about the Scott Storch tracks, innit? Interesting that he and Xtina seem to have fallen out or something (see the thank yous in the CD booklet), but she was right to stick nearly all his stuff upfront, as it's by far the best on the record ("Dirrty" aside).

The LP dips badly in the "Linda Perry section" in the middle. I'm a Perry fan after "Missundaztood", but her songs here are k-rub (although "Make Over" is amusing - is Xtina trying to be Kurt Cobain here?). Sterling is OTM about "I'm OK" - I'm beginning to wonder now if it's Perry, rather than Pink, who has "issues" in re this whole oh-Daddy-why-did-you-beat-up-Mom-in-front-of-me-when-I-was-little thing.

The Alicia track is okay.