The salient points

• Christina Aguilera has one of those voices that walks the line between 'powerful and emotive singing' and 'shouting like a drunk'.


• Her early music created a fairly pleasant but unremarkable 'girl next door' image.


• Then songs like 'Dirrty' and 'Can't Hold Us Down' showed that she was a fan of rumpo.


• Christina also released a sensible jazz/blues album called 'Back To Basics'. It was a lot better than it had any right to be, but it's not exactly an easy listen.


• On 'Bionic' she went back to not wearing many clothes and honking rather than singing and telling us how much she enjoys sexual intercourse and that sort of thing.


• It was a bit of a mess and not many people liked it, which was a bit of a shame really as there were some good songs scattered throughout the 'project'.


• Things improved for Christina in 2011 thanks to a role as a judge on The Voice, an 'authentic' 'alternative' to American Idol, etc etc etc, and the superb hit single 'Moves Like Jagger' with Voice co-coach Adam Levine.


• But it all went tits up again when 'Xtina' released 'Lotus' in 2012, a lengthy warbleathon of bloated sex romps and over-egged Sia ballads.

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