Christina Aguilera: My Son Inspired My New Album
Christina Aguilera got some serious help on her new album -- from her 23-month-old son, Max!
"I had a really hard time being light before," the singer, 29, tells the February issue of Marie Claire about her music standards pre-motherhood. "I'd get a little weird about it being too cliché."
See more adorable photos of Max when he was just a baby!
Aguilera tells Marie Claire that her "first record was very clichéd pop -- what everyone else wanted" and that her second disc, Stripped, was "inspired by a lot of pain."
Her third?
Back to Basics "still had some sort of relation to my past," she says.
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Max, who celebrates his 2nd birthday next Tuesday, helped ensure that her latest album, Bionic, sent just the right message.
"[It] is just about the future -- my son in my life, motivating me to want to play and have fun."
That motivation has allowed her to experiment in ways "that maybe I've been afraid to do in the past, to allow myself to go to a place of 'less singing,' " she says. "I'm more vulnerable and more strong at the same time."
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Bionic is due out in March, and the first single is tentatively dubbed "Glam."
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I think that husband of hers is a monkey. That little hybrid kid of theirs looks half monkey too....pity.
BIONIC? Really? That is friggin great for her. I hope the best for this great talent, and great person. Xtina rocks! Please check out Allison Iraheta's "friday i'll be over u," it really rocks, too.
GOOOOOOOO Xtina!!!! I AM purcha$ing her album!! She, her hubby & Max ARE too cute, adorable & may they last forever & a day!!!! Bless them + Xtina's Mommy!!
She's really come into her own. I'm proud of her.
she is hot!!!
She looks good here without all that make-up and that red lipstick she always wears.
She looks soo younge.
I've been following Christina Aguilera's career for the past 17 years since she was a child star on the Mickey Mouse Club. Now to see her married with a child makes me feel old HAHA!!! Can't wait for BIONIC and her first feature film.