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The first live concert release from award-winning vocalist and performer, Christina Aguilera, captured on her maiden British tour.
Stripped...Live In The U.K by Christina Aguilera
Features 19 tracks - including her smash hits Dirrty, Beautiful, Fighter and Genie In A Bottle - and packed extra bonus features this is Christina Aguilera live on stage in the UK.
Stripped...Live In The U.K. - the very first full-length live concert DVD release from the award-winning vocalist and performer, Christina Aguilera. This exciting DVD concert performance documents her three sold-out concerts at London's Wembley Arena back on November 2nd, 3rd and 5th, 2003 - her first-ever European tour.
The 19-track video DVD package features live renditions of her string of hits from the multi-platinum album Stripped, as well as many of the songs that launched Christina to international superstardom, including Genie In A Bottle.
Fearlessly Outspoken
When the Stripped album was originally released in 2002 by RCA Records, the album literally stripped away the last remnants of Christina Aguilera's previous teen idol persona. The tracks that comprised Stripped, including the hit , Dirrty showcased an unadorned, unfettered and fearlessly outspoken artist who liberated herself, her soul and her music on an album that is as much a declaration of independence as it is a convincing demonstration of her fierce and original talent.
Stripped...Live In The U.K is much more than a concert video; it's a first-hand glimpse into Christina's life on the road. The DVD is jam-packed with tons of special features including interviews, behind-the-scenes footage, and a Q&A with questions presented to Christina from some of her biggest fans.
Stripped...Live In The U.K DVD Special Features:
Christina sits down and talks about the concept behind the tour, her career to date, her feelings about the album Stripped, and more.
Learn about Christina's makeup, wardrobe, fitness routine, etc.
Meet Christina's backing vocalists, the dancers, and the band
Take a guided tour of Christina's tour bus with Gilbert, one of the tour's dancers.
Christina meets up with Donatella Versace for a wild night on the town in Milan.
Christina takes questions directly from fans.
The track listing for the concert pans out like this:
Stripped Intro Part 1
Dirrty
Get Mine, Get Yours
The Voice Within
Genie In A Bottle
Can't Hold Us Down
Contigo En La Distancia/Falsas Esperanzas
Infatuation
Come On Over (All I Want Is You)
Cruz
Loving Me 4 Me (Interlude)
Impossible
At Last
Lady Marmalade
Walk Away
Fighter
Stripped Intro Part 2
What A Girl Wants
Beautiful
Christina continues to ride the wave of success ever since the 1999 debut release of her eponymous debut album, with its string of consecutive chart toppers, including Genie In A Bottle and What A Girl Wants.
Grammy
Ten million plus albums, a Grammy win for ‘Best New Artist’ and a marathon round of world touring later, Christina began to break free from the mass media mask that hid her true self, and the full scope of her talent. "I needed a break," she reveals.
"I wanted to disappear into empty space for awhile. So much had happened in such a short time, and not only in my career. I'd gone through a break-up with my first real love and I began realising that I should be experiencing a bit more of life than TV and recording studios, hotels and green rooms."
Unable to resist the lure of a promising creative collaboration, in 2001, she joined forces with Pink, Mya and Lil' Kim on the smash Lady Marmalade single and video. That eye-popping slice of ear candy kept her front and centre in the international spotlight even as she began, slowly and steadily, to lay the groundwork for a musical manifesto that would change all the rules.
I was straight ahead about what I wanted to do," Christina continues. "For a long time, I'd been uncomfortable with the image that had been built around me and my music. It felt like I was pretending, trying to hide the real me, and hurting inside because of it. This time I was determined to step beyond the hype and glitter, to take it back down to the bare necessities. It was like starting all over again."
Creative Boundaries
Christina's bold work-in-progress wasn't simply a reaction to the past. "I wanted to explore some of the music that had inspired me coming up," she explains. "I've always been a huge fan of soul. I love real rock & roll and hip-hop, of course, is one of my biggest influences. I wanted it all."
Christina was determined to stretch her creative boundaries. "I've always thought recording was about attaining perfection," she reveals. "What I discovered making this album is that getting across real feelings is what's important. I wanted the listener right there in the studio with me. I wanted to share what I was going through."
The first and most formidable challenge for Christina was to assemble a team of people, in her words, "weren't influenced by my old image." A ruthless process of elimination yielded a production and song writing team that included, among others, Pink producer Linda Perry; the team of Redman and Rockwilder; Alanis Morrissette producer Glenn Ballard; fast rising studio wizard Scott Storch, as well artist/producer Alicia Keys.
Breathtaking
Recorded over an 18-month stretch, with Christina firmly at the helm every step of the way, Stripped slowly but surely took shape, not only as an exercise in breathtaking stylistic diversity but as a resonant and revealing look into the mind and emotions of a young woman on the verge of personal and professional liberation. The proof is all over Stripped - both on the record itself and in this concert production - from the opening notes of Impossible, the smoky ballad by Alicia Keys, to the romantic revelations of Can't Hold Us Down from the soaring affirmations of Beautiful, to blistering licks of Make Over, to the superheated funk of Dirrty.
For Christina Aguilera, it all begins by getting real. "This music is who I am," she confidently asserts. "You can take it or leave it, but I'm not going to change, not for anyone." In the end, she says, Stripped is a tribute to the millions of worldwide fans who have made her a star.
Stripped...Live In The U.K is out now.
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