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Christina Aguilera: Liberation (RCA)

Who’d be a stressed-out pop star? It seems that no matter how successful, there is always something chipping away at them, from lack of chart momentum to self-doubt, and all points in between. From the cover image and title alone, Christina Aguilera makes it clear that her eighth studio outing is different. That her two previous albums – 2010’s Bionic, 2012’s Lotus – were her least successful, ...