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As for the rest of the album, there are some glaring omissions. The first is \u201cReflection\u201d, the song that actually started Aguilera\u2019s career and the track that would have officially made this set a complete decade\u2019s worth of hits. As it stands now, all the songs are from 1999-2008. I wonder if it was her choice to leave it off or issues with using the song from Disney. Two other songs that should\u2019ve made the cut are \u201cLady Marmalade\u201d, which was a worldwide #1 hit, and \u201cNobody Wants to Be Lonely\u201d, her duet with Ricky Martin that charted in the top 10 in many countries. These tracks are both on the international versions of the album, but \u201cReflection\u201d is nowhere to be found. Another hit, \u201cThe Voice Within\u201d, has been left off all but the British and Japanese editions. <\/p>\n
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The included tracks on Keeps Gettin\u2019 Better showcase an artist who challenges herself to try different things. The earlier material is often poppier and less personal (\u201cGenie in a Bottle\u201d, \u201cWhat a Girl Wants\u201d), but songs taken from her albums Stripped<\/em> (\u201cFighter\u201d, \u201cBeautiful\u201d) and Back to Basics<\/em> (\u201cAin\u2019t No Other Man\u201d, \u201cHurt\u201d) hint at the growth personally, professionally, and in her ability to successfully tackle many musical genres that is even more blatant in the rest of those albums (on such songs as \u201cWalk Away\u201d and \u201cSave Me From Myself\u201d). Aguilera\u2019s take on reinvention and of challenging herself will be familiar to any fan, but this is a collection that won\u2019t disappoint the casual listener or someone who wants most of her hits in one slick Pop Art-inspired package. Even for a longtime fan with all her albums like myself, songs like Keeps Gettin\u2019 Better and the remakes make this a must-own.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It was at the movies in 1998 that I first discovered Christina Aguilera. The film was, of course, Mulan, and the song was Reflection, a ballad about struggling to remain true to yourself. Now, ten years later, Christina Aguilera has released Keeps Getting\u2019 Better: A Decade of Hits, her first greatest-hits package. The debut single, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[71,72,73,74,366,20],"class_list":["post-18","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-aguilera","tag-christina","tag-christina-aguilera","tag-keeps-gettin-better","tag-music","tag-reviews-2"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2nVuU-i","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.christinagonzalez.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.christinagonzalez.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.christinagonzalez.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.christinagonzalez.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.christinagonzalez.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.christinagonzalez.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.christinagonzalez.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.christinagonzalez.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.christinagonzalez.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}