Background
"I think is the perfect comeback off of a song like 'Beautiful'." "I gave you a totally different side from 'Dirrty' to 'Beautiful,' and now this will come back with a little bit of aggression, and I think it's very self-empowering for any female and I'll be working with a female director for the video, so I'm very, very excited."
—Aguilera talking to MTV News about the song."Fighter" was written by Christina Aguilera and Scott Storch and produced by Storch. It features Dave Navarro on guitar. Navarro talked about the collaboration, saying: ""She just asked me if I’d come down to the studio and play on it. I said, 'Sure.' Took 90 minutes out of my day. She couldn't have been sweeter."
While discussing the song's theme, Aguilera revealed: "I grew up in a very chaotic and abusive home where I didn't feel very safe. I started writing music, both melodies and lyrics, when I was 15. In retrospect, I realize I used it as a release, a therapeutic outlet. It was the way I found my voice. I connected with the music and escaped from my home life. In school, I was picked on and alienated because of my passion for music. So I harbored a little personal pain but the seemingly negative things made me smarter and stronger. I took notice early of the people all around me in the business who were there for the wrong reasons."
Aguilera also explained the song's meaning in the book Chicken Soup for the Soul: The Story Behind The Song: "I wrote this for my sophomore album, Stripped, and I was very determined for it to reflect who I was. The first record was what the label wanted and created. There was a huge pop explosion at the time and I was part of that wave. I felt stifled. I was thankful that the early success allowed me the freedom to write what I wanted for the next one. I wrote 'Fighter' when I was on tour promoting my first CD. I was coming up with titles and ideas and deciding what I wanted to write about. I had to sit down and make sense of my feelings and experiences. I learned a lot from the first record that helped me to develop. I took the good and the bad and considered some of the choices I made and became better because of it."
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