Composition
The first track on the album is the "Stripped Part 1" composition which features the introductory line “Sorry you can't define me/ Sorry I break the mold/ Sorry that I speak my mind/ Sorry don't do what I'm told” in reference to her new musical change. The album features several explicit themes which criticism of her "Dirtty" composition and video release. The album features musical themes of "Surf Rock" and "Neo Soul" and many other musical styles. The songs "Dirrty" and "Get Mine, Get Yours" lyrically talk about sexual exploration whereas the track "Cant Hold Us Down" featuring rapper Lil' Kim is a hip hop record and lyrically it speaks of feminism, female standards and sexual hypocrisy.
Aguilera discussed her ex-boyfriend Jorge Santos in the tracks "Infatuation" and "Underappreciated" and the song "Infatuation" lyrically speaks of falling in love opposed to "Underappreciated" which talks of falling out of love. Aguilera said: "I feel like it is a new beginning a re-introduction of myself as a new artist in a way, because for the first time people are really seeing and getting to know how I really am.
The album features the track "I’m OK" which lyrically talks about her troubling past with her fathers domestic abuse. Aguilera talked on the subject saying “"I definitely wrote that song not to badmouth him at all, but one, for a healing process for myself, and two, to give people hope or a voice to relate to. To know that you can get through it and that it will be OK". The song, "I'm OK", is a personal account of her emotionally distressing childhood. She speaks about her father and her painful memories from her early life. She explained that she recorded this song for a healing process and to give people in the same situation a voice to relate to. Aguilera stated that she is set on breaking away from ‘’Teen Pop’’ and she wanted to explore new musical territory and as MTV state “a highly personal proclamation of independence and adulthood”. The track ‘’Impossible’’ which Aguilera worked with Alicia Keys says lyrically "How can I, how can I give you all my love, baby/ If you're always, always putting up your guaaarrrd/ This is not a circus, don'tcha play me for a clown". The ballad "Beautiful" penned by Linda Perry has been noted for its John Lennon inspired themes which features a string arrangement and a piano part and themes of R&B.
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“At painful times, when composition is impossible and reading is not enough, grammars and dictionaries are excellent for distraction.”
—Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806–1861)
“The naive notion that a mother naturally acquires the complex skills of childrearing simply because she has given birth now seems as absurd to me as enrolling in a nine-month class in composition and imagining that at the end of the course you are now prepared to begin writing War and Peace.”
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“Since body and soul are radically different from one another and belong to different worlds, the destruction of the body cannot mean the destruction of the soul, any more than a musical composition can be destroyed when the instrument is destroyed.”
—Oscar Cullman. Immortality of the Soul or Resurrection of the Dead? The Witness of the New Testament, ch. 1, Epworth Press (1958)