Christina Aguilera - Liberation
Critic Score
Based on 17 reviews
2018 Ratings: #762 / 890
User Score
Based on 504 ratings
2018 Rank: #587
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CRITIC REVIEWS

80
The Irish Times

With producers like Anderson Paak and MNEK on board, the pace has been reset for Aguilera. She might be 20 years a pop star but with Liberation, she's finally found her voice.

80
Rolling Stone

On Liberation, she gets closer than ever to zeroing in on the right path for her immense skills: her eighth album is a healthy mix of hit-chasing, theatrics and soon-to-be classic power ballads that emphasize her immense skills over half-baked conceptual themes.

80
The Observer
It’s tricky to ascertain the true extent of Aguilera’s newfound freedom, but she’s giving it one hell of a go.
74
HipHopDX

Liberation — her first full album in six years — is a return to relevance in a sense, as she wisely chooses to adhere to the culture’s current lifeblood of Hip Hop/R&B spoils, thanks to assistance from the likes of Kanye West, Anderson .Paak, Dumbfoundead, among others.

70
musicOMH

An album that keeps pace with modern pop trends while remaining true to Aguilera’s past.

70
AllMusic
Christina's growth as a writer and singer helps balance her lingering sentimental streak, a tendency that can occasionally curdle into the saccharine.
67
Consequence of Sound

Aguilera’s voice is arguably at its very apex — stronger, deeper, and fuller than we remember — and Liberation is a showcase of exactly what she can do with those pipes.

67
Pitchfork

The pop survivor shows off her powerhouse voice, dabbles in try-hard slang, and takes tentative steps toward creative rebirth on her first album since 2012.

60
Evening Standard

It’s big enough and bonkers enough to match her never-restrained voice.

60
The Telegraph

Every track is polished and purposeful, but the sheer busy quality of her singing and overactive variety of the production ensures that Liberation never settles into a coherent listening experience.

60
The Independent

Liberation is symphonic and dramatic – everything diehard Aguilera fans would want in an album. But like most Aguilera albums, there are some hits and some misses.

60
The Guardian

Liberation sounds like it suffered a crisis of confidence midway through, as if Aguilera was beset by doubts at her ability to pull off a whole album of modern R&B.

60
Slant Magazine

Liberation is largely freed from the bombast that has marred Christina Aguilera's past releases.

60
NME
‘Liberation’ may lack the grand ambition and massive pop bangers of her glory days, but by the end, it’s hard to deny that she feels reasonably relevant and contemporary again.
58
Pretty Much Amazing

In the end ... Liberation never reaches the heights fans likely wanted from Xtina, it serves as a pleasant refresher for a voice that has earned its place in the annals of pop history.

55
The Young Folks
The positive moments on here were fantastic for sure, but ultimately, Aguilera fails to understand today’s culture fully.
50
FLOOD Magazine

Liberation, her latest album, resurrects Xtina’s considerable presence as a vocalist, though her attempts at navigating the modern pop landscape still verge on aimless.

schurtt
60

Por mais que eu sempre tenha simpatizado com a Christina Aguilera, nunca tinha parado para ouvir um álbum completo. Depois do lançamento de Accelerate, interessante single que aposta no R&B com algumas influências do hip-hop, fiquei bastante curioso para entrar nessa jornada totalmente diferente do que foi sendo apresentado com o álbum Lotus. Nesse sentido, a experiência ouvindo (e revisitando) o Liberation acabou sendo cheia de pontos altos e alguns baixos, ... read more

TheCarioca
65

Liberation - 3/5
Searching For Maria - 3/5
Maria - 4/5
Sick of Sittin' - 4/5
Dreamers - 3/5
Fall in Line (feat. Demi Lovato) - 3/5
Right Moves (feat. Keida & Shenseea) - 3/5
Like I Do - 4/5
Deserve - 2/5
Twice - 3/5
I Don't Need It Anymore (Interlude) - 3/5
Accelerate (feat. Ty Dolla $ign & 2 Chainz) - 3/5
Pipe - 3/5
Masochist - 4/5
Unless It's With You - 4/5

Davibitt1234
74

Eu curti bastante o álbum, achei que ele tem poucas falhas de coesão, e achei ele muito bem produzido.

As letras do álbum fala sobre diversos temas importantes destaco:

Fall in line💖: um hino feminista

Twice💖:em twice Aguilera pondera entre o pecado, perdão e redenção

Masochist💖:masochist retrata as dificuldades em se recuperar de um relacionamento abusivo

A sonoridade é hip hip e r&b porém com toques em algumas faixas ... read more

66

boring plzz

FilipeCarmona
71

"Liberation" really sets the mood into Aguilera's resetting herself after all the confusion and, to be completely honest, I think she was misunderstood on this one because there's no actual reason to hate it as a body of work. With Anderson Paak, Dumbfoundead and MNEK on board, she faces us quite the challenging contemporary r&b linked to soul and some trap beats, she resurrected in a way more modern version of herself and even if at points she's doing the most, it's actually a ... read more

GI0
39

After bionic she was just doing shit

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Track List

1Liberation
1:47
71
2Searching for Maria
0:25
71
3Maria
4:34
80
4Sick of Sittin'
4:00
62
5Dreamers
0:36
58
6Fall in Line
4:06
77
7Right Moves
3:48
65
8Like I Do
4:49
feat. GoldLink
74
9Deserve
4:23
75
10Twice
4:02
78
11I Don't Need It Anymore (Interlude)
0:54
62
12Accelerate
4:03
46
13Pipe
4:05
feat. XNDA
75
14Masochist
3:30
64
15Unless It's With You
4:17
76
Total Length: 49 minutes

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Added on: May 3, 2018