Lotus
| Christina Aguilera
Lotus
Lotus is the seventh studio album by American singer Christina Aguilera. RCA Records released the album on November 9, 2012. Its music incorporates pop styles with elements of dance-pop, rock in the form of upbeat songs and piano-driven ballads. Aguilera described the album as a "rebirth", drawing inspiration from events in her life, her appearance on The Voice, and her divorce. The album was recorded at Aguilera's home studio. As executive producer, she collaborated with a wide range of producers, including new partners Alex da Kid, Max Martin, Lucas Secon and Tracklacers.- Wikipedia
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Slant
By virtue of the fact that Lotus is Aguilera’s shortest album since her debut, it boasts less filler but also fewer obvious standouts
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The Guardian
Tenacity and rebirth are themes telegraphed hard on Lotus.
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Rolling Stone
It’s just one telling moment where this vitriol-tsunami of a record misses a chance to connect Aguilera’s music with her warm, empathetic TV presence.
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The Washington Post
If you’re a fan of technically proficient power vocals, you’re likely a fan of her singing — if not always her work.
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Pop Crush
So ‘Lotus’ jumps from one style (ooh, look … a club banger!) to another (clear the floor, Christina’s about ready to bust out a ballad!), trying on more than a half-dozen different producers.
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The Boston Globe
Christina Aguilera refocuses on her own voice in ‘Lotus’.
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Inquirer Entertainment
The Pop music landscape has changed so much and it may take a lot of catching up for her to hang in there with the reigning pop-stars of this generation. I wonder if she might just be crowded out of her position?
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Trini Trent
Such a notion extends beyond the power of her now rusty instrument to reflect a diva passed her prime and desperately trying to prove a point.
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Muxic Beats
You may agree that this album is her new attempt to regain or re-establish her status as among the best pop stars around. Overall, it is worth listening to.
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Daily News
Aguilera deserves credit for indulging far fewer showy melismas this time. She may continue to oversing, but at least she's doing so with more focus.
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MTV News
While it's not entirely accurate to call Aguilera's latest a bomb, one can't escape the fact that it wasn't a triumphant comeback album either.
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Soul in Stereo
It’s not terrible but it’s all over the map, which makes for a baffling listen.
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The Grape Juice
As such, with ‘Lotus’, Aguilera delivers her most compelling set since ‘Stripped’.
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Scotsman
If there is any victory to be claimed for Aguilera here, it is that at least she bludgeons the listener into submission with actual songs rather than the thinly veiled excuses of some of her peers.
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I Do Lator
At the very least, Lotus hopefully completes the rehabilitation of Christina Aguilera.
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Tampa Bay Times
Christina Aguilera's 'Lotus' is a waste of her robust talent.
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All Music
It's hard to blame her for playing it safe, particularly because she wound up with such a strong pop album, one that reconfirms her gifts as a singer and saviness as a pop star.
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Random J Pop
Christina needs to step her game up in a big way.
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The Young Folks
Overall, LOTUS is a good album. Not great. It’s just that it sounds like too many songs I’ve heard before.
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UPROXX
Christina Aguilera blooms on ‘Lotus’.
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Diva Devotee
Let's hope Lotus contains the seed from which Christina Aguilera's resurrection sprouts. Then she can get back into her own musical lane and start taking chances with her output again.
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News Day
Maybe Christina Aguilera just needed something to overcome.
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entertainment
There’s very little to complain about here, but very little to shout about either
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Red
Christina Aguilera gets back to doing what she does best.
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Plugged In
The album's raw-mouthed rants and sex-laced tableaus surely aren't going to do much in the way of leaving young listeners (or their parents) with feelings of empowerment and renewal.
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2020k
Christina takes a fighting stance, standing tall on her own, and becoming the epitome of what a Lotus is: indestructible.
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The Ithacan
“Lotus” her most cohesive and committed effort of her career so far.
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Soul Tracks
It’s far from a miscalculated time machine, nor is it designed to distract her closest fans.
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Renowned for Sound
Christina is ever changing and developing as a vocalist and that is heard throughout the entire duration of this record – a record that is easily one of the best of her career.
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Drunk on Pop
Some of the tracks on Lotus are touch and go, but overall – this is a really solid album from Christina. Bravo to her for this one!
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The Highlander
I personally wouldn’t spend my own money on it.
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Sugar Rushed
Lotus is overall a charming listening experience which reestablishes Christina's original identity after it was garbled by the confusion of Bionic.
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The Hollywood Reporter
Lotus symbolizes a “rebirth” for Aguilera.
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Got Meghan's Blog
I obviously loved it.
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Pop! Bang! Boom!
Altogether, ‘Lotus’ is pretty fun, and the girl can still have a good time.
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Lehigh Valley
Christina Aguilera's 'Lotus' is good, but not great.
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Brent Music Reviews
Lotus has its flaws, as pinpointed earlier, but more often than not it is a solid and enjoyable album.
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Homo Razzi
Lotus, is a solid album but on the whole disappoints me.
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Metro
Christina Aguilera’s Lotus is a slick and charismatic reinvention.
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Slate
A lean, mean new album from a battle-tested Christina Aguilera.
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Charlieism
Apart from a few solid tracks (which can be counted with one hand), no risks are taken as promised musically and vocally.
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Hifi Magazine
What’s seriously missing is that one uptempo firecracker that’s willing to mutate Aguilera from being a middle-of-the-pack pawn to being the queen of the chess board.
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Mimo
These different sides of Xtina really do demonstrate who she is as an artist, and prove that she deserves to be in the spotlight for awhile longer.
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Miss Emma MM
Even though this isn’t my favorite Aguilera album it’s still a must buy.
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Beats 4 LA
An Unbreakable Flower (Haters And Flops Be Damned).
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Stereo Board
'Lotus' is frankly an average effort from an above average artist, which is what makes it so frustrating.
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Lauren Day Makeup
Christina proves that she is and will always be a fighter, rising up to deliver one of the best albums of her career, Lotus.
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Now Spinning
Lotus stands on its own two feet against the rest of the competition, and finds a distinct place within the scope of Christina’s own discography.
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Jsays Online
“Lotus” lacks maturity and hints that Aguilera is running out of ideas.
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Fortitude
What do you do when you go from Squeaky clean Disney, to genie rubbing strumpet to a chaps wearing cage fighter to a candyman harassing air hostess to a colossal fail comeback album.
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El Estoque
’Lotus’ wilts from start to finish.
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beat
There is no doubt Lotus will provide Aguilera with a few more notches on her belt of hits.
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