Christina Aguilera is promising her fans that a new English-language album is on the way.
In a new cover story for Glamour, the 43-year-old singer admits she has the music ready to go, she's just looking for the right time to release it.
“I’ve been accumulating [songs],” she shares. “I’m actually dying to get it out. I just haven’t fully had time.”
Aguilera hasn't released an album in English since 2018's Liberation. Her last three releases - the La Fuerza and La Tormenta EPs, along with the Latin Grammy-winning Aguilera album - all dropped in 2022 and were sung in Spanish.
In the interview, Aguilera discusses her entire career, confessing she never really was on board with the teen pop persona she was forced to adopt when she first emerged in 1999 with her #1 hit, "Genie in a Bottle."
“I didn’t love the bubblegum thing, where you had to play a virgin but not act like one,” she says. “When I was performing ‘Genie’ and ‘What a Girl Wants’ and ‘Come on Over,’ I got bored easily. Creatively, it was one-dimensional."
Aguilera also addresses the criticism she's faced over the years for her body image and the fluctuation in her weight.
“When you’re a teenager, you have a very different body than when you’re in your 20s,” she says. “I started to fill out, and then that was unacceptable because it was like, ‘Oh, she’s getting thicker.’ Then I had industry people: ‘They liked your body and how you were as a skinny teenager.’”
The media has speculated that she is one of the many celebrities to use the diabetes drug Ozempic to drop weight, but Aguilera now says reading headlines about her size doesn't bother her.
“I have a maturity now where I just don’t give a f**k about your opinion. I’m not going to take it on,” she says. “It must be your responsibility to take up your space. Other people’s opinions of me are not my business.”
Read the full cover story here.
For more on Christina Aguilera, check out this week's episode of iHeartRadio Canada's Encore podcast, where host Myles Galloway tells the story behind her game-changing 2002 single "Dirrty." Listen below.