Goodness. Has it already been ten years since Christina Aguilera came
onto the music scene? Apparently so, as "Keeps Gettin' Better (A
Decade of Hits)" would suggest. Aguilera and Co. arguably are
picking the poinsettias prematurely for the impending holiday album
sales rush, as one might think it a little too soon to reflect on such
a short, albeit lucrative career.
"Keeps Gettin' Better" neatly presents Aguilera's rise as one of her
generation's finest vocalists in a 16-track chronology documenting her
struggle to break free of the manufactured popstar mold to an artist
who is now insistent in having control over who she collaborates with.
Essentials like "Genie in a Bottle", "Dirrty" and a Grammy-winning
three-peat of "Lady Marmalade", "Beautiful" and "Ain't No Other Man"
highlight the disc. True "Xtina" connoisseurs who own her three
English studio album discography might glance over this compilation's
tracklisting and find little incentive to purchase it.
What isn't
clarified however, is that the disc actually includes radio mixes of
early hits "What a Girl Wants", "Come On Over Baby" and "I Turn To You"
which are not present on the initial pressing of Aguilera's
eponymously-titled debut album "Christina Aguilera."