Posted by Adam

Wednesday January 6, 2010

CHRISTINA Aguilera‘s son inspired her new album.

The Beautiful singer — who will release her fourth LP, Bionic, in March this year — says her sound has changed dramatically since she became a mother to her 23-month-old son Max.

“I had a really hard time being light before. I’d get a little weird about it being too cliched. My first record was very cliched pop – what everyone else wanted,” Aguilera told Marie Claire magazine.

“Stripped was inspired by a lot of pain and Back to Basics still had some sort of relation to my past.

“My new one is just about the future – my son in my life, motivating me to want to play and have fun.

“Things that maybe I’ve been afraid to do in the past, to allow myself to go to a place of ‘less singing’. I’m more vulnerable and stronger at the same time.”

It seems motherhood is now having a different effect Christina — who is married to music producer Jordan Bratman — since she started recording the LP.

In October, the 29-year-old pop star claimed it would be “unfair” if she changed her career or style just because she had a family.

Asked how becoming a mom had affected her attitude to work, she said, “As far as motherhood affecting me creatively goes — like, I shouldn’t be wearing that because I’m a mom — it hasn’t. That wouldn’t be fair to me.

“It’s important to keep a strong sense of yourself when you’re a mom. You’re still you.”

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