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Christina Aguilera’s iconic “Beautiful” music video is getting a makeover 20 years after the music was first launched. “In celebration of the 20 12 months anniversary of Stripped and World Mental Health Day, I’m honored to share a brand new music video for Beautiful, coming October nineteenth,” Aguilera captioned a clip from the video, posted on Oct. 11, at some point after World Mental Health Day. “Tune out and switch in. Take your house, log out, put your thoughts, physique, and soul first.”
The snippet facilities on a roomful of younger women in matching two-piece leotards as they apply thick layers of make-up. Overhead, grownup voices may be heard advising the ladies to not slouch, to put on make-up in the event that they need to be taken significantly, and to work out usually — outdated adages which were pressured onto ladies and women for many years.
When the unique video first made its debut in 2002, Aguilera’s followers had been awestruck by the uncooked fantastic thing about the footage paired with the music’s emotional lyrics. “You are lovely in each single approach / phrases cannot convey you down / so do not you convey me down as we speak,” Aguilera sings over clips of a lady with anorexia analyzing herself within the mirror, a same-sex couple kissing, a trans lady getting ready to exit, and younger folks being bullied for his or her appearances.
Since its launch, Aguilera’s music and the accompanying video have been anthems for these searching for compassion and reassurance. While it is human nature to reside with the concern of judgment and rejection, Aguilera’s lyrics have uplifted the spirits of hundreds of thousands during the last 20 years, making her resolution to launch a brand new music video on World Mental Health Day that rather more significant.
Watch Aguilera’s “Beautiful” music video right here.
Christina Aguilera’s “Beautiful” Music Video (2002)
Christina Aguilera’s “Beautiful” Music Video (2022)
Aguilera’s new “Beautiful” music video shall be accessible on Oct. 19.
