Christina Aguilera wanted the world to view her as a grown woman when "Stripped" arrived in 2002. A lot had changed for the hitmaker since "Genie In A Bottle" made her a household name. In 2000, she dropped a Spanish-language album and a Christmas album. Those projects helped her develop a creative range that set her apart from peers like Britney Spears. And she only emphasized the differences when she introduced "Stripped" with its rollicking lead single "Dirrty." Spears, then on her third album, "Britney," continued to flirt with a coquettish girlishness, but Aguilera took a sexier route. 

"When we came out, there was an essence of innocence that you had to sort of portray blindly," she told Irish Times in 2018. "And I wasn't about to play that game, I wasn't that girl. I really wanted to be honest and truthful. So I came out with Dirrty. That was me stepping up and saying I was a woman that's proud of my sexuality. I was proud of my vulnerability. I was proud of the fact that I've fought my way through this industry." 

That brash rebelliousness was on full display in the David LaChapelle-directed music video (via YouTube). Aguilera showed out in a barely-there wardrobe featuring micro-mini skirts, knee pads, bikini tops, black-streaked hair, and, most importantly, chaps.