Aguilera ditches Dirrty for downward dog
NEW YORK — Yoga is serving as inspiration for Christina Aguilera’s upcoming album.
The pop star says the physical and mental exercise is helping her find inner peace, and that’s influencing her music.
“Taking a love for yoga and breathing ... not looking at it as an exercise, but just feeling more one with the Earth and everyone being connected, it’ll definitely have a reflection on the new record,” Aguilera said in a recent interview.
She has “loosely been working on my record for a couple years now,” even when she was pregnant with her daughter.
“It’s like really down to business and I’ve made a lot of headway and progress on the record, and you will see sort of the difference between this record and others in the past.”
Aguilera, 34, said she wants to release the album in 2016. It would follow 2012’s Lotus.
This month she is pre-taping the beginning of Season 10 of NBC’s The Voice, which will air next year. Season 9, with Gwen Stefani in Aguilera’s chair, premiered last month. The Grammy winner said because two seasons of the show tape simultaneously, she has to take breaks from the Emmy-winning series.
“I absolutely need those breaks,” she said, laughing. “I will wholeheartedly, openly be honest about it and just say that. I think it’s a little easier for Blake (Shelton) and Adam (Levine) — the show has definitely catapulted their careers to new heights and it’s awesome — but they’re not parents yet ... I love being a mom and I think life is all about balance and to me it’s really important to take time off from the show.”