Happy Birthday, Christina Aguilera: Wake-Up Video

Somebody please give a cake with 29 candles on it to Christina Aguilera, who celebrates her birthday today. Aguilera has certain crammed a lot into a career for somebody who hasn't yet turned 30 years old. Like contemporaries Britney Spears and Justin Timberlake, Aguilera got her start on "The New Mickey Mouse Club" when she was only 12 years old. Pop stardom came calling in 1999 when she dropped her self-titled debut, which featured the chart-topping smash "Genie in a Bottle." From the beginning, Aguilera separated herself from the teen-pop pack with an incredibly technically proficient voice and a super-sexualized look.

More hits followed, like "What a Girl Wants," "Come on Over Baby (All I Want Is You)" and "I Turn to You." After a Spanish-language album and a Christmas record, Aguilera returned with the amped-up Stripped in 2002, which featured a more varied, grittier sound on tracks like "Dirrty" and "Fighter." She got some heat for appearing scantily-clad just about everywhere (that sounds familiar), but it only made her a bigger star. But Aguilera has wisely kept herself out of the spotlight for most of her career, putting fame away for a while to have a kid (her son Max Liron Bratman, with husband Jordan Bratman). Her albums have been consistently excellent but sporadic — there are only three proper Christina Aguilera albums, whereas Spears has twice as many in the same time period). Still, one of those albums, 2006's Back to Basics, was a double-disc affair, and she also had no trouble filling 2008's greatest hits collection Keeps Gettin' Better: A Decade of Hits.
Aguilera will be back in 2010 with a new album supposedly called Light & Darkness, which means that she'll produce new music videos. For now, we'll just have to live with the technicolor throwback "Candyman." so, can anybody tell me why i Aguilera's wake-up video shouldn't wake me up?