With Stripped, Christina Aguilera remade her image and her sound, transforming from pop ingénue to self-authored artist. Matt Morris co-wrote five of the album’s most introspective works — “Can’t Hold Us Down,” “Walk Away,” “Infatuation,” “Loving Me for Me,” and “Underappreciated.” Together they trace a singer moving toward self-definition through vulnerability and defiance. Released at the height of early-2000s pop maximalism, the record was both sprawling and intimate, finding its balance in songs that combined emotional candor with formal clarity. Two decades later, Stripped stands as a document of transition, and Morris’s compositions remain some of its most human touchstones — precise portraits of independence drawn in the language of R&B and soul.