Christina Augilera takes music lighter after being mom

London, (ANI): Christina Aguilera believes that her approach to music has become lighter after becoming a mother. The singer has a son, Max, who is almost two years old.

"I had a really hard time being light before. I"d get a little weird about it being too cliche. My first record was very cliched pop - what everyone else wanted. My second album Stripped was inspired by a lot of pain," the Mirror quoted her as telling next month"s issue of Marie Claire.

She added: "My third, Back to Basics, still had some sort of relation to my past. My new album is just about the future - my son in my life, motivating me to want to play and have fun. In this crazy business, it"s so easy to build up a lot of walls and a lot of bitterness. And it"s just no way to be… I can now use softer tones] that maybe I"ve been afraid to do in the past, to allow myself to go to a place of 'less singing." I"m more vulnerable and more strong at the same time."