Twice

"Twice" is a song by American singer Christina Aguilera from her eighth studio album, Liberation (2018). It was released for digital download and streaming on May 11, 2018 by RCA Records as the album's first promotional single. Kirby Lauryen wrote the track and co-produced it with Sandy Chila. Upon its release of, music critics were positive towards the track, praising Aguilera's voice and the lyrics. Commercially, "Twice" reached top-forty positions on the digital charts of Australia and Spain. The song was later included in the setlist for The Liberation Tour, Christina Aguilera: The Xperience, and The X Tour. Background and composition "Twice" was solely written by Kirby Lauryen, while co-producing along with Sandy Chila. On May 10, 2018, Aguilera posted a video on her Twitter account in which she teased the release of a song from her then-upcoming eight studio album, Liberation (2018), stating that she loves the song's "raw vocal quality" and the "spiritual emotion and tone" it conveys. The track was released for digital download and streaming as the first promotional single from Liberation on May 11, 2018 by RCA Records. Musically, "Twice" has been described as a soulful ballad with a length of four minutes and two seconds. According to the sheet music published at Musicnotes.com by Sony/ATV Music Publishing, the song is performed in the key of F Minor with a moderately slow tempo of 75 beats per minute. Aguilera's vocals span from E3 to F5. Critical reception Jon Pareles from New York Times said that "Twice" "mournfully ponders sin, forgiveness and redemption", while Chuck Arnold from New York Post described the song as a "haunting piano ballad". Furthermore, Arnold felt that Aguilera displayed "softer, more subtle shades of her delivery" in order to demonstrate "what a great singer can do when it’s all about the song — and the voice". Nicholas Hautman of Us Weekly stated that "Twice" is Aguilera's best song since "Hurt", noting its "contemplative and stripped-down nature". Neil McCormick from The Daily Telegraph considered that Aguilera sounded "like a one-woman Fleetwood Mac" and praised "her rich low notes fluttering effortlessly up to falsetto with no loss of control". During a review for Liberation for PopCrush, Bobby Olivier called "Twice" "a sparse and pensive track" and described the intro of the song as "harmonic".