Christina Aguilera is celebrating 25 years since her breakthrough self-titled debut album, and she unveiled a special treat for fans on Monday (Sept. 23).
The pop superstar teamed up with Spotify for the platforms Spotify Anniversaries series, where she sat down in-studio to reimagine her iconic 1999 album that remains one of the early 2000s most seminal projects.
In the 26-minute session, Aguilera welcomes a number of guests, including MGK for a “Genie in a Bottle” guitar solo, reunites with producer Ron Fair and songwriter Heather Holly from the original album’s recording and Holly joins Aguilera for a performance of “Obvious,” a ballad they wrote together.
To wrap up the performance, Aguilera welcomes her fellow blonde pop star, Sabrina Carpenter, for a vocally impressive duet of “What a Girl Wants.”
“I’m freaking out,” Carpenter tells Aguilera, before explaining that her mother introduced her to the “Come on Over Baby” singer by showing her a video in which Aguilera was singing at just eight years old. “That was just the most inspiring thing to me ever as a young girl who wanted to sing but didn’t know I could do it at that age at all.”
She continued, “You were a child! I was like, ‘How is that coming out of that body?’ It was the main reason I started singing and wanted to become a singer.”
Watch Christina Aguilera’s entire Spotify Anniversaries session below, and listen on Spotify here.
