Christina Aguilera has released a mini-concert celebrating the 25th anniversary of her self-titled debut, released on August 25, 1999. ‘Christina Aguilera’ earned Aguilera her first Grammy in the Breakthrough Artist category and produced the hits ‘Genie in a Bottle,’ ‘What a Girl Wants’ and ‘I Turn to You.’
In honor of her debut, Aguilera has recorded a live performance of several of her hits with new arrangements, in collaboration with Spotify; the concert can be seen on YouTube and a six-track EP can be heard on Spotify.
For two performances, Aguilera has brought in special guests. Sabrina Carpenter sings with Aguilera on “What a Girl Wants.” Before their duet, Carpenter tells Aguilera that she discovered she wanted to pursue music after hearing one of her songs. An earlier guest is Machine Gun Kelly, who plays electric guitar on a new version of “Genie in a Bottle.”
Carpenter, arguably the hottest singer of the moment, was thrilled about the collaboration, saying Aguilera was one of her first idols. “When I was 11, I couldn’t get her name out of my mouth,” she told Rolling Stone. “I grew up listening to her songs.” Carpenter, who was born in May 1999, months before the release of Christina Aguilera, was 11 in 2010, the time of Bionic.
Aguilera has just finished her residency in Las Vegas. As for her new album in English, she says that she has songs, but not a concept. That is, there is still time to listen to it.
