Watch Sabrina Carpenter join Christina Aguilera for live version of “What a Girl Wants”
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Watch Sabrina Carpenter join Christina Aguilera for live version of “What a Girl Wants”

Alan Pedder

Christina Aguilera's Spotify Anniversaries session dropped today, celebrating 25 years of the mega-selling pop artist's self-titled debut album with an intimate live reimagining of six of the original record's dozen tracks. It's the third episode in the series, which launched in January this year, and the first one to celebrate a 25th anniversary.

Released simultaneously to YouTube and to Spotify, the 26-minute concert includes renditions of the hit singles "Come On Over", "Genie in a Bottle", "I Turn to You", and "What a Girl Wants", plus album tracks "Reflection" and "Obvious". Aguilera is joined on "Genie in a Bottle" by MGK and by her favorite honorary child Sabrina Carpenter on "What a Girl Wants".

In the video, Carpenter reveals that she first heard of Aguilera through a video her mother had shared of the singer performing jazz standard "A Sunday Kind of Love" at just 8 years old, calling it "the most inspiring thing" for her to see "as a young girl who wanted to sing but didn't know if I could do it at that age, and definitely couldn't do it like that."

Carpenter also asked Aguilera how she knew when her debut album was finished, getting a very honest answer about how it was a very different time in music and the decision was not really hers to make. "If it was up to me I probably would have had more ballads or something," she says, laughing.

Watch their full conversation and performance below, and stream the whole video here.

Other guests include Heather Holley, who originally wrote and performs "Obvious" with Aguilera, and RCA executive and producer Ron Fair.

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