Christina Aguilera reinterprets tracks with Sabrina Carpenter, MGK

Christina Aguilera is celebrating the 25th anniversary of her breakthrough debut album of the same name and revealed a special surprise for her fans on Monday (September 23).

The pop superstar has teamed up with Spotify for the platforms Spotify anniversaries Series, for which she sat in the studio to reinterpret her legendary 1999 album, which remains one of the most groundbreaking projects of the early 2000s.

In the 26-minute session, Aguilera welcomes a number of guests, including MGK for a “Genie in a Bottle” guitar solo. He also reunites with producer Ron Fair and songwriter Heather Holly from recording the original album, and Holly joins Aguilera for a performance of “Obvious,” a ballad they wrote together.

At the end of the performance, Aguilera welcomes her blonde pop star colleague 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 of Aguilera singing when she was just eight years old. “That was the most inspiring thing I've ever experienced as a young girl who wanted to sing but didn't know if I could at that age.”

She continued, “You were a kid! I was like, 'How did that come out of that body?' That was the main reason I started singing and wanted to be a singer.”

Watch Christina Aguilera’s entire Spotify anniversaries Listen to the session below and here on Spotify.