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Christina Aguilera still doesn’t find her kiss with Britney Spears and Madonna ‘shocking’


Britney Spears, Madonna and Christina Aguilera created a pop culture moment at the VMAs (Picture: WireImage)

Christina Aguilera just doesn’t get the hype around her famous kiss with Madonna and Britney Spears at the MTV VMAs

The pop icons surprised the audience during the Video Music Awards in 2003 by stopping to kiss each other while performing Madonna’s hit songs Like A Virgin and Hollywood. 

Remember the scenes: Britney and Christina wore matching virginal white outfits while Madonna stood in the middle wearing all-black. 

The queen of pop then turned to kiss Britney before giving Christina a smooch creating an iconic pop culture moment. 

However for Xtina, it was just another day at the job. 

‘Shock value gets more and more extreme or whatever,’ she explained to Zane Lowe on Apple Music. 

‘But honestly, at the time, yeah, I never thought anything of it. It was like, “Okay, it’s two girls kissing”.’ 

She added: ‘It wasn’t shocking back then. It’s not shocking now, to me. But it’s so many things.’ 

The Beautiful singer went on to praise Madonna and hailed her as ‘the queen of reinventing herself’. 

The trio performed a mash-up of Madonna’s hit songs (Picture: FilmMagic)
Christina has just released songs for the Mulan soundtrack (Picture: WireImage)

‘When I was little, I was not allowed to listen to her or watch her videos or anything,’ she admitted. 

Christina continued: ‘It was just like a no-no, but then whenever you grow up, and I discovered her catalog and her videos and the fact that she had such a message. 

‘Her documentary, Truth or Dare, was a really big part of, “Oh my God, you don’t have to just, quote unquote, sing a song. You literally can just say so much more and go so much deeper.”’ 

She added: ‘Truly, the way you see her image changed through the albums. I mean, that was a big inspiration for me to want to change it up, to want to keep pushing, to grow, to reinvent myself, to discover more things about me and myself as an artist.’ 

At the moment, Christina recently released the tracks Loyal Brave True and Reflection from the Mulan soundtrack. 

Listen to the conversation in full on-demand at apple.co/zane

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