Who inspired Christina Aguilera with the song 'Beautiful'?

Answer 1

Linda Perry wrote 'Beautiful' when she was feeling a little sad. A few days later, Christina went over to her house and was feeling a little upset, so she asked Linda to play something for her. Still shocked of Christina's request, she played her new song Beautiful and as she was playing, she could feel Christina slowly approaching the piano. A few days after, Christina took her friend to Linda's house and recorded the song. At the beginning when Christina says : don't look at me, that was Christina telling her friend not to look at her while singing. After recording the song for the first time, Linda wanted to release the song as it was. Christina said it wasn't perfect and that she wanted to record it again, but Linda convinced her that the song is about NOT being perfect so they released it :)