Christina Aguilera Re-Purposes 'Beautiful' Video 20 Years Later, Brings Awareness To Social Media

Christina Aguilera is celebrating the 20-year anniversary of body positive hit "Beautiful". In celebration, she released a new video exposing the effects of social media on children.

The singer is celebrating the release of her album Stripped 20 years ago. The 2002 sophomore album from the powerhouse vocalist featured the raunchy hit 'Dirty”, the gritty hit, “Fighter”, and the female empowerment tune, “Walk Away” in addition to “Beautiful”.

Aguilera or Xtina if ya Dirty, took to Instagram a week ago and teased that she would honor the album with a remake of one of her biggest hits.

“n celebration of the 20-year anniversary of Stripped and World Mental Health Day, I’m honored to share a new music video for Beautiful, coming October 19th 💜,” she teases. Tune out and turn in. Take your space, log off, put your mind, body, and soul first.”

The singer kept her promise and shared the release of the new video with two IG posts. The first one was a video of Xtina, her alter ego on the Stripped Tour. She writes. “Stripped gave me the strength and freedom as an artist to tell my story the way I wanted, for the first time.”

She referenced one of her hits, “Fighter” writing, “Thank you to all of my fighters around the world for amplifying that strength and giving me the space to continue to share myself in my truest forms. Today marks the kick off of the #20YearsOfStripped celebration, more to come 🖤”

The next post was another tease for the new video that simply read, “Tomorrow 🤍,” accompanied by an extended clip of the new video that featured all children.

Since hinting at the revival, the singer’s comments have been going nuts! “The new generations deserve to hear this message 👏❤️,” wrote one follower. Paris Hilton called it “Iconic”.

“This is the song that helped me put myself together after coming out. Thank you ❤️ love you!” Shared a grateful fan.

"BEST RECORD EVER 🖤🖤🖤 It's amazing how many people were inspired by this era. I hope you take dimension of how great you are for all of us 🫶🏼”

The release of the video comes with a new message for teens and parents of teens today. After the video that features a group of kids playing and going through the negative motions of life like today like worrying about looks, filters on phones, etc, a cellphone appears and it is bleeding.

The words on the screen then read:

“In the last 20 years, since Stripped was first released, social media has transformed our relationship with our bodies, and in turn, our mental health. Research suggests that time spent on social networking sites is associated with body image issues, self-harm, and disordered eating in children and teens. This needs to change.”

The haunting end to the video left her follower with chills and made Aguilera once again, relevant AF with a 20-year-old song. The original video also dealt with issues plaguing society at the time.

She featured two men kissing and a trans woman, this pissed off a number of people but solidified the singer's status as someone who DGAF!

She has obviously kept that same energy.