Jennifer Lopez, Britney Spears, Madonna.Photo: Jamie McCarthy/Getty, Scott Gries/Getty
Jennifer Lopezwas originally slated to perform alongside — and likely kiss — Madonna at the award show rather than Aguilera, the “Jenny from the Block” singer toldE! Newsduring a recent interview alongsideJosh Duhamelto promote their upcoming film,Shotgun Wedding.
“I was filming a movie in Canada, and we had met – me, her and Britney — to do it at her home, and then I just couldn’t get off the film,” Lopez, 53, told the outlet. “So, we couldn’t do it.”
“They gotChristina Aguilera, I think, to do it, and I didn’t wind up doing it,” continued theMarry Meactress before expressing her admiration for the Queen of Pop, 64. “I love Madonna. I’m a huge fan. I always have been.”
At the 2003 VMAs, Madonna opened the show alongside Spears, 41, and Aguilera, 42, with a medley of “Like a Virgin,” “Hollywood” and “Work It” with special guestMissy Elliott.
Of their VMAs open-mouthed kiss, Spearstold CNN back in 2003, “I didn’t know it was going to be that long and everything,” adding, “I’ve never kissed a woman before.”
At that time, she didn’t think she’d do it again. “No, I would not do it,” she reportedly said before clarifying, “Maybe with Madonna.”
Britney Spears and Madonna.KMazur/WireImage
Last year, however, the “Me Against the Music” collaboratorsrecreated the iconic VMAs kiss at Spears' weddingtoSam Asgharifor a photo shared on social media.
In 2020, Aguilera opened up about thefamous pop culture momentduring a conversation withApple Music’s Zane Loweon Thursday. While the lip-lock made headlines at the time, Aguilera said she “never thought anything of it.”
“Shock value gets more and more extreme or whatever. But honestly, at the time, yeah, I never thought anything of it,” she said. “It was like, ‘OK, it’s two girls kissing.'”
“It wasn’t shocking back then. It’s not shocking now, to me. But it’s so many things,” she continued.
In 2018, Aguilera spoke about the performance and how the pressfocused more on the kiss between Spears and Madonna, telling SiriusXM’sRadio Andyin 2018 that the media attention “was weird.”
“And you know why they cut it? They cut away to get Justin’s reaction,” she said. “I saw the newspaper the next day and it was like, ‘Oh — well I guess I got left out of that one.'”
However, Aguilera said she didn’t mind the oversight.
“I mean everything happened so quickly back then and everything was in a whirlwind,” she explained. “But I had my own performance that night. It was ‘Fighter’ and it was with Dave Navarro. It was a kickass performance. So I was okay with that.”
source: people.com
