Christina Aguilera & Kelly Explain How Their Kids Keep Them Humble | The Kelly Clarkson Show

- You look so beautiful! - My God, you sounded so beautiful. How amazing was that? (audience applauding) - Well, I was nervous because you're here (laughs). - Oh please. - But I thought, oh, it could be cool, they applied for it and yeah, we knew you'd be here. - I have always loved your voice. - Oh my God, the same! - She can fly. I love her-Friend, but singing your songs. I've also covered some of your songs on tour for the last 17 years or whatever and your songs, girl, are varied! (laughing) As if I loved her. (Audience applauds) It's weird, like not everyone has that kind of reach and power. - Well, thank you, thank you. - It's strange, yes. - Yes, I complicate things too much live. (laughs) - Don't you hate that?

And then you get to the tour and you're like, why couldn't I just not do the eighth? - I change it a little. - You're on tour right now, right? - I'm on tour and, yeah, I hadn't done a tour before that in like 10 years because I was... - Why didn't you do a tour, is it for

kids

? - Yes, I was very scared. I wonder how people do this? Because I know

kids

need routine and structure, like bedtime and order and how you're supposed to do that when you're in different time zones, like every night, and things change. - It is very difficult. - It was (laughs). - Yes.

I cried when I had River for the first time and then we had two older children, I cried - It's difficult! - Like almost every night. I thought this is very difficult. - It is very difficult. - Because you don't want to be an absent mother. - And then you're off stage and it's like, oh, bedtime stories, okay, we're almost there, you know. - And they sing me a song and I say how I just did it. (Audience laughs) You're welcome. - Look, I have it easier. - You didn't have to pay for it. - I have it easier because my daughter will be like shh I'm trying to sleep.

And I'm there like she's fine, great. - My daughter does that to me! She will also say: "Let's sing" and then she will be silent. - Yes, she also holds my hand! - I think people pay for this. - She gives me that hand, they don't know, they don't know. - Yes, they make you shut up. They don't care, it's an amazing thing. - Yes, it's great. - Because it

keep

s us

humble

, our children don't care at all. No, I love you and I love that, in fact, I feel like we have similar childhoods talking about fatherhood and all that.

I have major abandonment issues, so that's one of the reasons I'm not a helicopter mom, but I really want to be there for everything. - I do the same too. Yes. - Yes. - You had a normal childhood but it was a little difficult, right? You all struggled a little. - Yes, it was a chaotic childhood with many movements. We have moved to many different places. My dad was in the military, so there were a lot of changes and people ask me: Where are you from? I'm like I was born in Staten Island but I grew up everywhere, like Japan, like everything, so... - Japan? - Yes, Japan for three years. - That? - Yeah, so I just... - I love Japan. - Isn't it fun? - I love japan. - It is fun.

Tokyo, so many things. - It is so beautiful. - So many things, yes. - Yeah! OMG, that's so exciting! - I

keep

forgetting to post photos but yeah, it was amazing. - Here it is, I know I like your life! - I'm not a poster, everyone was wow. - Me neither because don't you feel vain? You are not sorry? - Yeah! - Yes, I think there are so many egocentrics! - Well, because social media didn't exist when I... - I'm very grateful! I am so grateful! - Now it's a little scary to think about where it will be when our kids are like... - Yeah, I don't even feel like giving

them

phones. (Audience laughs) I'm like sending a dove. - But yes, at first I did feel it.

I thought: what is this selfie? Why do I want that on my face? Like ah! - I know! - You know what I mean? - Yes, I feel like it's like vanity has gone crazy, but I know people like it, yes, I know. But one of the reasons I loved and covered a lot of your songs, honestly, is because, for women, you have an incredible catalog, like your level of women empowerment especially, it's great! - Thank you. - Yeah, and I know, I just heard you talk a little bit in interviews here and there just because of a fan, and we both have a little bit of emotional education as well as financial education, and I think that's why it's so powerful, when you sing those hymns. - Thank you - Because you are so credible. - I'm aware of. - I love your hymns. - Authenticity is very important to me in my music.

That's probably why it takes me so long to do it, I can't just take a song and do it, that's like regurgitating, not your truth. And I made a decision when I made the album Stripped, which was the follow-up to my first... - Which was really good. I saw that tour, it was so good! In Dallas, in Dallas, I said "Yes!" - With the boys and the-- - It was so good! You say Eda James, and I said yes! (Audience laughs) Yes, it was very good. - And what were we talking about? - I don't even know. (couple laughs) I was bragging about you, because you know, you give me chills and I... - And the truth is, I always wanted to be a truth seeker, and I felt like that was really important to my fans.

Also, after Stripped, I really spoke my truth and, you know, the sides of all the women that we are. You know, we shouldn't apologize if we have done it, for our sexual side, for our vulnerable side, for being fighters and overcoming obstacles. And I think those are all messages that were really important to me. - That we are all different. (Audience laughs) That's what I also love about the industry, is that although we are all different, there is room for everyone. There is room for everyone at the table. - Always always. - And that's what I love about you too, in fact you say, I know Demi is a big fan and you all made that song together. - Yeah! - I love that.

It was really great. But I have a question. So when I'm on tour, I know, there's always that one song that I'm still really excited about. It's pretty funny, I actually had no idea, no one told me at RCA, at my first label, this is true, I got my record and I was like, oh my God, my first record, and I'm like sitting here looking at the booklet and I was like Why does Christina Aguilera appear? And I thought that? And then you wrote, I didn't know you wrote with Red, the beginning of 'Miss Independent', like that part of it, I didn't know. - Oh, it's true. - I had no idea. (Audience applauds) Literally, no one told me. - I had no idea where you were going with that.

I was like, oh, okay. - No! No, because honestly no one told me and I think this is what made me angry, because it's like why didn't you tell me, because I love her. And I would have been very excited, and what they told me is that, well, not all women love supporting everyone else. And I said, well, let's get rid of

them

. - That is wrong. - Yeah, I... - That's one of the most discouraging things I think about this business is that people definitely categorize them and pit them against each other, when they don't even have a clue. - Why don't they do that with the males? - So stupid. - I know. (Audience laughs) - We're changing it, we're changing it. - We're changing it! (Audience applauds) Are there any songs that you still like, like on your, like when you go on tour?

You're like, "Oh my God, I can't wait to sing this." - Energetically what is super fun is when the initial opening of 'Dirty' appears. - I was hoping you would say "dirty." I love that video. - And then, thank you, and then the vulnerability and the connection that 'Beautiful' has with people when I sing it, it's such a relatable song and so sincere too, you know, it just expresses your insecurities and you're like, okay. That's what I am, and accept you for it. - Well, and we all have insecurities, and we all do, it's funny, because that's why I wanted to do this

show

, is that we all have a lot more in common than we have differences, and that's something I feel like we should focus more on. because everyone is so divided right now and I don't understand it, but anyway I have a couple of songs, that if you want me to mention them, I hate singing them on tour, but what's one that you're (groans) like Every time you went on stage you said, "That's great, I can do it again." (Audience laughs) Do you want me to go first and make you feel better? - Sure. - Okay, I don't know if you'll feel bad about that. - Don't say 'Miss Independent'. (laughs) - No, my band, my band is here, as if it had been with me forever. 'Miss Independent' isn't my favorite?

I'm not kidding, the version we do on tour is super rockin', and it's my favorite. And it was my first single, very fun. But not the one, I think because it wasn't for me, don't hate me, don't boo me, I'll slap you. I won't slap you because I don't want you to sue me, but (laughs), but it's 'A Time Like This' and just because, don't hold your breath! But only because it wasn't written for me, but for the winner. So it could have been anyone's, and then I feel like it wasn't, something special to me. - Okay, that's fair enough. - What's yours? - By the way, can I just say that I really love your setup? - Oh thanks. - Very comfortable.

I wish all talk

show

s had a setup like this. - I made sure, because of my height, like we were both short, I wanted pillows behind people because I was... - I know I love it! - I'm like this. - Me too! - Yes. - It's not fair! - It's no fun being short. - I feel like right now we're just girlfriends chatting. I don't even know if there's anyone here. (laughs) What don't I like to sing? 'Hurt', 'Hurt' is big. - Because that's a great voice. - And it's all like everything (Christina sings) As if it were all extended voice. - Yeah. - So it's really... - But you do some really cool lead vocal stuff, your lead vocal is legitimately my favorite. - You're so sweet. - He is so cute.

I'm going to brag about you some more.