Kelly Clarkson Teams With Christina Aguilera

‘American Idol’ champ Kelly Clarkson tells Entertainment Weekly that she had an unexpected writing partner on ‘Miss Independent’: Christina Aguilera, whom she’s never met. “I was working with my producer, Rhett Lawrence, and he was playing the ‘Miss Independent’ beat and I was like, ‘That’s hot.’ And he was like, ‘It’s already kind of a song,’” Clarkson says. It turned out that Lawrence and Aguilera had toyed with ‘Miss Independent’ as a track for her last album, ‘Stripped,’ but never finished it. Some tinkering time later, Clarkson, Lawrence, and Aguilera now share writing credit for the song, according to a representative for both artists’ label, RCA. Read more.