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\n\tWhen Linda Perry<\/a> recorded her version of \u201cBeautiful,\u201d<\/a> the 2002 hit she wrote and gave to Christina Aguilera<\/a>, she thought she was just revisiting an old song. As she dug into the grooves of that ode to inner beauty, though, she found herself getting emotional.\u00a0<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cI feel like when I wrote this song, I always thought it was going to be my song that was going to go Number One,\u201d she says. \u201cIt was going to be me singing it. It was going to be my comeback song. Not that I went anywhere, but it was going to be my solo journey song\u00a0 that was going to put me on the chart and make me a big superstar. And I had to go through a lot of emotions to let that song go to Christina.\u201d <\/p>\n \n\tAfter the breakup of Perry\u2019s iconic band 4 Non-Blondes \u2014 and the 1992 release of their hit debut, Bigger, Better, Faster, More! <\/em>\u2014 the musician opted to get more into producing and songwriting rather than recording her own music, a decision she\u2019s grappled with since. Her last solo album, After Hours<\/em>, dropped in 1999.<\/p>\n