I did not release the song ["Say Something"] as a single yet. Then I got lucky. The TV show "So You Think You Can Dance" used a forty-five second slice of the song. The next day we sold fifteen thousand units on iTunes. There was no radio play, no music video. But the song plays on TV and it starts to sell. But, wait. Christina Aguilera heard the song and asked if she could sing on the record with the guys. She did the most tamed, beautiful vocal performance that perhaps she'd ever done in her career. She sang on the song with the guys, but she never took over the record. She provided a simple, tasteful complement to the guys. Christina Aguilera is one of the great singers of her generation, and perhaps even underrated in how great she is. You'd be hard-pressed to find someone who's better than her. (LA Reid signed Pink in 2000).

Her manager, Irving Azoff, who had always been something of a Godfather to me, was kind enough to allow this to happen. "Say Something" starts selling a hundred thousand copies a week. By the time I was on the plane to Japan, the song was on top of iTunes. I said to myself, "Wait a minute, this is actually working. Babyface was right." That was the first moment that I started to find myself again, because this was a song that had a soul. It was a song that had a pulse. It was a song that had a real meaning, a song that meant something to my life, to other people's lives. It wasn't just an empty filled pop song, but a meaningful ballad that Christina Aguilera, who clearly isn't desperate, who is a big star on The Voice, and who has a wonderful career, felt compelled to sing on it. That was the turning point for Epic Records right there.

Keep in mind that this is HUGE praise from a man who has NEVER been here for Xtina. Xtina auditioned for him before getting signed to RCA and he turned her down. He's thrown shade at her through the whole feud with Pink and he threw shade at her when he was judging X Factor.

Her haters always come around.