High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! "What a Girl Wants" is a song by American recording artist Christina Aguilera from her debut studio album Christina Aguilera. The single was released after strong commercial interest in her first single "Genie in a Bottle" and came at a time when Aguilera was becoming increasingly dissatisfied with her input into her career. The song was written by Shelly Peiken and Guy Roche, the two were improvising with a cassette recorder and after improvising some of the songs lyrics Peiken decided to return to it at a later date. The song was completed and pitched to Ron Fair of RCA under the name of "What a Girl Needs" and after agreeing to change the title to "What a Girl Wants" Fair delivered the song to Aguilera to become the first track recorded for her debut album.