Editing ...Baby One More Time (album) (section)

==Recording and production==
{{Quote box|width=30%|align=left|quote="I had been in the studio for about six months listening and recording material, but I hadn't really heard a hit yet. When I started working with Max Martin in Sweden, he played the demo for 'Baby One More Time' for me, and I knew from the start it {{sic|one was}}<!--Obviously should be "was one", but the magazine stated "one was".--> of those songs you want to hear again and again. It just felt really right. I went into the studio and did my own thing with it, trying to give it a little more attitude than the demo. In 10 days, I never even saw Sweden. We were so busy."|source=—Spears talking to Chuck Taylor of ''[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]]''.<ref>{{cite magazine|date=1998|title=JIVE's Britney Spears Sets Top 40 Abuzz With Rhythm-Leaning 'Baby One More Time'|magazine=Billboard|volume=110|issue=43|page=104|issn=0006-2510|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JQoEAAAAMBAJ&q=%22...baby+one+more+time%22&pg=PA80|access-date=September 21, 2011|archive-date=February 23, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230223101129/https://books.google.com/books?id=JQoEAAAAMBAJ&q=%22...baby+one+more+time%22&pg=PA80|url-status=live}}</ref>}}

In June 1997, Spears was in talks with then-manager [[Lou Pearlman]] to join the female pop group [[Innosense]]. Her mother, [[Lynne Spears]], asked family friend and entertainment lawyer [[Larry Rudolph]] for his opinion and submitted a tape of Spears singing over a [[Whitney Houston]] karaoke song along with some pictures. Rudolph decided to pitch her to record labels, which required a professional demo. He sent Spears an unused song from [[Toni Braxton]]; she rehearsed for a week and recorded in a studio with an [[audio engineer]]. Spears traveled from her hometown [[Kentwood, Louisiana]], to New York City with the demo and met executives from four labels, returning to Kentwood the same day. Three rejected her, arguing audiences wanted pop bands such as the [[Backstreet Boys]] and the [[Spice Girls]], and "there wasn't going to be another [[Madonna]], another [[Debbie Gibson]] or another [[Tiffany Darwish|Tiffany]]." Two weeks later, executives from [[Jive Records]] returned calls to Rudolph.<ref name="hughes145">{{harvnb|Hughes|2005|p=145}}</ref> Jive's senior vice president of [[A&R]] Jeff Fenster stated: "It's very rare to hear someone that age who can deliver emotional content and commercial appeal. [...] For any artist, the motivation—the 'eye of the tiger'—is extremely important. And Britney had that."<ref name="rs1">{{cite magazine|title=Cover Story: Britney Spears: Britney Spears : Rolling Stone|date=April 15, 1999|magazine=[[Rolling Stone]]|last=Daly|first=Steven|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/britney-spears-teen-queen-rolling-stones-1999-cover-story-254871/|issn=0035-791X|access-date=June 2, 2022|archive-date=July 26, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180726051137/https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/britney-spears-teen-queen-rolling-stones-1999-cover-story-254871/|url-status=live}}</ref>

Jive soon appointed Spears to work with producer [[Eric Foster White]] for a month, who reportedly shaped her voice from "lower and less poppy" delivery to "distinctively, unmistakably Britney."<ref name="Hughes 2005 147">{{harvnb|Hughes|2005|p=147}}</ref> One of the first songs Spears recorded with Foster White was "[[From the Bottom of My Broken Heart]]", which was released as the album's 4th single. Foster White also produced "Autumn Goodbye", which was the [[B-side]] to Spears' debut single "[[...Baby One More Time]]". During the same session for "Autumn Goodbye", Spears and Foster White also worked on a song called "Love Is On", which ultimately did not make the album and was later given to [[Sharon Cuneta]]. Spears recorded a lot of material with [[Eric Foster White]], such as "Autumn Goodbye", "E-Mail My Heart", "[[From the Bottom of My Broken Heart]]", "I'm So Curious", "I Will Still Love You", "Way It Is Loving You", "I'll Be There For You", "Soda Pop", "Thinkin' About You", "Nothing Less Than Real", "Wishing on a Falling Star" and a cover of "[[You Got It All (The Jets song)#Britney Spears version|You Got It All]]" by [[The Jets (Minnesota band)|the Jets]].<ref name="liner">{{cite AV media|last=Spears|first=Britney|author-link=Britney Spears|title=...Baby One More Time|type=CD liner notes|publisher=[[Jive Records]]|year=1999}}</ref> She also recorded a cover of [[Sonny & Cher]]'s 1967 single "[[The Beat Goes On (Sonny & Cher song)|The Beat Goes On]]".<ref name="liner" /> White was responsible for the vocal recording and song production, while additional production was handled by English electronic music group [[All Seeing I]].<ref name="liner" /> After hearing the material, Jive Records president [[Clive Calder]] ordered a full studio album.<ref name="Hughes 2005 147" />

Spears flew to [[Cheiron Studios]] in Stockholm, where half of ''...Baby One More Time'' was recorded from May 1998,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.jorgenelofsson.com/biography/the-story-behind-britney-spears-sometimes/|title=The story behind Britney Spears' "Sometimes"|website=jorgenelofsson.com|access-date=September 9, 2019|archive-date=October 21, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191021095706/http://www.jorgenelofsson.com/biography/the-story-behind-britney-spears-sometimes/|url-status=live}}</ref> with producers [[Max Martin]] and [[Rami Yacoub]], and contributions from others, including songwriting from [[Denniz Pop]], who was too ill to attend any recording sessions.{{efn|Denniz Pop had [[stomach cancer]] and died on August 30, 1998. Spears never met him.}}<ref name="rs1" /><ref name="rsintw">{{cite magazine|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/artists/britneyspears/articles/story/5938512/cover_story_britney_spears|title=Cover Story: Britney Spears|date=April 15, 1999|magazine=[[Rolling Stone]]|access-date=March 5, 2011|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080505011004/http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/britneyspears/articles/story/5938512/cover_story_britney_spears|archive-date=May 5, 2008}}</ref><ref name=Seabrook2015>{{harvnb|Seabrook|2015|p=82}}</ref> Martin showed Spears and her management a track titled "Hit Me Baby One More Time", originally written for American group [[TLC (band)|TLC]], who had rejected it. Spears later said that she felt excited when she heard it and knew it was going to be a hit.<ref name="especial">{{cite AV media|title=E! Entertainment Special: Britney Spears|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0427200/|first=Ray W.|last=Keziah|type=TV production|publisher=[[E!]]|date=March 14, 2004|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120614153215/http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0427200/|archive-date=June 14, 2012}}</ref> "We at Jive said, 'This is a fuckin' smash{{'"}}, revealed the label's A&R executive, Steven Lunt;<ref>{{harvnb|Knopper|2009|p=93}}</ref> however, other executives were concerned that the line "Hit Me" would condone [[domestic violence]], and later revised it to "...Baby One More Time".<ref name="especial" /> Spears revealed that she "didn't do well at all the first day in the studio [recording the song], I was just too nervous. So I went out that night and had some fun. The next day I was completely relaxed and nailed it. You gotta be relaxed singing '... Baby One More Time'."<ref name="blender">{{cite magazine|title=The 500 Greatest Songs Since You Were Born|magazine=[[Blender (magazine)|Blender]]|publisher=Alpha Media Group|author=((Blender Staff))|issn=1534-0554}}</ref> By June 1998, the album had been completed.<ref>{{harvnb|Parish|2002|p=243}}</ref>