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

==Critical reception==
{{Music ratings
| rev1 = [[AllMusic]]
| rev1score = {{Rating|4|5}}<ref name=allmusic />
| rev2 = ''[[Christgau's Consumer Guide]]''
| rev2score = {{Rating-Christgau|hm1}}<ref name="christgau">{{cite book|last=Christgau|first=Robert|author-link=Robert Christgau|date=2000|title=Christgau's Consumer Guide: Albums of the '90s|title-link=Christgau's Consumer Guide: Albums of the '90s|publisher=[[Macmillan Publishers|Macmillan]]|isbn=0312245602|chapter=CG Book '90s: S|chapter-url=https://www.robertchristgau.com/get_chap.php?k=S&bk=90|access-date=March 30, 2019|via=robertchristgau.com|archive-date=August 4, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190804172033/https://www.robertchristgau.com/get_chap.php?k=S&bk=90|url-status=live}}</ref>
| rev3 = ''[[Entertainment Weekly]]''
| rev3score = B+<ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://ew.com/article/1999/01/15/britney-spears/|title=Britney Spears|last=Lanham|first=Tom|date=January 15, 1999|magazine=[[Entertainment Weekly]]|accessdate=January 16, 2023|archive-date=January 16, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230116181619/https://ew.com/article/1999/01/15/britney-spears/|url-status=live}}</ref>
| rev4 = ''[[NME]]''
| rev4score = 1/10<ref name="nme"/>
| rev5 = ''[[Q (magazine)|Q]]''
| rev5score = {{rating|2|5}}<ref>{{cite web |last1=Duerden |first1=Nick |title=Britney Spears – Baby One More Time |url=http://www.qonline.co.uk/reviews/server.asp?id=17813 |website=[[Q (magazine)|Q]] |accessdate=26 February 2023 |date=12 September 1999 |archive-date=September 12, 1999 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/19990912020438/http://www.qonline.co.uk/reviews/server.asp?id=17813 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
| rev6 = ''[[Rolling Stone]]''
| rev6score = {{Rating|2|5}}<ref name="...Baby One More Time Album Review">{{cite magazine|first=Barry|last=Walters|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-album-reviews/baby-one-more-time-184264/|title=...Baby One More Time Music Review|magazine=[[Rolling Stone]]|date=January 13, 2003|access-date=April 12, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131211231544/http://www.rollingstone.com/music/albumreviews/baby-one-more-time-20030113|archive-date=December 11, 2013}}</ref>
| rev7 = ''[[Sonic.net]]''
| rev7score = {{Rating|3|5}}<ref name=sonic.net>{{cite news|last1=Solomon|first1=Angela|title=Britney Soars Over Oft-Vapid Songs|url=http://www.sonicnet.com/artists/ai_album.jhtml?id=513833&ai_id=501686|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20001213173800/http://www.sonicnet.com/artists/ai_album.jhtml?id=513833&ai_id=501686|archive-date=December 13, 2000|access-date=June 26, 2014|work=[[Sonic.net]]|date=April 20, 1999}}</ref>
| rev8 = [[Sputnikmusic]]
| rev8score = 2/5<ref name=sputnik />
| rev9 = ''[[Tom Hull – on the Web]]''
| rev9Score = B+ ({{Rating-Christgau|hm2}})<ref>{{cite web|url=https://tomhull.com/ocston/nm/get_gl.php?n=britney+spears|title=Grade List: Britney Spears|website=[[Tom Hull – on the Web]]|first=Tom|last=Hull|date=November 13, 2023|access-date=November 13, 2023}}</ref>
}}

''...Baby One More Time'' received mixed reviews from music critics upon its release.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Pantony |first=Ali |date=February 10, 2021 |title=From Baby One More Time to #FreeBritney, this is the remarkable story of Britney Spears's life so far |url=https://www.glamourmagazine.co.uk/gallery/britney-spears-the-story-so-far |access-date=May 5, 2025 |work=[[Glamour UK]] |quote=Britney’s debut album ... was met with mixed reviews from the critics}}</ref> The editors of [[AllMusic]] gave the album four out of five stars.<ref name="allmusic"/> Paul Verna from [[Billboard (magazine)|''Billboard'']] considered the album "a [[Contemporary hit radio|top 40]]-ready workout filled with hook-laden songs from the same bag as the title cut".<ref name="spotlightbill">{{cite magazine|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1Q0EAAAAMBAJ|title=Albums|date=January 30, 1999|magazine=[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]]|access-date=October 8, 2011|last=Verna|first=Paul|issn=0006-2510}}</ref> ''[[The Village Voice]]'' critic [[Robert Christgau]] highlighted the title track and "Soda Pop" while summing the album up as a "[[girl next door]]" version of [[Madonna]].<ref name="christgau"/> Kyle Anderson of [[MTV]] said he "was surprised in more ways than one" with his first listening of ''...Baby One More Time'', commenting he "expected there to be a lot of filler (there sort of is), though I didn't expect it to be as odd (at least sonically) as it ended up being. There has never been any mystery to why Spears became such a superstar, but these songs probably would have been huge even if Britney wore burlap sacks in all of her videos."<ref name="popology" />

Barry Walters of ''[[Rolling Stone]]'' gave the album two stars out of five,<ref name="...Baby One More Time Album Review" /> and compared the album's sound to early hits of [[Debbie Gibson]], [[Mariah Carey]] and [[Samantha Fox]].<ref name="...Baby One More Time Album Review" /> Walters also said that "while several Cherion-crafted kiddie-funk jams serve up beefy hooks, shameless schlock slowies, like 'E-Mail My Heart', is pure spam."<ref name="...Baby One More Time Album Review" /> An ''[[NME]]'' reviewer rated ''...Baby One More Time'' one out of ten, saying that "we seem to have reached crisis point: pubescent pop is now so rife that 17-year-old Britney 'lizard-lounge' Spears is already halfway through her lucrative showbiz career".<ref name="nme">{{cite web|url=https://www.nme.com/reviews/britney-spears/853|title=...Baby One More Time|date=March 6, 1999|access-date=October 4, 2011|work=[[NME]]|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131029201446/http://www.nme.com/reviews/britney-spears/853|archive-date=October 29, 2013}}</ref> He also found the album premature, commenting: "hopefully, if she starts to live the wretched life that we all eventually do, her voice will show the scars, she'll stop looking so fucking smug, she'll find solace in drugs and we'll be all the happier for it. Now grow up, girl. Quick!"<ref name="nme" /> Amanda Murray of [[Sputnikmusic]] felt that "with the exception of the terrific title track, ''...Baby One More Time'' is a collection of either competent pop songs underwhelmingly executed or underwhelmingly written pop songs competently executed."<ref name="sputnik">{{cite web|url=https://www.sputnikmusic.com/review/5825/Britney-Spears-...Baby-One-More-Time/|title=Britney Spears – ...Baby One More Time (staff review)|author=Murray, Amanda|date=March 26, 2006|website=Sputnikmusic|access-date=December 25, 2010|archive-url=https://archive.today/20131029185644/http://www.sputnikmusic.com/review/5825/Britney-Spears-...Baby-One-More-Time/|archive-date=October 29, 2013}}</ref>

In 2024, ''[[Paste Magazine|Paste]]'' listed the album among its picks for "The 300 Greatest Albums of All Time", with critic Olivia Abercrombie praising the album's iconic status and influence in pop music.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.pastemagazine.com/music/greatest-albums/the-300-greatest-albums-of-all-time-2 |title=The 300 Greatest Albums of All Time |website=[[Paste Magazine]] |date=June 3, 2024}}</ref>