Editing Bad Bad One (section)

==Recording==
Brooks recorded over 50 songs for the album over the course of two years before she finalized a track listing of 12 songs.<ref name="billboard">{{cite magazine |last=Newman |first=Melinda |title=The Beat: Golden Girl |magazine=[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]] |volume=114 |issue=6 |page=12 |publication-date=February 9, 2002}}</ref><ref name="mtv">{{ cite news | url=https://www.mtv.com/news/1452780/meredith-brooks-preps-album-produces-jennifer-love-hewitt-lp/ | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141015020248/http://www.mtv.com/news/1452780/meredith-brooks-preps-album-produces-jennifer-love-hewitt-lp/ | url-status=dead | archive-date=October 15, 2014 | title=Meredith Brooks Preps Album, Produces Jennifer Love Hewitt LP |publisher=MTV News|date=March 6, 2002 | access-date=May 2, 2022}}</ref> With ''Bad Bad One'', Brooks sought to take more control over her music, resulting in her building a [[Home recording|home studio]] and learning [[Pro Tools]] so that she could freely engineer and produce the entire album herself.<ref name="mtv"/> Speaking on the freedom that this home studio allowed her, Brooks commented: "Musically, lyrically, vocally, and guitar-wise, I realized that for the first time I could do everything I wanted to do. If I didn't like my vocal, I could just go down at 2 a.m. and redo it. It allowed me to develop more."<ref name="billboard"/> Brooks described ''Bad Bad One'' as a complete fulfillment of her creative vision, claiming that she was not under the usual pressure to be "politically, spiritually or romantically correct."<ref>{{cite magazine|title=Artist Activity: Meredith Brooks|magazine=[[Radio & Records]]|issue=1448|page=75|date=April 12, 2002}}</ref>