Ashanti Initially Didn’t Like Her Hit Song “Baby”: “I Remember Fighting With Everybody”.
The R&B icon explained why she argued with everyone in the studio about the track, but now, she’s in love with the record.
“I didn’t like ‘Baby.’ Yeah, that was an argument (laughs). It was crazy,” she told the outlet.
“I don’t know. I felt like, I liked what I wrote, but it was a different vibe because it’s such a low register, you know, slow,” Ashanti added. “But it was a vibe and I was a little nervous. To be released as a single is something different than an album cut, you know? So [when] making the album, I didn’t know which ones were gonna go and be picked as a single, but I remember fighting with everybody in the studio. They was just like, ‘No, shut up! You’re doing it.’ (Laughs) I’ll give them that!”
Thankfully, the song grew on her and she now says she “absolutely” loves the record.
“I love just conceptually how I flipped it and going back and forth with the ad-libs and the verse and the metaphors. I love the record. But I was just nervous about it because it was different.”
Revisit “Baby” below to take a walk down R&B memory lane.
