Background
After receiving notification that the final season of The New Mickey Mouse Club would air, Aguilera became determined to start her music career, with her aim being to release her debut album before she had finished her time in high school. After recording sessions with producers Roberts Alleca and Michael Brown, Aguilera found herself unhappy with the pace at which her career was going, despite Alleca and Brown offering Aguilera free studio time she decided to venture to Japan in an effort to boost her career. While she was there the pair offered her the chance to collaborate with J-pop star Keizo Nakanishi on the track "All I Wanna Do" which was a critical downfall for Aguilera, little more than a footnote on her career. As her international successes broadened she caught the attention of manager Steve Kurtz who then represented Aguilera, although she had previously had a spoken agreement with Ruth Inniss to manage her which then fell through. Kurtz devoted his time to finding Aguilera a record deal sending various demo's to multiple companies and just as communications with RCA records began she was offered the chance to record the theme to Mulan named "Reflection" the success of which landed her an album deal with the company.
The financial state of RCA at the time made it so that it failed to contend against major labels at the time, and in an attempt to make them a contender they pushed for Aguilera to record and release her debut album by January 1999 to maintain the "hype" surrounding "Reflection" something which ultimately failed to happen. Originally "Genie in a Bottle" was not a track Aguilera even wanted on the album, she recalled "to tell you the truth, I don't know, maybe I shouldn't say this, but I really didn't want "Genie in a Bottle" to be my first single". By the time she was developing the single the album was almost finished, the first time Aguilera heard the track she "wasn't too crazy about it" but explained "thinking all songs sound weird in the demo stage, but once I got to the mic and worked on it, it became something else, and I'm really proud of the results". Fair sympathized with her reaction to the release and inclusion of the track, he found that the marketing decision would be to release a number one single, something that wasn't necessarily a "great song" so that her career could strengthen with Fair describing the track as "sugar candy".
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