In December 2017 Spalding released Exposure, which is her sixth studio album. For this project, she embarked on a creative experiment beginning Thursday, September 12, 2017 at 9 a.m. PDT, setting out to create the album from start to finish in 77 consecutive hours, while streaming the whole creative process live on Facebook. Once completed, she released 7,777 limited edition recordings of the album. The packaging of the physical album included a piece of the original notepaper Esperanza used to write the lyrics and music, allowing those who witnessed the process to own a piece of the creation itself, directly from the source. About the experiment, Spalding stated on her website: "The necessity to keep going because it's live draws up another depth of creative facility that can't be reached when you know you can try again tomorrow."