Rodney Jerkins, Sophie Muller, Ne-Yo and others speak about their experiences working on Beyoncé's 2006 album BDay
The stakes were always high when it came to working with Beyoncé. Already a superstar and a three-time Grammy winner as a member of Destiny’s Child, with four Billboard Hot 100 No. 1s under her belt, when she went solo in 2003 with the release of “Dangerously in Love,” she set a dizzying pace right out the gate, boasting two No. 1 hits and selling over five million copies of the album.
Jerkins and fellow producer Jon Jon Traxx first came up with the concept for “Deja Vu” while driving to a 7-Eleven before a recording session. Michael Jackson’s “Don’t Stop Till You Get Enough” had come on the radio, and having previously worked with Jackson, Jerkins wanted to give Beyoncé something of that caliber.
The video was shot in several locations across New Orleans, including the Maple Leaf Bar. Muller recalls seeing “heartbreaking” damages around the city and land, due to the impact of Hurricane Katrina, which had devastated the area just weeks earlier. In “Ring the Alarm,” Beyoncé is seen dancing in an interrogation room, being carried down a corridor by police officers, and hounded by the press and paparazzi.
The video, which was co-directed by Beyoncé, marks the only time Mandler, who’s worked with such superstar artists as The Weeknd, Drake, Rihanna and Christina Aguilera, has shared a directing credit. For “Get Me Bodied” specifically, Beyoncé wanted the combination of choreography , movement and fashion to give the visual a “cinematic, editorial” feel.
Also appearing on “B’Day” was “Irreplaceable,” which spent 10 weeks atop the Billboard Hot 100 and has since become one of her most iconic hits. As it turns out, the track almost didn’t go to Beyoncé.had originally penned the melody during sessions for his sophomore album, “Because of You.” But once he realized that the lyrics would sound “chauvinistic” if sung by a male, he reworked the demo and shopped it around to female artists.
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