Destiny’s Child
Destiny’s Child - interview
Destiny’s Child interview
Destiny’s Child
Hi Bigger how ya doing
Bigger
I’m good, its good to see you again, you’ve always managed to come with the goods, but I’ve gotta say, my word, on this album from a total R&B perspective ‘Cater to U’, “Girl”, ‘T-Shirt,’ ‘If’, ‘She’s The Reason’, ‘Soldier’ this is arguable your finest work to date do you think?
Destiny’s Child
I was nervous then when you said “but I’ve gotta say”. It means a lot to us when someone like you say’s that. Thank you so much
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Bigger
So how do you feel about the album?
Destiny’s Child
Well we defiantly feel like this is some of our best work, we had a lot of growth especially since we had 3 years apart from each other. I think that has caused all of us to grow and to learn and I think all of that knowledge came back into Destiny’s Child. Which made it a little bit more interesting cos there’s so much to talk about on this record, it tells a story from start to finish.
Bigger
Lyrically you seem to be getting stronger and stronger do you feel because of the solo careers and as you are as artists you’ve grown so far yourselves in recent years has that helped you as a unit as far as Destiny’s’ Child is concerned?
Destiny’s Child
Yeah the growth is something that we needed to do, everybody is pleased with what they’ve done there’s not a song on the album that we don’t wanna hear it, again and again.
Bigger
With the success you’ve had as arguably the biggest group in the world and all the hard work you have to put in touring and promoting an album what on earth possessed you to go and do the solo careers
Destiny’s Child
(Kelly laughs and replies) Well I think that DC had been out for so long that I think we wanted to give the audience a break. I think that’s really important to let yourself just breathe for a minute, but none of us really breathed. Michelle jumped right into her record I remember after that the song with Nelly came out I didn’t get a break and Beyonce has defiantly not had a break. All of us have really been on a run and it’s a blessing cos to do a solo project is not easy when you’ve been in a group. Then to come back to the group the world thought it wasn’t going to be easy for us. But after we did ‘Survivor’ we did say that we were gonna do solo projects and we did say that we was gonna come back together and do another album and that’s exactly what happened. The one thing that the world knows about DC is that we do keep our word.
Bigger
I bet there was a lot of doubters out there that thought is this the beginning of the end for DC but you’ve proved them wrong so well done. Lets talk about the singles which have all been very strong but lets talk about ‘Lose My Breath’ because you went back and worked with Rodney ‘Darkchild’ Jerkins how did the reunion come back around with Rodney?
Destiny’s Child
It’s wonderful, its so funny cos Michelle and Beyonce had heard the backing track for Lose My Breath first and they called me from the studio and they were like, you don’t understand this track is amazing I can’t wait till you hear it, they kept saying you have got to hear the drums, they sounded so excited so I was so excited, so I went to the studio the next day and I heard it and I was like this track is definitely a single so we did Lose My Breath on last day of recording and that’s how we got our first single but we had recorded Soldier early on.
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