Destiny's Child have told reporters that working together in the studio after a three year break was a stress-induced "nightmare", and that the early output was pretty awful. Beyonce explains: "We had two studios set up at the same time. The way we recorded the album was very different. We got sent thousands of tracks from different producers - but after picking out 30 we liked - they all started sounding the same."
Kelly adds: "Some days I was like, 'What are we doing? This is not a good song. Let's go to the next.' I had to calm down because I was so anxious. All of us were."
But the girls assure us things soon improved and as they started to work on their own songs they started producing work they were happy with.