Background
In 2002, Knowles had productive studio sessions while making her debut album, Dangerously in Love, recording up to forty-five songs. After the release of Dangerously in Love in 2003, Knowles had planned to produce a follow-up album using several of the left-over tracks. However, on January 7, 2004, a spokesperson for her record label, Columbia, announced that Knowles had put her plans on hold in order to concentrate on the recording of Destiny Fulfilled, the final studio album by Destiny's Child, and for her singing of the U.S. national anthem at the Super Bowl XXXVIII in Houston, which was a childhood dream of hers. In late 2005, Knowles decided to postpone the recording of her second album because she had landed a lead role in Dreamgirls, a film adaptation of the 1981 Tony Award-winning Broadway musical of the same name. As she wanted to focus on one project at a time, Knowles decided to wait until the movie was completed before returning to the recording studio. Knowles later told Billboard magazine, "I'm not going to write for the album until I finish doing the movie."
While having a month-long vacation after filming Dreamgirls, Knowles went to the studio to start working on the album. She said, " I had so many things bottled up, so many emotions, so many ideas," prompting her to begin working without telling her father and then-manager, Mathew Knowles. Knowles kept the recording of B'Day somewhat quiet, telling only her artists and repertoire man Max Gousse, and the team of producers they contacted to collaborate for the album. She began working with songwriter-producers Rich Harrison, Rodney Jerkins, Sean Garrett, Cameron Wallace; the Neptunes, Norwegian production duo Stargate, American hip hop producer-rapper Swizz Beatz, and Walter Millsap. Two female songwriters were also included in the production team who helped structure the album: Knowles' cousin Angela Beyincé, who had previously collaborated in Dangerously in Love, and up-and-coming songwriter Makeba Riddick, who made her way onto the team after writing "Déjà Vu", the lead single off the album.
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