Beyoncé refused to record ‘Telephone’ with Lady Gaga: “I can’t do it because it’s not my style”

Telephone I was about to enter the mastering process when Lady Gaga He called his producer to propose a plan: “What if we get Beyoncé participant?”.

The New York singer launched the question with a certain security. “I think he told me that Beyoncé had already told her that she was willing to collaborate with her. They had met,” says the famous producer Rodney ‘Darkchild’ Jerkins In an interview in People on the occasion of his recent entry in the composers hall of fame.

“I called Beyoncé and said: ‘Hey, I’m finishing a song with Gaga and I wanted to see if you dare to collaborate.’ So I put it on. I was in Japan when I sent it and we only had one day to finish it because we prepared to mix and master it, “continues the producer, who did not receive the best response from Houston’s.

Hearing her for the first time, Beyoncé told him no. “I can’t because it’s not my style. It’s like a techno-pop style, and it’s not my thing”the singer replied, whom Darkchild asked for 30 minutes. “I adjust it a little and return it to you.”

“That same day, he recorded all the voices and sent it again”

“I returned to the studio with our composers. He remitted the song to give it a touch R&B and Hip-Hop in the second stanza, I just changed it to part-time and added small details. Then I returned it. That same day, he recorded all the voices and sent it again,” he explains about this almost express collaboration.

Thus, Darkchild considers a very special song. “I have always believed in it,” he says about the origins of the Temam before even Beyoncé’s participation. “When he entered, I started thinking, Again the two girls like Brandy and Monicanow Beyoncé and Gaga “.

To join these two songs, the producer decided to include in the second a wink to the first: “I used my harp sound on purpose at the beginning of that song. It is the same sound I used in The Boy Is Mine“