Darkchild on Beyoncé taking full control during the making of “Deja Vu”:
“But when I got in the studio with her, it was a different Beyoncé. It was a more mature, it was an adult Beyoncé. A fully focused Beyonce who knew exactly who she was. She knew what she wanted to accomplish and what she wanted to say, the story she wanted to tell. The entertainment factor of it all, how the music needed to have a bigness to it for her to be able to perform in a way. So everything was led by Beyoncé.”