It's just that magic of a song, what makes a hit, that no one can really explain, and you can't anticipate until you just perform it and it happens or it doesn't. Something just happened, like a magic kicked off." "I don't think you can anticipate that with any record. But I think for us both took a life of its own especially when we performed it the other day. Īzalea claimed she knew right after collaborating for the first time with Hudson she wanted to work on another track with the singer, "I had plans, I don't know if Jennifer had plans," with Hudson responding, "I was ready when I got the call. And I think that's why we get everybody coming back year after year," stated Davis while talking about the duo's chemistry. I love to have these collaborations every year, in the past we had Alicia with Aretha Franklin, Lou Reed with Rod Stewart, we've had Jennifer with Barry Manilow, we've had combinations that you just don't see.
because I usually do things that are so constructed and have so many stage props or choreography, but this is a really different record for me to be able to have me and perform it and have that relaxed atmosphere." "It has a great, great live vibe to it," Hudson added, "It came to life for both of us when we were performing it together." "Seeing them in rehearsal today, you can see why magic is coming out of the song 'Trouble' that they'll be releasing together. On 5 February 2014, during American record producer and music industry executive Clive Davis' annual pre- Grammy Gala press day, Azalea detailed the track saying, "I think it’s new for me. That's how it works, they pick based on what scores." After being questioned by fans about the decision to make the track a single, Azalea answered by noting it was related to radio formats and audience testing explaining, "People need to realize they 'test' the songs with people and give them scores. In December 2014, Azalea shared through her Twitter account that she was preparing her next single, "Trouble", as the second promotional track off the reissue, while also announcing plans to shoot a music video for the previous single " Beg for It" had been scrapped. With the expanded version of the album, Azalea got to team up with Jennifer Hudson for a second time, after being featured on Hudson's song "He Ain't Goin' Nowhere" off her third studio album JHUD, "It kind of has a doo-wop feel," Azalea said, also mentioning her desire to do something different from her musical style and being excited about performing it "It's kind of something you'd picture Aretha Franklin singing." During an interview with backstage at the CBS Radio We Can Survive concert at the Hollywood Bowl on 24 October 2014, Azalea talked about her upcoming re-release Reclassified. In October 2014, details of the reissue started to be revealed and that it would be officially released in November. On 4 September 2014, Azalea announced that she would be reissuing her debut studio album The New Classic. It was nominated for Song of the Year at the 2015 ARIA Music Awards. The song achieved commercial success, reaching the top ten in Australia and the UK, top twenty in Ireland, as well as charting in other major international territories including the US, Canada and Belgium. The video premiered on 27 February 2015 on Vevo. It was then announced that the song would be impacting mainstream radio stations in the US on 24 February 2015, with an accompanying music video also shot earlier that month. In December 2014, Azalea revealed the track would be the official second promotional track off the reissue, although no specific date for the single to be released digitally or serviced to radios was reported. The song was produced by The Invisible Men and Salt Wives. " Trouble" is a song by Australian rapper Iggy Azalea featuring American recording artist Jennifer Hudson, taken from Reclassified, the former's 2014 reissue of her debut studio album The New Classic.