McKee had essentially completed the album in New York City with Bob Power as producer, when Reprise asked her to record "Somebody" with Rob Cavallo in California.

Then she was introduced to producer Rob Cavallo, who served as Reprise artists and repertoire man, and went to Los Angeles with him, first to record Trouble lead single "Somebody".

To determine how successful this would be, Reprise had a partnership with internet radio website LAUNCHcast, which would include "Somebody" into the adult contemporary playlists, as well as showcasing the song to other listeners.

The result had "Somebody" being popular more with a younger audience than the adult females that the label expected, with the song eventually becoming the tenth most played on LAUNCHcast and McKee entering the 50 most searched terms on the website's owner Yahoo!.

[6] This was illustrated by the album cover with McKee blowing a bubble gum, which the singer describes as "a bit of a play on the bubblegum pop thing, except it looks kind of like a mug shot.

[9] MTV News reviewer Sam Lansky would later describe Trouble as "an astonishingly precocious (and criminally underrated) set of soulful pop-rock gems".

"[11] Reflecting on the album's underperformance considering her eventual success as a songwriter, McKee stated in 2011 that "had Trouble done what I wanted it to, I may have been caught in Hot AC land forever, which is just not my style.