Angular Testing: Cannot read property 'images' of undefined

I am trying to run karma tests on an Angular component called AlbumInfoComponent. In this component, I have a function named getStyles() that does the following:

  getStyles() {
    return {
      "background-image":'url('+this.data.images[1].url+')'
    }
  }

it uses a variable called data initialized as: private user: {} = {}

I have a test that runs only the default should create test only. Though for some reason when running the test, I get TypeError: Cannot read property 'images' of undefined. My initial thought is that since Angular doesn't know there is a value in data called images, it will fail. Because of that, I tried setting component equal to a mock component data. Here is my testing code:

describe('AlbumInfoComponent', () => {
  let component: AlbumInfoComponent;
  let fixture: ComponentFixture<AlbumInfoComponent>;

  beforeEach(async(() => {
    TestBed.configureTestingModule({
      declarations: [ LandingComponent, FaIconComponent, HomeComponent, LoginComponent, AlbumInfoComponent, RecentReleasesComponent, QueueComponent, SearchComponent, TitleComponent, UserComponent, SearchBarComponent, RecentReleaseComponent, YourQueueComponent    ],
      imports: [FormsModule, HttpClientTestingModule,         RouterTestingModule.withRoutes([]), MatSnackBarModule    ],
      providers: [InfoService, HttpClient, TokenService ]
    })
    .compileComponents();
  }));

  beforeEach(() => {
    fixture = TestBed.createComponent(AlbumInfoComponent);
    component = fixture.componentInstance;
    fixture.detectChanges();
  });
  it('should create', () => {    
    component.data = {
      "images": [
      {
        "height": 640,
        "url": "https://i.scdn.co/image/ab67616d0000b273626d2ce1fb80955645d4d787",
        "width": 640
      },
      {
        "height": 300,
        "url": "https://i.scdn.co/image/ab67616d00001e02626d2ce1fb80955645d4d787",
        "width": 300
      },
      {
        "height": 64,
        "url": "https://i.scdn.co/image/ab67616d00004851626d2ce1fb80955645d4d787",
        "width": 64
      }
      ]
    }
    expect(component).toBeTruthy();
  });
});

Is there a way to force the data variable to be equal to the mock data to fix the error?