{"id":87285,"date":"2024-06-11T12:03:52","date_gmt":"2024-06-11T16:03:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2024\/06\/11\/with-her-debut-album-dopamine-normani-is-finally-stepping-into-who-ive-been-called-to-be\/"},"modified":"2024-06-11T12:03:52","modified_gmt":"2024-06-11T16:03:52","slug":"with-her-debut-album-dopamine-normani-is-finally-stepping-into-who-ive-been-called-to-be","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2024\/06\/11\/with-her-debut-album-dopamine-normani-is-finally-stepping-into-who-ive-been-called-to-be\/","title":{"rendered":"With Her Debut Album \u2018Dopamine,\u2019 Normani is \u2018Finally Stepping Into Who I\u2019ve Been Called to\u00a0Be\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- no image --><\/p>\n<div>\n<!-- do not apply CSS styles to this element! --><\/p>\n<div class=\"pmc-paywall\">\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tAre you ready for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/normani-kordei\/\">Normani<\/a>\u2018s debut album to drop this week? Because she definitely is. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t<em>Dopamine <\/em>is set to arrive this Friday, June 14, via RCA Records. Normani knows her fanbase has been clamoring for her first full-length album for the last few years, which obviously came with \u201cpressure. Everybody not necessarily knowing what is going on within the process or within my personal life. \u2026 I\u2019m just grateful that everybody is just really excited still for this album and for this body of work. They\u2019ve waited on me, which I don\u2019t really take for granted,\u201d she tells <em>Billboard<\/em>\u2018s Tetris Kelly. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vkDi34Aiu3s?version=3&amp;rel=1&amp;showsearch=0&amp;showinfo=1&amp;iv_load_policy=1&amp;fs=1&amp;hl=en-US&amp;autohide=2&amp;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t<em>Dopamine<\/em> is meant to reflect Normani \u201cfinally stepping into who I\u2019ve been called to be. There\u2019s been so much adversity and so many roadblocks just in the process of putting this body of work out, you have no idea. I could actually probably write a book,\u201d she claims, adding that \u201cshifting teams\u2026 has honestly been one of the greatest blessings.\u201d The former <a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/fifth-harmony\/\">Fifth Harmony<\/a> member parted ways with her former management company, Brandon Silverstein\u2018s S10 Entertainment,\u00a0and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/pro\/normani-signs-new-managers\/\">signed a new management deal<\/a> to Brandon Creed\u00a0and\u00a0Lydia Asrat\u00a0through his Good World Management and her Q10 in August 2023.<\/p>\n<div class=\"injected-related-story \/\/ lrv-u-margin-tb-2 lrv-u-border-t-1 lrv-u-border-b-1 lrv-u-padding-t-050 lrv-u-padding-b-075 lrv-u-border-color-grey\">\n<div class=\"a-heading-border a-heading-border-background-color-grey a-heading-border-height-075 lrv-u-margin-b-075 lrv-u-margin-b-050@mobile-max\">\n<h3 id=\"title-of-a-story\" class=\"c-title  lrv-u-color-brand-primary a-font-primary-bold-s lrv-u-text-transform-uppercase lrv-u-padding-r-1 a-article-related-module-title a-article-related-module-title--color-brand-primary\">\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tRelated\t\t<\/p>\n<\/h3><\/div>\n<div class=\"o-card lrv-u-flex\">\n<p>\t\t\t<a tabindex=\"0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/music-news\/normani-says-being-fifth-harmony-took-a-toll-confidence-1235702096\/\" class=\"lrv-u-flex lrv-a-unstyle-link lrv-u-color-brand-primary:hover\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"o-card__image-wrap lrv-u-flex-shrink-0 u-flex-basis-144 u-flex-basis-96@mobile-max\">\n<div class=\"c-lazy-image  lrv-u-height-100p\">\n<div class=\"a-crop-3x2 a-crop-1x1@mobile-max lrv-u-height-100p\">\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-lazy-image__img lrv-u-background-color-grey-lightest lrv-u-width-100p lrv-u-display-block lrv-u-height-auto\" src=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/wp-content\/themes\/vip\/pmc-billboard-2021\/assets\/public\/lazyload-fallback.gif\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/normani-press-cr-rca-records-2024-billboard-1548.jpg?w=237&amp;h=147&amp;crop=1\" alt=\"Normani\" data-lazy-srcset=\"\" data-lazy-sizes=\"\" height=\"\" width=\"\"><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"o-card__content lrv-u-flex lrv-u-flex-direction-column lrv-u-justify-content-center lrv-u-padding-lr-1 lrv-u-padding-lr-075@mobile-max\">\n<div class=\"o_category \">\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<div class=\"c_title \">\n<h3 id=\"title-of-a-story\" class=\"c-title  a-font-primary-medium-m lrv-u-padding-b-050 u-letter-spacing-0028@mobile-max\">\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tNormani Says Being in Fifth Harmony \u2018Took a Toll\u2019 on Her Confidence: \u2018I Suppressed\u00a0It\u2026\t\t<\/p>\n<\/h3><\/div>\n<p><time class=\"c-timestamp  a-font-primary-medium-xxs lrv-u-color-brand-primary lrv-u-order-100\" datetime=\"00:00-YY-DD-MM\"><br \/>\n\t06\/05\/2024<br \/>\n<\/time><\/p><\/div>\n<p>\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tAhead of <em>Dopamine<\/em>\u2018s release, Normani has dropped two singles: \u201c1:59,\u201d featuring <a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/gunna\/\">Gunna<\/a>, and the hotly-anticipated \u201cCandy Paint.\u201d After she dropped the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/cardi-b\/\">Cardi B<\/a>-assisted \u201cWild Side\u201d single three years ago, \u201c1:59\u201d \u201cbridged the gap from \u2018Wild Side\u2019 to where I am now. It feels cohesive, it felt like it made sense but it felt like an evolved version of me,\u201d Normani says in her <em>Billboard News <\/em>interview, adding that working with Gunna felt \u201corganic\u201d. \u201cWe met at a football game, and we just talked about working together. And management was just like, \u2018Yo, what about \u201c1:59\u2033?\u2019 \u2018Cause we wanted to do a record together, and he loved it. It was just immediate. I remember playing it for him, and then I also have a record on his project.\u201d Gunna also featured Normani on \u201c$$$\u201d from his latest album <em>One of Wun<\/em>. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tAs for \u201cCandy Paint,\u201d fans had been eating it up since Normani teased it more than a year ago and then featured a snippet of it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/culture\/product-recommendations\/normani-interview-bose-candy-paint-preview-1235354946\/\">during a Bose commercial<\/a>. \u201cAs soon as it comes on, it\u2019s infectious. It doesn\u2019t sound like, to me, anything that\u2019s out right now, but it kind of has that nostalgia,\u201d she explains. \u201cAny record that I\u2019m creating or whether it\u2019s even a visual, I love the early 2000s. Everybody knows that, like late \u201990s, early 2000s. I\u2019m heavily influenced and inspired by artists during that time. And even the sonics and the production, so you\u2019re gonna hear that a lot throughout the album.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tSpecifically, she named <a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/janet-jackson\/\">Janet Jackson<\/a> as one of the \u201cmost influential artists\u201d in her life, which she\u2019s made very clear in the past: She performed \u201cThe Pleasure Principle\u201d at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bmi.com\/news\/entry\/2018-bmi-rb-hip-hop-awards\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">2018 BMI R&amp;B\/Hip-Hop Awards<\/a>, when Jackson received the BMI Icon award, and she paid tribute to Jackson\u2019s iconic \u201cWould You Mind\u201d performance during her All For You tour during her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/awards\/normani-wild-side-2021-mtv-vmas-9628466\/\">\u201cWild Side\u201d performance<\/a> at the 2021 MTV Video Music Awards. \u201cShe\u2019s definitely paved the way, and when I think of the women that I aspire to follow the footsteps of, she\u2019s definitely up there. And she\u2019s had so much impact on me, so sonically, you\u2019ll be able to hear the inspiration,\u201d Normani adds. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tWatch Normani\u2019s full\u00a0<em>Billboard News\u00a0<\/em>interview above.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/pop\/normani-dopamine-debut-album-interview-1235706518\/\">Aller \u00e0 la source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are you ready for Normani\u2018s debut album to drop this week? Because she definitely is. Dopamine is set to arrive this Friday, June 14, via RCA Records. Normani knows her fanbase has been clamoring for her first full-length album for the last few years, which obviously came with \u201cpressure. Everybody not necessarily knowing what is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musique","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87285\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}