Good issues come to those that wait, and Normani has bided her time.
The Fifth Concord alum introduced the title of her long-awaited solo album on social media Wednesday. Normani additionally shared the album’s cowl, which options the R&B songstress straddling a black rocket mid-air whereas carrying a black and silver bikini.
“cryingg typing this (proper now),” Normani wrote on Instagram. “DOPAMINE THE ALBUM.”
A number of of Normani’s movie star friends congratulated her on the profession milestone, together with former 5H bandmate Lauren Jauregui.
“Let’s gooooo🔥” Jauregui wrote.
“IT’S TIME 🔥🔥🔥” Lori Harvey commented.
“LETS GO NORMANI! 🤍🤍🤍” Jordin Sparks wrote.
Normani has but to announce a launch date for “Dopamine,” although the album will be pre-saved on Spotify and Apple Music, based on the singer’s web site wheresthedamnalbum.com.
Normani acquired her musical begin as a member of the pop group Fifth Concord, which was fashioned on the second season of the U.S. model of “The X-Issue” in 2012. The platinum-selling lady group, which featured members Camila Cabello, Lauren Jauregui, Dinah Jane and Ally Brooke, went on hiatus in 2018 following the discharge of its self-titled third album in 2017.
Following the discharge of a joint EP with Calvin Harris in 2018 and subsequent collaborations with Khalid, 6lack and Sam Smith, Normani launched her debut solo single “Motivation” in August 2019. The music peaked at No. 33 on the Billboard Hot 100 and was certified platinum.
Normani adopted up “Motivation” with the 2020 single “Diamonds,” a collaboration with rapper Megan Thee Stallion that was featured on the soundtrack of “Birds of Prey.”
In 2021, the singer joined forces with Cardi B on the sensual gradual jam “Wild Aspect,” which earned her a No. 1 hit on Billboard’s R&B/hip-hop digital songs gross sales chart. 2022 noticed Normani launch the singles “Honest” and “New to You,” the latter a collaboration with Harris, Tinashe and Offset.
Throughout an interview with singer-songwriter Ciara on “The Ellen DeGeneres Present” in 2021, Normani mirrored on the issue of placing collectively her first album.
“Individuals actually underestimate how arduous it’s and the way a lot effort we put into one venture, one physique of labor,” Normani mentioned on the time. “Popping out of a woman group, there was lots that I had to determine about myself and fears that I needed to take care of head-on.”
She added: “If you give your child out to the world, which is our music, that’s the deepest a part of me; you give folks the chance to sort of choose it aside and have an opinion on it, however I consider in what I’m doing now.”
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