Rihanna tweeted, “Ugh why can’t I be you?!” after the star’s dance performance on the Savage x Fenty NYFW runway. Nicki Minaj called her “that bitch” while accepting a VMA. In 2018, she re-created Janet Jackson’s “Pleasure Principle” routine at the BMI R&B/Hip-Hop Awards, as Jackson looked on from the audience like a proud mom. She scored hit duets with Sam Smith and Khalid, and slowly found her own voice. She became the Beyoncé she wanted to see in the world, presenting herself as a type of performer who feels almost old-school at this moment in pop: a big-voiced dance machine with a flair for diva-like showmanship. Since then, much has changed: After Fifth Harmony ended, RCA Records signed Normani to a solo deal. “So many things start to go through your mind, like, ‘Maybe this is my fault? What could I have done differently? Am I not working hard enough? Am I not as talented? What’s wrong with my voice?’ ” In the studio with 5H, she sometimes felt similarly disregarded, pigeonholed as “the dancer.” When she was the only member whose vocals were left off a song, she began to question what the hell she was even doing. “She’s still scarred from that,” her dad says. As the only black member, she often felt like “the other one in the room.” She was targeted by racist bullies online after a subset of Harmonizers believed Normani had slighted Cabello by calling her “quirky.” Trolls posted Photoshopped images of her being lynched others sent death threats. In Fifth Harmony, the singing group that also gave the world Camila Cabello, she was the underdog. Normani’s perfectionism comes from a place of early-career trauma.
“She was like, ‘You bugging just a little bit.’ ” The pair had met when Rowland served as a judge on The X-Factor a year after Normani competed on the show. “I literally sent it to Kelly Rowland before anybody else,” Normani says. Eventually, things got so bad that a member of Destiny’s Child had to talk her down. “I obsess over things like that,” she says. “She was really in tears at one point,” her dad, Derrick Hamilton, adds. Lo, Britney Spears) while performing some truly sick choreography, including a bit where she kicks, spins, and bounces a basketball off her butt.Įveryone loved the video - except Normani, who endlessly kept tweaking it. In the video, released last summer, Normani romps through scenes from videos she loved as a child ( J. Written with Max Martin and Normani’s tourmate Ariana Grande, “Motivation” was a blast of airy, sexy, rhythmically savvy pop.
Some pop stars might go through a few different versions of the video for their first solo hit Normani went through about 50.
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