Normani is assuring that the Dopamine era is here to stay, and a tour may be coming sooner than you think.
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"We’re definitely having those conversations,” the 28-year-old singer told Us Weekly about the status of her tour plans while celebrating the release of Law Roach’s debut book, How to Build a Fashion Icon: Notes of Confidence From the World’s Only Image Architect, with Keke Palmer and more stars in Los Angeles.
"I'm really excited to just get back on stage and see my fans. I feel like it’s just a totally different energy, and I thrive in that,” Normani said. “I’ve loved the recording process, but it was just so extensive that I’m just like, I’m ready to be creative in a different way.”
Dopamine, Normani’s debut solo album, was released on June 14 after her girl group, Fifth Harmony, went on hiatus in 2017.
The album's production was a long time in the making—six years, to be exact. Normani first hinted at her solo project in 2018, tweeting, "I have my album title y’all." Despite facing several delays along the way, she chose to hold off until each song felt just right.
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“I know what it’s like to put out music and records that I don’t wholeheartedly believe in,” Normani told Elle in April. “When we were in [Fifth Harmony], we didn’t have the opportunity to have a real opinion until the last project we did. I promised myself, ‘If God gives me another opportunity to do things in my own way, I’m not going to take that for granted.’”
During the panel with Roach and Palmer in L.A., Normani also spoke about feeling “hidden” when she was in Fifth Harmony and said she’s “grateful” she can now do things her way.
"I felt like I had to do the most in order to be seen. And not that, you know, I do what I love for validation, but it does feel nice to feel seen sometimes, especially because I feel like in the group, it was my own experience,” she expressed. “I was the only Black girl — not to say that the girls didn’t want to be there for me, but I don’t think that they knew how to because my experience was my own.”
Normani continued, “I didn’t know that fans saw and appreciated me at the time. I didn’t know that my superpower was the fact that I was me.”
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