3 hours ago, NormaniQueen said:

do y'all think new music is coming before the festival in october? i really hope so!

Like @CozySkin put it very bluntly lol, I don't think so. She usually loves long teasing periods and the Grammy Museum interview didn't feel like anything other than live performances was coming soon.

Meli Music aka the Brazil Festival Performance we've been discussing is confirmed!

Also Normani may still be in the Sony family (at least internationally) since this post got clearer by their social media manager:

18 hours ago, nooniebao said:

Nnn will she have the time allotted to her for that? It's a festival after all.

There's only 5 artists lined up and it goes from 12pm to 10pm!

I have my ticket! Can't believe I'm seeing her after 9 years. I was at the last 5H concert we had over here.

And now it's sold out. Normani's (and other new added artists') IMPACT!

Edited August 19Aug 19 by Flare

I loooove her motivation hairstyles. I hated the chopped bangs for Dopamine.

i'm fine with no music until next year if we see her a lot towards the end of the year. if the strategy is to stay in people's face i'm all for it.

Another performance this weekend?

love to see it!! from the ground up. like i said i don't care if we don't get new music till next year, i just wanna see her WORK.

Performing at Princeton University today!

43 minutes ago, nooniebao said:

Performing at Princeton University today!

This is the kind of stuff she should have been doing around motivation era YEARS ago. Doing these small performances at colleges etc.

The waves x one in a million mashup, YUP!

She did this for me!!!

23 hours ago, Mstreep said:

This is the kind of stuff she should have been doing around motivation era YEARS ago. Doing these small performances at colleges etc.

Let's just be happy that we have gotten more perfomances this year than previous.

It is very obvious that RCA was responsible for getting her those huge stages back in 2018-2019. When she decided not to go the Motivation route, they stopped booking her those big stages. Her old manager might've sucked booking her gigs on his own. Lydia has done more than Brandon. And again, it is not lost on me that we got more performances after leaving RCA.

It's good that Lydia is getting her back out there. Now, it is time to start teasing new music.

8 hours ago, GroovyBaby said:

Let's just be happy that we have gotten more perfomances this year than previous.

It is very obvious that RCA was responsible for getting her those huge stages back in 2018-2019. When she decided not to go the Motivation route, they stopped booking her those big stages. Her old manager might've sucked booking her gigs on his own. Lydia has done more than Brandon. And again, it is not lost on me that we got more performances after leaving RCA.

It's good that Lydia is getting her back out there. Now, it is time to start teasing new music.

A good piece of this is incorrect but I appreciate your enthusiasm.

Labels typically aren't involved in booking stages for the artist. That's a function of management. Brandon was very hands on with the 2018-19 run and getting her the opening spot on Sweetener tour. I guess people don't know but Brandon is a nepo baby so he had industry connections via his dad lol. He knows tops industry players personally through that. He was a mess but does deserve his credit.

Now for Lydia to impress me, just keep Normani booked to a gig every month from now on. No month should pass without a brand deal or performance.

If chopped influencers, Love Island people, and 5 minute tiktok famous "artists" can get monthly things, Normani can too. So far Lydia has done good from last Fall to now (given Normani has no new music out yet she's always around doing stuff again).

I agree, she needs to stay booked with at least one thing a month for a year straight. All it takes is one performance going viral to get interest in her again and enough buzz to drop a new song to test the waters

4 hours ago, Topaz said:

I agree, she needs to stay booked with at least one thing a month for a year straight. All it takes is one performance going viral to get interest in her again and enough buzz to drop a new song to test the waters

well this princeton performance is going viral cus now they're clowning her for doing it when before they were telling her to get on stages lol

On 9/8/2026 at 5:22 PM, Arianna Kylie said:

well this princeton performance is going viral cus now they're clowning her for doing it when before they were telling her to get on stages lol

I don't think the hate is that viral. I haven't seen it once on my TL. I only see people crying about the hate.

People gotta learn that twitter is very echochamber and small bubbles. What's viral on one part of the app is never seen on the other side ever.

Normani should be performing any and everywhere and building herself back up. Twitter is not a real place, all the artists twitter likes just flop endlessly. Normani needs to get tiktok on her side if anything.

Edit: I found this 95k (!!!) liked tweet defending Normani's performance. Twitter is really different worlds haha.

"I'll always defend this diva because she had everything for her career to take off, but she decided to pause her career just to take care of her parents with cancer, and the gays here on Twitter keep attacking the poor thing"

Also, people acting like this is some random university and it's PRINCETON is CRAZYYY!!!! One of the top universities in the country being downplayed to insult Normani. The pay was good so she shouldn't even care. Top Uni's pay good for these lil gigs. 😭

Edited September 10Sep 10 by Flare

So in the Grammys museum interview they said where going to see justice for big boy what could that mean ?

11 hours ago, Flex said:

Just finished watching and there was more little tea mixed into the full thing vs the summaries and clips we got.

One that stood out to me was that they fully confirmed the performances this year are just to give Dopamine the little performances it should have had and to fill the gap until they fully put Normani back out.

Idk if the summaries/clips made that point 100% clear. We're fully in the pre-era period until the announcements come. Putting the rest under spoiler cause it gets long.

Next one is when Lydia screamed "ask RCA" about the vinyls for Dopamine. I couldn't gather if that was a fun shade like "we're out from RCA so go bother them for that stuff" or a "we're still signed to RCA/Sony (in some form) so if people make noise, a limited run of vinyls can come".

Another thing, Lydia says she wants to put Normani at #1 across the board. Also, reading through the lines, they want the entire team to have synergy and feel like "family". No outliers at all, no people who will jump ship. This is why it's taking longer for them to start the era.

FINAL thing, Lydia discussing how Motivation was against Say So behind the scenes at RCA and she was getting a lot of calls about how Motivation competing HARD against it originally. Then, Motivation impacted the music industry and even filmmakers behind the scenes from what she was hearing at the time.

So Lydia knew Normani was a true SUPERSTAR since 2019 but couldn't work with her since she was managing Doja at the time and Normani had her old management.

Edited September 12Sep 12 by Flare

5 hours ago, Flare said:

Just finished watching and there was more little tea mixed into the full thing vs the summaries and clips we got.

One that stood out to me was that they fully confirmed the performances this year are just to give Dopamine the little performances it should have had and to fill the gap until they fully put Normani back out.

Idk if the summaries/clips made that point 100% clear. We're fully in the pre-era period until the announcements come. Putting the rest under spoiler cause it gets long.

Next one is when Lydia screamed "ask RCA" about the vinyls for Dopamine. I couldn't gather if that was a fun shade like "we're out from RCA so go bother them for that stuff" or a "we're still signed to RCA/Sony (in some form) so if people make noise, a limited run of vinyls can come".

Another thing, Lydia says she wants to put Normani at #1 across the board. Also, reading through the lines, they want the entire team to have synergy and feel like "family". No outliers at all, no people who will jump ship. This is why it's taking longer for them to start the era.

FINAL thing, Lydia discussing how Motivation was against Say So behind the scenes at RCA and she was getting a lot of calls about how Motivation competing HARD against it originally. Then, Motivation impacted the music industry and even filmmakers behind the scenes from what she was hearing at the time.

So Lydia knew Normani was a true SUPERSTAR since 2019 but couldn't work with her since she was managing Doja at the time and Normani had her old management.

What did you make out of big boy will get its justice line

7 hours ago, Flare said:

Just finished watching and there was more little tea mixed into the full thing vs the summaries and clips we got.

One that stood out to me was that they fully confirmed the performances this year are just to give Dopamine the little performances it should have had and to fill the gap until they fully put Normani back out.

Idk if the summaries/clips made that point 100% clear. We're fully in the pre-era period until the announcements come. Putting the rest under spoiler cause it gets long.

Next one is when Lydia screamed "ask RCA" about the vinyls for Dopamine. I couldn't gather if that was a fun shade like "we're out from RCA so go bother them for that stuff" or a "we're still signed to RCA/Sony (in some form) so if people make noise, a limited run of vinyls can come".

Another thing, Lydia says she wants to put Normani at #1 across the board. Also, reading through the lines, they want the entire team to have synergy and feel like "family". No outliers at all, no people who will jump ship. This is why it's taking longer for them to start the era.

FINAL thing, Lydia discussing how Motivation was against Say So behind the scenes at RCA and she was getting a lot of calls about how Motivation competing HARD against it originally. Then, Motivation impacted the music industry and even filmmakers behind the scenes from what she was hearing at the time.

So Lydia knew Normani was a true SUPERSTAR since 2019 but couldn't work with her since she was managing Doja at the time and Normani had her old management.

7 hours ago, Flare said:

Just finished watching and there was more little tea mixed into the full thing vs the summaries and clips we got.

One that stood out to me was that they fully confirmed the performances this year are just to give Dopamine the little performances it should have had and to fill the gap until they fully put Normani back out.

Idk if the summaries/clips made that point 100% clear. We're fully in the pre-era period until the announcements come. Putting the rest under spoiler cause it gets long.

Next one is when Lydia screamed "ask RCA" about the vinyls for Dopamine. I couldn't gather if that was a fun shade like "we're out from RCA so go bother them for that stuff" or a "we're still signed to RCA/Sony (in some form) so if people make noise, a limited run of vinyls can come".

Another thing, Lydia says she wants to put Normani at #1 across the board. Also, reading through the lines, they want the entire team to have synergy and feel like "family". No outliers at all, no people who will jump ship. This is why it's taking longer for them to start the era.

FINAL thing, Lydia discussing how Motivation was against Say So behind the scenes at RCA and she was getting a lot of calls about how Motivation competing HARD against it originally. Then, Motivation impacted the music industry and even filmmakers behind the scenes from what she was hearing at the time.

So Lydia knew Normani was a true SUPERSTAR since 2019 but couldn't work with her since she was managing Doja at the time and Normani had her old management.

Y'all need to take all this with a grain of salt …ain't noting changed with how Normani would constantly hype something is coming. She was saying the same thing with this current manager last year and before the album came out. They are just literally making it up as they go