On 6/26/2024 at 12:45 AM, Monsieurgedeon said:

The story goes like this: the album was never planned to be released in the first place. She decided to announce the album out of the blue with the artwork, putting the label on blast without any notice, and basically forcing them to release something. Of course, this manœuvre didn't go to well as there was nothing to announce to begin with, no final tracklist, no date, nothing (explains also the long silence that ensued). 
 

Label decided to go with it but with minimal investment as to prove their point: the album is not solid enough and without any investment on our side you won't go anywhere. Don't expect any video or performance or anything, this is the whole project as it is. 

@Monsieurgedeon Any additional tea or info that you can provide us with? You were clearly correct months ago.

New spotting 

 

 

13 hours ago, dream03 said:

@Monsieurgedeon Any additional tea or info that you can provide us with? You were clearly correct months ago.

She for sure released a solid project 

 

She posted this to her stories

 

 

 

I streamed Dopamine today for the first time in a while, and it still hits the same as when I first listened to it. It's such a shame there's like zero buzz around it because it's such a good album! In another world, this album would be catapulting Normani's career.

The way this album still slaps. One of the best, if not the best, R&B album this year. 

 

 

 

On 6/26/2024 at 2:45 AM, Monsieurgedeon said:

The story goes like this: the album was never planned to be released in the first place. She decided to announce the album out of the blue with the artwork, putting the label on blast without any notice, and basically forcing them to release something. Of course, this manœuvre didn't go to well as there was nothing to announce to begin with, no final tracklist, no date, nothing (explains also the long silence that ensued). 
 

Label decided to go with it but with minimal investment as to prove their point: the album is not solid enough and without any investment on our side you won't go anywhere. Don't expect any video or performance or anything, this is the whole project as it is. 

On 6/26/2024 at 9:45 AM, Monsieurgedeon said:

The story goes like this: the album was never planned to be released in the first place. She decided to announce the album out of the blue with the artwork, putting the label on blast without any notice, and basically forcing them to release something. Of course, this manœuvre didn't go to well as there was nothing to announce to begin with, no final tracklist, no date, nothing (explains also the long silence that ensued). 
 

Label decided to go with it but with minimal investment as to prove their point: the album is not solid enough and without any investment on our side you won't go anywhere. Don't expect any video or performance or anything, this is the whole project as it is. 

not surprised, but the fact there's a Candy Paint MV in the vault that also seemingly isn't planned on being released still makes no sense to me

8 hours ago, Alex said:

not surprised, but the fact there's a Candy Paint MV in the vault that also seemingly isn't planned on being released still makes no sense to me

Pushing Candy Paint at the same time as the Bose partnership, was planned way ahead of release and should have happened at the same time as the release of the album. However once the album was delayed (again)  they had to go through with the endorsement while having nothing to promote (Bose would not change their full marketing calendar). A video was shot at some point but it was decided to rather cut the losses and not go with any kind of promo including videos (and editing). The material is here so maybe at one point in the future (not this year) they will release it as a gift for the fans but in 2024 there is no budget planned to support her or the album and the sale performances didn't create any positive momentum. All I can say is that relationships are really tense right now between the artist and the label. She will not let anything transpire tho and would prefer to act like everything is the result of her own choices even if it's look bad.

 

1 hour ago, Cap87 said:

 

this isn't really news lol

 

28 minutes ago, monologueNacafe said:

this isn't really news lol

It's good news

 

Hope she gets considered 

Hopefully she can snatch a few R&B nominations. 

Edited August 29, 20242 yr by nuclear

49 minutes ago, Cap87 said:

It's good news

 

Hope she gets considered 

Who didn't know it was eligible for the Grammys?

the absolute absence is beyond frustrating when we have an album full of bops by such a fresh artist with a profile of amazing music videos, choreo and performances. cmon!!!!

So no VMAs performance this year right ? 
 

 

4 hours ago, humbz said:

the absolute absence is beyond frustrating when we have an album full of bops by such a fresh artist with a profile of amazing music videos, choreo and performances. cmon!!!!

I just hope she and her team are working on getting her from RCA and going elsewhere.

4 hours ago, xtino said:

So no VMAs performance this year right ? 
 

 

Not yet but still holding hope until next week

On 8/26/2024 at 12:06 AM, Monsieurgedeon said:

Pushing Candy Paint at the same time as the Bose partnership, was planned way ahead of release and should have happened at the same time as the release of the album. However once the album was delayed (again)  they had to go through with the endorsement while having nothing to promote (Bose would not change their full marketing calendar). A video was shot at some point but it was decided to rather cut the losses and not go with any kind of promo including videos (and editing). The material is here so maybe at one point in the future (not this year) they will release it as a gift for the fans but in 2024 there is no budget planned to support her or the album and the sale performances didn't create any positive momentum. All I can say is that relationships are really tense right now between the artist and the label. She will not let anything transpire tho and would prefer to act like everything is the result of her own choices even if it's look bad.

This is so sad… Normani is RCA's new Tinashe basically… just scrapped/shelved **** all around 

What is preventing her from promoting? The lack of it makes it seem like she doesn't care yet she says the opposite. If there's an issue she could speak on it to leverage social media help 

I'm not into Normani's unreleased material but this month some songs were registered, I wonder if they're just Dopamine scrapped stuff or if there is something else happening 

 

Without You | By Normani Kordei Hamilton, Tommy Brown, Tommy Parker, Jackdee Baptiste

Money Mani | By Normani Kordei Hamilton, Tommy Brown, Tommy Parker, Jackdee Baptiste

Cold | By Normani Kordei Hamilton, Tommy Brown, Tommy Parker, Jackdee Baptiste

Peace | By Normani Kordei Hamilton, Justin Gewirtz Hunter, Felisha Harvey, Bernard Harvey

I'm Done | By Normani Kordei Hamilton, Justin Gewirtz Hunter, Felisha Harvey, Bernard Harvey

3 hours ago, YoungDreamer said:

I'm not into Normani's unreleased material but this month some songs were registered, I wonder if they're just Dopamine scrapped stuff or if there is something else happening 

 

Without You | By Normani Kordei Hamilton, Tommy Brown, Tommy Parker, Jackdee Baptiste

Money Mani | By Normani Kordei Hamilton, Tommy Brown, Tommy Parker, Jackdee Baptiste

Cold | By Normani Kordei Hamilton, Tommy Brown, Tommy Parker, Jackdee Baptiste

Peace | By Normani Kordei Hamilton, Justin Gewirtz Hunter, Felisha Harvey, Bernard Harvey

I'm Done | By Normani Kordei Hamilton, Justin Gewirtz Hunter, Felisha Harvey, Bernard Harvey

I imagine Peace and I'm Done are from the Fair sessions since Felisha is credited.