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I knew we couldn't trust her. She always gave performative vibes.

Normani x Popeyes brand deal! Everything is ramping up!

The first page of this thread aged like milk. Madonna, Sabrina, Charli, Taylor, Lisa, and Nirvana ate! Those were the only people I saw discussed at length that actually went on stage.

The disco ball being there. @justifymythreads are we getting breadcrumbs or what? New era is disco theme or music to dance to/club music? Normani detectives activate, it's time.

Genuinely, what I came to post. I wonder how she'll twist this to get fans back because once MAGA dissolves over the next 5 ish years (it's inevitable btw), she won't get paid for these stances. She'll actually have to release new music to make money and deal with the consequences of her actions.

Yup. This is the first performance where they are showing they're not okay as 4. They're just checking off the boxes and not happy at all

Yeah their management of the era was fine. I think the label was to blame cause they 100% didn't want Fifth Harmony to thrive for [REDACTED] reasons. The bookings were good and they even did lip sync battle which was big at the time, VMAs, Good Morning America, hella show bookings including the asia tour which was cool, and multiple videos (Down, No Angel, Deliver, He Like That). Can't really ask for more than that tbh.

I agree + idk how she would escape her contract at RCA/Sony with only one album. That brings me to Wikipedia (of all places): "The label [Jive Records] was revived in 2026 by RCA as an independent entity within the Sony Music umbrella. Mike Weiss and David Melhado were appointed as co-presidents of the newly revived label.". It's a pretty easy convo for the larger RCA to say "Hey let's move Normani back into another smaller entity. We didn't really want to lead on her in the first place but we don't want her to leave completely". Also this is an easy explanation to RCA (and some Sony social accounts internationally!!!) still posting her. I'm sure there's people at Sony/RCA who would advocate to keep Normani cause she's technically been in that family/world since Fifth Harmony days (with Epic Records) and she has a A+ reputation behind the scenes at Sony. People know she's super professional, never bad mouths her label or team, and fits this era of music well. Also, they can see her social media engagement is still good when she does post things vs starting fresh with a newer artist.

This is why we need to start a list of potential Normani Album 2 producers. If she has multiple big names, she's def not independent. She's been with Khris a lot. If he's the main or only producer of the album, she could be independent. Who else has she been working with?

2027 unless it's a buzz single. I suspect that's why the rumors around were multiple big record labels are not going to spend much this Q4. Now Taylor is doing her deluxe with a big promo run starting with VMAs. She's going to suck the attention all October then the Christmas freeze happens right after and Mariah takes over. Not a good time to launch an era. I think 2027 will be Normani's time.

MOTHA BOOKED that stage. We're actually gearing up for an era. Normani not showing up to nothing unless she's performing or playing a big role. Love that for her! No more random events just to go to them. - Also she SERVED

Normani just saying "soon" without saying it cause she knows everyone would drag her.

Normani at Variety Power of Women

This is a NFL season single. Something for the wine moms to listen to between touchdowns.

Ella's team cut the check.

The word around is multiple big labels froze their marketing spend for Q4 2026, so all their major releases are moved to 2027. For Normani this means if she is at a major label, they aren't going to move her to drop an album last min this year or even drop a single. Lydia should focus on as much performance bookings as she can for the rest of the year and brand deals. Maybe get Normani to do a couple viral dance trends on tiktok from KPOP groups or something which will give her easy buzz.

And this tea dropped as we're already having the convo in base. It was meant to heard! Normani is actually a victim. You had S10 (managment) on one hand stealing her checks so Brandon could go to Cabo 3 times a month then Tunji (label president) on the other hand abandoning Normani's label pre-album 1, putting her career on indefinite pause. Just NASTY and RUDE.

AND NOW THE PROOF THAT NORMANI WAS NOT LAZY AND ONCE AGAIN, EXTERNAL ISSUES SET HER BACK. #FlareIsAlwaysRight

Honestly, Kiss should have been treated like this. I don't understand why Demi Lovato in the US is basically like blacklisted. People refuse to accept she can make bops and gas them up or go viral on tiktok. If she launched that project more in Europe and focused on European promo first, it might have been received better.

Yup, Normani is rarely afforded grace online. People just default to anger despite the fact Normani did nothing actually wrong or bad lol. Normani never been one of the artists we gotta "cancel" weekly for stuff. Anyways, Lydia is a good manager when an era is actually going (based on her track record). My one red flag is nobody really knows why she stopped managing Coco Jones, not that long after they got the grammy. With that said, Coco went downhill after that run. She also switch up her choreographers and it's been a mess for her. She switched her team up a bit out of nowhere despite having HIGH success.

Being a serial predator at under 16 is WILD.

Tour! They probably will have a big section for it or already know what the tour visuals for big boy will be like. This is such a lie omg. Normani was NOT saying all of this and going into deep detail. But FORGET NORMANI, LYDIA DOES NOT DO INTERVIEWS. So the fact Lydia is openly being clear about HER GOALS for Normani and even revealing a lil of how she will accomplish them is major. She's done it before with Coco and Doja so it's not some secret krabby patty formula. Lydia has proven success. Y'all gotta stop downplaying everything. Based on the story we have now, you can put it together and realize Normani took step back because her parents were sick but her old management sabotaged TF out of her so album 1 was set up to have a choppy release months maybe years in advance. Lydia and Normani cleaned it up and now a proper era can be constructed (as long as they secure the budgets for various things). It's so wild how when it comes to other artists people can understand the label wasn't right or management. But when it's NORMANI? "She's EVIL AND LAZY. EFF HER. SHE'S DONE."

I read the title and I agree. I don't even need more context, ATRL members have become tacky asf.

A baby gimmick is low, even for Gaga.

I love how people are jumping on Normani when it's Sam Smith's leading song, it was his chorus, all she did was a damn 15 second verse + harmonize on the chorus (aka normal featured artist work). Y'all really jump on (black) women at all times, no matter the context, never change ATRL! Anyways, these don't sound alike at all. Waste of tax dollars.