Flare

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.

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.

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. 😭

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).

The waves x one in a million mashup, YUP! She did this for me!!!

Did we all buy our collector boxes yet? B'day deserves nothing less since it is her best album.

Basically if you happen to come across one like a feed post or a tiktok live, and start interacting, you'll get a bunch more from that point on. The algorithm for it is aggressive.

I was about to say, he hasn't been relevant since Tumblr was relevant. How does he have money for trips when he doesn't even act in anything?

It's lowkey scary cause that feels like the only conclusion here. Something very dark will happen.