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Normani Describes Long-Delayed Debut Album ‘Dopamine’ As Ultimate ‘Representation of My Resilience’

Normani says her long-awaited debut solo album 'Dopamine' represents her 'resilience' and praises Beyoncé for fearlessly pushing boundaries.

But the sexy refrain could just as well be channeling the thoughts of fans who’ve been waiting nearly six years for the former Fifth Harmony star to drop her full-length solo debut since that fateful day in 2018 when she tweeted, “ I have my album title y’all.” When we were in [Fifth Harmony], we didn’t have the opportunity to have a real opinion until the last project we did,” the singer tells ELLE in a new cover story that details how her plans to release the LP — which at one point was called 1906 for the address of her grandmother’s house where she was raised, then Butterfly Effect — was serially delayed in part due to her parents being diagnosed with cancer; they are both doing better now. Pile on what the profile describes as heartbreak, “intense, unwarranted internet scrutiny” and a fight for creative control early in her career and you can easily understand the delay.

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