Manicure: Dawn Sterling at Statement Artists using Young Nails.
Makeup: Sir John at Management+Artists using L’Oréal Paris. Hair: César De Leön Ramirêz at crowdMGMT using Wildform. But Normani’s a loyalist to the positive, uplifting power of pure pop and the magic of pairing those beats with insanely amazing choreo, just like her ’90s idols used to do, so that one day, fans will bust out their “Motivation” moves-after feverishly searching YouTube for step-by-step breakdowns-at house parties and weddings, “Thriller”-style. Normani started planning what she felt had to be done: injecting some sorely needed fun into today’s messy music landscape of singles that are buzzy because of “hidden” messages about exes. I’m happy everyone has an opportunity ’cause we worked our asses off. (About the rocky breakup rumors, Normani says, “People do what people do-take the information they have and blow it up. It turns out, “making the band” is more of a short-term business than an earnest attempt to expand the canon. Two more albums followed Fifth Harmony’s platinum debut, Reflection, and then it happened-the band went the way of O-Town, LMNT, Danity Kane, and countless other formulaic groups thrown together on reality audition shows. You can be onstage and perform and you can be enough.” Still, the steady six-year grind of manufactured ingenuity frustrated her-especially since she never got to sing lead, something she slowly started to realize she needed to do.“I’m not sure what that turning point was,” she says, “but I was like, Normani is enough. “And that’s exactly what I was trying to do.” “I remember always being asked, ‘Why do you wanna be in a girl group? So you can hide?’” Normani says now. And that even her own mom assumed her daughter would wind up in a Destiny’s Child–like collective so she could stay out of sight. So maybe it makes sense that her first real break came in the form of a crowded quintet. Not since Jennifer Lopez took jazz, house, and Latin dance breaks in the middle of 1999’s “If You Had My Love”-or since Britney Spears unleashed a sideways body roll, without moving her rib cage one centimeter, in “I’m a Slave 4 U”-had we felt such a collective burst of sheer exhilaration from pop music choreography by an artist not named Beyoncé.
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The dance sequences were the perfect explosions of eye candy none of us knew we needed: full splits on concrete, synchronized twerking on a chain-link fence, elegant ballet pirouettes worthy of Misty Copeland.
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In case you took the entire season off from the internet, a quick refresher: Out of nowhere, former Fifth Harmony singer and casual A-list collaborator Normani Kordei Hamilton dropped her first solo single on August 15, and everyone with a screen-from Apple Watches and incognito YouTube windows hidden on work desktops to iPads and even those giant contraptions (“TVs”) some people insist on keeping at home-watched. The “you” in question was.you, me, and the other 100 million (and counting) people who would soon stream her bop of the summer on repeat.
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