Normani’s years-in-the-making debut album arrived with Dopamine earlier this year, but the 28-year-old revealed she’s not planning to make fans wait that long again with her sophomore LP.
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In an interview with Rolling Stone at Spotify’s Wrapped party, Normani opened up about her plans to release another album in 2025. “Putting lots more music out, festivals, and a tour,” she said of her plans for next year. “Leave it to me to put out a new album too, a whole new body of work. I promised I wouldn’t make you guys wait that long anymore! I’m just putting things out and moving more this year, as opposed to preparation.”
Normani is feeling inspired by what’s going on in her life and she’s pouring it all into her upcoming album. “I’m experiencing so much in such a short period that I feel like I have a lot to talk about,” she said. “Dopamine was curated over four to five years, so it’s a lot of things that I had been through, but present day, I still have so much happening currently that I want to be able to talk about and share and get off just for myself.”
In addition to a new project and hitting the road for a tour, Normani also made time for Hollywood with her starring role in Freaky Tales, which could get a wide release in 2025. “It was really cool to tap into a space that I’m not typically in and be creative in a different way,” she said. “I felt like it was also a breath of fresh air for me to have that while working on the album. Being able to be creative outside of just music alone was refreshing. I feel like it was a palette cleanser.”
Dopamine finally arrived in June after initially being announced in 2018. The debut LP reached No. 91 on the Billboard 200 with 12,000 total album units earned in the first week.
