Normani - Is The Name
Cosmopolitan - South Africa|January-February 2020
After bringing the world to a standstill with one music video, the 23-year-old breath of fresh air is ready to make what’s old new again – including the era of the bona fide pop princess
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Normani - Is The Name

‘What do you want to hear?’

Normani must have asked this 10 times a day when she started vision boarding the video for Motivation. The ‘you’ in question was ... you, me and the other 100 million (and counting) people who would soon stream her bop on repeat.

Out of nowhere, former Fifth Harmony singer and casual A-list collaborator Normani Kordei Hamilton dropped her first solo single in August last year, 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 dance sequences were the perfect explosions of eye candy none of us knew we needed: full splits on concrete, synchronised twerking on a chainlink fence, elegant ballet pirouettes worthy of Misty Copeland. 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 centimetre, 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.

Just like Normani planned, the final product was bursting with colour. Pink, graffitied on her cropped tee, to highlight what she says is the main message of Motivation: that women should own their sexuality. Dusky lilac, in the sky behind her during that pas de deux, suggesting some night-time debauchery might be minutes away. Gold via rows of trumpets: the colour of hit records. And another colour, one Normani wanted to emphasise more than any other.

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