The title track is an exemplary piece of RnB, while the opener, Angel in Disguise, is minor-key, icy soul, rendered emotional by Brandy’s gospel-trained voice.
Never Say Never could easily have been eclipsed by the scale of its lead single’s success, but its quality threshold, in the main, is set high.
The single topped the US charts for an extraordinary 13 weeks in summer 1998. With a more than knowing wink to Michael Jackson and Paul McCartney’s duet The Girl Is Mine from 1982, the track, like most of the album, sounds effortless. It was thought appropriate to capitalise on their individual success and supposedly collective notoriety. Much was made of the duo having an alleged ‘beef’, whereas in reality they had never even met. Never Say Never is dominated by its second single, The Boy Is Mine, a duet with the then-white-hot soul diva Monica. Following up 1994’s eponymous debut, Never Say Never was a collection of smooth, mid-paced jams, which very much provide a snapshot of commercial RnB from the era. And I just pray that she’s resting well.Selling more than 14 million albums worldwide, singer and actress Brandy Norwood’s second album established her as a late 90s superstar. No matter what she went through, you could always see the light. She still misses her Fairy Godmother, Whitney Houston, eight years after her death.
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To her fans’ delight, the sitcom recently came to Netflix, and Brandy says it would be her “dream role” to play Moesha again in a series reboot.īrandy would also like to see her 1997 TV movie “Cinderella” come to streaming - on Disney+. Of course, when Brandy was Sy’rai’s age, she was starring as “Moesha” on TV. “You know, ‘Baby Mama’ was about her, but then to do a song with her? That was always my dream,” she said of their mother-daughter duet on “High Heels.” “I just can’t wait to see how far she goes with. We should all just lay off of him.” Brandy Getty Imagesīrandy has a very special collaborator on “B7”: Sy’rai, her 18-year-old daughter with her producer ex, Robert “Big Bert” Smith. I know we see what we see, but no one really knows what he’s going through and how deep it can be. We have no clue of what he really goes through every day of his life. “I think it’s a very hard thing to walk in his shoes. “I think Kanye, he needs a lot of love and a lot of compassion from all of us,” she said. “I have not been diagnosed as bipolar,” Brandy said, “but I’ve had moments where trauma has caused me to not be myself, and I felt at a point that I could’ve experienced moments of that.”īrandy has nothing but empathy for Kanye West, who she collaborated with on 2004’s “Talk About Our Love,” as he struggles with bipolar disorder. “B7” plays like confessional therapy on tunes such as “Bye Bipolar,” the closing track. “He encouraged me to write my own lyrics: ‘What story do you want to tell? What do you need to heal from?’ ” said Brandy. She was inspired to “go there” by Grammy-winning songwriter LaShawn Daniels, one of her “B7” producers, who died last September. Having only dabbled in writing previously, Brandy co-wrote every song on “B7,” making the album - a more mature, moodier version of 2004’s “Afrodisiac” - her most personal work ever. “Everything you could think about, I went through.” “B7” AP “I’ve been through a lot in those eight years - a lot of heartbreak, a lot of pain, a lot of ups and downs with love, trauma, mental health,” said Brandy. But now she’s making grown woman’s R&B on her new LP, “B7,” her seventh studio album - and her first since 2012. “I wanted to use my music as a way to start more conversations about mental health and how that’s something that we all need to work on every day.”īrandy Norwood has been working hard since she was a kid, making her self-titled debut - featuring hits such as “I Wanna Be Down” and “Baby” - when she was just 15.
“I loved someone that was not available to be loved by me, and so that drove me crazy,” Brandy told The Post about the song, whose video, depicting the straitjacketed star in a padded room, ends with the words, “You are not alone!” in a PSA. When she was still a teenager, Brandy playfully engaged in a catfight with Monica on their 1998 smash “The Boy Is Mine.”īut the now 41-year-old singer digs into deeper emotional territory on her haunting new single, “Borderline,” which examines the mental-health side effects of an unrequited love. Verzuz hypes Patti LaBelle and Gladys Knight for next Instagram diva battle The best songs of 2020 that helped get us through a soul-crushing yearĢ020 Billboard Music Awards sound a political note ahead of election 'Queens' star Naturi Naughton exposes 'shady' music biz: 'That trauma is there'