Normani Celebrates ‘Dopamine’ Album With Cake Featuring Tweets From Fan Who Waited Five Years For It

Shortly after the success of “Love Lies,” Kordei went on to release singles “Motivation” which she performed at the MTV Video Music Awards in 2019. A couple more false starts to the album came with the Cardi B collab “Wild Side” in 2021 and then droplet single “Fair” the following year.

In February 2024, Normani officially launched the Dopamine campaign with an appropriately titled website, wheresthedamnalbum.com, and official cover—albeit without a lead single or street date.

“This body of work really is just a representation of my resilience,” Kordei told Elle’s Samuel Maude in April. “I know what it’s like to put out music and records that I don’t wholeheartedly believe in. When we were in [Fifth Harmony], we didn’t have the opportunity to have a real opinion until the last project we did. I promised myself, ‘If God gives me another opportunity to do things in my own way, I’m not going to take that for granted.’”