Ellen von UnwerthNormani took the internet by storm when she released the dance-heavy, early 2000s-inspired video for her song “Motivation.” It was not only a celebration of her childhood inspirations, it was meant to be a celebration of her culture as well.
“I told the director, ‘I want this to be as black as possible,’” Normani tells Cosmopolitan in a new December/January cover story. “I was like, let’s show black culture. Why does pop music have to be so white? Why don’t we make it a little bit more me?”
Normani’s aim as a solo artist
