After six years of being confined to one-fifth of a song, she can now sprawl out, stretch wide, and fill all the empty spaces. “I’m doing this as therapy for me,” she says confidently. “To be able to get to know myself in a way that hasn’t even been revealed yet, to be vulnerable in a way that I haven’t been before. I want this to be like a diary of all women, to reflect and showcase the many layers of us. We’re not one-dimensional.”
Normaniphotographed by Luke Gilford for The FADER(2019)