Brandy - B7 (2020) [Official Digital Download]

Over 20 years ago, a legion of Black girls marveled at Brandy’s curled microbraids cascading from her tiara as she played Disney’s first Black princess in the 1997 musical TV film Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Cinderella; Whitney Houston co-produced and starred as the Fairy Godmother.

At the time, Brandy was just 18, but her career was about to take off. The following year, the now icon scored her first Hot 100 No. 1 with "The Boy Is Mine" featuring Monica. The track also became Brandy’s first and only Grammy win thus far.

It's been eight years since her last album (2012’s Two Eleven) – in that time, Brandy starred in Broadway’s Chicago, collaborated with Daniel Caesar and launched her own imprint, Brand Nu – but now she’s back with B7, the first album released under her label and distributed by Entertainment One (eOne). As Brandy speaks in her honeyed, husky vocals – which earned her the title of “Vocal Bible” – the 41-year-old reveals how she took the reins on B7.

She says her favorite song on the album, “Borderline,” channels “Angel in Disguise” from her 1998 LP Never Say Never, while on “Unconditional Oceans” she experiments more with electro-soul beats. Lyrically, Brandy owns the phrase “Baby Mama” on her collaboration with Chance the Rapper; apologizes for her longest musical hiatus to date on opening track “Saving All My Love” (“Sorry for my tardy/ Long time/ I was broken-hearted,” she sings); and confronts her mental health issues head on in the aptly titled “Bye Bipolar.”

TRACKLIST

1. Brandy - Saving All My Love
2. Brandy - Unconditional Oceans
3. Brandy - Rather Be
4. Brandy - All My Life, Pt. 1
5. Brandy - Lucid Dreams
6. Brandy - Borderline
7. Brandy - No Tomorrow
8. Brandy - Say Something
9. Brandy - All My Life, Pt. 2
10. Brandy - I Am More
11. Brandy - High Heels
12. Brandy - Baby Mama
13. Brandy - All My Life, Pt. 3
14. Brandy - Love Again
15. Brandy - Bye BiPolar



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