“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

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