NEW YORK — Victoria Monét won’t take it personally if you call her upcoming album a comeback, even though it has only been a three-year break.
The singer, 37, is keenly aware of heightened expectations. But she was slightly unprepared for some negativity that followed her 2024 Grammy wins for best new artist, best R&B album and best non-classical engineered album. Because that makes me feel like there was a gap in time where they noticed that I was gone,” the artist said, or this is a comeback,.
“It should be normal to take time to create your next album. “I’m OK with people asking for more music or feeling like, ‘Dang, I missed her. “I’m really, really, really passionate about love. … “The album covers many bases, including love for my daughter, love for the world, what I want to see for it. “If I get millions of supporters, I can also have millions of haters. But who am I paying attention to? And that’s what the album for me is about. “I went through a moment where I was critical of everything.
I know we live in a world where we want everything fast,” the three-time Grammy winner said in an interview with The Associated Press. For inspiration, she said she had to let life take its course. The “On My Mama” singer returns Friday with “Frequency of Love,” a 22-track studio project that follows her Grammy-winning “Jaguar II,” which she made in 2023. A lot of it was just reflective of what I was going through or feeling while dating,” said Monét, who originally considered creating a yacht-R&B album. “I think there was a flip from me being an underdog that everyone wanted to support,” she said. I was looking around and seeing what could be better: criticizing myself, the workplace, the state of my mood, the state of music, state of voice, my body, just nitpicking everything,” she said. “And so, it’s really been a journey to come to a place where I can operate in that shift — that paradigm shift — that makes me OK with everything that is, and also OK with everything that is going to come.”
