Cynthia Erivo composed Brandy a letter when she was a teen to thank her for composing her 1998 album Never Say Never.
The Widows starlet was “consumed” with The Boy Is Mine vocalist’s 2nd studio album and chose to connect and let her understand much she valued her record.
“I was consumed with it and I would play it over and over,” Cynthia, 37, remembered throughout The Hollywood Reporter’s Songwriters Roundtable. “I resembled 12 or something and I composed her a letter since I was simply consumed with her voice, I ‘d never ever heard anybody like that. Something about the noises that she was making gotten in touch with me actually truly deeply. I believe I purchased more than among those (CDs).
“I believe I simply composed that she was my preferred vocalist and I believe I need to have thanked her for composing the album or something. I do not understand, I simply actually gotten in touch with it and something about the method she utilized consistency in her tunes resembled brand-new to me so it seemed like, ‘Oh, I like that, I like what she’s making with her voice, I wish to discover to do that with my voice.’ Yeah, it was actually unique.”
The British starlet kept in mind that Burna Boy’s 2023 tune, Sittin’ on Top of the World, which samples Brandy’s Top of the World, is “a good little throwback” to her teenage years and she has actually been “playing that over and over once again”.