Normani Talks Performing With Khalid, Meeting Janet Jackson, Working With Missy Elliott at Billboard Music Awards: Watch

The singer also excitedly talked about meeting this year’s Icon Award recipient Janet Jackson. “I don’t get nervous when it comes to a lot of people,” she explained, “but Janet, I was really, really awkward…I feel like Janet and I have the same energy, or at least I like to think so. I’m really shy, and she’s really shy, as well.”   

Normani went on to reveal what it’s been like working with Missy Elliott on new music, explaining that while the two have not yet been able to find time to get into a studio together, they did have a creative call a few weeks ago. “I told her kind of the direction that I was going for and immediately she’s like, ‘Yup, I got a record,’” Normani said.   

“She was like, ‘I was gonna save it for myself, but, you know’…I feel like Missy Elliott is a representation of the music that I grew up listening to, and it is what made me fall in love with music…To be able to have someone who I looked up to for so long and kind of made me love music and has really paved the way to wanna be part of my project is mind-blowing.”    

You can watch the full interview with Normani above.