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| Single byBrandy featuringTy Dolla Sign[a] | ||||
| Released | October 14, 2020 | |||
| Studio | Conway Recording Studios (Los Angeles, CA)[1] | |||
| Length | 3:05 | |||
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"No Tomorrow, Pt. 2" is a song by American singerBrandy Norwood, featuring fellow American singerTy Dolla Sign. It is a remix of the song "No Tomorrow" taken from Norwood's seventh studio album,B7 (2020). "No Tomorrow" is a minimalist mid-tempo track with instrumentation from synthesizers, a piano, bass kicks, andfinger snaps. It was written by Norwood and Joshua "YXSH" Thomas, while production was handled by Norwood, Thomas andCory Rooney, with co-production byDarhyl "DJ" Camper.
The remix was released on October 14, 2020. "No Tomorrow" was part of Norwood's set lists of her performances at theBillboard Music Awards and onDick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve in 2020.[2]
Brandy Norwood and Joshua "YXSH" Thomas wrote the lyrics of "No Tomorrow", while its production was handled by Norwood, Thomas, andCory Rooney, with additional production fromDarhyl "DJ" Camper.[1] Additional lyrics for the remix were penned by singerTy Dolla Sign.[1] On the collaboration, Norwood said: "I'm a huge fan of Ty Dolla $ign. I think he's a brilliant artist. He's always shown a lot of respect for my music so I just felt like the sound of our voices would be great."[3]
"No Tomorrow" received generally positive reviews from music critics. Adi Mehta, writing forEntertainment Voice, called the song "effortlessly catchy". He found that it "features a memorable chorus full of priceless lines like "I'm gon' blow your phone up / In case there is no tomorrow," and is stunning in the way jagged pieces fall into elegant arrangements of vocals, resolving when Brandy finally declares, "I feel so beautiful"."[4]The Chicago Defender journalist Kimberly M. Dobine cited "No Tomorrow" as one of her favorite songs onB7. She remarked that "the clever vocal arrangements [on the track] show us that she is proudly embracing who she is as an artist, and the "Vocal Bible", we have come to admire."[5]
Teodor Zetko, writing forExclaim!, found that the song "smoothly — and slightly nihilistically — celebrates a romance and the immediacy of indulging in infatuation, to reduce regret as if life will cease tomorrow."[6]AllMusic editor Andy Kellman called the song a "dizzied love song" and ranked it along with "Rather Be" among "the sweetest songs in her catalog".[7]Pitchfork's Stephen Kearse complimented Camper, Daniels, and Norwood's joint production on the track and wrote: "The propulsive finger snaps and bass kicks of “No Tomorrow” contrast the song's grim subject matter about the end of a relationship."[8]
On October 14, 2020, Norwood performed "No Tomorrow, Pt. 2" live for the first time as part of a medley, also consisting of previous single "Borderline" and her 1999 single "Almost Doesn't Count", at theBillboard Music Awards.[9] Her first performance at the awards ceremony in twenty-five years, she performed without a live audience due toCOVID-19 protocols, wearing black pants and a lacy white top with long jacket, with her hair braided in various top knots.[10]Ty Dolla $ign joined her only for the "No Tomorrow" portion of the medley. The pair sang to each other while maintaining their distance on stage.[10] Norwood received generally positive reviews, with Stephen Daw fromBillboard calling it "a stunning medley".[10] In his review forTVLine's Andy Swift declared the performance a "triumphant return".[11]
Credits lifted from the liner notes ofB7.[1]
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| Various | July 31, 2020 | Album version |
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| October 14, 2020 | Single version | [13] |
^[a] The version featured onB7 is a solo version of the song. The Ty Dolla Sign version is a remix of the album version.
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