r/decadeology • u/slow-saturn • Jun 15 '26

Discussion 💭🗯️ Musicians whose careers stalled after Covid

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Camila Cabello was huge 2017-2019, but her popularity really dwindled post Covid. What other musicians were popular in the 2010s but fizzled after 2020s? 

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u/Automatic_Gift_7663 Jun 15 '26

Shawn mendes
Normani

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u/FergusonBishop Jun 15 '26

They’ve been telling me Normani is the next global superstar for a decade now

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u/Rough-Construction95 Jun 15 '26

she’s so, so talented. 🤍🤍🤍

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u/Conscious-Break7483 Jun 15 '26

Normani is great

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u/RodneyTheRobot Jun 15 '26

Normani was never a thing even in america, her only somewhat hit is collaboration with sam smith

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u/lo-finate Jun 15 '26

That album is never coming out

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u/friendly_reminder8 Jun 15 '26

It came out in 2024 lmao. It was a solid album but the momentum was long gone by that point

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u/InAllTheir Jun 18 '26

Yeah, that seemed to be the issue. That and the fact that she said she didn’t really like her biggest hit, Motivation, before her album was released.

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u/friendly_reminder8 Jun 19 '26

If she had just gone ahead and released a bunch of Motivation-esque pop songs in 2020 like everyone wanted her to I firmly believe she would’ve reached superstar status. All of the dominos were there waiting to be pushed over

But she HATED that song with a passion and both her parents had cancer so she didn’t release new music for years

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u/InAllTheir Jun 20 '26

Omg , poor thing, both of her parents had cancer?? That’s awful.

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u/friendly_reminder8 Jun 20 '26

Yep at the same time, right before and during early Covid. So the exact time that her star was at its peak (post-Motivation/pre-Covid) is when she was dealing with this

Then couple that with the constant attacks she was getting on social media and demands to put out music she didn’t like (she hated Motivation and didn’t want to release it at all) and it’s no surprise her career stalled

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u/Automatic_Gift_7663 Jun 15 '26

She had middling success. Love lies, motivation, wild side

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u/feathermuffinn Jun 15 '26 edited Jun 15 '26

I don’t think Normani ever had a high point in her career. Which sucks, bc she’s talented.

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u/Automatic_Gift_7663 Jun 15 '26

Ms Cabello, please step away from the computah

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u/hoofglormuss Jun 15 '26

I think both of normani's parents died after motivation was released

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u/Historical_Penalty_3 Jun 16 '26

Normani's issue wasn't covid it was consistency. Everyone waited 6 years for her debut album to come out and by that time we lost interest