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2020 single by Brandy featuring Ty Dolla Sign

"No Tomorrow, Pt. 2"

Single by Brandy featuring Ty Dolla Sign

Released

October 14, 2020

Length

3:05

Label

Brand Nu
eOne

Songwriter(s)

Brandy Norwood
Joshua "YXSH" Thomas
Tyrone Griffin, Jr.

Producer(s)

Norwood
Thomas
Cory Rooney
DJ Camper

Brandy singles chronology

"Borderline"
(2020)

"No Tomorrow, Pt. 2"
(2020)

"Starting Now"
(2021)

Ty Dolla Sign singles chronology

"Oops (I'm Sorry)"
(2020)

"No Tomorrow (Part 2)"
(2020)

"Spicy"
(2020)

"No Tomorrow, Pt. 2" is a song by American singer Brandy Norwood, featuring fellow American singer Ty 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, and finger snaps. It was written by Norwood and Joshua "YXSH" Thomas, while production was handled by Norwood, Thomas and Cory Rooney, with co-production by Darhyl "DJ" Camper.

The remix was released as the album's third single on October 14, 2020. "No Tomorrow" was part of Norwood's set lists of her performances at the Billboard Music Awards and on Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve in 2020.

Background

Brandy Norwood and Joshua "YXSH" Thomas wrote the lyrics of "No Tomorrow", while its production was handled by Norwood, Thomas, and Cory Rooney, with additional production from Darhyl "DJ" Camper. Additional lyrics for the remix were penned by singer Ty Dolla Sign. 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."

Critical reception

"No Tomorrow" received generally positive reviews from music critics. Adi Mehta, writing for Entertainment 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"." The Chicago Defender journalist Kimberly M. Dobine cited "No Tomorrow" as one of her favorite songs on B7. She remarked that "the clever vocal arrangements show us that she is proudly embracing who she is as an artist, and the "Vocal Bible", we have come to admire."

Teodor Zetko, writing for Exclaim!, 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." 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". 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."

Live performances

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 the Billboard Music Awards. Her first performance at the awards ceremony in twenty-five years, she performed without a live audience due to COVID-19 protocols, wearing black pants and a lacy white top with long jacket, with her hair braided in various top knots. 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. Norwood received generally positive reviews, with Stephen Daw from Billboard calling it "a stunning medley". In his review for TVLine's Andy Swift declared the performance a "triumphant return".

Credits and personnel

Credits lifted from the liner notes of B7.

Andy Barnes – engineer
DJ Camper – co-producer
Jaycen Joshua – mastering, mixing
Brandy Norwood – producer, vocals, writer

Cory Rooney – producer
Joshua "YXSH" Thomas – producer, writer
Ty Dolla Sign – vocals, writer (Part 2)

Release history

List of release dates, showing region, release format, label and reference
Region	Date	Version	Format	Label	Ref.
Various	July 31, 2020	Album version	Digital download streaming	Brand Nu, Inc. eOne
Various	October 14, 2020	Single version	Digital download streaming	Brand Nu, Inc. eOne

References

"2020 BET Soul Train Awards: The Complete Winners List". etonline.com. November 29, 2020. Retrieved May 18, 2021.
^ B7 (booklet). Brandy. Brand Nu Inc, eOne. 2020.{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)
"Brandy Enlists Ty Dolla $ign for 'No Tomorrow Part 2' | Rap-Up". Archived from the original on October 18, 2020. Retrieved May 19, 2021.
Mehta, Adi (August 5, 2020). "Brandy Returns With Creative Freedom and New Ambitions on 'B7'". Entertainment Voice. Retrieved May 19, 2021.
Dobine, Kimberly M. (July 31, 2020). "Brandy Reveals Who She IS on the New B7 Album". The Chicago Defender. Archived from the original on August 5, 2020. Retrieved May 19, 2021.
Zetko, Teodor (July 30, 2020). "Brandy Pays Tribute to R&B History, Including Her Own, on 'B7'". Exclaim!. Archived from the original on August 1, 2020. Retrieved May 19, 2021.
Kellman, Andy. "B7". AllMusic. Archived from the original on June 28, 2020. Retrieved May 19, 2021.
Kearse, Stephen (August 5, 2020). "BrandyB7". Pitchfork. Archived from the original on August 6, 2020. Retrieved May 19, 2021.
"Billboard Music Awards 2020: Watch Performances From Brandy, Ty Dolla $ign, Doja Cat And More". Vibe. October 14, 2020. Retrieved November 10, 2020.
^ Daw, Stephen (October 14, 2020). "Brandy Teams Up With Ty Dolla $ign For Stunning Medley at 2020 Billboard Music Awards". Billboard. Retrieved May 19, 2021.
Swift, Andy (October 15, 2020). "Brandy Returns to Billboard Awards With New (And Old!) Music — Watch". TVLine. Retrieved May 19, 2021.
"Borderline – Single". iTunes (Apple). July 31, 2020. Archived from the original on August 1, 2020. Retrieved August 5, 2020.
"No Tomorrow, Pt.2 – Single". iTunes (Apple). October 14, 2020. Retrieved May 19, 2021.

v t e Brandy Norwood
Awards and nominations Discography Filmography Songs Videography
Studio albums	Brandy Never Say Never Full Moon Afrodisiac Human Two Eleven B7 Christmas with Brandy
Compilation albums	The Best of Brandy
Concert tours	Never Say Never World Tour Human World Tour Slayana World Tour
Related topics	Brandy Norwood products Ray J (brother) Willie Norwood (father)
Category

v t e Brandy Norwood songs
Brandy	"Baby" "Best Friend" "Brokenhearted" "I Wanna Be Down"
Never Say Never	"Almost Doesn't Count" "Angel in Disguise" "(Everything I Do) I Do It for You" "Have You Ever?" "Never Say Never" "The Boy Is Mine" "Top of the World" "U Don't Know Me (Like U Used To)"
Full Moon	"Another Day in Paradise" "Die Without You" "Full Moon" "He Is" "What About Us?"
Afrodisiac	"Afrodisiac" "Should I Go" "Talk About Our Love" "Turn It Up" "Who Is She 2 U"
Human	"Long Distance" "Right Here (Departed)" "True"
Two Eleven	"Put It Down" "Scared of Beautiful" "Wildest Dreams"
B7	"Baby Mama" "Borderline" "Love Again" "No Tomorrow, Pt. 2"
Collaborations	"It All Belongs to Me" "Magic" "Missing You" "Optimistic" "Talk to Me" "The Girl Is Mine" "Wake Up Everybody" "We Are the World 25 for Haiti" "The Boy Is Mine (Remix)"
Other songs	"Beggin & Pleadin" "Freedom Rings" "Sittin' Up in My Room"

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