Background and Recording
After the end of her promotional touring for her album Never Say Never (1998), the cancellation of her UPN sitcom Moesha and a flurry of tabloid headlines discussing her nervous breakdown in November 1999, Norwood went on a lengthy hiatus to reflect and take some introspective looks.. In mid-2000, she started reconsecrating herself on her musical career, contributing songs to albums such as Urban Renewal (2001), which introduced a scratchy, evocative edge to Norwood's voice, now having a deeper and warmer tone with a textured lower register and notably stronger falsetto. In fall 2000, Norwood finally began conceiving ideas for a third studio album with the Atlantic label. While Rodney Jerkins, the main producer of her previous album, and his team, had been working on several new songs for the singer's upcoming project in hopes of recreating the winning chemistry of Never Say Never, Norwood wanted to make sure that she was gaining more creative control over the project and thus, arranged meetings with all her writers and musicians to discuss the lyricals topics and sounds she wanted for the album.
While Jerkins maintained his status as the album's executive producer, contributing most to its track listing with his team, Norwood decided to record with several producers fot the album, including Unsung Entertainment head Mike City, with whom she had previously worked on the song "Open" for the soundtrack of the 2001 animated comedy film Osmosis Jones. Though Norwood and City crafted several new songs, the pair was insecure if their song "Full Moon" was going to make it to the final tracklisting since it differentiated stylistically from what the singer had recorded before. "I'm glad it did because it really showed where I was coming from musically and vocally and I could relate to the lyrics of the song", Brandy said the following year in an interview with MTV News. "It took him a while to understand my crazy ideas, but he really challenged himself. If you listen to it, it's different from what he's already done in the past..." Brandy has characterised "Full Moon" as "ghetto", explaining that it is "pop and R&B at the same time has a lot of elements to it." Lyrcially, the song deals with the circumstances of an unexpected love at first sight: "Anything can happen on a full moon. On that particular, I'm actually falling in love with somebody I'm just meeting", she said. "I hope that's the second single, because it's different. I've never heard anything like it."
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