How Ella Mai’s ‘Boo’d Up’ is her Debut

More than a year after its appearance on her 2017 EP Ready, Ella Mai’s smash hit “Boo’d Up” became a huge hit, turning the 23-year-old artist into a household name. Now, the British singer has set pulses skipping anew with the release of her self-titled first album, which dropped earlier this month. Along with “Boo’d Up,” the LP includes Mai’s second R&B No. 1 hit, the piano-heavy groove “Trip,” along with appearances by John Legend and H.E.R.

The previous EPs were “like a little introductory peak,” she tells EW, adding that the new album is closer to “a full, complete story.” Mai adds “I think with the EPs, they were only five or six songs. Quite short, 20 minutes each. You can tell a story on an EP and you can show versatility, but I think that albums are really made for storytelling.”

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