{"id":236996,"date":"2025-10-19T19:47:06","date_gmt":"2025-10-19T19:47:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/236996\/"},"modified":"2025-10-19T19:47:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-19T19:47:06","slug":"brandy-abruptly-exits-chicago-show-monica-finishes-solo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/236996\/","title":{"rendered":"Brandy Abruptly Exits Chicago Show, Monica Finishes Solo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThree stops into <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/the-boy-is-mine-tour\/\" id=\"auto-tag_the-boy-is-mine-tour\" data-tag=\"the-boy-is-mine-tour\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Boy Is Mine Tour<\/a> this week, fans of <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/brandy-norwood\/\">Brandy Norwood<\/a> and <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/monica\/\">Monica<\/a> were left confused by the abrupt end to Saturday\u2019s concert.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tConcertgoers on social media complained that the show at Chicago\u2019s United Center was reportedly cut short after Norwood abruptly walked off-stage early in the performance, leaving Monica to finish the concert solo, without getting to the tour\u2019s eponymous 1998 duet.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t\u201cGive me one second y\u2019all I gotta get my\u2014\u201d said Norwood in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@iamlailoopsie\/video\/7562814154344598797\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">video<\/a>, going backstage after apparently struggling with sound issues, never to return. Deadline has reached out to Norwood\u2019s team for comment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tOne audience member on <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/phrozenthunda\/status\/1979903152968086010\">X<\/a> said they \u201cnever saw her again,\u201d adding: \u201cMonica came out, monologued, sat, sung and left. No bye, no nothing. Screen went off. Lights came on and they told us to get out.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tAnother shared a <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/j0eje0\/status\/1979769864421081475\">video<\/a> of the clearly frustrated audience after the lights came on. \u201c#<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/brandy\/\" id=\"auto-tag_brandy\" data-tag=\"brandy\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Brandy<\/a> just threw a fit and left the stage 75% before the show was over and #Monica had to finish the show by herself!\u201d they wrote.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tAfter announcing their reunion in June, Brandy and Monica\u2019s The Boy Is Mine Tour kicked off Thursday at Cincinnati\u2019s Heritage Bank Center, featuring appearances from Kelly Rowland and Muni Long.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<script async src=\"\/\/www.tiktok.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Three stops into The Boy Is Mine Tour this week, fans of Brandy Norwood and Monica were left&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":236997,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[44913,20076,88,131116,131117],"class_list":{"0":"post-236996","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-brandy","9":"tag-brandy-norwood","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-monica","12":"tag-the-boy-is-mine-tour"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236996"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236996\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/236997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}