Monica to Release Country Album Open Roads Produced by Brandi Carlile After Delay: 'Life Just Keeps Life-ing'

Monica and Brandi Carlile — a collaboration fans didn’t even know they needed.

The R&B singer recorded a country album titled Open roads produced by Americana star Carlile, 43, according to Diversity. Carlile has previously produced albums for Joni Mitchell and Tanya Tucker.

Rolling stone reported that Monica, 43, teased the project in 2022 and announced it would be completed in 2023. She said during a live performance that the album was delayed because “life just keeps on living,” but now fans won’t have to wait much longer.

Monica at the MTV VMA Awards in New Jersey in August 2019.

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Take a look back at Brandy and Monica’s epic ‘The Boy Is Mine’ music video before their collaboration with Ariana Grande

Monica said earlier Party tonight in July 2022 about her longtime love of the country music genre. She said her obsession with Dolly Parton began when she visited Dollywood with her stepfather as a child and saw the influence of Parton.

“I was at her park when I was about 10 years old and the lady who was working said to me, ‘Well, I’m Dolly’s first cousin and she’s giving us a job and a car and an apartment, it’s amazing,'” Monica recalled.

“So when I met her and realized that all these people are related to her and that she’s built all this, it’s really helping her family and community, that’s when my love for her started for country music.”

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Monica also said that when she sang country songs, she would be told “that’s not what you do.”

“But I realized there’s no limit to what we can do and Brandi Carlile said to me, ‘Monica, stop waiting and I’ll help you,'” she said at the time. “Since then we have been working non-stop”,

Brandi Carlile performs in Los Angeles in May 2021. Kevin Winter/Getty

Monica is also set to release an R&B album titled MDA (originally called Trenches). Both albums are set to be released later this year, making for an extremely busy year for the Grammy-winning artist.

She teamed up with Brandy again to collaborate on a remix of Ariana Grande’s “The Boy Is Mine” in June. Monica and Brandy, 45, who sang the original song in 1998, also had cameo roles in Grande’s music video for the song, appearing as broadcasters.

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