Norwood's self titled album consists mostly of street-oriented R&B songs with influences from hip hop soul. The lyrics highlighted her youthful and innocent image. Norwood later summed up the songs on the record as young and vulnerable: "I did not really know much - all I wanted to do was sing. You can easily understand that it is a person who sings genuinely, without any real experience. I sang about being attracted to the opposite sex but had no experience of it. " The album's fourth track, "I Dedicate (Part I)", is the first of three where Norwood thanks artists who inspired her for a career in music. In the first part, which lasts one minute and twenty-nine seconds, she mentions Houston as her "mentor" and "role model".