In fact, the singer who made her name promising to “go dumb” turned out to be an uncommonly thoughtful and careful musician, turning out meticulously crafted songs that earned her a small army of fans convinced that it should be a big army. Tinashe struggled with her record company, RCA, which at one point released an earnest love song, “Flame,” which she evidently did not consider her best work. (“I cried for two days when they told me I had to put that song out as a single,” she later said.)