“I’m just a girl in the crowd,” sings R&B singer Justine Skye on “Just a Girl,” the banging opener of her dance-forward, house-fueled new album, CANDY : “Put the spotlight on me now.” That might seem like a predictable, raise-your-hands-to-the-ceiling dancefloor lyric, but it also serves as a lens on Skye’s career so far. Having blown up on Tumblr as a teenager in the 2010s, she got signed to Atlantic Records at 19 and scored a hit, “Collide,” with Tyga in 2014. Since then, she’s released music on Roc Nation, Republic, and as an independent artist; co-starred on the TV show Grown-ish ; and, finally, signed a new deal with Warner Brothers. The industry tried to turn Skye into a pop star multiple times, but none of it really stuck.…