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Doja Cat performs at Roskilde Pageant 2024 on July 03, 2024 in Roskilde, Denmark
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Key Takeaways:
- Doja Cat described her album Scarlet as a “large fart” in a New York Occasions interview.
- Her feedback replicate a shift in inventive route, as she plans to return to pop on her subsequent album, Vie.
- She has a historical past of critiquing her personal work, beforehand calling Planet Her and Scorching Pink “cash-grabs.”
Doja Cat felt she simply needed to get Scarlet out of her system. In a New York Occasions interview printed on Friday (Sept. 5), the “Agora Hills” artist appeared again on her rap-heavy fourth studio album, evaluating it — of all issues — to a “large fart.”
“To not diminish it, nevertheless it was a little bit of like, I simply have to get this out — it was an enormous fart for me,” she defined to the publication. “I believed fixing that will entail making music that was extra visceral or extra emotional or possibly extra offended or extra unhappy.”
For context, Scarlet was Doja’s bid to be “taken extra severely” as a lyricist, which she largely achieved by way of tracks like “Consideration,” “WYM Freestyle,” and the commercially large “Paint The City Purple.” Reflecting additional on the mission, Doja admitted, “And I loved performing it onstage, nevertheless it didn’t get me all the way in which there. So, I need to return again to what I do know.”
Because the Occasions identified, the “return” refers to Doja’s pivot again to pop on Vie. She referred to as the forthcoming mission “a continuation of Planet Her and Scorching Pink,” solely up to date with ’80s synths and an up-tempo R&B really feel.
“It’s overtly horny and it turns into sort of foolish, which is likable and enjoyable,” the “Ouchies” rapper shared. “I simply all the time need to hold that sense of enjoyable, however I by no means need to be too goofy.” For that, she enlisted Jack Antonoff, who dealt with manufacturing on 9 of the LP’s 15 tracks. The 2 notably labored collectively on final month’s “Jealous Sort.”
At the very least for the second, Doja appears set on steering away from rap. Curiously, Scarlet, which Rap-Up named among the many Finest Rap Albums of 2023, isn’t the primary launch she’s disregarded whereas shifting towards a brand new full-length.
Followers could recall her labeling Planet Her and Scorching Pink as “mediocre pop” and little greater than “cash-grabs” within the months earlier than dropping Scarlet.