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Doja Cat attends the 2025 MTV Video Music Awards at UBS Area on September 07, 2025 in Elmont, New York.
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Key Takeaways:
- The 15-track album features a single visitor look from SZA.
- Doja Cat explores themes of affection, intercourse, and transformation, impressed by the French phrase for “life.”
- Visuals like “Beautiful” and upcoming TV appearances replicate her evolving creative imaginative and prescient.
On Friday, Sept. 26, Doja Cat launched her fifth album, Vie. The GRAMMY award-winning rapper and singer combo additionally shared the video for “Beautiful.”
The brand new album arrives virtually two years to the day for the reason that launch of the “Paint the City Crimson” singer’s Scarlet album. She returns with a 15-track album crammed together with her Pop-friendly tunes marked with sometimes sharp edges.
“The French phrase ‘Vie’ (translated in English: ‘life’) was a selection of wordplay by me beginning with the easy indisputable fact that that is my fifth album. I needed to stretch this from the roman numeral ‘5’ tattoo on my collarbone,” mentioned Doja in a press assertion. ‘5 in numerology represents curiosity, journey, and alter. I selected Vie as a nod to La Vie en Rose and tied it along with the theme of romance and all through this undertaking I give my interpretation on love, intercourse, romance, ache, and marvel inside a relationship.”
The album’s lead single was the bubbly “Jealous Sort” and the follow-up is the aforementioned “Beautiful.” Within the latter, the Bardia Zeinali-directed visible includes a who’s who of stunners together with Yseult, Paloma Elsesser, Alex Consani, Irina Shayk, Amelia Grey, Ugbad, Ida Heiner, Alek Wek, Karen Elson, Sora Choi, Imaan Hammam, and extra. The video is styled after OG Revlon advertisements and tune will certainly be throughout TikTok and Instagram shortly.
However on-line, an instantly excited response has been to “Take Me Dancing,” that includes SZA, who’s the album’s sole visitor characteristic. The YTK-produced tune, and their third collab between the singers, is an up-tempo groove that’s getting rave evaluations. “Sza is the siren of this century and my favourite voice,” mentioned Doja Cat herself in an X publish on Sept. 24.
Subsequent up for Doja is closely selling her newest undertaking. She will probably be co-hosting NBC’s The Tonight Present Starring Jimmy Fallon on Oct. 1. A number of days afterward Oct. 4 she is scheduled to be the musical visitor on NBC’s Saturday Evening Reside, hosted by Unhealthy Bunny, for its 51st season premiere.