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Doja Cat on the 2025 Vanity Fair Oscars Afterparty

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Key Takeaways:

• Doja Cat confirmed her subsequent album, ‘Vie,’ will probably be a pop-driven challenge, shifting away from the rap-heavy sound of ‘Scarlet.’
• The challenge marks a return to emotional and romantic themes, echoing the depth of earlier pop eras.
• Doja Cat’s renewed embrace of pop comes after beforehand calling her previous pop albums “cash grabs,” suggesting a extra intentional method this time.

Doja Cat followers, don’t maintain your breath for tons of rap on her subsequent album. On Tuesday (July 1), the “Say So” artist confirmed to V Magazine that her upcoming challenge, Vie, will probably be a “pop-driven” affair.

While that’s not precisely a shock given her previous work, Doja Cat has beforehand admitted that the style doesn’t at all times “excite” her creatively. “I do want to be self-aware enough to admit the fact that this is a pop-driven project,” she advised the publication. “I know that I can make pop music, and pop is just that — it’s popular.”

She went on to notice that some folks deal with pop music prefer it’s “some kind of football for girls and gays,” earlier than opening up concerning the LP’s themes of “love, romance and sex.” The California native continued, “I remember there was a time when people were talking about wanting to be with each other, and it seems to have gotten a bit more vapid and just sort of like, not real.”

Vie will function a follow-up to Doja Cat’s predominantly rap album, Scarlet, which featured a handful of alt-leaning songs like “Agora Hills.” Listeners bought launched to the challenge with “Attention,” arguably one in all her most lyrically thrilling singles so far, earlier than she rolled out fan favorites like “Paint The Town Red” and “Demons.” Despite all its essential acclaim, Scarlet debuted at No. 4 on the Billboard 200, simply two spots under her pop-heavy predecessor, Planet Her.

Maybe Vie will mark a return to what’s commercially labored finest for Doja Cat, although it’s humorous contemplating she beforehand described albums like Planet Her and Hot Pink as “cash grabs.” In a since-deleted tweet, the Grammy Award-winning musician advised her followers, “Y’all fell for it. Now I can go disappear somewhere and touch grass with my loved ones on an island while y’all weep for mediocre pop.”

Either means, she’s one of the vital acclaimed artists in any style, so the anticipation is there. At the time of reporting, Vie doesn’t have a launch date.