Key Takeaways:

• The 15-track album features a single visitor look from SZA.
• Doja Cat explores themes of affection, sex, and transformation, impressed by the French phrase for “life.”
• Visuals like “Gorgeous” and upcoming TV appearances replicate her evolving inventive imaginative and prescient.

On Friday, Sept. 26, Doja Cat launched her fifth album, Vie. The Grammy Award-winning rapper and singer additionally shared the video for “Gorgeous.”

The new album arrives nearly two years to the day because the launch of the “Paint the Town Red” singer’s Scarlet album. She returns with a 15-track album crammed together with her pop-friendly tunes marked with often sharp edges.

“The French word ‘Vie’ (translated in English: ‘life’) was a choice of wordplay by me starting with the simple fact that this is my fifth album. I wanted to stretch this from the roman numeral ‘five’ tattoo on my collarbone,” mentioned Doja in a press assertion. “Five in numerology represents curiosity, adventure, and change. I chose ‘Vie’ as a nod to ‘La Vie en Rose’ and tied it together with the theme of romance, and throughout this project, I give my interpretation on love, sex, romance, pain, and wonder within a relationship.”

The album’s lead single was the bubbly “Jealous Type” and the follow-up is the aforementioned “Gorgeous.” In the latter, the Bardia Zeinali-directed visible includes a who’s who of stunners, together with Yseult, Paloma Elsesser, Alex Consani, Irina Shayk, Amelia Gray, Ugbad, Ida Heiner, Alek Wek, Karen Elson, Sora Choi, Imaan Hammam, and extra. The video is styled after OG Revlon advertisements, and the tune will certainly be throughout TikTok and Instagram shortly.

But on-line, followers had been instantly enthusiastic about “Take Me Dancing,” that includes SZA, who’s the album’s sole visitor characteristic. The YTK-produced track, and the third collab between the singers, is an up-tempo groove that’s getting rave reviews. “SZA is the siren of this century and my favorite voice,” mentioned Doja Cat herself in an X submit on Wednesday (Sept. 24).

Next up for Doja is closely selling her newest venture. She might be co-hosting NBC’s “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon” on Oct. 1. A number of days later, on Oct. 4, she is scheduled to be the musical visitor on NBC’s “Saturday Night Live ,” hosted by Bad Bunny, for its 51st season premiere.