Doja Cat slammed fans for stealing copies of her posters for “Attention” that she had put up in cities nationwide. In a post on her Instagram Story, Doja called the fans who do so “wack” and advised them to “use your f*cking brain.”
She wrote in full: “Stealing my advertisements off of the walls around the city is super f*cked up. We don’t put those up for free, so keep that in mind. You’re wack, and I don’t f*ck with you if you’re doing that. Use your f*cking brain.”
LAS VEGAS, NEVADA – APRIL 03: Doja Cat attends the 64th Annual GRAMMY Awards at MGM Grand Garden Arena on April 03, 2022 in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Photo by Axelle/Bauer-Griffin/FilmMagic)
Doja Cat dropped “Attention” as the lead single from her long-awaited fourth studio album, last month. The track sees Doja Cat embrace a more hip-hop-focused style, a notable departure from her pop music of the past. Earlier this year, she wrote on Twitter that “pop isnt exciting to me anymore. I dont wanna make it.”
In more tweets, she wrote: “i also agree with everyone who said the majority of my rap verses are mid and corny. I know they are. I wasnt trying to prove anything I just enjoy making music but I’m getting tired of hearing yall say that i can’t so I will.” Doja still has yet to reveal the official title nor the release date to the forthcoming project. Fans have been eagerly awaiting new music from Doja since her last release, Planet Her, in 2021.
Doja Cat Calls Out Her Fans
Doja Cat calls out people stealing “Attention” poster ads:
“We don’t put those up for free so keep that in mind. You’re wack and I don’t fuck with you if you’re doing that.“ pic.twitter.com/9C0EYuHzlF
Promoting her upcoming album, Doja will be embarking on The Scarlet Tour, later this year. The shows will run from October 31st, when she’ll be performing at the Chase Center in San Francisco through December 13th, when she’ll hit the stage at the United Center in Chicago. Doja will be bringing Doechii and Ice Spice along for many of the stops. Check out more information about The Scarlet Tour below.
As the saying goes, look but don’t touch. Apparently, this isn’t an ideology Doja Cat fans subscribe to. The “Attention” rapper took to social media to blast supporters for stealing the promotional posters for her latest single. As the entertainer advertises the song’s release nationwide, her team has plastered artwork in several areas with high foot traffic. But after they were put up, some of them have been going missing.
After Doja Cat learned about the thefts, she went online to vent her frustrations. In a statement shared to her Instagram Stories, she wrote, “Stealing my advertisements off of the walls around the city is super f*cked up. We don’t put those up for free, so keep that in mind.” She added, “You’re wack, and I don’t f*ck with you if you’re doing that. Use your f*cking brain.”
Doja Cat calls out people stealing “Attention” poster ads:
“We don’t put those up for free so keep that in mind. You’re wack and I don’t fuck with you if you’re doing that.“ pic.twitter.com/9C0EYuHzlF
With Doja’s The Scarlet Tour kicking off in the fall and her forthcoming album rumored to hit streaming platforms before then, she’s keeping a close eye on every marketing expense.
While this isn’t the first time Doja has had a few fiery words for fans. In May, her off-kilter humor ended in calling those who didn’t find her jokes “dumb.”
Doja Cat has a tiny new feline friend. She may be fresh off of a new release, but that doesn’t mean she isn’t taking time to enjoy life. The artist has introduced her new pet cat to the world via social media. The tiny kitten carries the name of a very famous fictional character some may be familiar with. Doja took to Twitter to share pictures of her new pet. Along with the photo, the singer/rapper posted a caption revealing his name. “Welcome Froderick ‘Frodo’ Frankenstein,” she wrote.
The adorable photo set shows Doja lying down with a full face of makeup. “Frodo” stands upright on her back, wearing a striped sweater. The kitten clearly has a big personality, showcasing many different facial expressions. In the last photo, he plays with Doja’s hair while she winces. According to Celebrity Pets, Doja Cat already has two other cats named Ray and Alex. The pictures are adorable, and they show a softer side to the rapper than we’ve seen recently. Doja has likely been feeling the love since dropping her new single.
Until last week, Doja Cat fans were parched and waiting for the artist to drop new music. After what seemed like an eternity, she made a comeback with her rap-heavy single “Attention” last week. The music video, directed by Tanu Muino, features Doja driving the streets of Los Angeles. There, she evades adoring fans in her car. Then, she walks through block after block of people wearing peculiar flesh-colored masks. The video includes some brief NSFW moments, including a shot of Doja covered in what appears to be blood. However, the visuals aren’t the only thing about the release that have grabbed listeners.
The lyrics of “Attention” have been analyzed quite a bit since the track’s release. They touch on various subjects and headlines that have surrounded Doja Cat in recent years. She references her new look, her position in the rap industry, and the presence of online trolls. In the second verse, she pays tribute Nicki Minaj, acknowledging the comparisons that people often make between them. Doja even addresses her departure from The Weeknd’s “After Hours” stadium tour in the first verse. “I could have been an opener / I redirect the booking,” she puts over the track. The track is certainly worthy of its name, as Doja has been getting nonstop attention since it dropped. What do you think of Doja’s new song?
Azealia Banks has taken to social media to share her opinion on Doja Cat. Doja just released her new single, “Attention,” which listeners suspect could kick off her highly-anticipated next project. Banks, however, has revealed that she isn’t a huge fan of the “Woman” songstress, even going on to bash Kendrick Lamar.
“I really be wanting to like Doja’s music but it’s all just sooo try hard,” she began her Instagram rant. “Her first album was actually cool as hell,” she says, calling it “her own authentic art voice.” She continues, claiming Doja Cat “sounds like a white girl that grew up in a house.” “It’s not giving that pissy stairwell / bacon egg and cheese / vanilla Dutch nyc energy she’s reaching for,” Banks says, adding that California rap is “purposefully inoffensive and caters to paper shoe Tom and matted hair Abigail.”
Banks continued to tear into Doja, saying “Her approach to trying to conceptualize an authentic rap record is giving angel haze NYC WANNABE levels of boring rippity rap/ cheesy soho whiteboy hypebeast circa ’06.” “She’s giving me those weird fka twigs biracial girl identity crisis vibes,” she claims. Banks then called Kendrick Lamar “MAD overrated and extremely complacent.” She further accused the rapper of having “white ghostwriters writing about the black struggle n sh*t.”
Though Banks’ hot take on Doja may be somewhat shocking, many aren’t surprised by the rant. She’s been known to go in on her peers on social media, airing her various feuds. Recently, she used Jacky Oh’s death as an opportunity to call out the former Wild ‘N Out star’s longtime partner, DC Young Fly. “DC Young Fly spent years disguising his own deeply rooted hatred of self as jokes pointed at women’s beauty,” she wrote, claiming “That [Jacky Oh] girl must have been so deeply insecure about herself.” She also recently called out The 1975’s Matty Healy for making fun of Ice Spice. Banks called him “so obviously weak in the knees, thin-jawed, and drug addicted that it’s easy to catch his crusty a*s lackin’.” She added, “The 1975 is on nobody’s radar babe, maybe fat emo teenagers but no we are not checkin’ for you boo.”
We are officially in a new era for Doja Cat as she has released her new single and video, “Attention.”
In the single, Doja Cat has a lot to say. What will catch ears, especially those of the Barbz, is Doja addressing comparison to Nicki Minaj:
“Just let me flex, bruh, just let me pop shit? Why she think she Nicki M? She think she hot shit’ I never gave a F, go stir the pot, bitch I got your head all in the dirt just like a ostrich.”
Other topics include dealing with online critics, her transformation, and more.
The single comes with a new video, showing Doja cruising through the streets of pandemonium, but she never loses her cool. Artistically, Doja’s silhouette flashes in the bulbs of the cameras flashing as the mouths of the screaming fans become distorted.
You can hear the single and see the new video below.
Doja Cat is back and better than ever. Tonight (June 16), she has made an epic return, kicking off her fourth album era with her new single, “Attention.”
On “Attention,” Doja switches it up, experimenting with jazz-influenced musical stylings. She addresses her haters, reminds them that even after a two-year break between albums she’s still the one to watch, and makes it know that her reign in the world of pop and hip-hop isn’t letting up anytime soon. But with this transcendental new single, she can add even more sounds to her already impressive repertoire
“Baby, if you like it, just reach out and pet it / This one doesn’t bite, it doesn’t get aggressive / Show you how to touch it, hold it like it’s precious It don’t need your lovin’, it just needs attention,” she raps on the song’s hook, delivering soft-tinged vocals over rattling percussion, before breaking into punchy rap bars.
In the song’s accompanying visual, Doja is seen walking around Los Angeles, as all eyes are on her. She is seen rocking a leather jacket, jeans, and a white midriff top, and these scenes are then juxtaposed with tasteful clips of Doja dancing in the nude through a kaleidoscopic lens.
Doja has finally fed her fans with some new music. Fans who anticipated Doja Cat’s musical direction based on her feature on SZA’s “Kill Bill” remix were not mistaken. The new single, however, is not a drastic departure from her previous work. This comes despite Doja Cat herself teasing its distinctiveness. While one might have expected something completely unexpected, the single still encapsulates the essence of Doja Cat’s style. However, it expands upon it in the best way.
Aptly titled “Attention,” the sleek and seductive track delves into the theme of being in the spotlight. Doja Cat addresses the challenges she has faced and emphasizes that people are more interested in her personal life than her music. Anyone who follows her knows that it is a sentiment she has expressed in her online rants. Perhaps this frustration inspired her new creative direction. Doja Cat’s flow is exceptional as she effortlessly navigates the sampled drums and dreamy harps. With lines like “I am not afraid to finally say sh*t with my chest,” she fearlessly expresses her thoughts. The video for the single just might be Doja’s best yet.
Doja Stands Out In A Crowd
Doja Cat brings a mix of old Hollywood, 90s rap, and current pop in the new video for “Attention.” The video opens with Doja driving past a crowd of people who are screaming for her while flashbulbs go off. Eventually, she is shown walking down the sidewalks of Downtown LA, which we saw her filming a few weeks ago. People pass her as she raps to camera, and their faces eventually turn into terrifying nondescript molds, devoid of real features.
One of the most striking images in the video comes during the line where Doja says, “Look at me, look at me, I’m naked.” Sure enough, there she is, almost fully nude but covered head to toe in blood. One thing is for certain, she is leaning into all of the rumors about sacrifices and Illuminati dealings. Doja has never shied away from it, but she has used it to her full advantage in the video. This is all while she is ripping her haters to shreds with her lyrics. Stylistically, it may not be as big of a jump as some wanted from Doja, but it wouldn’t be far off to say this is her best work yet.
Doja Cat has been teasing new music for what feels like decades at this point. Finally, after much anticipation, Doja Cat has released new music. The release date was confirmed earlier this week by her Twitter account. She shared the cover art, featuring a messy, blood-splattered triangle. Of course, this sparked various interpretations from fans. Doja also announced that the single would be released on June 16. This generated even more excitement among her fanbase.
Fans have been speculating about the nature of this project. Theories have ranged from tame to extreme. Some thought it would be Doja Cat’s first single from her upcoming album. Others too hoped for a surprise full album release. The leak of a pre-save link for the single further fueled speculation. It suggested that Doja Cat and her team were not quite ready to kickstart the promotional campaign. Hopefully, this announcement was a deliberate piece of the puzzle rather than a rushed attempt to salvage the situation caused by technical issues. Now, we know for certain that it is simply a single release.
Doja Wants Attention, But The Right Kind
For fans that thought Doja Cat’s feature on SZA’s “Kill Bill” was a sign of the sound to come can celebrate. They were certainly correct. However, it is not quite as much of a switch up from previous material as it may have seemed. Doja herself has been posting about how different the music is. As such, one couldn’t be blamed for thinking it would be something completely out of left field. While the new single is different, it certainly still feels very much like Doja Cat.
“Attention” is a sleek, sexy, dreamy single about being in the public eye. Doja Cat addresses everything that she has been dealing with for the last year or so. She speaks on the attention she receives and how people don’t really care about the music. This has been a major complaint from the artist during her many online rants in recent months. However, if that is what inspired the new direction, perhaps more people should make Doja angry. She certainly shines on the new single. Her flow is heavenly as she weaves syllables in and out of the sampled drums and dreamy harps. “Now I feel like I can see you b*tches is depressed,” Doja raps. “I am not afraid to finally say sh*t with my chest.”
Quotable Lyrics:
(Love me) It needs, it seeks affection (So sweet) Hungry, it fiends, attention (Hungry) It needs, it seeks affection (Baby) Hungry, it fiends
Doja Cat is back. The mercurial artist announced the release date for her return single “Attention” earlier this week after what appeared to be a mix-up with the pre-save link. This came after several months in which the mischievous rapper/singer appeared to waver on her upcoming fourth album’s title, genre, and even seemingly whether she wanted to even continue making music. She went through a half-dozen extreme makeovers — some temporary, others more permanent — and trolled her fans.
And yet, all those changes are actually true to Doja Cat’s character. She has always cycled through aesthetics, personalities, and sounds throughout her career; that she continues to do so just proves that she remains true to herself, despite fans’ concerns that she “switched up.” For Doja, switching up is core to the persona that she’s cultivated from the very beginning. With a new album on the way, no one knows what to expect — not even, it seems, Doja herself — but considering how things have been going so far, that’s probably a very good thing anyway.
From the beginning, Doja Cat has demonstrated a chameleonlike ability to transform to suit either the needs of the song she’s making or her own, often esoteric whims. Take her breakout song, “Mooo!” for instance. Doja had already been signed and releasing music for some years before the jokey track skyrocketed her to national notoriety. But “Mooo!” was obviously a huge departure from the spacey, bohemian vibe of “So High,” released three years before, or the lighthearted, poppy sensibility of the cunnilingus anthem “Go To Town” from the year before.
Instead, “Mooo!” was Doja at her goofiest; in the homemade video, she morphed into an anime cowgirl, showing that she didn’t take herself too seriously and wasn’t exactly married to either image of herself as an incense-burning hippie or a latex-clad pop vixen. And when the backlash against “Mooo!” from hip-hop traditionalists grew from a dull roar to a loud insistence that the accomplished but relatively unknown performer didn’t have anything else to offer, she transformed again.
On Doja’s next album Hot Pink, she embraced a truly bewildering variety of both genres and looks, while also insisting that she was taking music more seriously. That promise paid off with the embrace of a pop-punk aesthetic in the video for “Bottom Bitch” and couture looks in the one for “Rules.” Meanwhile, Doja’s musical experimentation broadened, from the glitchy techno of “Addiction” to the rhythm-n-bass of “Like That” featuring Gucci Mane to the nu-disco of “Say So,” Doja’s first-ever No. 1 hit single.
With the onset of the pandemic and the shutdown of live entertainment, Doja showcased her gift for metamorphosis with a string of live performances of her smash, reimagining “Say So” as a heavy metal rocker and an orchestral ballad. She attributes this to her boredom with performing the same song over and over again in mostly empty rooms, but where many stars would get by with adding a live band and reshuffling some choreography, Doja let her imagination run wild.
Since then, we’ve seen a lot more examples of Doja Cat’s penchant for reinvention throughout the rollout and tour for her third album Planet Her, and in the run-up to her next album. At first, she proclaimed it would be a double album, with one half entirely produced by 9th Wonder. Then, it was just one album, leaning more heavily into the hip-hop proclivities she gleaned from coming up in LA’s Project Blowed-inspired underground rap scene.
She changed the speculative title of her album from Hellmouth to Scarlet (at least, that’s what fans believe it’ll be called after some cryptic social media posts from Doja), implying a rebellion against traditional femininity either way. The term “Hellmouth” comes from the Buffy The Vampire Slayer franchise, which satirized horror conventions positioning women as frail victims or traumatized final girls with its high-indestructible, valley girl vampire killing machine.
And “scarlet woman” is a term that has long been bandied by the patriarchy to slander women who enjoy their sexual freedoms. It also evokes blood, like the cover art for “Attention” — a fluid whose association with women has always been one known to make men feel a little squeamish. Those wimps. So, it looks like Doja Cat is once again aiming to mutate into a new form, the consummate shapeshifter. This time, though, her new guise, whatever it is, will be for her and not for us. Even so, everybody wins.
Doja Cat is ready to bring fans into her new era. Hitting Twitter, Doja Cat announced her new single “Attention” for this Friday.
Doja Cat shared the cover art on Twitter, noting it’s a placeholder for the official release. In a follow-up message, Doja Cat dropped a trailer for the single’s music video on Twitter.
Fans believe “Attention” will be the introduction to the rapper and pop star’s fourth studio album.
