After months of teasing and controversy, Doja Cat is lastly prepared to move followers to “Agora Hills.” The Grammy-winning cross-genre artist unveiled Scarlet, her fourth studio album, on Friday (Sept. 22).
After signaling her new period with a shaved head and a rebuke of her earlier music, Doja launched Scarlet in June with the discharge of “Consideration,” a boom-bap-indebted hip-hop monitor that prioritized showcasing the dexterity of her rapping potential. The monitor debuted and peaked at No. 31 on the Billboard Scorching 100, and its music video — which previewed the period’s overarching horror aesthetic — picked up six nominations on the 2023 MTV Video Music Awards, in the end profitable finest artwork course.
“Paint the City Crimson,” the file’s first radio single, quickly adopted with a catchy hook and a bouncy Dionne Warwick-sampling beat. The music turned Doja’s second Scorching 100 No. 1 — her first unaccompanied — turning into the primary hip-hop music to succeed in the highest of the rating in 2023. A punk-rap promotional single titled “Demons” arrived on Sept. 1, full with a music video starring Emmy-nominated Yellowjackets star Christina Ricci. A Ric Aptitude-nodding promotional single known as “Balut” was launched on Sept. 15. Within the remaining weeks main as much as the album, blood-covered life-size mannequins made in Doja’s likeness appeared in main cities throughout the USA.
Scarlet boasts a totally featureless tracklist and eye-popping titles corresponding to “Moist Vagina,” “Cranium and Bones” and “F—okay the Women (FTG).” The usual version homes 15 tracks, whereas two further songs will be discovered on digital variations of the album: “Shutcho” and “WYM Freestyle.”
To assist the brand new file, Doja will embark on The Scarlet Tour. The 24-date trek will kick off on Halloween at San Francisco’s Chase Middle, and hit main cities throughout the U.S. earlier than wrapping Dec. 13 at Chicago’s United Middle. Ice Spice and “What It Is (Block Boy)” rapper Doechii will function opening acts for the tour.
Doja Cat’s new album is the follow-up to 2021’s Planet Her. That album, her third studio effort, peaked at No. 2 on the Billboard 200 and spawned a litany of Scorching 100 hits, together with the SZA-assisted “Kiss Me Extra” (No. 3), “Lady” (No. 7), “Must Know” (No. 8), “You Proper” (No. 11, with The Weeknd), and “Get Into It (Yuh)” (No. 20).
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