I love making music, and when I write stuff like that, that was one of those lines where I got out of my seat and was super excited about it. When you’re writing lyrics, do lines like that just pop into your head? How does your process work?ĭOJA CAT: I get excited. It's never just lyrics or only production, it's a lot of both and other things.ĬDM: I love the line in ‘Addiction’ when you say, “Bitch, I ain’t Gwen, but this shit is bananas,” it’s so funny. Or I would start with the lyrics, like for 'Rules' I felt like there was a toughness about the lyrics for that, so I was like, "Let me be pretty much a mob, like a mafia boss." I felt like it was the right thing to do and it comes from different parts every time. If the song sounds angelic, like 'Talk Dirty' off my last album, I would think to do something angelic maybe something heavenly. If I have a beat, it can start from the production. I feel like there's a lot lacking right now, and I like to play with characters and costumes.ĬDM: When do you start thinking creatively about how you want a music video to be? Is it something that happens when you're working on the music, or afterwards?ĭOJA CAT: It's different a lot of the time. I try to enjoy it and also be as creative as possible. One of my passions, secretively or not, is that I want to be a music video director - maybe not for other people because I'm selfish, but for myself. I need to be involved as much as possible with every single music video that I do.
Do you enjoy working on the creative visual aesthetic to go alongside your songs?ĭOJA CAT: Absolutely, I'm the most anal about my videos. That was kind of an interesting way to convey it in the video.ĬDM: That's cool how you're so creatively involved in your music videos as well.
#COVER ART THE CAT AND THE COUP PROFESSIONAL#
So that's why in the video I wanted like, the plumber, he's on this job and he can't really be unprofessional, he's being professional and trying to keep his cool in a situation where I'm literally sucking on ice cube while he's trying to fix my console. They've probably both dropped some drinks already. I really don't know why a guy would be too shy to walk up to a girl in a club. I was more thinking on the side of, "Why are you just standing there in the clubs staring at me, when you could just come over here?" And knowing that the guy would probably come over, or he won't because he has a girlfriend, but there's a lot of different factors that play into it. Why is it so hard to tell someone how you feel?ĭOJA CAT: The song was based on my side of the situation. So I'm not sure exactly where the vulnerability would come in on that particular song.ĬDM: 'Say So' chronicles the classic dilemma of when you're trying to move from being friends to something more.
I mean, that whole song is kind of an aggressive and fierce kind of feel. I just write the first thing that comes to mind that sounds best, I don't know if I'm being so vulnerable. That song was co-written with Ashnikko, so I didn't write that first verse, I wrote the second. A lot of that song is powerful, like, "I am advanced, so I get advance," but is it important to you to also show a little vulnerability when fronting?ĭOJA CAT: Yeah, I think so. It's fucking crazy.ĬDM: You need to come to New Zealand so that your label can give you a plaque for it - I saw you just got your 'Juicy' one, so you need a new one to go alongside it.ĭOJA CAT: Yes, my walls in my house are empty - I need more art!ĬDM: "I'm clumsy, made friends with the floor / Two for one, you know a bitch buy four," you say in 'Boss Bitch', which is very relatable. We spoke with Doja Cat over the phone last week about her creative process, trust and communication, choreography, and more.ĬOUP DE MAIN: Firstly, I wanted to congratulate you on 'Say So' going gold in New Zealand! It’s also #3 in our charts right now.ĭOJA CAT: That's insane. With the album's breakout hit 'Say So' sitting at over 226 million streams on Spotify, and continuing to climb the charts globally (it's certified gold in both Australia and New Zealand), the accompanying disco-era music video includes a nod to the TikTok fame of the song, by including Haley Sharpe who choreographed the viral dance phenomenon. "You have the cutest voice ever," Doja Cat excitedly declares less than a minute into our interview, which sees us discussing everything from her passion for waffles, to her love of creativity in the visuals of her music, and coming up with one-liners for her sophomore album, 'Hot Pink'.
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