The rapper says she’s going pop on her first LP since 2023’s Scarlet
The French word “vie” means “live,” and Doja Cat’s doing it glamorously in a new teaser for her next studio album of the same name. “Vie out 9/26” she wrote in the Instagram caption of a video where she repeats the phrase “Je sais que tu es ma vie” with wide eyes in gem-ladden couture (that translates to “I know that you are my life” in English).
The clip shoots between scenes of Doja twirling in front of the Eiffel Tower and having a Parisian snack (tearing into a croissant) with another version of herself.
Last week, Doja Cat recently previewed a forthcoming single, “Jealous Type” on Instagram with a poster providing a phone number for a Vie hotline. Billboard reports that callers “were greeted by Doja playing the role of romance therapist.” She debuted the unreleased song in her set at San Francisco’s Outside Lands festival on August 8, too, ushering in the 80s-themed era of her new album. “Jealous Type” is set to drop Aug. 21 at 8 p.m. ET.
In a July cover story, she told V Magazine her next album is “pop-driven,” adding, “I know that I can make pop music, and pop is just that it’s popular. It starts to become a bit of a thing that’s viewed as a sport by people who are just bystanders to it, who enjoy it, but maybe also don’t respect it or what it is, which is just music … They see it as if this is some kind of football for girls and gays.”
So, come September 26, it looks like we’ll have Doja Cat’s fourth studio album since her 2018 debut Amala. She’s since been nominated for 19 Grammys, including Album of the Year for Planet Her (Deluxe) at the 2022 awards. That year, she won Best Pop Duo/Group Performance for “Kiss Me More” with SZA.
