The rapper-songwriter debuts on SNL by performing two singles from her new album, Vie
Doja Cat made her musical guest debut on Saturday Night Live—the season 51 premiere—with performances of a pair of singles from her new album, Vie.
After an introduction from SNL host Bad Bunny, the rapper-songwriter opened with the Jack Antonoff-produced “Aaahh Men!”
On Vie, Doja Cat’s fifth studio album and the follow-up to 2023’s Scarlet, the Los Angeles native “devotes an entire album to the pop and R&B sounds of the Hair Decade, an album full of pastels and neon and mega-cheese sax solos,” as Rolling Stone‘s Rob Sheffield wrote in a review. That was reflected in the set design for “Aaahh Men!” and the attire of the six others on stage, including the two bassists for the bass-centric song.
Doja Cat’s second performance was of “Gorgeous,” one of the several tracks on Vie that incorporates the saxophone.
Last week, Doja Cat announced her 50-date Tour Ma Vie World Tour, which begins in New Zealand next month. She’ll begin the U.S. leg next October in Detroit, and will wrap up at New York’s Madison Square Garden on Dec. 1.
