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\n\tDoja Cat<\/a> had barely left behind Scarlet<\/em> before diving into her latest release. The Grammy winner made a more rap-focused project with her fourth LP, moving on from the lighter pop and R&B flavor of 2021\u2019s Planet Her<\/em>. The pivot paid off, becoming her third Top 10 album and garnering rave reviews from critics and longtime fans alike.<\/p>\n \n\tBut Doja Cat<\/a> is not one to do the same thing twice. She\u2019s got a brand new sound and look for Vie<\/em>. Ahead of its September 26th release, here\u2019s everything we know about the new album.<\/p>\n \n\tAs listeners can hear on her lead single \u201cJealous Type,\u201d Doja Cat is back to the pop sound that helped her break through. \u201cI do want to be self-aware enough to admit the fact that this is a pop-driven project,\u201d she told\u00a0<\/em>V<\/em> in an interview<\/a> this summer. \u201cI know that I can make pop music, and pop is just that it\u2019s popular. It starts to become a bit of a thing that\u2019s viewed as a sport by people who are just bystanders to it, who enjoy it, but maybe also don\u2019t respect it or what it is, which is just\u00a0music<\/em>. There are some people who don\u2019t see it as music. They see it as if this is some kind of football for girls and gays.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n \n\tThis news came as a surprise to her listeners: Back in 2023, she called her own pop music \u201cmid & corny\u201d and tweeted that she was done with the sound. \u201cNo more pop music,\u201d she wrote at the time.<\/p>\n \n\tDoja Cat is not an Eighties baby but she\u2019s certainly pulling out some deep references to that decade in her rollout. The album\u2019s campaign and editorial aesthetic has made references to everything from classic Grace Jones images to hair metal vixens. During her VMA performance, she transformed into Max Headroom, the computer-generated TV presenter.<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cI have so many things that float around in my brain when it comes to the Eighties\u201d she told V<\/em>. \u201cI have no experience of the Eighties or any relation to it in that sense\u2026I wanted to play with that nostalgia by using these Lo-Fi sounds and samples and things that reminded you of something from your childhood, but it wasn\u2019t on the nose Eighties.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\t\tShe\u2019s back to pop<\/strong>\t<\/h2>\n
\n\t\tThe Eighties are a big influence on Vie<\/em><\/strong>\t<\/h2>\n