Doja Cat set off a firestorm on Twitter after announcing she’s finished with pop music.
Since 2022, Doja Cat has been teasing fans with her plans for her next album. She first suggested the album would be inspired by 90s German rave music. Then, in the fall of 2022, she changed her mind and said she wanted a rock vibe. Now it seems the singer has ditched both those ideas.
“I’m going to finish this next album, and then I’m going to get the f-out for a second. I want to disappear for a little bit and just do things like wear slides and go to the farmers market,” Doja Cat told Elle.
Whatever direction her fourth studio album — tentatively titled “Hellmouth” — takes, Doja Cat let fans know that it won’t be pop. In a tweet over the weekend, she wrote simply, “no more pop.”
The Los Angeles native broke into the music scene in 2018 with the amusing song and video “Mooo!” which got 89 million views. While obviously quite different than her music since then, it was a perfect introduction to Doja Cat’s off-beat sense humor and style.
Since then, she’s become a top charting artist and won a Grammy and multiple American Music Awards and MTV Video Music Awards. She’s also collaborated with major artists such as Post Malone, Tyga, Megan Thee Stallion and The Weekend.
Doja Cat’s fans didn’t react well to this latest news, with many questioning her decision to focus on rap. The artists decided to engage those fans with additional out-of-left-remarks, including tweets in which she suggested she’d be going “full bluegrass.”
“A lot of people think I’m not good at handling trolls because I respond to them. But that’s the art of it: I love to go to war with trolls,” Doja told Variety. " I’ve been on the internet for 1,000 years and it’s just part of me, that I need to respond. "
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