Doja Cat - Planet Her

[Purple]

Miss Doja laminating her Olivia stan card was not on my 2021 bingo.

The song is a mood too, she sells it.

 

[lushLuck]

Wait at that cover & commercial being two of 2021’s greatest achievements.

 

[Monkey Meat]

That was very cute, almost Super Bowl worthy

 

[MarlonBrando86]

This was unexpected

She really does always understand the assignment.

 

[Robin]

Okay but why am I obsessed with everything about the Pepsi commercial.. she looks great too.

 

[mindtrappa]

Variety interview about the ad and the VMAs:



A couple bits:

We did not do a full-length version,” she says, regretfully. “My friend, the producer, is begging me to just finish the whole thing. So I’m kind of down for that. It’s a very good idea to do the whole thing. I think people would really enjoy it. Some people will absolutely hate that I’m trying to recreate an iconic moment. I really hope that I’m not ruining it for anybody. And I probably am.

On the MTV VMAs Sunday night, Doja Cat will be performing a medley of “Been Like This” and “You Right,” both from her “Planet Her” album, which has fared remarkably well in the marketplace this year. She’s been on a roll of knockout awards-show performances, from her shady look on the Grammys to cavorting with aliens in a corn field on the IHeartRadio Music Awards this summer. Without wanting to spoil too much, she says her performance this weekend will involve very different choreography.

“If I did the same thing every day, I’d lose my mind, and that’s been my whole life,” she says. “I can’t do the same thing every day. I had a really hard time in school (because of that). So that’s the definition of my career. and I wanted to do something that felt completely opposite to the last thing I did. A lot of the things I do are like hip-hop dance. And I haven’t fully embraced my breakdancing, popping side. But for this, I wanted to do contemporary/modern dance. It’s very expressive and beautiful, and visually it’s compelling and just registers really nicely on stage. And I wanted to go for a very ethereal and soft but intense kind of presentation. So it’s been really fun learning that. And my back, my neck, my shoulders, and my legs are gone after trying to learn this. But it feels very natural, and I’m very excited for how it will look in the end.”

Is there anything or anyone to whom she’d correlate the style she’s going for with Sunday night’s dance? “Absolutely. One artist that I look up to the most is FKA Twigs. She is peak perfection when it comes to performing on stage. And I think she’s very into that contemporary dance world. With that kind of ethereal-ness that she has, I feel like she is like the epitome of beauty. And I saw that if she’s taking parts from that (style of choreography)… it felt like it was only her, but we need more people exposing this beautiful form of contemporary/modern dance. And so I had her in mind when I wanted to create something beautiful in that sense.”

 

[QueenB]

Loved the commercial! She’s so talented!

 

[bazayer]

She really does always understand the assignment.

Yup.

She looks incredible in that bejewelled jacket and with the short platinum hair.

 

[Runawaywithme]

A Doja/Twigs collab would be very interesting.

 

[1991]

Planet Her broke the record for spending the most weeks in the top 10 for a female rap album (11 so far, basically it hasn't left the top 10 since release). She has 6 streaming smashes in the form of Kiss Me More, You Right, Need To Know, Woman, Get Into It and Ain't Shit so I don't expect it to leave anytime soon.

The album was certified Silver last week and should easily pass Gold by the end of the year.

 

[Hyrulian]

Planet Her broke the record for spending the most weeks in the top 10 for a female rap album (11 so far, basically it hasn't left the top 10 since release). She has 6 streaming smashes in the form of Kiss Me More, You Right, Need To Know, Woman, Get Into It and Ain't Shit so I don't expect it to leave anytime soon.

The album was certified Silver last week and should easily pass Gold by the end of the year.

 

[mindtrappa]

She looks great here. She said there's "a lot more" coming in terms of videos and visuals for the album.

 

[Gemini]

This was unexpected

Holy shit that leather look is a LOOK.
She really brings her absolute A game to literally everything she does. That commercial, and recording the song- that's all a lot of work. All for a commercial. Props to her, hope she got a big payout for that. It's instantly iconic.

Wouldn't mind if she recorded the rest and released it just for fun.

 

[slaybellz]

This was unexpected

Ok that took me out dd. A lot of things went through my head about what was gonna happen after he took a sip and that was definitely not one of them.

 

[nooniebao]

 

[An Insider]

There’s something so 2000s about this year’s VMAs with this new crop of stars really coming into their own.

 

[nooniebao]

YouTube link of tonight’s performance:

 

[mindtrappa]

She did great. I was kind of nervous when I heard she was going for something more simple/serious, but she pulled it off. I’m glad she got to show this side of her.

 

[iRelate]

She killed the choreo but I can’t say it’s among my favorite performances from her. I really like Been Like This but it seems like a random choice to perform given the other buzzworthy songs on the album, and her being in the air is cool for a minute but goes on for too long.

 

[mindtrappa]

I really like Been Like This but it seems like a random choice to perform given the other buzzworthy songs on the album

Well that’s kind of the point. The other songs would have lent themselves to a more hyped up and traditional Doja moment, which is the opposite of what she wanted to do.