Heading into the 2023 Grammys with 5 nominations, Doja Cat is now speaking about completely different musical instructions she’d wish to discover on her deliberate follow-up to 2021’s Planet Her. Chatting with Selection, Doja opened up about wanting “to discover punk.” Although she clarified: “Not pop-punk. I really feel like now we have sufficient pop-punk artists proper now.”
Right here’s Doja’s full rumination on leaning into her punk facet:
That is the manic half. I wasn’t gonna inform you. However I’ll simply inform you now, as a result of not speaking about it’s making me irritated: I need to discover punk. However not pop-punk. I really feel like now we have sufficient pop-punk artists proper now. And if there must be extra, then let there be extra, however I don’t suppose I’m the one to do it. I need to discover extra of a uncooked, unfiltered, hardcore punk form of factor. It’s simply one thing that I’m doing for my very own private enjoyable — getting some drummers and guitarists collectively. And I don’t even know if that’s gonna make it on the market.
She additionally talked about being an enormous Beastie Boys fan, citing their longstanding precedent for mixing rap and punk. “Rap is punk and punk might be rap,” she mentioned. “It’s actually a wonderful set of genres you can twist, and I feel individuals get it.”
Elsewhere, Doja mentioned her subsequent period would see her leaning in a “extra masculine route.” She additionally chastised followers for evaluating her shaved head to Britney Spears: “It’s so extremely disrespectful for individuals to be minimizing what Britney went via and make a joke out of one thing that was very severe and a giant deal in her life.”
