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dabunique Posted February 1, 2023 Author Posted February 1, 2023 Her fans seem to get the look now, but she watched as a massive online debate ensued when she first cut off all her hair in the fall. Some onlookers even wondered if the shaved head meant she was having a Britney-Spears-circa-2007 bad moment. Those comments disturbed her — on Spears’ behalf, not her own. “It’s so incredibly disrespectful for people to be minimizing what Britney went through and make a joke out of something that was very serious and a big deal in her life. Every time I see a comment like that, I can’t compute what’s happening, other than it’s just an awful thing,” Doja says. “But other than that, when I shaved my eyebrows off and I shaved my head, I remember thinking, ‘Get this **** off of me,’ because I needed to change something,” she says. “I wasn’t working out and wasn’t really taking care of myself in the way that I wanted to. I was like, ‘I need to do something,’ so I just chopped it all off. And I could see the shape of my head. I could see my whole face. I can see my ears, now that I don’t have a wig that’s glued to my forehead.”
dabunique Posted February 1, 2023 Author Posted February 1, 2023 Rocking or walking a carpet, as Doja says, “I like to show my feathers.” Her manager, Gordon Dillard, says, “It’s a performance everywhere we are. If we pop up at a party, it’s a performance. If she goes and reads a book, I’m sure it’s gonna be a performance. That’s her personality. I think Doja is our generation’s Madonna or Lady Gaga, as far as her capabilities, and we’ve just scratched the surface. We are planning for the long haul, as far as her businesses, and as far as potentially joining the film and TV world. She’s done a little acting before” — his client dipped a toe in the water with a small role in an episode of the hip-hop comedy series “Dave” — “but we want to get into that more after she continues to mark the surface with the music. We’re always planning long-term and working our way backwards.” Filmmaker Baz Luhrmann, who solicited her to pave the way for his “Elvis” soundtrack with her “Vegas” single, makes some of those same comparisons: “Look, when you rehearse with Madonna, it’s very hard to stop her from keeping rehearsing. When I went to see Doja rehearse for Coachella, I thought of that same work ethic. And then in terms of her look and her self-projection, if you think of Madonna in the early days, there’s no corner she wouldn’t go to, and I see that with Doja, who’s not going to be cowed by other people’s opinions or expectations.” Luhrmann has another comparison in mind too. “You know, Amala,” he says, using Doja’s given name, Amala Ratna Zandile Dlamini, “has this Elvis-like philosophy — early Elvis, when his portal was about Black music but he was blending country and opera. You couldn’t really pigeonhole him. And what I really love about her is the impossibility of pigeonholing her. She can move effortlessly through different genres. When we were at Coachella, she did a hard-rock version of ‘Say So,’ and it could have been Jimi Hendrix.”
dabunique Posted February 1, 2023 Author Posted February 1, 2023 A new album is guaranteed in 2023; going out on the road, maybe not. “I don’t know,” she says. “But I do want to make sure that everything I’m doing right now in terms of recording is solidified before I make any decisions. The baby hasn’t been born yet.” There will be much more rap on the next album, she vows, even though she’s demonstrated plenty of those skills to date. She particularly prizes “Vegas.” “That was one of the greatest experiences,” she says, “because everyone knows ‘Hound Dog’ ” — the classic Presley song that is interpolated into hers — but I was able to give it my own spin. I went in and I was like, ‘Finally, I get to rap again.’ A lot of people dis-credit me, so it’s nice to just put another one in the ******* bucket for a great rap song.” Doja Cat says she can’t blame casual hip-hop fans for thinking she might be a dilettante. “I just got an award [from iHeartRadio] for a billion spins on the radio,” she says — thanks largely to the sing-along popularity of “Say So,” “Kiss Me More” and “Woman” — “so with that alone, I’m constantly being shoved down people’s throats. I would be upset if I saw somebody who has kind of been fed to me as this pop-star girl with a fat ass making it to this level of rap icon, after I’ve only been watching them do disco **** and pop **** all the time.” The next album will be her bid to up the ante on both R&B and rap, even if it means sacrificing some obvious Top-40-fodder hooks.
Big Bad Wolf Posted February 1, 2023 Posted February 1, 2023 She’s such a star. A force to be reckoned with and a class act. I don’t stan but I support this girl in whatever she does.
Supervillain Posted February 1, 2023 Posted February 1, 2023 Oh ******* wow this is a jawdropping shoot
k4rmabutterfly Posted February 1, 2023 Posted February 1, 2023 (edited) I’m ready She’s serving art not the charts with her comments. Her Rated R / 4 is coming Edited February 1, 2023 by k4rmabutterfly
Guest Posted February 1, 2023 Posted February 1, 2023 (edited) It’s giving, it’s giving album cover Edited February 1, 2023 by Limitless
josesuxx Posted February 1, 2023 Posted February 1, 2023 (edited) 2 minutes ago, Bloodflowers. said: Give us an album full of Boss Beaches NO we need an album full of Bottom Beaches Edited February 1, 2023 by josesuxx
X~MoviePoP Posted February 1, 2023 Posted February 1, 2023 Shes missing out on a huge bag by not touring
popularmoonlight Posted February 1, 2023 Posted February 1, 2023 Quote I think Doja is our generation’s Madonna or Lady Gaga This is so true! So nice to read her recognize that. She'll go very far with this mentality. I never stand by anyone saying 'someone is the new Lady Gaga' because LG is a one of a lifetime artist, but Doja truly is on her path to make her impact in very similar ways as Gaga's did. So proud of her. These photos are stunning!! Quote The next album will be her bid to up the ante on both R&B and rap, even if it means sacrificing some obvious Top-40-fodder hooks. We're ready!!
Bloodflowers. Posted February 1, 2023 Posted February 1, 2023 Wait, so she scrapped German house techno music album?
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