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. Speaking to Variety, Doja opened up about wanting “to explore punk.” Though she clarified: “Not pop-punk. I feel like we have enough pop-punk artists right now.”
Here’s Doja’s full rumination on leaning into her punk aspect:
This is the manic half. I wasn’t gonna let you know. But I’ll simply let you know now, as a result of not speaking about it’s making me aggravated: I need to discover punk. But not pop-punk. I really feel like we have now 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 type 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 can be rap,” she mentioned. “It’s really a beautiful set of genres that you can twist, and I think people get it.”
Elsewhere, Doja mentioned her subsequent period would see her leaning in a “more masculine direction.” She additionally chastised followers for comparing her shaved head to Britney Spears: “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.”