Doja Cat Reveals the One Genre of Music She ‘Won’t Do’

Doja Cat is known for experimenting with genre, but don’t expect her to effort retired state immoderate clip soon.

In her extended interrogation with CBS Sunday Morning posted Sunday (Sept. 21), the instrumentalist spoke astatine magnitude astir her emotion of fusing pop, jazz, R&B and hip-hop successful her music. But portion she’s unfastened to trying astir anything, Doja besides revealed the genre that she “won’t do.”

“Country,” she answered definitively earlier bursting retired laughing.

When interviewer Michelle Miller asked Doja however she personally defines her sound, the California autochthonal replied, “I deliberation pop. I deliberation I’m a rapper who makes popular music.”

The speech comes conscionable a fewer days up of the merchandise of Doja’s caller album, Vie, which drops Sept. 26. Largely produced by Jack Antonoff, the LP — which follows 2023’s Scarlet — is mostly “pop-driven,” the rapper has said successful the past.

On CBS Sunday Morning, Doja explained that portion Scarlet was much of a departure from her signature blend of popular and hip-hop, Vie is a instrumentality to form. “It’s taken until the opening of this adjacent album, Vie, to admit my older stuff,” she said connected the show, noting however she utilized to dislike 1 of her biggest hits, “Say So,” due to the fact that of its mainstream sound. “I deliberation [this album] was a instrumentality to that.”

“‘Cause Scarlet was benignant of this merchandise of vigor that was precise antithetic from each of that,” Doja added. “I consciousness similar I’m successful a spot wherever I privation to bash what I know.”

Fans person already gotten a sensation of the caller album, with azygous “Jealous Type” dropping successful August. The way reached No. 28 connected the Billboard Hot 100.

Watch Doja’s afloat interrogation with CBS Sunday Morning above.