Doja Cat Unveils New ‘Vie’ Cover, Slams ‘Harsh Criticism’ of Artwork: ‘You Can’t Make Me Feel Bad’

B—h, she said what she said. After unveiling a caller screen for her upcoming medium Vie, Doja Cat is lasting by the artwork — contempt receiving immoderate “harsh criticism” astir it.

The rapper archetypal unveiled the caller creation connected Instagram connected Monday (Sept. 22), showing disconnected a photograph of herself successful a tattered wedding dress, hanging from a yellowish parachute caught successful a tree. “Falling successful emotion is putting spot successful the hands of yourself and others,” she wrote of the portrait. “The yellowish parachute represents curiosity, happiness and adventure.”

“Flying you towards caller experiences and scenes, taking a leap of faith, and holding nary bounds,” she continued. “The histrion represents beingness and wisdom. Giving you a consciousness of information wrong its branches, but the symptom from the autumn teaches you that those scratches tin beryllium healed. You don’t person to deed the ground. Love grows upward but much importantly down.”

“It’s the roots that support you steady,” she added. “This is the screen of my album.”

The caller screen arrives astir a period aft Doja premiered what fans primitively thought was the authoritative Vie artwork: a close-up photograph of the California autochthonal surrounded by reddish roses. Apparently, immoderate listeners aren’t excessively keen connected the caller artwork, arsenic Doja took to X connected Tuesday (Sept. 23) to support her originative choices.

“You can’t marque maine consciousness atrocious for a screen that has visceral meaning,” she wrote. “The top armor is emotion and integrity. I forgive your harsh disapproval but for maine I won yet again for pursuing my heart. If I was you I wouldn’t.”

Doja has ne'er been shy astir shutting down criticism, particularly erstwhile it comes to her art. Just weeks ago, she asserted her dominance arsenic 1 of the starring pistillate rappers successful the game, telling idiosyncratic online who doubted her skills, “Please halt trying to downplay my ability.”

That said, Doja has besides been unfastened astir the information that Vie is overmuch much pop-focused, with similarities to her earlier hits specified arsenic “Say So.” “It’s taken until the opening of this adjacent album, Vie, to admit my older stuff,” she told CBS Sunday Morning recently. “I deliberation [this album] was a instrumentality to that.”

See Doja’s Vie cover and station connected X below.