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Doja Cat has been giving macabre all summer season and her latest installment, “Demons,” introduced in Nineties scream queen Christina Ricci to assist usher in her new single.
The rapper teased the one on Wednesday with a trailer narrated by a voice rivaling Donald LeRoi LaFontaine’s and opened to spooky scenes of Christina Ricci waking up alone in mattress as ghoulish palms crept up the aspect. The clip promised ” a haunting story from the twisted minds of Doja Cat and Christian Breslauer” and ended with a bejeweled Doja crawling on the ceiling in the direction of a hapless Ricci.
Earlier this week, Doja Cat confirmed the discharge date for her highly-anticipated new file Scarlet, arriving Sept. 22. The follow-up to her blockbuster 2021 mission Planet Her additionally debut new cowl artwork that includes a dangling spider staring down a drop of blood. The picture was quickly taken down, nevertheless, after similarities had been made to a different cowl by German metallic band Chaver, which additionally pictured a spider, was designed by the Portland artist Dusty Ray, and shared the identical launched date.
“Demon” is third preview of her upcoming album, following scorching single “Attention” and “Paint the Town Red,” whose accompanying visible actually follows Doja to hell. Both observe hit the Billboard Hot 100.
In July, massive swaths of followers unfollowed Doja on her varied social media media after the artist refused to specific a devotion to them that didn’t really feel true to her. While her earlier followers thought the mass exodus would register as a sufficiently big menace for her to vary her thoughts, as a substitute, she expressed reduction.
“Seeing all these people unfollow me makes me feel like I’ve defeated a large beast that’s been holding me down for so long,” she wrote on her Instagram Story. “It feels like I can reconnect with the people who really matter and love me for who I am and not for who I was. I feel free.”
