Jacob Webster
Doja Cat has launched a brand new single, “Balut.” The mid-tempo, brag-tinged track is latest observe to emerge from her forthcoming LP, Scarlet, out Sept 22 by way of Kemosabe Records/RCA Records.
“Glass houses, I don’t really like to keep my stones there/ Oh, well, I’ll buy another property for four mill,” Doja Cat intones on the observe. “The only problem that I havе and I’ll be so real/ I hit the stagе and lose the crystals on my toenails.”
Doja Cat has been hyping Scarlet over the previous month. She has shared a number of singles from the album, together with “Paint the Town Red” and “Demons,” which additionally bought a horror-inspired music video starring Christina Ricci. Earlier this week, the singer carried out Attention,” “Paint the Town Red,” and “Demons” on the MTV Video Music Awards.
Scarlet is a follow-up to Doja Cat’s blockbuster 2021 undertaking Planet Her. When she introduced the LP’s launch date, the musician additionally debuted new cowl artwork that includes a dangling spider staring down a drop of blood. The picture was quickly taken down, nonetheless, after similarities have been made to a different cowl by German steel band Chaver, which additionally pictured a spider, was designed by the Portland artist Dusty Ray, and shared the identical launched date. The following day, Doja unveiled a second cowl — this time of a gouache watercolor portray of two arachnids.
Doja Cat can be embarking on her first-ever North American tour in help of Scarlet this fall with help from Ice Spice and Doechii on choose dates. The tour kicks off in San Francisco on Halloween and runs by way of December.
In July, giant swaths of followers unfollowed Doja on her numerous social 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 risk for her to have a change of coronary heart, as a substitute, she expressed aid.
“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 the next month. “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.”
