Doja Cat has properly and really put her foot to the pedal and brought out the highest spot triple j’s Hottest 100 of 2023 along with her critic-panning heater, ‘Paint The Town Red’.
With this win she’s created Hottest 100 historical past — not solely being the primary feminine rapper to take the crown but in addition the primary lady of color to do it solo.
An spectacular end result for a observe about not caring what folks assume and simply persevering with to cook dinner – even when she did not notably just like the tune herself at first.
“I assumed ‘Paint The Town Red’ jogged my memory of like, Target or like Macy’s. It jogged my memory of like, GAP,” she instructed Apple Music in December.
“I do not why. It simply type of is that. And I do know it begins with a curse phrase and it is like just a little bit edgy in that sense and I say, ‘I’m a demon lord!’ Like yeah, I get that, however that tune simply had a really pants-up-high vibe.”
Where did our Number 1 come from?
Doja’s IDGAF anthem hit us like a bolt of lightning in April 2023, when a snippet appeared on TikTok and took everybody’s FYP by storm.
Produced by Earl On The Beat, Karl Rubin, Jean Baptiste and DJ Replay, ‘Paint The Town Red’ samples a loop of ‘Walk On By’, composed by Burt Bacharach for Dionne Warwick in 1963.
Using that pattern because the backbone of the observe, Doja Cat created the profitable system with a rolling chord development that retains walking on by.
Award-winning composer Vivek Maddala described it as a “harmonic perpetual movement machine” in his extremely in-depth dissection of the observe’s music principle for Stereogum.
The full observe dropped in August, 4 months after it bounced across the web and racked up likes, views and duets. It’s now featured in 2.7million movies on TikTok, spawned a viral dance problem and soundtracks all the pieces from gymnasium memes to make-up tutorials and grandmas dancing off beat.
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TikTok is acquainted territory for Doja Cat, with the video clip for her 2019 breakout hit ‘Say So’ that includes a cameo and choreography from Haley Sharpe, the Alabama teenager who despatched it viral on the platform. Virality and Doja go hand in hand, each transfer she makes appears to garner the eye she so blatantly refuses to acknowledge.
Outside of her Hottest 100 win, ‘Paint The Town Red’ has seen unimaginable success each in Australia and globally. The observe has a bonkers 807 million Spotify streams and landed Doja Cat the record-holder for quickest solo feminine rapper to hit the 400 million mark on the platform and a Grammy nomination for Best Pop Solo Performance.
She spent 10 weeks on the prime of the ARIA charts when the observe was launched in August, went platinum and has now climbed her method to the highest of the peoples’ vote.
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Who is Doja Cat?
Born and raised in Los Angeles, 28-year-old Doja Cat began releasing music herself on SoundCloud when she was a youngster, along with her first observe ‘So High’ touchdown on the location in 2012.
After signing with RCA Records in 2013, she launched her debut EP Purrr! in 2014 and her debut album Amala 4 years later. Doja Cat obtained her first style of viral recreation with ‘MOOO!’ in 2018, a observe she wrote and recorded in six hours with the assistance of her Instagram followers.
“We began it on Instagram dwell,” she instructed DAZED that 12 months. “Just me a 60 different folks, and all of us had enjoyable arising with puns and metaphors.”
2018 was additionally the 12 months she collaborated with Rico Nasty on ‘Tia Tamera’ and made her Coachella debut with the Maryland-born rapper the 12 months after. By 2022, Doja Cat was returning the favour in her showstopping foremost stage efficiency and is now tapped to headline the entire thing for the 2024 version.
How sizzling are we for Doja Cat?
This win marks her fourth consecutive 12 months within the annual countdown. She debuted within the record in 2020 with ‘Boss Bitch’ (#67), had a standout 12 months in 2021 with 5 placings (#83, #37, #34, #31 and #7) and backed it up in 2022 with ‘Vegas’ (#22).
She’s additionally been a favorite within the Like A Version studio, with Polish Club overlaying ‘Say So’ in 2020 and Winston Surfshirt delivering a rendition of ‘Kiss Me More’ in 2022.
Doja Cat’s fourth studio album Scarlet was the characteristic album in September, which we described as “unapologetic, fiery and filled with perspective”
Celebrating 12 months 4 within the countdown with a gold medal is an unimaginable second for each Doja and the Hottest 100, who is aware of what lil’ satan will stand up to in 2024.
