Doja Cat performs on the Coachella Stage throughout day three of the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival on the Empire Polo Grounds in Indio on Sunday, April 17, 2022. (Photo by Drew A. Kelley, Contributing Photographer)
Doja Cat delivered a little bit of a combined trick-o-treat bag as she kicked off her first-ever enviornment headlining tour on Halloween evening at Chase Center in San Francisco.
The Cat lady, herself, was totally on level, sounding particularly sturdy as she showcased her rapping skills. She’s an actual expertise, one which must be a power within the business for years to return.
Yet, she additionally confirmed her inexperience within the enviornment realm as she did little or no attempt to join with the gang or make the night really feel “live” on Night 1 of the Scarlet Tour, which helps the 2023 album of the identical identify.
Instead, it typically simply felt like we have been simply watching one thing like “Doja Cat: The Concert Movie,” which — who is aware of? — could possibly be heading to a theater close to you within the not-so-distant future.
More vital, the touring manufacturing — whereas arena-style massive and surprisingly Halloween applicable — wasn’t as thrilling because it ought to have been. There was a numbing sameness to every part that took place on stage over the course of the 90-minute set, although the manufacturing was divided up into 5 (allegedly) totally different acts.
In quick, the live performance grew much less attention-grabbing because the evening progressed — which is rarely a very good factor.
The live performance was, nonetheless, the particular place to be Halloween 2023 within the Bay Area, drawing a full home of some 14,000 followers to the sector. And the gang was undoubtedly stuffed with world-famous characters, starting from Freddy Krueger and Chucky to Mario and Luigi to Ken and Barbie to the Joker and the Riddler.
There have been additionally cats of all styles and sizes — together with not less than one Cat within the Hat — and seemingly not less than as many cows (tying in with the Doja Cat music/viral web meme “Moo!”) on this colourful crowd, the place not less than each different person was in costume for the Halloween/Doja event.
The star’s set — which begin proper at 8:30 and concluded on the surprisingly early hour of 10 p.m. — obtained off to a robust begin as Doja Cat appeared onstage and delivered a panoramic model of “WYM Freestyle,” one in every of 15 “Scarlet” tracks featured on the evening.
Things continued alongside the identical route all through Act I, as Doja Cat commanded the triangular stage, which identified to the viewers, whereas propelled by a stellar band. The music translated very effectively to the reside enviornment, conveying the readability of the studio model whereas ratcheting up the vitality slightly bit.
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Here’s the setlist, based mostly on my notes and data from setlist.fm:
ACT I
1 WYM Freestyle
2. Demons
3. Tia Tamera
4. Shutcho
5. Agora Hills
ACT II
6. Attention
7. Often
8. Red Room
9. Balut
10. Gun
11. Ain’t (expletive)
ACT III
12. Woman
13. Say So
14. “Get Into It (Yuh)”
15. “Need to Know”
16. “Kiss Me More”
ACT IV
17. “Paint the Town Red”
18. “Streets”
19. “(Expletive) the Girls (FTG)”
ACT V
20. “97”
21. “Can’t Wait”
22. “Go Off”
23. “Ouchies”
24. “Wet Vagina”
