Doja Cat previewed what appears to be the next single from her forthcoming album during a recent Instagram Live session. The track, titled “Balut,” sees Doja continue focusing on her rap skills in a similar vein to her latest song, “Attention.”
“I think people won’t really vibe with the slow songs,” one fan wrote of the snippet on Twitter. “That’s why everyone likes gun and Vegas. The slow jams like attention are lyrically very great but people don’t listen to music for that anymore if it’s catchy then everyone likes it.” Others were more positive in response. “I think Doja is a fire artist. Love how she does things,” another fan tweeted.
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One person unhappy with Doja’s artistic direction is Azealia Banks who roasted the 27-year-old on Instagram, last week. “I really be wanting to like Doja’s music but it’s all just sooo try hard,” she wrote on her Instagram Story. “Her first album was actually cool as hell,” she continued, calling it “her own authentic art voice.” She added that Doja Cat “sounds like a white girl that grew up in a house,” while remarking that California rap is “purposefully inoffensive and caters to paper shoe Tom and matted hair Abigail.”
Doja Cat has been teasing her fourth studio album for over a year at this point, changing the album title several different times. One point she’s been consistent on is her desire to distance herself from pop music with the effort. Speaking with Variety, earlier this year, she explained, “I know that I’ve done a lot of pink and soft things, a lot of pop and glittery sounds. But for this next era, I’m going in a more masculine direction.”
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Doja still hasn’t confirmed a release date for her upcoming album, but she did tease a potential 19-song tracklist on social media back in April. That list included both “Attention” and “Balut.”
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