Although Doja clearly envisions Vie as her poppiest album, with ’80s pop as her aesthetic of choice, the record is most interesting when she’s ignoring such distinctions rather than embracing them.
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Although Doja clearly envisions Vie as her poppiest album, with ’80s pop as her aesthetic of choice, the record is most interesting when she’s ignoring such distinctions rather than embracing them.
On Vie, she veers closer to the high-gloss pop of her breakthrough albums Planet Her and Hot Pink — yes, the albums she later repudiated as “mediocre pop” done as a “cash grab.” (Nobody renounces her own hit albums faster.) But it’s the sound of Doja Cat at her most playful and unpredictable.
The album feels like an amalgamation of its two predecessors; the rap energy from ‘Scarlet’ and pop punch from ‘Planet Her’.
Hearing the push-and-pull between those sides [2019's Hot Pink/2021's Planet Her vs. 2023's Scarlet] of Doja is enormous fun.
‘Vie’ proves that Doja Cat remains pop’s ultimate shapeshifter, offering an album that moves, seduces and entertains on its own terms.
["Jealous Type" is] a savvy throwback banger, thrillingly evoking Janet Jackson at her most physical. Yet, as with all of Vie, it underscores Doja Cat's power as the diva who's in control here.
Her flow can often be propulsive and deadly, and every so often, she strikes gold (“All Mine” and “AAAHH MEN!”). Even something like “Jealous Type”, one of Vie’s least cohesive mash of rap and pop, gets the job done.
Doja’s music is best when she strikes a balance between hip-hop and pop, between hard and soft. But Vie sets up camp (pun intended) in the latter, and its conception of the ’80s is largely defined by thin beats, squelchy synths, and distant sax noodling.
Mixing 1980s pop and R&B on Vie, Doja remains an elusive, genre-bending savant. The record’s standout tracks fully embrace 1980s synthpop.
If Scarlet was the firestorm, Vie is the afterglow: still flickering, still restless, but finally willing to show the cracks that make the light come through.
Vie is a transitional record, yes, but its ambitious reach also makes it a necessary one. In its best moments, the album shows us that Doja Cat is at her most compelling when she stops trying to define herself, and instead allows her music to contain all her contradictions at once.
Although Doja clearly envisions Vie as her poppiest album, with ’80s pop as her aesthetic of choice, the record is most interesting when she’s ignoring such distinctions rather than embracing them.
On Vie, she veers closer to the high-gloss pop of her breakthrough albums Planet Her and Hot Pink — yes, the albums she later repudiated as “mediocre pop” done as a “cash grab.” (Nobody renounces her own hit albums faster.) But it’s the sound of Doja Cat at her most playful and unpredictable.
The album feels like an amalgamation of its two predecessors; the rap energy from ‘Scarlet’ and pop punch from ‘Planet Her’.
Hearing the push-and-pull between those sides [2019's Hot Pink/2021's Planet Her vs. 2023's Scarlet] of Doja is enormous fun.
‘Vie’ proves that Doja Cat remains pop’s ultimate shapeshifter, offering an album that moves, seduces and entertains on its own terms.
["Jealous Type" is] a savvy throwback banger, thrillingly evoking Janet Jackson at her most physical. Yet, as with all of Vie, it underscores Doja Cat's power as the diva who's in control here.
Her flow can often be propulsive and deadly, and every so often, she strikes gold (“All Mine” and “AAAHH MEN!”). Even something like “Jealous Type”, one of Vie’s least cohesive mash of rap and pop, gets the job done.
Doja’s music is best when she strikes a balance between hip-hop and pop, between hard and soft. But Vie sets up camp (pun intended) in the latter, and its conception of the ’80s is largely defined by thin beats, squelchy synths, and distant sax noodling.
Mixing 1980s pop and R&B on Vie, Doja remains an elusive, genre-bending savant. The record’s standout tracks fully embrace 1980s synthpop.
If Scarlet was the firestorm, Vie is the afterglow: still flickering, still restless, but finally willing to show the cracks that make the light come through.
Vie is a transitional record, yes, but its ambitious reach also makes it a necessary one. In its best moments, the album shows us that Doja Cat is at her most compelling when she stops trying to define herself, and instead allows her music to contain all her contradictions at once.
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