Doja Cat has shared a video for her single ‘Demons’ starring Christina Ricci and revealed an up to date cowl for her forthcoming album ‘Scarlet‘.
Directed by Doja Cat alongside Christian Breslauer, the video options the artist as a demon with black horns and crimson eyes crawling on the ceiling as Ricci lay in mattress trying up throughout a darkish and stormy night time.
One of many scenes within the video pays homage to Stanley Kubrick’s 1980 movie The Shining and sees Doja Cat sitting in a tub whereas black liquid overflows and a black-clawed hand grabs the again of the rapper’s head.
‘Demons’ is the third single to be launched from Doja Cat’s forthcoming fourth studio album ‘Scarlet’, which is ready for launch on September 22. The observe follows the beforehand launched singles ‘Paint The City Purple‘ and ‘Consideration‘.
The rapper additionally revealed an up to date cowl for ‘Scarlet’ after it was found that she hada almost equivalent album paintings because the German metallic band Chaver, who’re set to launch their newest album on the identical day.
Her first paintings featured a purple-pink arachnid with a drop of blood above it. Doja Cat took to social media on Tuesday (August 29) to share the sleeve, but it surely was quickly revealed that Chaver’s new album paintings for his or her report ‘Of Gloom’ – revealed on July 29 and in addition due for launch on September 22 – is nearly precisely the identical, aside from the form of the blood droplet and the positioning of the spider’s legs. Each of the artwork items have been created by the identical artist, Dusty Ray.
The up to date cowl now encompasses a pair of arachnids with pink pearl our bodies locking their mouths collectively.
‘Scarlet’ serves as a observe as much as her her 2021 report ‘Planet Her’. In a four-star overview of the LP, NME shared: “Although she works with a dozen or so producers together with Jay-Z affiliate Al Shux and Drake collaborator Rogét Chahayed, ‘Planet Her’ is nearly fully mid-tempo and outlined by a sure lightness of contact. Which means ‘Kiss Me Extra’ might be the one observe that matches ‘Say So’ for pure, unassailable pop enchantment, but in addition that the downbeat, dirge-like ‘Been Like This’ is the report’s solely uninteresting second. All of it provides as much as a job effectively accomplished with greater than sufficient bops to drown out her subsequent social media controversy.”
In different information, Doja Cat lately introduced her first-ever North American enviornment tour kicking off later this yr, with Ice Spice and Doechii as assist. Go to right here for tickets and a full listing of dates.
Again in July, the artist deleted her Threads account and misplaced 180,000 followers on Instagram after criticising her followers in a collection of posts. She had posted a collection of tweets lashing out at her followers, notably aimed toward fan accounts who seek advice from themselves as ‘kittenz’.
Earlier this month, it was reported that she had misplaced round 500,000 followers on Instagram. Doja has since responded to the unfollowing spree, writing that she felt like she’d “defeated a big beast that’s been holding me down for thus lengthy”
