Doja Cat’s First of All Album: Attention Single, Music Video

Doja Cat has everybody’s consideration, and he or she is aware of it. The multi-talented rapper and singer launched the primary single off her upcoming album, “First of All,” on June 16. The track is fittingly referred to as “Attention,” and it calls for simply that.

“It don’t need your lovin’, it just needs attention,” Doja sings within the observe’s opening traces, previewing the track’s total message: she does not want the world’s approval if she has everybody’s consideration. As the track continues into her rap verses, it sees her put haters on blast for commenting on her weight and magnificence selections, and even namedrops Nicki Minaj at one level. Check out the track and its music video beneath.

Doja certain is aware of how you can hold the web guessing. She teased “Attention”‘s launch on June 13 when she tweeted a photo of what appears to be like like single or album artwork emblazoned with a bloody triangle. “6.16.23,” she wrote within the caption. The submit got here a day after a since-deactivated pre-save hyperlink for the one was reportedly leaked, per Uproxx.

Doja has been steadily revealing increasingly more about her new album in current weeks — and ruffling just a few feathers within the course of. After debuting her life-imitates-art, literal cat take a look at this 12 months’s Met Gala on May 1, the 27-year-old “Say So” artist triggered some sturdy emotions on Twitter over her music — which has lengthy since been the middle of arguments over which style it belongs to (many argue both hip-hop, pop, or that no label is required).

On May 9, Doja tweeted that she tricked followers into investing in her final two albums launched in 2019 and 2021, writing, “‘Planet her’ and ‘hot pink’ were cash-grabs and yall fell for it. now i can go disappear somewhere and touch grass with my loved ones on an island while yall weep for mediocre pop.”

After her controversial tweet set social media ablaze, Doja then adopted up with one other to disclose the identify of her subsequent album and wrote, “Its not called hEllMoUth either its called ‘First of All’ and yes I’m announcing the album title right now.”

Doja’s new revelation about her music could not shock those that caught her different tweets in May, wherein she revealed what she considered her earlier pop releases. On May 7, when a Twitter user asked, “At what point do you feel like you moved away from the mentality of doing what others wanted?” Doja wrote back, “After coachella when I felt so tired of doing a bunch of sh*t i didn’t believe in and not telling my side or my story with my music.” She added, “When I realized I hadn’t done anything personal and that i was cranking out digestible pop hits for children on twitter to get into fights about.” On April 8, Doja also tweeted that “pop isnt exciting to me anymore. I dont wanna make it.”

In current years, Doja has been vocal about wanting to maneuver away from the sound that is earned her a number of pop Grammy nominations, in addition to her first win with SZA in 2022 for his or her “Kiss Me More” collaboration — which took residence finest pop duo/group efficiency.

While “Attention” provides followers a style of what her subsequent album will sound like, followers should not make assumptions in regards to the full physique of work. Though she tweeted a fan on April 8 to share that her subsequent undertaking could be “rap only,” she additionally instructed CR Fashion Book in September 2022 that she was “very into this ’90s German rave kind of vibe” on the time, including, “That’s kind of a hint to the album.”

Not a lot else is thought about Doja’s “First of All” album. Whenever the subsequent replace comes, although, we’re certain she’ll share it on social media first.