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Doja Cat manifests a dream fantasy of '80s pop on her confidently frothy fifth album, 2025's Vie. The follow-up to 2023's hip-hop-heavy Scarlet, Vie is an unabashed pop confection yet one that's as idiosyncratic and conceptual as anything the Los Angeles singer/rapper has done. Working with mega-producer Jack Antonoff and longtime collaborator Y2K, Doja Cat concocts a fetishized synthwave collage of throwback '80s influences, filtering them all through her own elemental sexy, cool, scary, fun pop diva persona, one that feels like a 2020s sci-fi amalgam of Grace Jones, the animated dominatrix-spy Aeon Flux, and Andy Warhol's Marilyn Monroe painting come to life. It's an album where a sound clip of Jones' character Zula from 1984's Conan the Destroyer proclaiming that to get a man, she'd simply "Grab him and take him!" doesn't just add fun pop-culture flair to the intro of "All Mine" but feels central to the album's whole production conception. It's a heightened, self-aware vibe and one Doja plays with throughout, framing her warm vocal coo in a wall of raunchy sax lines on the opening "Cards," invoking the Knight Rider theme on the rap party jam "AAAHH MEN!," and conjuring the sultry falsetto and black-light atmosphere of Prince on cuts like "Stranger" and "Couples Therapy." Headlining the album is the lead single "Jealous Type," an icy-hot club anthem built around a synthy, whip-crack electro-R&B groove. It's 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.

A1        Cards
A2        Jealous Type
A3        AAAHH MEN!
A4        Couples Therapy
B1        Gorgeous
B2        Stranger
B3        All Mine
B4        Take Me Dancing (feat. SZA)
C1        Lipstain
C2        Silly! Fun!
C3        Acts Of Service
C4        Make it Up
D1        Happy
D2        One More Time
D3        Come Back