SLEEVENOTES: Vie - Doja Cat

Doja Cat - Vie - 2025 RCA RECORDS

Release Date: September 26, 2025

Label: Kemosabe / RCA

Elemental Mood: Fire & Metal; molten desire meets mirrored reflection

Season it sounds like: Late summer night, chrome moonlight, the still before a storm.

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OPENING CURTAIN:

Picture this: neon smoke curling around a cracked mirror. The bass hums like a pulse in your throat. Doja laughs - low, dangerous - like she knows something you don’t. That first sound bite tells you everything: this isn’t a comeback. It’s a coronation.

Vie doesn’t wait for permission to start. It claws through the silence and sets the stage on fire.

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ALBUM FEEL:

Vie is power reclaimed. If Scarlet was the shedding of skin, Vie is what lives underneath; glimmering, grotesque, alive.

The soundscape is sharp and cinematic: bass lines that growl, synths that slice, whispers that crawl across the track like a secret in a darkly lit club. Doja builds a world that feel half club, half confessional, full 80s. Performance as possession, chorus as spell.

Lyrically, she dances between hunger and control, fame and self mythology. Each verse feels like a confrontation in a funhouse mirror. There’s no single “truth” here; just reflections, shifting and shining until they burn your eyes.

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TRACK NOTES:

🎵 Jealous Type: The glossy lead single.. sugar on the blade, attitude in every echo.

🎵 Gorgeous: A mirrorball turned weapon; metallic glamour with bite.

🎵 Stranger: Velvet paranoia and pop hypnosis.

🎵 Aaahh Men!: Camp-meets-chaos; chrome, claws, and pure theatrical muscle.

🎵 Take Me Dancing: A nocturnal slow burn built for red lights.

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CLOSING REFLECTION:

This is an album for the mirror.. for the moments you stare at your reflection and see every version of yourself staring back. Vie isn’t about likability. It’s about liberation. It’s also finding vulnerability on the dance floor, leaving it all out to been seen when you feel raw and exposed.

It’s the sound of someone who refuses to be understood, because she’s too busy evolving.

records + reveries,

Cheexie

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