- I want Doja Cat to throw a milkshake at my face.
- We love a thicc queen. - She did not have to go this hard!
♪ (rock intro) ♪
- ♪ I wanna touch on you ♪ ♪ You see me in my room ♪
- It's Doja Cat. - Ohhh, Doja Cat. So good.
- Ooh, I love her. - This bitch is my favorite!
(chuckles) Listen, I have not stanned, like actually stanned someone
since One Direction. She can sing. She can rap.
She writes her [bleep]. She produces it.
She's like a goofball on social media.
She's gorgeous. I love her. Roll.
- Oh, this is so cute. She looks like a little Barbie.
- Even with aluminum foil on her [bleep],
she cute. - I'm getting Nicki Minaj,
Ariana Grande vibes. - ♪ Love at first sight,
just a link to the Gram ♪ ♪ [Bleep] all pink with a tan ♪
♪ And I play with it till my middle fingers are cramped up ♪
- Wait. Hold on. (chuckles) Those lyrics were a lot.
- ♪ No shot to the screen, put your hands up ♪
- It's like an anime. It's cool.
- Yes! - Ah, ah! Where's his peepee?!
- Silver Surfer? Oh, we got a Marvel crossover?
That's what u-- whoa. That's weird. Okay.
The whole man titty thing, I don't know about that.
- Wow, this is so visually cool. - (lip syncs) ♪ Let's break
the internet ♪ - It's really cool to see
how large he's gotten and, you know, how her music has evolved.
And she's being taken seriously, which is great.
- ♪ In all of your pics ♪ ♪ Can't scroll down,
'cause some of them [bleep] ♪ ♪ [Bleep], my parents going
through my [bleep] ♪ - These lyrics.
- All of these looks are kind of legendary.
- This is a really interesting music video idea.
I like her aesthetic. - ♪ I wanna get... ♪
- (sings along) ♪ Freaky on camera ♪ - Ooh. That's my girl!
- ♪ Ohh ♪ - I want Doja Cat to step on my neck.
- Do you see her? This room just got a little hot.
Okay. WOO! - We love Doja Cat.
She's new. She's upcoming. She's hot. She's curvy.
She's swervy. She's got a lot of booty,
and she's got some rules. And she's got some cyber sex tools.
- Doja Cat isn't the first female to talk
about sex in music very openly. There are a ton
of great female rappers that are doing it.
But I think it just kind of further pushes that, you know?
And it's really cool. The liberation, the liberty
of women is really dope. - I honestly think that it slaps.
Like, not gonna lie, might go home and listen to this.
- ♪ Said play with my [bleep] ♪ - (raps along) ♪ But don't play
with my emotions ♪ - It's "Rules." Ay! (laughs)
- Ah, this is my favorite song! She did not have to go this hard!
- ♪ I'ma do this [bleep] in slow motion ♪
- The way they did this music video too
was wow. - See? And it's another music video
that's really intricate. There's a story going on.
It's fun to watch. - That's creepy. No, that's a rat.
Is that a rat or a cat? I don't even know. Okay.
- I love the cat prosthetics. - "Good. Mama's starving." (laughs)
It's a cat. She's talking about eating [bleep]
and to say, "I'm starving," it's funny.
- She gonna eat the man? We don't know.
- ♪ Bread up, [bleep], that butter my biscuit ♪
♪ You ain't talk money, then really, that's none of my business
- Oh, they're all gonna be cat people, aren't they?
Oh. No. Okay, thank god. ♪ Yellow bitch with her eye
on the prize ♪ ♪ But [bleep], I ain't no minion ♪
- What is happening? I'm so confused. Okay.
We throwing the money. She got bands.
- (raps along) ♪ Bitch, I'm [bleep] reptilian ♪
♪ Bitch, bitch, oh! ♪ - Whoa. The eyes. That was cool.
- I used to do that as a kid. To be honest, I used to pour milk
in a bow and drink it and lap it like a cat. Ugh, god.
- (screeches) It's so good! Ah. (claps)
- This is one of those songs that I think I played over
and over and over in the car, and I'm like, "I'm gonna ruin this."
I have to ruin it. - This is-- I have no clue
what's going on, but I'm all here for it.
- ♪ [Bleep], I need devotion ♪ - Oh, the cat's in the background.
- ♪ [Bleep], don't splash when the [bleep] be soaking ♪
♪ Where that [bleep]... ♪ - (raps along) ♪ Who don't play
mind games at? ♪ True.
(raps along) ♪ Chain on, change that ♪ Yes!
- Something about it is sensual, but powerful, and you're just like,
"Yeah, I'm a bad bitch." - The visuals of her music videos
are super cool, but the lyrics don't necessarily connect to me.
She did something super weird in order to be recognized
by a lot of people.
- "Juicy"! Ah! - I didn't know what to do
with myself after this music video came out.
- Man, she's just bad. She is just bad.
Ah, man. - ♪ (hums along) ♪
(sings along) ♪ From the back, back, back, back, back, back ♪
- We love a thicc queen. God. Body goals.
- ♪ If you could see it from the front, we'd say
you see it from the back ♪ - What?!
That was a little bit disturbing, 'cause the inside of the watermelon
is red just like the inside of human muscle is red.
-This is my Twitter header. - The first thing that popped
into my mind was she's a watermelon Ariel.
- ♪ Keep that booty, booty ♪ ♪ She keep that plump ♪
♪ That natural beauty, beauty ♪ - Every song, it's catchy.
You wanna dance immediately. - She always has a theme,
which is awesome. - All of these fruit looks!
It's Froot Loops over here. - Like fruit? Yes! Yes, bitch.
- Doja Cat is the reason why I eat fruits and vegetables.
- ♪ Hit me with the threesome... ♪ - Ah, it's TikTok!
- ♪ You told me don't [bleep] with no bitches, you know ♪
♪ Nah ♪ - This is just so cute.
- Her aesthetic is very, like, the hood Katy Perry.
- This is lit. - ♪ That natural
beauty, beauty, yeah ♪ - Yeah, one day I'm gonna meet her.
I'm just gonna be like, "Hey, love you."
She won't know what I'm talking about, but one day we'll date.
It's cool. Yeah.
- (FBE) You know she's been here before, right?
- Bro, y'all gotta hook me up or something.
Just at least slide her my number, so that way I can start off,
you know, my marriage a little early in life.
- I like it. Something about the beat just brings joy to my little heart.
- That's real confidence right there. That's like genuine "This is how I am
and you can hate it or love it, but hey, this is what
you're gonna get." - I definitely got Nicki Minaj vibes
at first definitely with the way she was dropping.
But now listening to her more, I feel like she's definitely
her own person. She doesn't feel overproduced or that she's having
other people make decisions for her.
- ♪ Hair grow long like Chia ♪ ♪ Money go long like... ♪
- Yooo. - Oh, I've heard this.
I think I've heard this on TikTok. - ♪ My twins big like Tia♪
♪ My twins big like... ♪
- (raps along) ♪ Tia, Tamera ♪ - I love them Twitches. Quality.
- Oh, she got the Tia and Tamera. I love that. She's got all the '90s.
- There's so much going on, and every shot is so quick.
- ♪ Bent the whole world over and said ♪
- (raps along) ♪ "Spank you very much" ♪
- Those fried eggs. - ♪ Have a seat, bitch, please, Ikea ♪
- (chuckles) "Have a seat, bitch, Ikea." Iconic.
- Her lyrics are so clever. - ♪ They said, "Rico, you so nasty" ♪
- This is such a sick collaboration, because Rico Nasty is also
one of those rappers who is really raw and also stands out by herself a lot.
- I love Rico Nasty. It was like my dream collaboration.
- (raps along) ♪ I'm not your buttercup ♪
- ♪ These hoes swear that they can't stand me ♪
♪ But ain't never pullin' up ♪ - Look at all the colors, dude.
Every music video's so different. - I had no idea who this was.
I always heard this song on TikTok. That's so cool.
- Damn. Them hairstyles go hard.
- (chuckles) That's so fun how she just keeps on mentioning their names.
- ♪ Wait, Tia, Tamera ♪ ♪ Wait, Tia... ♪
- Look at all these crazy looks. It's art. (chuckles)
- It has a Lisa Frank, like, '90s-- they have Tia, Tamera.
They had Double Trouble, like those Nickelodeon shows.
It was just all of that brought together.
Especially in a creative way, 'cause I feel like the '90s
can be so overdone, but I feel like she made it
so unique in her own kind of artist way.
- Not my favorite song on the album. I like more the upbeat,
poppier version stuff, but it just shows that she has range.
- She's so cute! - (raps along) ♪ Bitch, I'm a cow ♪
- ♪ I'm not a cat ♪ - (raps along) ♪ I don't say meow ♪
- This was all over Twitter. - You're scrolling on Twitter,
you see a girl with a hamburger and french fries shoved in her nose,
and you're like what the [bleep] is this?
And then you listen to it, and you're like,
"Okay, it's kind of catchy." (laughs)
- ♪ Moo ♪ - It doesn't get old, bro.
- ♪ Moo ♪ ♪ Got milk, bitch? ♪
♪ Got beef? ♪ - It's really relaxing.
- I want Doja Cat to throw a milkshake at my face.
- Oh my god. The [bleep]. - ♪ Get me A1 sauce... ♪
- You can see the green screen. - And regardless of what you think
of this song or like, "Oh, like, it's a meme"
or whatever, the lyrics are good! She is a fantastic writer.
Everything she says is clever. - Ah, she looks so good,
this little farmer thot. That's me at the farm,
just in my thong. - ♪ In the country ♪
♪ I ain't in the city, 'cause they ain't got lawns ♪
- (chuckles) "I ain't in the city, 'cause they ain't got lawns."
What? That was my first time catching that.
Oh, what a strange thing. - When that came out,
she could've definitely just fallen off,
but she found ways to capitalize off of it
and people kept checking her out. When you create a viral hit
like that and then you just capitalize off of it,
you could literally become the next big thing,
and that's what she did. - After I watched this video
the first time, I would just be going about my day,
and in my mind, it'd be like, "Bitch, I'm a cow."
- It's cute, because the aesthetic all works together.
She obviously pulled together those looks.
She probably filmed it on her laptop.
But all of it together works, because it's a product
directly from her. - Thought the beat of
"Bitch, I'm a Cow" is so different from things
like "Rules" and "Cyber Sex," the ideas of the music video
and the way she kind of develops these worlds
in these music videos
is obviously still the same as this Doja Cat.
- (FBE) So, that was the rapper/singer Doja Cat.
- Yeah. I've heard of her a while ago. - (FBE) Doja has been releasing
a string of singles this past year leading up to the release
of her album titled "Hot Pink." - "Hot Pink."
- (FBE) Exactly. - Yeah.
- (FBE) Doja initially went viral in August 2018, when she released
the track "Moo," in which she fantasizes about being a cow.
- (chuckles) Yeah, I remember it very much.
It was a weird time. - I was just like, "What
is going on here?" - ♪ Bitch, I'm a cow ♪
♪ Bitch, I'm a cow ♪ - What?
But then, like, it got stuck in my head
and I was like, "Oh, this is fun." - (FBE) Some critics have kind of
dismissed Doja Cat as an addition to the pool of meme rappers
that social media has made popular in recent years.
After watching her videos, do you think she's moved away
from her initial meme stardom? - I feel like she's moved
away from it. I don't really think that it's bad if somebody
gets famous from a meme. That doesn't mean that that's all
they can do. They have potential to be a lot more.
- She was never in a box to begin with.
I think people just put her in there once they saw that,
and they're like, "Oh, she must just be like this then."
She's like, "Wait a minute, you need to-- give me a second.
I got some more things to show you." - She would've came up regardless,
because her voice, super soothing, and then her artistic vision
is just amazing. - I don't think she's choosing
one or the other. She's embracing her side
of how she got her following, and she's doing it seriously.
- People like Bhad Bhabie and Jake Paul, they kind of
started out as this huge meme. It wasn't just a song that they made
that was a meme. It was kind of like they were
already in themselves had their standing
and who they were. But with her, it's like she only
had one song that was kind of meme-ish and then she just took it seriously
from then on. - She's really silly,
and she continues to be very meme-able
and lovable in that way. But her music goes hard.
We come for the meme, but we stay for the music.
- (FBE) Doja has also had a great rise on TikTok,
where several of her songs are found on the platform
with people lip syncing or dancing along to her tunes,
further making her songs go viral. Have you seen any of those trends?
I don't know if you're on TikTok at all.
- No, I'm not on TikTok, but it doesn't surprise me.
I feel like that's where a lot of songs recently
have been kind of blowing up more, which is strange to me,
but it works. - (FBE) What do you think it is
about her songs that lend themselves so well
to TikTok and just overall virality?
- Okay. So because her songs are so fun and so poppy
and so comedy, they're really relatable
in the TikTok universe. And there's so many ways
you can implement them into your TikTok.
- She has just really unique, like, style to her music,
her lyrics, everything. It's just such a fun time
that it's so easy to just be goofing around
with your friends to these kinds of songs.
- They're catchy. They're smooth. Someone of them will have like a drop,
which is nice for a meme if you have, like--
you know, it kind of leads in. It's really soft and whatnot,
then it goes boom. Just the way she structures her songs
allows her to have that ability to be on TikTok.
- (FBE) So finally, Doja's known for her quirky but sexually charged lyrics.
And as you saw, many of Doja's videos
have vibrant colors with outlandish concepts.
In interviews, Doja has stated that her main mission is to make
rap more colorful with a cartoon-like twist.
How does Doja's style both in her music
and her videos compare to the other rap songs
or artists that are popular today? - Nicki Minaj. I think there's
no other artist-- I mean, maybe Katy Perry too.
She a couple stuff that was really vibrant.
In the rap world, almost no one. - I don't know.
I feel like Nicki Minaj has always done fun, vibrant stuff.
But why not have somebody else who can do that too?
- There has been other rappers, like Cupcakke--
that's the only one that comes to mind--
that really have sexually-charged lyrics.
The thing Doja Cat has is that she's memeing it as well.
She's laughing about herself, and it's more fun.
- Some other rap is a little more derogatory
in a sexual way, but hers is so positive.
It's almost empowering to listen to it.
It's not the same of, like, "Eh, you're just kind of
an object to me." It's like, "No, I'm owning my ass"
sort of thing, and I think that's really cool.
- A lot of rap is really on the sad boy wave right now.
But it's fun to see the complete opposite side of that
and just kind of see something that's a bit more quirky,
that's a bit more playful, a little on the lighter side.
- She's in her own lane in the rap community.
- She's giving you alternate universes to go in and dive in and love
and escape from your everyday life.
- Thanks for watching this episode of College Kids React.
Shoutout to hillaree Burrow. - Subscribe and hit the bell,
so you never miss an episode. - Keep it juicy.
Don't forget to subscribe and hit the bell.
- Thanks for watching. I love you Doja Cat.
- Hi, guys. Josecarlos here, producer at FBE.
If you wanna hear more from Doja Cat, then make sure
to check out her YouTube channel. All the links are gonna be down below
and right over here. Check her out. Bye, guys.