Doja Cat’s interviews are frequently discussed as being nearly as entertaining as her music, largely because she treats press appearances with the same comedic instinct that produced early viral moments like “Mooo!.” She’s openly acknowledged this in interviews, describing her willingness to be silly or self-deprecating as a deliberate choice rather than a lack of media training, and has said she’d rather be genuinely herself than perform a more polished, guarded pop-star interview persona.
She’s also been unusually blunt about her own discomfort with parts of fame, including candid comments about disliking aspects of touring and promotional obligations that most artists tend to describe more diplomatically. That willingness to say the less flattering thing, even about her own career, has become part of what makes her interviews stand out from typical pop-star press cycles.
Around Scarlet, her interviews took a more serious turn, where she discussed feeling boxed in by the pop maximalism of her earlier commercial success and explained the album’s harder hip-hop lean as a direct response to wanting to be taken more seriously as a rapper rather than only a pop hitmaker.
Across her career, the consistent thread in her interviews is a refusal to separate her public persona from her private opinions — she says the blunt thing rather than the diplomatic one, which is exactly what’s made her interviews as widely clipped and shared as her actual songs.
