Just so you know, the 'writers' on all of these tracks are just the producers. The credits include the producers in the writer section (for example the writing credits on Can't Wait are the sample, the 5 producers, and Doja). I agree with all the other criticisms of the album but the writers one is just a misunderstanding, it seems to actually be self-written.
The thing about producers is a lot of the time, they'll also give lines. I know people in the industry, and it's pretty normal to produce and write on the low for larger artists.
@@Spectre0799except you’re kinda confused. The producers wouldn’t get writing credits if they didn’t at least contribute to a single line. There’s a reason there’s PRODUCING credits separate from WRITING credits dude.
I mean, that’s kinda what most mainstream music stars were going for before social media took over. Creating personas, keeping people confused, upsetting folks. I don’t think Doja has went about it in the smartest ways this past year. But let’s not pretend like the girl has no talent or like this album or her previous couple are trash.
I think my issue with this album is that she wants you to think she doesn't care but she really, clearly does, and it just makes that more obvious If she didn't care about people making fun of her for shaving her head.. why does she keep mentioning it? Why does she have so many lyrics about being bald, having no hair, not wearing wigs etc? It's ridiculous how insecure she actually is and how bad she is at hiding that fact. The whole album feels very insecure tbh
That’s why she’s addressing it in songs because y’all wouldn’t stop mentioning her doing things what she likes and not minding your won businesses, try to listen to skull and bones. If you’d listen to the whole album, she also mentions about being grateful and happy for those people who supports her since day 1.
She had this tweet all about how she knew her previous rapping was goofy but she wasn't even trying, and it reeked of an attempt to gain approval from the type of crowd who just flat out isn't gonna like her no matter what she does. It would genuinely make me sad for her if she wasn't so rude to other people for no reason (and don't even say she's justified. She has randomly popped off at people for years depending on her mood that day)
one major thing brad missed is that the lyrics are actually all self written. the reason for the extensive writing credits is because the producers are credited as writers.
Then it should say "lyrics written by doja" Why are people acting like creating the actual music behind the lyrics isn't part of the songwriting process?
@@MalMotorDedothey wouldn’t have writing credits if they didn’t help write the song. They don’t just give every single producer writing credits that’s actually genuinely dumb man. It’s very well known if a producer has a writing credit they either wrote lyrics with Doja or essentially created the whole song themselves. They don’t just get writing credits for only producing an album. That’s not how any of this works man
The fact it's not clear which one is hilarious 😂 you don't know Doja any better after hearing this because it's all manufactured beef with a couple "get next to you" songs
Out of all the bars and flows she delivered throughout this album and that’s all you paid attention to.. and clearly you don’t know what word play is, which lets me know that you don’t know what rap is either…
@@joshuab7109 it isn't wordplay, those are outdated meme references. "shooketh" was a meme created by christine sydelko in like 2015 that got ran into the ground, and "what are those" was a viral vine around that same time. no one uses those memes anymore and that's why it comes off as cringey and out of touch.
@@cornbone Agreed. However I can’t hate it too much because Doja herself is cringey and out of touch lol. So really, it fits her (shrugs). So although I could’ve did w/out those ‘bars’. One of the reasons I enjoy the album as much is because I feel like it’s more personable to her. I feel like as she continues she’ll evolve. But I can appreciate the genuineness and the effort, and the bravery of putting something personal out there and it being judged.. it’s more than most of her peers can and are willing to do.
@@desperatelycravingahamsandwichbc it was good. But people let her reputation shape their opinion:) Same happened with Lady Gaga's 4th album, Artpop Same happened with Katy Perry's 4th album, Witness Same happened with Ariana Grande's 4th album, Sweetener (only that it wasn't Ariana's reputation but people jumped on the Sweetener hate train and only now people release it is an amazing album)
‘Scarlet’ feels like Doja attempting at her own Reputation era except her Joe Alwyn is a pr*dator and her revenge is just flexing about how better she is than everyone else 😂 😭. She even attempts to have a softer and more loving second half like Rep did, except she also fails at doing that too. The album has a few good songs but the rest just feels dry :(.
You'd think an album like this made by a person with her track record would at least be provocative enough to get someone morally outraged, but all I wanted to do after listening to it was fall asleep. How the hell do you make a Reputation clone boring💀
its crazy, she reminds me of Kanye in how polarizing he is. like i admire her work and how out there she can be, but she can be sooo mean and narcissistic. i wouldnt be surprised if she had bpd or bipolar, the things shes said to her fans are so polarizing/flip floppy. like shell say she’s nothing without her fans then say she hates her fans
Which is wild because reputation was not well received outside of the die hard swifties. She had to do 2 hardcore back to basics albums to get back into the wider music community's good graces after that album
Honestly a lot of the album just sounds like her old SoundCloud scraps, but even then it kinda sounds like a really watered down version of her old music. I like(d) her rapping more than her singing, so I was excited when she said Scarlet would be a rap album but now that it's here I feel like she kinda lost her charm tbh
The weird thing about Doja Cat is that she isn't actually a controversial artist. Like this kind of "reinvention" has way less weight than when Carti made WLR or, as a weird example, Eminem making an album raging at his haters with Kamikaze. Kamikaze also sucked, but it felt like it was genuinely where he was. Doja's "rebel album" feels like a boardroom wrote it, and that kills 100% of the interest
She was cancelled by A LOT of people from southamerica after the Paraguay concert, as a person living and studying i know a big portion of people who just stopped from consuming her songs just because of it HAHA i think she is controversial in my latino novelas eyes tbh but i do agree its not as impactful and a very plastic album as well
@@ViiAneyCriss Fair enough. I guess she's controversial for the wrong reasons then. She's not controversial for her provocativeness, she's controversial because she just kind of sucks as a person.
Isn't Doja dating a groomer and shut down the victims when they warned her about him? I feel like this is always being bushed aside when it's a very serious situation
the amount of women hate throughout this album after she blocked her boyfriends victims just really puts the cherry on top of the hate sundae i have going for her
Scarlet is my least favourite of hers, and im a big big fan of her music. I was expecting soo much more with all the drama and all the stunts she pulled for publicity, saying shes gonna pop off and make real rap and its whatever this album is it isnt even close. Big L for doja, she coulda done much better, honestly she has better rap tracks on her previous albums.
i listened to this album when it came out at 2 AM with a 102 degree fever. I was sweaty and delirious, I passed out twice during the album, and I could barely breath even through my mouth. Best album I've ever heard. 1 Dojillion/10
As an r&b/soul head I appreciated the 2nd half of this album. “Can’t Wait” is my favourite, I can hear the Mary J Blige/ Lauryn Hill inspiration she was going for.
@@ballisticmissl7919 it’s one of the most streamed songs on the album after the single, so clearly fans agree it’s a standout. I also heard Doja name it as one of _her_ favourites in her Apple music interview with Ebro.
Agora hills has played at least twice daily on my radio station everyday for six months, after Paint the Town Red got old. It's so annoying. It's gotten to the point where I listen to the lyrics and I'm like "what is she saying, what wrong"
I think this is worth noting, to me, anyway, but as a girl, I both understand that other girls can be unpleasant, and still dislike songs like FTG, which is just more women-hate. We don't need that. The reason why other women even can be so unpleasant to other women is often because _they_ hate other women. It really feels like adding fuel to the fire. Unnecessary.
It also has some irony, saying "Girls don't let girls live", and going right back into FTG. "I'm part of the problem" is the read I get on that. It's distasteful.
^^ it might even be a reference to other artists who she considers her peers, like any other standard “the girls can’t touch me” female rap song. I mean, I’d still say Doja mostly likely deals with a level of internalised misogyny but being angry at other women for not supporting you doesn’t automatically = hating all other women, and I think it’s valid to write a song about any sort of personal grievance an artist wants to.
lmaoo y’all r so brainless. Ftg is abt fair weather fans and how they’re with her when she doing good but once she’s “cancelled” they jump ship😭😭 literally has nothing to do with women in general y’all just see a title and cry abt it😭😭😭 and this is coming from a woman
with all due respect i'm not even a big doja fan but the mixing and mastering is amazing on this album. Maybe your headphones are not right but she had the best of the best people mixing and mastering this album. It is crispy.
She needs to do more of the R&B type songs, even if she thinks it's "goofy" her voice fits them the best in my opinion and the Melodie's are beautiful and are like her SoundCloud type music, but the more "mainstream" sounding ones get more hype, and she proceeds to say hot pink was a cash grab 💀💀 I’ll Admit some of the rap songs are cool like I like the instrumentals, but a lot of it sounds like a lot of other generic rap today kinda like copies from planet her, like “wet vag” sounds like another one of her songs called “up and down” which is why it kinda feels underwhelming
This is the first time I’ve seen an artist go an entirely different direction and somehow still manage to play it safe. It’s like if Kanye did the Yeezus rollout the way he did and then made college dropout 2.
@@brandonalejandroblanco An “alleged groomer” based on a couple of anonymous Stan Twitter tweets. One of the accounts admitting to spamming Doja’s DM’s for weeks and was right back to stanning her after supposedly getting blocked and claiming her bf tried to groom them. I’m not saying to the accusations are false. But we really need to be careful when it comes to pushing a narrative based off of a couple anonymous Stan Twitter tweets.
This was an interesting and creative album. I do wish she didn't make all the songs about clapping back at haters, being whipped for this weird humpty dumpty lookin dude, and being "too rich to care". The beats were fire, and she did have some good word play. I just know she could've gone in more on this album. It felt like even now she's holding back and not going in like we've seen her do before. It was hard to resignate with most of the songs because the lyrics were kind of disconnected or goofy. I don't want to have to explain to people in my car wtf im listening to every time I put on a doja cat track. After Agora Hills the album got kinda dry/repetitive for me, there were a couple skips. I know she wanted this to be a solo album but it really could've benefited from some collabs like Riconasty and Doechii. In the end though, I liked bits of the album besides the second half like often, skull and bones, and can't wait. I'll pass it off as I'm not really a "love-song simping" kind of person. I would give the album a 5/10. The marketing and roll out gave me false hope just to be given a pretty middle of the road album. This album honestly just made me excited for the next one where I won't have hear about her addressing "haters", hopefully she got it all out of her system and we can get back to good lyricism that isnt all corny ("Just like Fornite I need your skin😰😐")
As someone who does enjoy sympathetic or loving songs, I just couldn't do it with Doja. Idk if it's because they all sounded the same or because they were possibly about that woman pr*dator she's been dating. There's nothing wrong with an artist showing a more soft and vulnerable side, but it just didn't work out for her.
The songs off this project where she lets her actual anger through are little glimpses of what this project could have been, but sadly are proceeded and followed by underwhelming music.
Attention and agora hills are literally the only memorable things on this album. And also demons is kinda third best overall. The song isn’t that bad but it just gives me edgelord vibes. Like Doja we get it u changed ur aesthetic but it’s BORING also I can’t watch that demons video without thinking of Brendon urie and I hate it. 💀💀
I don't care for the lyrics of Paint the Town Red, but I like the vibe, like the song. It's just simple and groovy. Demons goes hard, and I really like dumb lyrics and playful bars so for me the second best song on the album. Attention is the best song of the album, great production, hard lyrics, great to listen to. There are other honorable mentions but unfortunately most of the album feels like shitty filler for the three hit singles.
giants leaving reviews on albums giving it a 90% for generic words like "keeping fans on their toes with their antics" will never match someone simply sitting and listening to it and giving their honest opinion
No one seems to really be making this distinction anywhere, they just say "Scarlet is completely self-written" and then applaud. The credit she definitely deserves is that she wrote all the lyrics herself, that's no mean feat. However calling the *ALBUM* completely self-written really feels like all those people who helped write the music (which is the only thing propping this album up realistically) are just being hidden, and all the credit is going to Doja
Really digged the reaction. Kinda wanted to see someone who fully didnt enjoy it to get the ponts. First listen thru I didnt like the first half at all. It picked up for me after Agora. Then few more listen thrus and I think its actually really solid. 7/10ish. Can probably be an 8. Not too sure what else kind of music you react to but the constant complaining about the writers (its really common in hip hop with samples) and your reaction to some actually dope/clever lines makes it seem like you genuinely have something against her. But was great to see the reaction, you did have alot of good points with the repetitive topics and the crappy hooks
Homie not even listening it feels like just seeing what he wants to see lol. Got to find a way to not recommend this channel in my feed. He seems so miserable lol.
@@essentialoyo click the little three dots next to the video recommendation. Select "Don't recommend channel". Do this until you stop getting the videos. Buy Titanfall 2.
@@brodieondasidewalk also if you didn’t know… hip hop is very popular in sampling… so who ever wrote/produced the original song of the sample they’re credited as writers too. Basic knowledge!!!
doja should make a cloud rap and airy record, put her next to Pierre and she might make die lit 2. those airy beats were the only songs I liked in this project
@@hatesouffle No he does not. He regularly reacts to hip hop, he loves the genre. Him not liking this project doesn't translate to him hating rap or women
I listened to this album on the way to work after watching the Tom MacDonald stream, and that project left me with such a negative desire to listen to music for the rest of the night that I have to give Scarlet a ?/10 until I’m in the correct headspace to listen to it again and give it a fair chance.
Horrible personality and antics aside, I actually sorta enjoyed this. I feel like Doja came through with some of her best rap performances I’ve heard from her in her career. A lot of hard bars and occasionally funny lines. I wish there wasn’t a lot of filler love songs, but yeah, I thought it wasn’t bad, except for the 3rd song, which is atrocious. High 6/10
this was literally her worst rapping ever in her career. idk what you mean by “hard bars” lmao she’s had features that sound better than this entire album
literally listened to this album yesterday and it's genuinely hilarious to see someone as psychologically beaten down as I was while making my way through it.
its just too long, a lot of songs couldve been condensed to make a 10-12 song album with a couple of droplets if she *really* wanted to release more of the music but dont cram it together making a 17 track album. to me only 5 of them are listenable and thats quite.....
Overall, I think it’s a solid hip/hop album. However, it just doesn’t feel like all the the drama that came with this “era” was needed. Some of it is not her fault, but most of it could have been avoided if she was just more mature and/or less focused on online opinions. Once you remove the drama and bias and expectations, it’s a well produced album. Doja constantly knows how to float on beats and gives versatility. And there’s a handful of very good verses. The main problem with the album itself is that it’s thematically too hyper focused on social media hate. And for someone as big and privileged as Doja to dedicate so much of her album to that, it kinda makes her come off fragile and silly. You can also tell that this still isn’t really the album she wanted to make. She had to make compromises due to mainstream, pop radio and streaming pressures. So, it doesn’t really come together as a singular vision. But once again, looking past the hate train and the expectations, she did what she set out to do, which is make a pretty good hip/hop album. And it hints that she is capable of making a genuinely great hip/hop album one day if she fully commits to it and isn’t hyper focused on online drama. All the mess that came with this “era” and all the hate she’s built up the last couple years is gonna make it difficult for many folks to tap into her in the future though.
@@spudreviewsmedia Skulls and Bones/97 are a couple of the best hip-hop tracks in a while. There’s some solid turn up songs. There’s a lot of variety in production and good versatility, and Doja is an engaging performance wise and can float on almost anything. If you genuinely appreciate all of hip/hop and all eras of hip/hop and isn’t misogynistic, it’s hard to not appreciate the album, despite its flaws and all the unnecessary drama. It’s not a very fun album though. And Doja needs to be fun for her music and persona to really hit. Even though this album has highlights, she does need to quickly move past the “needing to prove something” vibes and the social media drama. Because that’s the main thing that makes this album a tiresome listen.
@@woodwheeler I listen to plenty of hip-hop. Y’all out here hyping Gunna and Travis Scott for releasing decent records but dissing Doja for showing versatility and floating on old school beats.
Doja Cat is just following the marketing strategy. Good for her numbers, but if you take her words, you end up dissapointed. I like her but, as Drake, I think she could do a lot better
Man i listened this album yesterday and i thought it was alright but i didn't know that there were so many writers on it, it totally kills the vibe of the album when it gets to the most "personal" songs, it's soo awkward
@@danwillreview Producer and writer credits are shown separately, and still, If some of the producers were in the writing process, it doesn't really change anything about what I said, still a lot of people
I think that you are probably way too harsh on this album. I think a lot of your criticism comes from either misunderstanding lyrics thst might be satirical or sarcastic and not understanding that producers can be credited as writers. It feels like you dont give certain tracks a chance because you go into them thinking stuff like that. I think you are entitled to an opinion on albums and i normally really like the way you approach reviews but i feel like this is just a bit unfair. Im not really a fan of doja but i think that this album is pretty cool. It feels like it is something that she genuinely wants to make instead of more of the same stuff that her fans might want and i feel like that is kind of the message shes trying to get across through this project. A lot of the hate she has been recieving recently has been a bit ridiculous to me and it feels like it is just because she has chosen to not just make the same music she normally makes. I think that the album might be a bit rough at some points but its not bad. Im pretty exited to hear music she might make after this. Also the vagina song was pretty funny and so was the Fortnite bar
I think Doja's biggest misstep with this album was the fact that she wasn't there to hear her grandpa say penis
i don’t trust any artist that wasn’t there to hear their grandpa say penis
Colada that is
@@cdvideodumppenis colada? 😂
@@cdvideodump
That's funny because both Doja Cat and Liz Phair have mentioned their love of semen, fellatio, and moist nether regions in song!
This my favorite comment
Brad saying “I hate wet vagina” is so fucking funny even with the context
The brad shapiro era
I knew it
@@abitsourrrrsorry4885
His poor wife has DAP thanks to him.
i need merch of that
It's funnier when u remembered that Cupcakke has a song called V@g!na
„Like Fortnite, I’m gonna need your skin.“
Either the worst line or best line on the whole album.
Certainly one of them.
I'm gonna say best. It's just so out of pocket that it works
Similar to "we picking fights like it's fortnite" on Victoria Monets Go There With You- maybe fortnite is in for RnB?
Honestly
@@samantha_t99you can say that again
Just so you know, the 'writers' on all of these tracks are just the producers. The credits include the producers in the writer section (for example the writing credits on Can't Wait are the sample, the 5 producers, and Doja). I agree with all the other criticisms of the album but the writers one is just a misunderstanding, it seems to actually be self-written.
(The only credited writer in the official album is Doja Cat but Spotify has a different system that includes producers)
Spectre with the common sense
The thing about producers is a lot of the time, they'll also give lines. I know people in the industry, and it's pretty normal to produce and write on the low for larger artists.
Good to know.
@@Spectre0799except you’re kinda confused. The producers wouldn’t get writing credits if they didn’t at least contribute to a single line. There’s a reason there’s PRODUCING credits separate from WRITING credits dude.
Doja Cat honestly feels like a social experiment.
And I’m here for it
She feels like an inside joke that I’m not in on
or a psyop
that failed to impress
I mean, that’s kinda what most mainstream music stars were going for before social media took over. Creating personas, keeping people confused, upsetting folks. I don’t think Doja has went about it in the smartest ways this past year. But let’s not pretend like the girl has no talent or like this album or her previous couple are trash.
“are you ready for your Satanic Worshipping lessons?”
Slayer shuddered.
Daughters nodded.
Mayhem shivered.
“yes, Doja Cat..” they said in unison
lmaooo
Never heard of daughters
Ghost wept
@@L1239-z8lamazing band, very good noise rock and dark prog while very controversial bcuz of the lead singer but i recommend
@@L1239-z8lyou havent heard of female children? 🤓
she said she was done with pop and then half of the album is planet her demos
go off, paint the town red sound super planet her 😭😭
Do you even listen to rap????? Lmao
@@ender-333 Don't forget Agora Hills and Gun. They could easily fit on Planet Her.
She said there would still be pop in the album
@@deviantmoore9744yall will say anything goes on planet her, its not her only album lol. Agora hills would be early doja. Deffo not planet her
if this is the album she sold her soul to make, i hope satan has a good return policy
The only things she’s sold is records, stay mad, FTG 🤭💅
@@jackiemacias79payola
@@suspiciousstar7547 go listen to Taylor.
@@jackiemacias79...
@@jackiemacias79go touch grass kid, doja ain’t gonna praise you for defending her, she made it clear she hates y’all
The frustrating part is that I think Doja could’ve made a short, fantastic rage album but this project just feels like a mixed bag
honestly it really does feel like she’s forcing rap into her catalog of songs along with r&b and pop
Exactly. I wanted more tracks like Attention, with the quick, bitter flow and the great production.
Truthfully Doja started off rapping when she was sixteen. I think she mainly did the pop stuff to be more palatable to a wider audience.
the rage wet vagina has to be my least liked track off the album along agora hills lmao (agora ain't rage tho)
That’s literally what she wanted to do with the album
I think my issue with this album is that she wants you to think she doesn't care but she really, clearly does, and it just makes that more obvious If she didn't care about people making fun of her for shaving her head.. why does she keep mentioning it? Why does she have so many lyrics about being bald, having no hair, not wearing wigs etc? It's ridiculous how insecure she actually is and how bad she is at hiding that fact. The whole album feels very insecure tbh
That’s why she’s addressing it in songs because y’all wouldn’t stop mentioning her doing things what she likes and not minding your won businesses, try to listen to skull and bones. If you’d listen to the whole album, she also mentions about being grateful and happy for those people who supports her since day 1.
@@missgirl645girl be serious
EXACTLY
She had this tweet all about how she knew her previous rapping was goofy but she wasn't even trying, and it reeked of an attempt to gain approval from the type of crowd who just flat out isn't gonna like her no matter what she does. It would genuinely make me sad for her if she wasn't so rude to other people for no reason (and don't even say she's justified. She has randomly popped off at people for years depending on her mood that day)
Bruh you got an anime pfp and you’re calling people insecure 😭💀
“Demons” sounds like a deep cut from her “Bitch I’m a Cow” days that got cleaned up a little and released out of desperation.
What are you saying fr, do you not know what real rap is…?
Most of the album sounds from that era 😭
one major thing brad missed is that the lyrics are actually all self written. the reason for the extensive writing credits is because the producers are credited as writers.
This the info the chat should be mentioning, not just mindless dunking on Doja Cat. That said, this albums has 4-5 nice songs, the rest are filler fr
Then it should say "lyrics written by doja"
Why are people acting like creating the actual music behind the lyrics isn't part of the songwriting process?
@@MalMotorDedo this video isn’t live so there was no chat
@@MalMotorDedothey wouldn’t have writing credits if they didn’t help write the song. They don’t just give every single producer writing credits that’s actually genuinely dumb man. It’s very well known if a producer has a writing credit they either wrote lyrics with Doja or essentially created the whole song themselves. They don’t just get writing credits for only producing an album. That’s not how any of this works man
The fact it's not clear which one is hilarious 😂 you don't know Doja any better after hearing this because it's all manufactured beef with a couple "get next to you" songs
i can't believe she said "shooketh" and "what are those" in this album. that's all i have to say. im at a loss for words
The most serious she's ever been ☕
Out of all the bars and flows she delivered throughout this album and that’s all you paid attention to.. and clearly you don’t know what word play is, which lets me know that you don’t know what rap is either…
@@joshuab7109 it isn't wordplay, those are outdated meme references. "shooketh" was a meme created by christine sydelko in like 2015 that got ran into the ground, and "what are those" was a viral vine around that same time. no one uses those memes anymore and that's why it comes off as cringey and out of touch.
@@cornbone Agreed. However I can’t hate it too much because Doja herself is cringey and out of touch lol. So really, it fits her (shrugs). So although I could’ve did w/out those ‘bars’. One of the reasons I enjoy the album as much is because I feel like it’s more personable to her. I feel like as she continues she’ll evolve. But I can appreciate the genuineness and the effort, and the bravery of putting something personal out there and it being judged.. it’s more than most of her peers can and are willing to do.
dont forget fortnite lmaoo
couldn’t she “sell her soul” for better music?
Apparently her soul isn't worth that much.
I honestly liked this album lmao
she did not sell her soul she says it in skull and bones
Fanatics are getting annoying
@@desperatelycravingahamsandwichbc it was good. But people let her reputation shape their opinion:)
Same happened with Lady Gaga's 4th album, Artpop
Same happened with Katy Perry's 4th album, Witness
Same happened with Ariana Grande's 4th album, Sweetener (only that it wasn't Ariana's reputation but people jumped on the Sweetener hate train and only now people release it is an amazing album)
WV was certainly a song. I’d give it a song/10. It was the song on the album, in my opinion.
It did certainly feature vocals, lyrics and a beat
one of the songs of all time
I read WV as Wolksvagen lmao
It legitimately slaps, I can't even lie
9/10. Great parody of WAP. 😂
‘Scarlet’ feels like Doja attempting at her own Reputation era except her Joe Alwyn is a pr*dator and her revenge is just flexing about how better she is than everyone else 😂 😭. She even attempts to have a softer and more loving second half like Rep did, except she also fails at doing that too.
The album has a few good songs but the rest just feels dry :(.
You'd think an album like this made by a person with her track record would at least be provocative enough to get someone morally outraged, but all I wanted to do after listening to it was fall asleep. How the hell do you make a Reputation clone boring💀
its crazy, she reminds me of Kanye in how polarizing he is. like i admire her work and how out there she can be, but she can be sooo mean and narcissistic. i wouldnt be surprised if she had bpd or bipolar, the things shes said to her fans are so polarizing/flip floppy. like shell say she’s nothing without her fans then say she hates her fans
Which is wild because reputation was not well received outside of the die hard swifties. She had to do 2 hardcore back to basics albums to get back into the wider music community's good graces after that album
it was her attempting to shocking in a sexual way but only Cupcakke pulls that off
Not the Taylor Swift plays the bad guy well either.
Honestly a lot of the album just sounds like her old SoundCloud scraps, but even then it kinda sounds like a really watered down version of her old music. I like(d) her rapping more than her singing, so I was excited when she said Scarlet would be a rap album but now that it's here I feel like she kinda lost her charm tbh
The weird thing about Doja Cat is that she isn't actually a controversial artist. Like this kind of "reinvention" has way less weight than when Carti made WLR or, as a weird example, Eminem making an album raging at his haters with Kamikaze. Kamikaze also sucked, but it felt like it was genuinely where he was. Doja's "rebel album" feels like a boardroom wrote it, and that kills 100% of the interest
For sure. Manufactured drama
She was cancelled by A LOT of people from southamerica after the Paraguay concert, as a person living and studying i know a big portion of people who just stopped from consuming her songs just because of it HAHA i think she is controversial in my latino novelas eyes tbh but i do agree its not as impactful and a very plastic album as well
@@ViiAneyCriss Fair enough. I guess she's controversial for the wrong reasons then. She's not controversial for her provocativeness, she's controversial because she just kind of sucks as a person.
Isn't Doja dating a groomer and shut down the victims when they warned her about him? I feel like this is always being bushed aside when it's a very serious situation
@@PainKiller1.6180 Honestly tho, people seem more upset about her dissing her fans than her dating a groomer and shutting down victims
the amount of women hate throughout this album after she blocked her boyfriends victims just really puts the cherry on top of the hate sundae i have going for her
Where is the “women hate”?
@@Jack-zj1ugliterally ftg lol
@Jack-zj1ug She literally has a song on here called "F*** The Girls". Pick me behavior fr.
@@you-hype-child5104She on racial chat rooms showing feet
@@you-hype-child5104And “Gun” is literally about her having an affair with someone's boyfriend.
Scarlet is my least favourite of hers, and im a big big fan of her music. I was expecting soo much more with all the drama and all the stunts she pulled for publicity, saying shes gonna pop off and make real rap and its whatever this album is it isnt even close. Big L for doja, she coulda done much better, honestly she has better rap tracks on her previous albums.
i listened to this album when it came out at 2 AM with a 102 degree fever. I was sweaty and delirious, I passed out twice during the album, and I could barely breath even through my mouth. Best album I've ever heard. 1 Dojillion/10
only album in history to sell one dojillion copies🤑🤑🤑🤑🕷️🕷️
"What a nothing verse" pretty much sums up Dojas music. Everythings a troll and petty to the point it becomes unenjoyable.
“Petty and tame” is throughly accurate
As an r&b/soul head I appreciated the 2nd half of this album. “Can’t Wait” is my favourite, I can hear the Mary J Blige/ Lauryn Hill inspiration she was going for.
Thank you, I adore can't wait and I feel like no one agrees
@@ballisticmissl7919 it’s one of the most streamed songs on the album after the single, so clearly fans agree it’s a standout. I also heard Doja name it as one of _her_ favourites in her Apple music interview with Ebro.
TIMESTAMPS
Intro: 0:00
Paint The Town Red: 2:07
Demons: 5:50
Wet Kitty: 8:58
Fuck the Girls (FTG): 11:13
Ouchies: 12:02
97: 13:35
Gun (Wavin it at yo son): 15:37
Go Off: 16:36
Shutcho: 17:32
Agora Hills: 18:18
Can't Wait: 20:11
Often: 21:38
Love Life: 22:38
Skull and Bones: 23:24
Attention: 25:46
Balut: 27:50
WYM Freestyle: 29:00
Final Thoughts & Rating: 29:20
I gotta relisten to Aimin my gun at yo son again
if this was called to scarlet a butterfly it would’ve been a 10
if it was called fashionable scarlet it would have been a 1
You want to be Fantano's comment section so bad
this joke is completely beaten to death now, just let it die
Funny one fantano viewer
if this was called scarled rain it would've been a 10
I love how subjective music is, its almost liberating to not be liked by everyone.
honestly, I think this album will be more forgettable than anything. there’s really only 2 or 3 songs that I’ll probably go back to
Agora Hills is one of her best songs and the rest of the album is fine at best
@@base4yrface Go off is great too
Agora hills has played at least twice daily on my radio station everyday for six months, after Paint the Town Red got old. It's so annoying. It's gotten to the point where I listen to the lyrics and I'm like "what is she saying, what wrong"
I think this is worth noting, to me, anyway, but as a girl, I both understand that other girls can be unpleasant, and still dislike songs like FTG, which is just more women-hate. We don't need that. The reason why other women even can be so unpleasant to other women is often because _they_ hate other women. It really feels like adding fuel to the fire. Unnecessary.
It also has some irony, saying "Girls don't let girls live", and going right back into FTG. "I'm part of the problem" is the read I get on that. It's distasteful.
i think it’s more of a commentary on how women hate other women rather than her actually hating on other women
^^ it might even be a reference to other artists who she considers her peers, like any other standard “the girls can’t touch me” female rap song. I mean, I’d still say Doja mostly likely deals with a level of internalised misogyny but being angry at other women for not supporting you doesn’t automatically = hating all other women, and I think it’s valid to write a song about any sort of personal grievance an artist wants to.
@@imogenstarr-lawrence1626what's the content of the commentary? It's gotta say something to be commentary
lmaoo y’all r so brainless. Ftg is abt fair weather fans and how they’re with her when she doing good but once she’s “cancelled” they jump ship😭😭 literally has nothing to do with women in general y’all just see a title and cry abt it😭😭😭 and this is coming from a woman
Rich woman complaining about fans that made her rich the album
if this album is entirely self-written, as she claims, that isn’t really a flex considering how 4/10 this album is
I highly doubt you can make anything this good. Just like your profile, you're dusty asf.
I think it’s self produced and she thinks that means the same thing as writing it
@@blanket4763 this is such a stupid comment
@@blanket4763it isn’t she wasn’t involved in the production
@@blanket4763 she didn’t produce any of the tracks, all the songs are self written though
with all due respect i'm not even a big doja fan but the mixing and mastering is amazing on this album. Maybe your headphones are not right but she had the best of the best people mixing and mastering this album. It is crispy.
You ever listen to an album then feel like you just listened to an album…. Yeah that’s how I feel, like it was definitely music…. from an album.
i don’t hate doja but i have no idea what she’s doing rn. at least the music videos look cool
this is so breaking brad
She needs to do more of the R&B type songs, even if she thinks it's "goofy" her voice fits them the best in my opinion and the Melodie's are beautiful and are like her SoundCloud type music, but the more "mainstream" sounding ones get more hype, and she proceeds to say hot pink was a cash grab 💀💀
I’ll Admit some of the rap songs are cool like I like the instrumentals, but a lot of it sounds like a lot of other generic rap today kinda like copies from planet her, like “wet vag” sounds like another one of her songs called “up and down” which is why it kinda feels underwhelming
You can't paint the town red without painting the sheriff's wife white. It's simply not possible.
phvck awll u h03s!!! detroit til i d13 m0th3rfvck3r!!!! i think i just sh1t ma p@@@nnt$ D:
DETROIT TIL I DIE!!!
You can't tell me how to paint my town red.
You can't tell me how to live. Nobody can.
Not without painting your rims chrome
This is the first time I’ve seen an artist go an entirely different direction and somehow still manage to play it safe. It’s like if Kanye did the Yeezus rollout the way he did and then made college dropout 2.
Doja signed to Dr. Luke in 2014, before Kesha came out with his abuse, so she didn’t have a choice really working with him
He also got credited on song despite working on them, she said it
She is currently dating an alleged abuser. So that is even worse.
@@brandonalejandroblancoI think she dropped him
@@noahcakke9869 So she dated an abuser and then told people to kick rocks when they got mad about it. Even if they broke up that was weird behavior.
@@brandonalejandroblanco An “alleged groomer” based on a couple of anonymous Stan Twitter tweets. One of the accounts admitting to spamming Doja’s DM’s for weeks and was right back to stanning her after supposedly getting blocked and claiming her bf tried to groom them. I’m not saying to the accusations are false. But we really need to be careful when it comes to pushing a narrative based off of a couple anonymous Stan Twitter tweets.
WE TAKING BARS FROM ADAM CALHOUN WITH THIS ONE🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🗣🗣🗣🗣🗣🗣
"I had drive like a cah"
This was an interesting and creative album. I do wish she didn't make all the songs about clapping back at haters, being whipped for this weird humpty dumpty lookin dude, and being "too rich to care". The beats were fire, and she did have some good word play. I just know she could've gone in more on this album. It felt like even now she's holding back and not going in like we've seen her do before.
It was hard to resignate with most of the songs because the lyrics were kind of disconnected or goofy. I don't want to have to explain to people in my car wtf im listening to every time I put on a doja cat track. After Agora Hills the album got kinda dry/repetitive for me, there were a couple skips. I know she wanted this to be a solo album but it really could've benefited from some collabs like Riconasty and Doechii.
In the end though, I liked bits of the album besides the second half like often, skull and bones, and can't wait. I'll pass it off as I'm not really a "love-song simping" kind of person. I would give the album a 5/10. The marketing and roll out gave me false hope just to be given a pretty middle of the road album. This album honestly just made me excited for the next one where I won't have hear about her addressing "haters", hopefully she got it all out of her system and we can get back to good lyricism that isnt all corny ("Just like Fornite I need your skin😰😐")
As someone who does enjoy sympathetic or loving songs, I just couldn't do it with Doja. Idk if it's because they all sounded the same or because they were possibly about that woman pr*dator she's been dating. There's nothing wrong with an artist showing a more soft and vulnerable side, but it just didn't work out for her.
HUMPTY DUMPTU
The songs off this project where she lets her actual anger through are little glimpses of what this project could have been, but sadly are proceeded and followed by underwhelming music.
Attention and agora hills are literally the only memorable things on this album. And also demons is kinda third best overall. The song isn’t that bad but it just gives me edgelord vibes. Like Doja we get it u changed ur aesthetic but it’s BORING also I can’t watch that demons video without thinking of Brendon urie and I hate it. 💀💀
I don't care for the lyrics of Paint the Town Red, but I like the vibe, like the song. It's just simple and groovy. Demons goes hard, and I really like dumb lyrics and playful bars so for me the second best song on the album. Attention is the best song of the album, great production, hard lyrics, great to listen to. There are other honorable mentions but unfortunately most of the album feels like shitty filler for the three hit singles.
She was talking like Scarlet was gonna be this John Lennon, Alex G, masterpiece of songwriting
writing credits extend to melodies, arrangements and of course writers from sampled songs. i believe she wrote the words herself
I think all the lyrics were written by her but the music was not.
You mean she didn't write Walk On By? No way.
giants leaving reviews on albums giving it a 90% for generic words like "keeping fans on their toes with their antics" will never match someone simply sitting and listening to it and giving their honest opinion
I’ve been following the artist that did the illustration for the cover for years on insta… their art deserved better tbh
I feel so bad, worse than I've felt in years, and you come out with a video?
That is the best thing that could happen today thank you
much love come on my guy u got this
Watching him bitch is making you feel good? Lmao
With all the “imagery” in paint the town red. The song itself is so boring and uncontroversial it doesn’t even matter.
POP CHAMPAGNE
OooOOOOOOoooo we pop champagne 🍾🥂
i’m assuming all the writing credits are consultants who came in, gave the label some feedback, and got credited for their input
I think the long list of writters might a result of how many samples were used, I think.
i love how Brad looks more and more tired as the album goes on LOLLL you and me both
“This album is completely self-written.” Gives me the J-Cole meme, “This Album has no features.” Vibe.
Funny enough this album also doesn't have any features
Bro there were a few poop joke lines, got me thinking J-Cole helped write it lmao
No one seems to really be making this distinction anywhere, they just say "Scarlet is completely self-written" and then applaud. The credit she definitely deserves is that she wrote all the lyrics herself, that's no mean feat. However calling the *ALBUM* completely self-written really feels like all those people who helped write the music (which is the only thing propping this album up realistically) are just being hidden, and all the credit is going to Doja
Low key wish he focused more on the music and less on the “inauthenticity “. I mean I get it but the albums better when you just focus on the art
Low key wish she focused more on writing good music and less on being a super authentic unfiltered bad bitch clapping back at da haterz
im loving how little the soundboard is getting used waaaaaaaay less now, good to see it’s more commentary based, i can finally take it more seriously.
Really digged the reaction. Kinda wanted to see someone who fully didnt enjoy it to get the ponts. First listen thru I didnt like the first half at all. It picked up for me after Agora. Then few more listen thrus and I think its actually really solid. 7/10ish. Can probably be an 8.
Not too sure what else kind of music you react to but the constant complaining about the writers (its really common in hip hop with samples) and your reaction to some actually dope/clever lines makes it seem like you genuinely have something against her.
But was great to see the reaction, you did have alot of good points with the repetitive topics and the crappy hooks
Homie not even listening it feels like just seeing what he wants to see lol. Got to find a way to not recommend this channel in my feed. He seems so miserable lol.
@@essentialoyo click the little three dots next to the video recommendation. Select "Don't recommend channel". Do this until you stop getting the videos. Buy Titanfall 2.
an eight??????????
7/10?? Jesus christ man I’d be scared to see what you consider good and bad 💀
If this is an 8, then Illmatic is a 30
Brads Review: Doja Cat drops an unbelievable, raunchy album that is self written and makes the listener feels like globby gloop. 9/10
Bro it’s been like 15 years and why does everyone still not know that producers are credited as writers. 😫😫😫
Every song on the album has almost double the amount of writers than producers
@@brodieondasidewalk also if you didn’t know… hip hop is very popular in sampling… so who ever wrote/produced the original song of the sample they’re credited as writers too. Basic knowledge!!!
This album isn’t terrible, but it ain’t good either.
Exactly... It's a massive downgrade to her previous works tbh.
@@tarolatte6803 they just sound like her previous works lol. U christians just want to come up with stupid excuses
@@hatesouffle "Christians"
Lol
i do not care what anyone says that baseline on love life is amazing
I swear doja cat and the whole spotify accomplishments are nothing but heavy payola
doja should make a cloud rap and airy record, put her next to Pierre and she might make die lit 2. those airy beats were the only songs I liked in this project
I think she meant the lyrics were self written not all the beats. That's probably what the other credits are for.
Best Songs: Attention, Ouchies, Go Off, Demons
Worst Songs: Often, Gun, Wet V
Overall Vote: Around a light 6/10
I like how fast the streams got taken down when Brad attempted to stream reacting to the album
personally i liked it a lot, i can understand why you dont though
Because he hates music made by poc women or rap in general
@@hatesouffle No he does not. He regularly reacts to hip hop, he loves the genre. Him not liking this project doesn't translate to him hating rap or women
I listened to this album on the way to work after watching the Tom MacDonald stream, and that project left me with such a negative desire to listen to music for the rest of the night that I have to give Scarlet a ?/10 until I’m in the correct headspace to listen to it again and give it a fair chance.
nah this is one of the funniest thumbnails you made 💀💀
Horrible personality and antics aside, I actually sorta enjoyed this. I feel like Doja came through with some of her best rap performances I’ve heard from her in her career. A lot of hard bars and occasionally funny lines. I wish there wasn’t a lot of filler love songs, but yeah, I thought it wasn’t bad, except for the 3rd song, which is atrocious.
High 6/10
Hard bars?
this was literally her worst rapping ever in her career. idk what you mean by “hard bars” lmao she’s had features that sound better than this entire album
@@nana8020 she didn’t even watch her grandpa say penis
agreed
@@nana8020when has she ever rapped better than this??
Skull and Bones, Agora Hills, Often, and Attention are in my opinion the best songs of the album, one of her best albums
also she worked with dr luke in the past because she was stuck in a contract
literally listened to this album yesterday and it's genuinely hilarious to see someone as psychologically beaten down as I was while making my way through it.
Paint the town red is played constantly on the gym radio and it drives me insane
pop music is in the worst state it's ever been.
i just relistened to to pimp a butterfly and this is such a whiplash lol
the album completely wrote itself? Now that's impressive!
Paint the Town Red sampled from Dionne Warwick and Burt Bacharach from 1967 “Walk on By”
its just too long, a lot of songs couldve been condensed to make a 10-12 song album with a couple of droplets if she *really* wanted to release more of the music but dont cram it together making a 17 track album. to me only 5 of them are listenable and thats quite.....
“Like Fortnite, I’ma need your skin.”
Bro we ain't makin it outta bed with this one💤💤💤💤💤
agora hills is rlly good but then I think about how it’s probably written about that one Man and I just sigh
doja should make an entire album of 4 morant remixes and maybe it would be good
maybe the point of this album was the friends we made along the way
Brad it looks like you’d wear a suit of armour and eat beans and kale for breakfast
i think its okay that you focused on dram in this video 👍
your channel you can make whatever you want really we're here for it
It's just all rhyming couplets. All of it. Find two words that rhyme, fill in a nonsense sentence. Shoot an expensive video. Easy money.
Overall, I think it’s a solid hip/hop album. However, it just doesn’t feel like all the the drama that came with this “era” was needed. Some of it is not her fault, but most of it could have been avoided if she was just more mature and/or less focused on online opinions. Once you remove the drama and bias and expectations, it’s a well produced album. Doja constantly knows how to float on beats and gives versatility. And there’s a handful of very good verses. The main problem with the album itself is that it’s thematically too hyper focused on social media hate. And for someone as big and privileged as Doja to dedicate so much of her album to that, it kinda makes her come off fragile and silly. You can also tell that this still isn’t really the album she wanted to make. She had to make compromises due to mainstream, pop radio and streaming pressures. So, it doesn’t really come together as a singular vision. But once again, looking past the hate train and the expectations, she did what she set out to do, which is make a pretty good hip/hop album. And it hints that she is capable of making a genuinely great hip/hop album one day if she fully commits to it and isn’t hyper focused on online drama. All the mess that came with this “era” and all the hate she’s built up the last couple years is gonna make it difficult for many folks to tap into her in the future though.
Solid hip hop album is an overstatement to me
@@spudreviewsmedia Skulls and Bones/97 are a couple of the best hip-hop tracks in a while. There’s some solid turn up songs. There’s a lot of variety in production and good versatility, and Doja is an engaging performance wise and can float on almost anything. If you genuinely appreciate all of hip/hop and all eras of hip/hop and isn’t misogynistic, it’s hard to not appreciate the album, despite its flaws and all the unnecessary drama. It’s not a very fun album though. And Doja needs to be fun for her music and persona to really hit. Even though this album has highlights, she does need to quickly move past the “needing to prove something” vibes and the social media drama. Because that’s the main thing that makes this album a tiresome listen.
@@liteflightify If you think those songs are a “couple of the best hip-hip tracks in a while” you don’t listen to enough hip-hip
@@liteflightifyNothing on this record is remotely close to being some of the best in rap in a while, fix your ears
@@woodwheeler I listen to plenty of hip-hop. Y’all out here hyping Gunna and Travis Scott for releasing decent records but dissing Doja for showing versatility and floating on old school beats.
I open the video to be greeted by TOOL while talking about Doja. Magnificent. 🙏
She better get a refund for that soul she sold
Doja Cat is just following the marketing strategy. Good for her numbers, but if you take her words, you end up dissapointed.
I like her but, as Drake, I think she could do a lot better
"Ouchies has "A hunnid billies, I'm the G.O.A.T, no Eilish (Yeah)" as a lyric and it's pisssing me off!
Is she a cow, cat, or goat? I'm confused!
Genuinely how are you confused??
Reminds me of the fact that David Guetta has never solo produced a song
Yo, that catgirl really does have drive like a car
Man i listened this album yesterday and i thought it was alright but i didn't know that there were so many writers on it, it totally kills the vibe of the album when it gets to the most "personal" songs, it's soo awkward
Doja Cat wrote all the lyrics. The other "writing" credits are for the producers
@@danwillreview Producer and writer credits are shown separately, and still, If some of the producers were in the writing process, it doesn't really change anything about what I said, still a lot of people
“Like Fortnite I’ma need your skin”
I think that you are probably way too harsh on this album. I think a lot of your criticism comes from either misunderstanding lyrics thst might be satirical or sarcastic and not understanding that producers can be credited as writers. It feels like you dont give certain tracks a chance because you go into them thinking stuff like that. I think you are entitled to an opinion on albums and i normally really like the way you approach reviews but i feel like this is just a bit unfair. Im not really a fan of doja but i think that this album is pretty cool. It feels like it is something that she genuinely wants to make instead of more of the same stuff that her fans might want and i feel like that is kind of the message shes trying to get across through this project. A lot of the hate she has been recieving recently has been a bit ridiculous to me and it feels like it is just because she has chosen to not just make the same music she normally makes. I think that the album might be a bit rough at some points but its not bad. Im pretty exited to hear music she might make after this. Also the vagina song was pretty funny and so was the Fortnite bar