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)
@@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)
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
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
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.
‘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 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.
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
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"
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
@@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 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.
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.
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.
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. 💀💀
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
@@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!!!
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.
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
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
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.
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
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.
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.....
@@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
