Doja Cat is not tired anymore

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it's giving her ARTPOP era, i wish she can take a moment for herself. we love u doja kitty

 

and whos alex anyways?

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7 hours ago, enissa11 said:

mmm i don't find it comparable at all, gaga literally didn't mind loads of pain that ended up with her hip broke and needing surgery because she performed almost every night in a very physically demanding tour, running up and down, back and forth a theater castle like stage, she literally didn't stop until her body couldn't move anymore...

Yeah but she wasn't happy. Especially when she was booked to her ears in promo and also doing the tour and then had to do the Fame perfume promotional tour which she didn't even want to do. But she was in the habit of saying yes to everyone, and didn't want to let down her fans, which led to her mental destruction, dependence on drugs, and eventually her broken hip. She's said before she felt like a windup doll that kept being wound up until it broke, she's said that breaking her hip forced her to stop, that she was living an unhealthy lifestyle, that she had to learn how to say no to things, that she's put together a team now that doesn't push her too hard etc. She only pushed herself so hard because she was too afraid to let down thousands of fans and cancel shows

I can't find many receipts but she's spoken about it so many times

 

Here she talks about being overworked and learning to say no:

 

And in this article:

"But I was able to get off the train of endless work I'd been on, which was quite abusive to my body and my mind, and have some silence and some space around me. "

https://www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/features/a18630/lady-gaga-womanhood-essay/

 

And this one:

"At the end of 2014, my stylist asked, ‘Do you even want to be a pop star anymore?’ I looked at him and I go, ‘You know, if I could just stop this train right now, today, I would. I just can’t. [But] I need to get off now because I’m going to die.’ When you’re going so fast you don’t feel safe anymore, you feel like you’re being slapped around and you can’t think straight."

https://www.billboard.com/articles/events/women-in-music/6784920/lady-gaga-billboard-woman-of-the-year-2015-cover-story

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3 hours ago, Luc said:

Artists don't have to accept to live the same unhealthy life that other artists do. Is that really so difficult? It doesn't "come with the job", or at least, it shouldn't. Especially in the streaming era, TV promo, interviews and photoshoots are so much less important than it used to be. An artist that makes good, catchy music can be successful with one big performance per month. Not everybody is a Madonna or a Lady Gaga (pre-2013) and that's OK.

next time quote me bish

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The entertainment industry is a monster and is immensely demanding. I hope her success doesnt chew her up and spit her out. I hope she is able to find a balance between work and experience life/relaxing.

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The pop girls have it so hard in this industry, especially new ones. It seems like their teams just want to take advantage of the hype they currently have to milk them as much as possible. Just glad to see she’s speaking about it and hope it changes for the better.

I don’t follow Doja’s career but with the new album out and all of those performances it’s pretty obvious she must feel drained. AND she’s not even on tour yet. 

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22 hours ago, Blastertoyo said:

What’s strange to me is 2020 was one million percent a slow year compared to any other year in pop music in recent memory, especially since no one was touring and there were very few live performances and award shows so it genuinely makes me curious about what she found so tiring? 

Especially since like the others you’ve mentioned, there are people who are doing/ have done more in less time

Did you actually follow what she did these past few months? She released an album, performed at every award show ceremony under the sun (even hosting one), made a shitload of videos, photoshoots, interviews… You think these things materialize out of the blue? She was literally everywhere. If you don’t think she’s working hard, I don’t know who is.

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23 hours ago, Blastertoyo said:

What’s strange to me is 2020 was one million percent a slow year compared to any other year in pop music in recent memory, especially since no one was touring and there were very few live performances and award shows so it genuinely makes me curious about what she found so tiring? 

Especially since like the others you’ve mentioned, there are people who are doing/ have done more in less time 

Because the music industry in 2021 is starting to go back to normal in a way, I guess this sudden burst of activity in a lot of artists will start to cause them to go tired quickly. Every artist has different stamina and different bodies. Seriously, if you are going to be a performer you NEED training like crazy the way Madonna or Beyoncé do, which is why they still have so much energy so many years into their career. Gaga on the other hand has great stamina too but her health conditions, both physical and psychological hold her back. 

I hope Doja takes a well deserved rest and finds a way to make her body work through the insane popstar schedule. 

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22 hours ago, Blastertoyo said:

She was definitely performing less in 2020 (her first year actually breaking into the mainstream) than 2018 and 2019 simply due to the fact that there was no touring and venues weren’t open period. 3rd album or 30th album, doesn’t matter, she didn’t break out until 2020, which was objectively a much less physically demanding year than any other.
 

more majors performances sure, but it makes 0 sense to me that she’s tired n o w after less than a year of performing with no tour when she’s literally worked harder 2018-2019. 

Awards Performances:

2020 BBMAs

2020 VMAs

2020 EMAs

2020 Streamys

2020 AMAs

2021 Grammys 

2021 VMAs (additionally hosted)

 

Releases:

Hot Pink (album)

Planet Her (album)

Do It (remix) (feature)

D!CK (feature)

Best Friend (feature)

34+35 (remix) (feature)

Baby, I'm Jealous (feature)

To Be Young (feature)

In Your Eyes (Remix) (feature)

Motive (feature)

Scoop (feature)

 

Music Videos:

You Right

Need to Know

Kiss Me More

Streets

Like That

Boss Bitch

Say So

 

Additional:

Candy Crush ad

3 VEVO performances

YouTube Released videos

BH Cosmetics collaboration

 

And any other video, feature, performance, etc I might have missed. On top of magazine covers, album/single cover shoots, countless other shoots not even mentioned. Each of her awards show performances had an entirely different concept that took weeks if not months to conceptualize and practice. Her features all probably take at least a day to write and record, on top of any other promo that's shot for it including cover art, music video, etc. Her music videos probably took a month to put together, and then 2-4 dedicated shoot days. Her albums took months to record, with meetings probably spanning months ahead of release on top of promo shoots. Doja has probably had immense pressure to keep a big presence and put out material in order to solidify her in the industry, assuming she's not doing all this work because she's in debt to her label. Even Dua doesn't have 7 music videos since 2020 (excluding animated videos and  Physical too, since it was likely shot in December) and not even counting MVs for Doja's features. She hasn't toured but all of this arguably accumulates to a more stressful time than if she did the typical 2-3 awards show performances, 3 MVs, 4ish features, international tour, 1 album cycle over the typical 2-3 year period because she would have half the awards shows, half the albums and features, half the MVs, and just practiced and toured the same show and choreo for a year with some sense of consistency. I can understand why she's tired, and we're not really considering any behind the scenes that might be going on as well that could be tiring. 

 

 

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19 hours ago, MonsterofFame said:

Have you seen the quality and level of her performances the past year though?

They are next-level and of a quality we haven't seen in a few years from a pop star. Intense choreography, entire re-arrangements of her songs like Gaga used to do, extravagant staging and props, very theatrical.

Honestly the level and quality of her live performances remind me of Gaga's back in the day. She's doing so much more than just singing the same songs with a dance. That's probably why she's burning out.

agreed.

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Hopefully her label okays some serious time out because it sounds like she's in desperate need of it.

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22 hours ago, Blastertoyo said:

Ahem 

im the one who made this thread so

 

Then you should understand her fatigue!

I agree that she is the best performer of this generation. I feel like she's not yet getting the attention she deserves.

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58 minutes ago, Teletubby said:

 

She is slaying. That Halloween costume was everything.