Doja Cat – "Paint the Town Red" (2023)

She’s the devil

She’s a bad li’l bitch

She’s a rebel

Our marketing department is constantly complaining that our readership skews very “mature” because we feature a lot of really old records.

I’ve responded to their concern by promising to pander more to the younger crowd. . . which explains why we are featuring Doja Cat’s “Paint the Town Red,” which was released just over a year ago.

Doja Cat

“Paint the Town Red” was a yuuuge international hit, topping the charts in no fewer than 19 countries (including the U.S. and the UK).  It got to 100 million streams on Spotify faster than any other single by a solo female rapper.

But perhaps the truest indicator of the record’s phenomenal popularity is that it was used as the soundtrack it over 600,000 TikTok clips in the first week after it was released.

A brief sample from Dionne Warwick’s 1964 hit, “Walk On By” is repeated throughout the entirety of “Paint the Town Red.”  After the first hundred or so repetitions of that sample, I thought it became just a tad annoying.

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Click here to watch the official music video for “Paint the Town Red.”  (Here’s Rolling Stone magazine’s description of that video:  “The surreal visual sees [Doja Cat] plucking out her eyeball as the audience watches it fall into the depths of hell.  From there, Doja proceeds to cozy up with death, sway with the devil, toss chunks of bloody meat, and ride a gigantic green creature through the sky.”)

Click here to buy “Paint the Town Red” from Amazon.