Planet Her

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AlbumJun 25 / 202114 songs, 44m 6s
Pop Rap Contemporary R&B
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Pop music is, by design, kaleidoscopic, and Doja Cat\'s third album takes full advantage of its fluidity. *Planet Her* is ushered in on the euphoric Afropop of “Woman” and moves seamlessly into the reggaetón-kissed “Naked,” the hip-hop-meets-hyperpop of “Payday,” and the whimsical ad-lib trap of “Get Into It (Yuh)”—and that\'s just the first four songs. Later, R&B ballads and club-ready anthems also materialize from the ether, encompassing the spectrum of contemporary capital-P Pop and also the multihued sounds that are simply just popular, even if only in their corners of the internet for now. This is Doja\'s strength. She\'s long understood how mainstream sensibility interacts with counterculture (or what\'s left of it anyway, for better and worse), and she\'s nimbly able to translate both. *Planet Her* checks all the right boxes and accentuates her talent for shape-shifting—she sounds just as comfortable rapping next to Young Thug or JID as she does crooning alongside The Weeknd or Ariana Grande—but it\'s so pristine, so in tune with the music of the moment that it almost verges on parody. Is this Doja\'s own reflection or her reflecting her fans back to themselves? Her brilliance lies in the fact that the answer doesn\'t much matter. The best pop music is nothing if not a blurring of the lines between reality and fantasy, its brightest stars so uniquely themselves and yet whatever else they need to be, too.

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7.8 / 10

The third album from the extremely chaotic pop star, battle rapper, and edgelord is a thrilling ride that puts her eclecticism on full display.

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Rapper Doja Cat dives into a pool of predictable, uninspired sounds on her third studio album

5 / 10

The star enlists industry titans The Weeknd and Ariana Grande to ensure this album will help her to ride out any social media storm

7 / 10

Doja Cat is both sweet and seductive on third outing Planet Her

This album is overloaded with the kind of startling couplets and zingy melodies that could soundtrack the next viral dance challenge

Review: Doja Cat 'Planet Her'

Whether the record’s legacy will hold past the next trend cycle is not quite written in the stars.

The centre of the universe is a contested position, but Doja Cat claims it on new album 'Planet Her', with The Weeknd, Ariana Grande and SZA.

Pop polymath Doja Cat crossed completely over to the mainstream after her 2019 release Hot Pink.

9 / 10

Doja Cat is in a league — or, in this case, on a planet — of her own. If it wasn't already obvious after the acclaim she's received from her...

A passable collection of pop songs that fails to expand upon the universe of Doja CatSpend a few minutes on TikTok, and you'll find it impossible to escape the unmistakeable sound of Doja Cat’s voice.

7 / 10

'Planet Her' is an anthology. While fans of Doja Cat did not have to wait a prolonged amount of time from 2019's 'Hot Pink', Doja did

5 / 10

Big budget and full of big names – including one we really didn't want to see – this Doja Cat album still falls flat

The songs comprise a nebulous mass not unlike the swirling galaxy of the album’s cover art.

<strong>(RCA)<br></strong>With her unerring ability to kickstart TikTok crazes, Doja Cat’s sci-fi concept album – with guest turns from Ariana Grande and SZA – shines as a paragon of 2021 pop

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3.0 / 5

Doja Cat - Planet Her review: One gal's mission to populate a planetary wasteland of dull features and tepid beats. She does ok.