Doja Cat Gets Provocative at Coachella With Mud Dancing, Dinosaurs, Yetis, 21 Savage and a Determination to Avoid the Oldies
variety.comChris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic Doja Cat has rarely turned in an uninteresting or unprovocative performance, and her headlining set Sunday night at Coachella offered a plethora of looks and concepts designed to prompt dazzlement and debate among the viewing audience.
Dinosaur skeletons? Mudbath choreography? Twerking Yetis? Her hour-and-a-half set just about had it all… Well, everything except for her biggest pop hits, like “Say So” and “Kiss Me More.” Familiar older songs were notably MIA from a setlist that included 12 songs from her 2023 “Scarlet” album, with its determined focus on her rapping side, and four more from the deluxe edition, “Scarlet 2: Claude,” that just popped.
Not much room left for “Woman” after all that, then. Only “Paint the Town Red” and “Agora Hills,” top 10 singles from the most recent album, and “Need to Know,” one of two songs performed from “Planet Her,” were there to satiate the part of the audience that hungers for the most recognizable radio smashes.
That paucity of pop hits was a minus for many viewers weighing in in the festival’s livestream chat room about not having much to sing along with.
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