Doja Cat on 2025 Oscars performance: “The nerves got to me and a bitch hit some flats”

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Doja Cat has admitted to feeling nervous during her Oscars performance at the weekend, conceding that “a bitch hit some flats”.The popstar performed at the 97th Academy Awards in Los Angeles on Sunday night (March 2) as part of a James Bond tribute medley that saw her singing alongside RAYE and BLACKPINK’s Lisa.The sequence opened with The Substance star Margaret Qualley dancing a choreographed number, followed by Lisa covering Paul McCartney’s ‘Live And Let Die’.

Doja then sang a version of Shirley Bassey’s ‘Diamonds Are Forever’, before RAYE closed out the piece with a cover of Adele’s ‘Skyfall’.The entire medley received a mixed response from social media and in an Instagram post on Monday (March 3), Doja appeared to admit that she was not as happy with her performance as she would have liked to be.A post shared by Doja Cat (@dojacat)“Thanks to the Academy Awards and Vanity Fair for having me,” she wrote. “I never get to sing like that and what I did was brave and scary as fuck for me.

I know a lot of people didn’t like it but a lot of people did and I feel good that I pushed myself.”“The song is a classic and I put a lot of work into it but the nerves got to me and a bitch hit some flats.

I can’t wait to do something like that again. What a blessing that was. I feel amazing about the whole thing.”Watch Doja’s performance here:Doja Cat covers “Diamonds Are Forever” during the #Oscars Bond Tribute.