{"id":141801,"date":"2025-09-08T14:12:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-08T14:12:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/141801\/"},"modified":"2025-09-08T14:12:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T14:12:07","slug":"doja-cat-takes-vmas-back-to-the-eighties-with-debut-performance-of-jealous-type","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/141801\/","title":{"rendered":"Doja Cat Takes VMAs Back to the Eighties With Debut Performance of \u2018Jealous Type\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

Doja Cat is claiming her position on the mantle of pop performers who consistently deliver knockout awards show performances. The rapper and singer returned to the MTV Video Music Awards for the first live performance of her new single \u201cJealous Type,\u201d<\/a> an Eighties-inspired record that will appear on her upcoming studio album Vie<\/a>, out Sept. 26.<\/p>\n

Her performance intentionally cut off VMA host LL Cool J with a broadcast of the star teasing her show and her special guest, Kenny G. When she broke out onto the stage, the set looked like something straight out of the decade that\u2019s been inspiring her, with a multilevel checkerboard floor, kooky shapes, and bright colors. Looking like a child of Janet Jackson\u2019s, her choreography was on point, complete with a rap break and moves complementing an electric guitarist and keytar player that got down behind her. \u201cVMAs, let me hear you say \u2018Oh, I\u2019m jealous!’\u201d she beckoned to the crowd as magenta confetti dropped in from the ceiling and got the party started.<\/p>\n

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Doja last appeared at the MTV VMAs in 2023, when she brought her Scarlet alter egos to the stage with a medley<\/a> of \u201cAttention,\u201d \u201cPaint the Town Red,\u201d and \u201cDemons.\u201d She\u2019s also returning as a nominee. \u201cJealous Type\u201d scored a nomination for Song of the Summer, while Doja is also up for Best K-Pop for her appearance alongside Lisa and Raye on \u201cBorn Again.\u201d<\/p>\n

The three artists performed separately during a James Bond tribute<\/a> at the 2025 Academy Awards. \u201cI never get to sing like that and what I did was brave and scary as fuck for me,\u201d Doja wrote on Instagram at the time. \u201cI know a lot of people didn\u2019t like it but a lot of people did and I feel good that I pushed myself.\u201d<\/p>\n

Doja is ready to get back to what she does best. \u201cI know that I can make pop music, and pop is just that it\u2019s popular,\u201d she told V Magazine<\/a>\u00a0about her upcoming \u201cpop-driven\u201d album. \u201cIt starts to become a bit of a thing that\u2019s viewed as a sport by people who are just bystanders to it, who enjoy it, but maybe also don\u2019t respect it or what it is, which is just music \u2026 They see it as if this is some kind of football for girls and gays.\u201d<\/p>\n

She collaborated with Jack Antonoff on Vie, which marks her fourth studio album since her 2018 debut Amala.<\/p>\n

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