Doja Cat: I don't want to just 'protect my pockets'

Doja Cat doesn't want to write hits just to "protect (her) pockets." The "Paint the Town Red" hitmaker has admitted she has done songs in the past just to be popular, but she is now keen to experiment with the eclectic mix of genres that she loves, including jazz, neo soul, indie and rock music. In an interview conducted by singer Jack Harlow for Present Space, she said: "That stuff tends to get pushed to the side by the general populace, .

.. so I did the thing that I knew would stick.



Now, I feel like I can take those elements that I have from the music that sticks and put it into this soup of different genres that I really love and enjoy and respect, and make something new with it. That's what I've always loved to do, is swirl a lot of different sounds together, but really in the future, I want to start going in a different direction sonically that isn't supposed to just protect my pockets, necessarily, and isn't just supposed to woo the younger fans or the people who only want to hear sexual themes or self-medication or stuff like that. There's so much to life, and it's been a pattern of writing about those things for me, but now I want to stretch the canvas.

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