Doja Cat Lives Life in Her Own Lane on 'Vie'

Isabelle Jardin
Sep 26, 2025
2 min read

Comprising 15 tracks, Vie is nearly a complete solo album, featuring only one collaboration with SZA on "Take Me Dancing."

One notable aspect of Doja Cat is her indifference to public opinion. Her craft consistently reflects the state of her soul, with each project serving as a contemplation of a fragment of her vast reservoir of sound and creative inspiration.

Her fifth studio album exemplifies her genre-defying career, with each decision meticulously crafted. Disregarding commercial limitations and unaffected by conventional expectations, Doja has oscillated between pop, rap, and R&B, establishing a unique niche in the music zeitgeist that affords her the liberty to traverse many genres.

The much anticipated project, Vie, has arrived, showcasing Doja's return to her early, unrefined pop sound via a more mature and refined perspective.

Throughout Vie's 15 tracks, Doja explores the soundscape of the 1970s to 1990s, incorporating soulful samples, saxophone solos, and some of her most incisive writing to date. Ultimately, she achieved a historic milestone with Vie as the inaugural female songwriter to independently manage an entire album.

According to Doja, the title primarily represents "a play on words by me, beginning with the straightforward notion that this is my fifth album."

I intended to extend this from the Roman numeral 'V' tattooed on my collarbone. In numerology, the number five signifies curiosity, adventure, and transformation. I choose "Vie" as a reference to "La Vie en Rose" and integrated it with the concept of romance, offering my perspective of love, sex, passion, pain, and wonder inside a relationship throughout this project. These songs pertain to interpersonal or intrapersonal relationships. I hold a profound conviction on the significance of the term "Vie," as life is essential for love, and love is indispensable for adventure. This album is daring, incorporating tributes to the 70s, 80s, and 90s, while infusing my own contemporary interpretation.

The predominantly solo project is enhanced by a single collaboration with SZA on "Take Me Dancing."

1. Cards

2. Jealous Type

3. Aaahh Men!

4. Couples Therapy

5. Gorgeous

6. Stranger

7. All Mine

8. Take Me Dancing feat. SZA

9. Lipstain

10. Silly! Fun!

11. Acts Of Service