{"id":28430,"date":"2023-09-13T10:17:14","date_gmt":"2023-09-13T14:17:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/?p=28430"},"modified":"2023-09-13T11:12:07","modified_gmt":"2023-09-13T15:12:07","slug":"doja-cat-shows-us-her-horns-in-her-latest-music-video-demons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/2023\/09\/doja-cat-shows-us-her-horns-in-her-latest-music-video-demons.html","title":{"rendered":"Doja Cat Shows Us Her Horns in Her Latest Music Video, “Demons”"},"content":{"rendered":"
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It\u2019s all too predictable at this point: an average but relatively successful female artist goes all in on satanic imagery and, like the temptation the devil put in front of Jesus, suddenly they\u2019ve got the keys to the kingdom. So it was barely newsworthy when singer-rapper Doja Cat released a new music video where she dons a demonic persona and terrorizes an unwitting victim.<\/p>\n

Or is it? The music video for \u201cDemons,\u201d directed by Christian Breslauer, pays homage to the greatest horror movies ever, from the infamous shower scene in \u201cThe Shining\u201d to the snowy static of old-school late-night TVs. Regarding genre, the video leaves no doubt about which category Breslauer prefers. Much of the content of the music video can be gathered from social media posts that Doja Cat, whose real name is Amala Ratna Dlamin, shared on her Instagram page.<\/p>\n

Last month, she posted a silhouette of herself wearing horns with the caption \u201c9.1.23,\u201d referring to the debut of \u201cDemons,\u201d prompting one fan to comment, \u201cThe religious people will love this one.\u201d Days later, the artist shared an image from the video shoot where she can be seen hanging upside down from the ceiling and wearing an all-black-latex-style body suit with black horns on her head and long, claw-like fingernails.<\/p>\n

Another image showed Doja Cat scaling the walls. \u201cDemons\u201d is supposedly the sixth track from Doja Cat\u2019s soon-to-be-released album<\/a>, \u201cHellmouth.\u201d For Doja Cat, none of this is particularly new. Her hit song, \u201cPaint the Town Red,\u201d released in August, has 30 million views on YouTube and is the number 12 top music video on the entire platform. That video also has no shortage of satanic imagery, including Doja Cat dancing on top of some type of horned demon head while wearing a sleeve decorated with red pentagrams.<\/p>\n

In that video, Doja Cat also flirts with the Grim Reaper while wearing an all-red hooded dress, eats raw meat while wearing a cross necklace and shirt with the word \u201cFERAL,\u201d and again wears horns on her head while getting familiar with another dark horned figure.\u00a0\u201cPaint the Town Red\u201d is a response song to criticism aimed at Doja Cat over the dark imagery in her videos and whether she, like Robert Johnson and so many before her, actually sold her soul to Satan.<\/p>\n

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