Are These Doja Cat Lyrics About Joseph Quinn?

"With her new album, , Doja Cat brings us a vaporware-inflected '80s phantasmagoria - a refraction of the Reagan era where AHS: 1984 meets Taylor Swift's 1989. And like 1989, Vie has that Easter-egg, tabloid-adjacent energy. Doja is singing about relationships, or at the very least about sex. It doesn't take a Swiftie-level mathematician to add it up: Doja Cat + situationships + the '80s = songs about Stranger Things star Joseph Quinn."

"Doja and Quinn's romance played out in the tabloids. The outspoken rapper DM'd Quinn's co-star Noah Schnapp to ask him to hook them up in 2022, only for Schnapp to blow up her spot on social media and accidentally start a discourse so weird you might not have realized she and Quinn did link up around August 2024, only for the romance to seemingly fizzle within a year. In a New York Timesstory, Doja said she wanted to use her lyrics to explore "not only my own sexuality, but his," without specifying who "his" might be referring to."

""Cards" Hey there strangerTake you where you wantHE GOT THE TOM FORD DOWN YES BUT DO HE SUIT MEJUST STEAMROLL PAST IF HE CANT EAT COOCHIE If they wasn't grillin' beforeThey gon' be really mad when we hit the floorHe want me and I want himIf you believe in manifestation this make perfect senseAnd I know you're in my life cuz everything that is alive's connectedAnd I believe the weirdest ones surviveWould it mean that I found my personWhen the language is acts of serviceBaby, how do I know for certainDoes a key to your flat mean girlfriend You're a trip to them and a vacation to meAnd God knows you could be stranger than me soKiss me like your mirrorEye me like a queerCuz I know you wont fre"

Doja Cat's Vie adopts a vaporware-inflected '80s phantasmagoria that refracts Reagan-era aesthetics and channels AHS: 1984 with pop polish akin to Taylor Swift's 1989. The album carries Easter-egg, tabloid-adjacent energy and centers on relationships and sexuality, often blurring sex and emotional complexity. A publicized hookup with Stranger Things star Joseph Quinn followed a viral DM episode involving Noah Schnapp, and that romance reportedly began in August 2024 before fading within a year. Doja expressed a desire to explore both her own sexuality and another person's in her lyrics, inviting speculation about specific inspirations.

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