Doja Cat likes to play. And during her visit to The Tonight Show on Wednesday night (May 1), the “Paint the Town Red” singer/rapper was in a particularly playful mood while discussing the wild outfits her dancers wore on the tour in support of Red album. Preview of her upcoming European leg Red Doja told host Jimmy Fallon, “I wanted it to be modeled after hair, that's what it's all about, hair, so it's going to be a very hairy show.”
Fallon noted that last month Doja became the first female rapper to headline Coachella, creating a clip of a performance of “Demons” from that concert in which her dancers strutted across the stage in giant gethi costumes covered in white fur. This naturally led to Doja offering Fallon a chance to get in on the action by styling one of the hairs, which he clumsily pulled off, unable to properly stretch the fur pants.
What followed was a hesitant Fallon crouching and bouncing to the funky Roots beat as he learned some Doja stage chorus, waving his arms and grasping the air while holding up his pants with one hand.
The interview also touched on Doja's early 'dance battles' performance as a child and the dance crew she was in as a teenager, as well as her memory of her first concert: Earth, Wind & Fire. While watching her mom's favorite band, the then five-year-old Amala Ratna Zandile Dlamini unexpectedly fell into her first limelight. “It sounds like a lie, but they pulled me on stage because we were in the front and, like a tiny little peanut like that going 'ahhh!!!'… I got it,” he laughed.
Her second show is just as epic, also with her mom: Beyoncé. This time, though, mother and daughter were as far away from the tent in the rafters as possible, with only Bey's whippy hair visible from that nosebleed. “I saw a tiny bit of Beyoncé, but it was great,” she said.
Doja later returned to the show for an intense slow-burn performance Red The deluxe edition track “Acknowledge Me,” along with an angelic six-piece choir and full band in a smoke-shrouded stage, during which, of course, she wore a white hair coat over the white leotard.
Watch Fallon's hairy dance and performance of “Acknowledge Me” below.
