Doja Cat has admitted to feeling nervous during her Oscars performance at the weekend, conceding that “a bitch hit some flats”.
The popstar performed at the 97th Academy Awards in Los Angeles on Sunday night (March 2) as part of a James Bond tribute medley that saw her singing alongside RAYE and BLACKPINK’s Lisa.
The sequence opened with The Substance star Margaret Qualley dancing a choreographed number, followed by Lisa covering Paul McCartney’s ‘Live And Let Die’. Doja then sang a version of Shirley Bassey’s ‘Diamonds Are Forever’, before RAYE closed out the piece with a cover of Adele’s ‘Skyfall’.
The entire medley received a mixed response from social media and in an Instagram post on Monday (March 3), Doja appeared to admit that she was not as happy with her performance as she would have liked to be.
“Thanks to the Academy Awards and Vanity Fair for having me,” she wrote. “I never get to sing like that and what I did was brave and scary as fuck for me. I know a lot of people didn’t like it but a lot of people did and I feel good that I pushed myself.”
“The song is a classic and I put a lot of work into it but the nerves got to me and a bitch hit some flats. I can’t wait to do something like that again. What a blessing that was. I feel amazing about the whole thing.”
Watch Doja’s performance here:
Doja Cat covers “Diamonds Are Forever” during the #Oscars Bond Tribute.
pic.twitter.com/R4EsBlX6Da— ۟ (@DojaArchives) March 3, 2025
The three singers also released a new collaborative single ‘Born Again’ last month, which was included on Lisa’s debut solo album ‘Alter Ego’, which is out now.
The tribute to the Bond franchise, meanwhile, came just days after news broke that the films will now be controlled by Amazon MGM Studios after they acquired the rights from the long-time producers Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli. It ends more than 60 years of the Broccoli family overseeing the franchise.
The acquisition has been met with sharp criticism by fans, with one claiming that “it’s clearly the end of the franchise for long-time Bond fans”.
Elsewhere, Doja appeared to be teasing snippets of new music in the final weeks of 2024, with fans thinking they were glimpses of her upcoming fifth studio album and follow-up to 2023’s ‘Scarlet’.
