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"Agora Hills" is a song by American rapper and singer Doja Cat from her fourth studio album, Scarlet (2023). It was released along with the album on September 22, 2023, through Kemosabe and RCA Records as the second and final single from the album. A hip-hop, pop, and R&B-infused slow jam with a trap beat, it finds Doja Cat discussing the ways in which she wants to flaunt her partner, despite the pressures of fame and secrecy. Directed by Hannah Lux Davis, the accompanying music video is 1990s-inspired and sees her traversing an apocalyptic California landscape with her supernatural female friends. The song is named after Agoura Hills, which is a city in California.
The song received widespread acclaim from music critics, who lauded Doja Cat's unique vocal delivery and placed the song on several year-end lists. Commercially, it peaked at number seven on the Billboard Hot 100 and topped the Rhythmic Top 40 chart in the US, and was also a top 25 hit in the United Kingdom, Australia, Ireland, New Zealand, South Africa and the Philippines. For promotional purposes, Doja Cat performed the song during the Scarlet Tour, as well as on BBC Radio 1's Live Lounge concert series.
Doja Cat spent several of her formative years living in an ashram commune founded and led by jazz musician Alice Coltrane in Agoura Hills, a city in the Santa Monica Mountains of California. The purposeful misspelling of the title "Agora Hills" refers to the theme of agoraphilia, which is the love of public life, crowds, and activity, as suggested by song's lyrics about public display of affection. Doja Cat also adopts a Californian "valley girl" accent while rapping an entire verse of the song. Doja Cat recorded "Agora Hills" during a ten-day stint at Harbor Studios in Malibu, California. The song was produced by Earl on the Beat, Gent!, Jean Baptiste and Bangs, who all wrote the track alongside Doja Cat. Songwriting credits on the track also go to Brian Holland and Michael Lovesmith, who wrote the sampled "All I Do Is Think of You". Mastering and mixing was handled by studio personnel Mike Bozzi and Neal Pogue, respectively.
She first revealed the song's title in early April 2023, sharing a screenshot of the track as an audio file alongside two other songs to social media. Later that month, the title appeared again in a photo shared by the rapper of the preliminary tracklist of Scarlet (2023) while under development. Doja Cat began hinting the song's release after changing the location on her Twitter profile to "agora hills" in May 2023. On September 3, 2023, she shared a post on Instagram featuring her and the supporting cast at the song's music video shoot. Later that month, a snippet of the song was shared on her official website, and the release date was confirmed to be September 22. The song was released in tandem with Scarlet as the second single from the album. In the United States, it impacted rhythmic contemporary and contemporary hit radio on October 31.
"Agora Hills" is a song blending hip-hop, pop, and R&B. A "seductive" slow jam, the song is described as dreamy, mellow and atmospheric in nature. It is also characterized by a bouncy trap drum beat, spacey synthesizers and Doja Cat's breathy vocals. The instrumental of the song samples the introduction to "All I Do Is Think of You", a 1989 single by American R&B group Troop, originally recorded by The Jackson 5 in 1975. During the song's first verse, Doja Cat raps in a "valley girl" accent. The song also features "purposefully cringey" ad-libs, laughter and satiric spoken-word interludes in between the refrain and the chorus.
"Agora Hills" is a love song. In the song's lyrics, Doja Cat expresses the ways in which she wants to flaunt her partner and discusses her romantic feelings for this person. Furthermore, she calls for autonomy from the intrusions of fame, and tolls with the idea of publicizing a love she is forced to keep confidential. She fantasizes about public displays of affection (PDA) and performing fellatio on a penis in a bathroom, and mimics the "fun, confusing, slightly messy" initial stages of dating. While based around the topic of sex, the lyrics were noted to be bawdy, lighthearted and ironic.
"Agora Hills" was met with widespread critical acclaim from contemporary music critics, who particularly praised her unique vocal delivery. Alex Gonzalez of Uproxx lauded "Agora Hills" as a reminder of Doja Cat's "multifaceted musical talents", praising her "soft-tinged vocals" as well as her "fire rap skills". Kyle Denis of Billboard ranked the song as the third best track on Scarlet, and similarly described Doja Cat as a "master shapeshifter" due to her ability to channel various characters using voices and accents. A number of critics likened her delivery on the track to that of American rapper Kitty Pryde, with several citing her "nervously languid" flow in her song "Okay Cupid" as an example.
[The song] demonstrates that Doja Cat is not always just about being belligerent or being kind of venomous to her haters or conjuring all this occult imagery. But she has a lot of different sides, and the album has a lot of different sides. So "Agora Hills" is a kind of quiet storm song. It's hazy. It's sensual. And it's her singing and rapping. What I love about this song is that it's way more estrogen than it is testosterone. This is what she would call her softy side. It's her singing about love, about romance.
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Agora Hills
"Agora Hills" is a song by American rapper and singer Doja Cat from her fourth studio album, Scarlet (2023). It was released along with the album on September 22, 2023, through Kemosabe and RCA Records as the second and final single from the album. A hip-hop, pop, and R&B-infused slow jam with a trap beat, it finds Doja Cat discussing the ways in which she wants to flaunt her partner, despite the pressures of fame and secrecy. Directed by Hannah Lux Davis, the accompanying music video is 1990s-inspired and sees her traversing an apocalyptic California landscape with her supernatural female friends. The song is named after Agoura Hills, which is a city in California.
The song received widespread acclaim from music critics, who lauded Doja Cat's unique vocal delivery and placed the song on several year-end lists. Commercially, it peaked at number seven on the Billboard Hot 100 and topped the Rhythmic Top 40 chart in the US, and was also a top 25 hit in the United Kingdom, Australia, Ireland, New Zealand, South Africa and the Philippines. For promotional purposes, Doja Cat performed the song during the Scarlet Tour, as well as on BBC Radio 1's Live Lounge concert series.
Doja Cat spent several of her formative years living in an ashram commune founded and led by jazz musician Alice Coltrane in Agoura Hills, a city in the Santa Monica Mountains of California. The purposeful misspelling of the title "Agora Hills" refers to the theme of agoraphilia, which is the love of public life, crowds, and activity, as suggested by song's lyrics about public display of affection. Doja Cat also adopts a Californian "valley girl" accent while rapping an entire verse of the song. Doja Cat recorded "Agora Hills" during a ten-day stint at Harbor Studios in Malibu, California. The song was produced by Earl on the Beat, Gent!, Jean Baptiste and Bangs, who all wrote the track alongside Doja Cat. Songwriting credits on the track also go to Brian Holland and Michael Lovesmith, who wrote the sampled "All I Do Is Think of You". Mastering and mixing was handled by studio personnel Mike Bozzi and Neal Pogue, respectively.
She first revealed the song's title in early April 2023, sharing a screenshot of the track as an audio file alongside two other songs to social media. Later that month, the title appeared again in a photo shared by the rapper of the preliminary tracklist of Scarlet (2023) while under development. Doja Cat began hinting the song's release after changing the location on her Twitter profile to "agora hills" in May 2023. On September 3, 2023, she shared a post on Instagram featuring her and the supporting cast at the song's music video shoot. Later that month, a snippet of the song was shared on her official website, and the release date was confirmed to be September 22. The song was released in tandem with Scarlet as the second single from the album. In the United States, it impacted rhythmic contemporary and contemporary hit radio on October 31.
"Agora Hills" is a song blending hip-hop, pop, and R&B. A "seductive" slow jam, the song is described as dreamy, mellow and atmospheric in nature. It is also characterized by a bouncy trap drum beat, spacey synthesizers and Doja Cat's breathy vocals. The instrumental of the song samples the introduction to "All I Do Is Think of You", a 1989 single by American R&B group Troop, originally recorded by The Jackson 5 in 1975. During the song's first verse, Doja Cat raps in a "valley girl" accent. The song also features "purposefully cringey" ad-libs, laughter and satiric spoken-word interludes in between the refrain and the chorus.
"Agora Hills" is a love song. In the song's lyrics, Doja Cat expresses the ways in which she wants to flaunt her partner and discusses her romantic feelings for this person. Furthermore, she calls for autonomy from the intrusions of fame, and tolls with the idea of publicizing a love she is forced to keep confidential. She fantasizes about public displays of affection (PDA) and performing fellatio on a penis in a bathroom, and mimics the "fun, confusing, slightly messy" initial stages of dating. While based around the topic of sex, the lyrics were noted to be bawdy, lighthearted and ironic.
"Agora Hills" was met with widespread critical acclaim from contemporary music critics, who particularly praised her unique vocal delivery. Alex Gonzalez of Uproxx lauded "Agora Hills" as a reminder of Doja Cat's "multifaceted musical talents", praising her "soft-tinged vocals" as well as her "fire rap skills". Kyle Denis of Billboard ranked the song as the third best track on Scarlet, and similarly described Doja Cat as a "master shapeshifter" due to her ability to channel various characters using voices and accents. A number of critics likened her delivery on the track to that of American rapper Kitty Pryde, with several citing her "nervously languid" flow in her song "Okay Cupid" as an example.
[The song] demonstrates that Doja Cat is not always just about being belligerent or being kind of venomous to her haters or conjuring all this occult imagery. But she has a lot of different sides, and the album has a lot of different sides. So "Agora Hills" is a kind of quiet storm song. It's hazy. It's sensual. And it's her singing and rapping. What I love about this song is that it's way more estrogen than it is testosterone. This is what she would call her softy side. It's her singing about love, about romance.