Doja Cat. Photo by Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images.
Yesterday (May 9), Doja Cat was named Pop Songwriter of the Year at the privately-held 2023 BMI Pop Awards. Six of her songs — “Get Into It (Yuh),” “I Like You (A Happier Song),” “Need to Know,” “Vegas,” “Woman,” and “You Right” — were the most performed of 2022 (a BMI metric reserved for the most successful songs in the company’s catalog). In 2021, she won R&B/hip-hop Song of the Year for “Say So.”
After her win last night, Doja tweeted some enlightening words about her two hit pop albums. “Planet Her and Hot Pink were cash-grabs and yall fell for it,” she wrote. “Now I can go disappear somewhere and touch grass with my loved ones on an island while yall weep for mediocre pop.” The news comes after the artist announced her forthcoming album Hellmouth will be “rap only.”
The songwriter award is not the only recognition Doja Cat has gotten as of late. Last month, TIME named her one of the most influential people of 2023 alongside the likes of Beyoncé and Steve Lacy.
