Doja Cat, Jealous Type | Song Review 🎵

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Grammy-winning singer and rapper Doja Cat returns with an enjoyable and envy-laden pop single, “Jealous Type.”

[otw_shortcode_dropcap label=”“Y” size=”large” border_color_class=”otw-no-border-color” shadow=”shadow” square=”square”]ou want what you can’t have, but I made a choice / I’m not your toy.” Oh, snap! Grammy winner Doja Cat (Amala Zandile Dlamani) is back! And guess what? She’s the “Jealous Type”! “Jealous Type” is the second track from her fifth studio album, Vie (arrives September 26, 2025). She penned “Jealous Type” with producers Jack Antonoff and Y2K (Ari Starace). One thing that stands out about the track early on is the fact that she’s singing again! “He loves me / But he can’t hold this above me,” she sings in the first verse, and continues, “When my eyes are green, I’m ugly / You’re vain and hip to rushing.” Ooh-wee, the pop is popping! So is the L-O-V-E for that matter![/otw_shortcode_dropcap]

Doja Cat is accompanied by sleek sounds: colorful pads, synths, and rhythmic drum programming. Amala serves up chill, easy-going vocals when she sings, never forcing things.  The chorus is the section to beat.  It’s tuneful with memorable lyrics.

“Boy, let me know if this is careless, I (Let me know)

Could be torn between two roads that I just can’t decide (Just can’t decide)

Which one is leading me to hell or paradise (Oh)

Baby, I can’t hurt you, sure, but I’m the jealous type

I’m the jealous type.”

Oh, snap! She confirms that she’s the jealous type even more on the post-chorus, an extension of the chorus. Rapping Doja returns briefly during the second verse, contrasting her smooth vocal delivery with a more assertive, hard-nosed sound.  “Nigga, you must be on Molly ‘cause y’all ain’t kick it when we started up,” she spits, and adds, “And if she really was a friend like you said she was / I  would’ve been locked in, but I called your bluff.” Ow!  No worries, following those assertive rhymes, she returns to more relaxed vocals within the same verse.  Still, she’s jealous! All in all, “Jealous Type” is an enjoyable, well-rounded pop single.  Slickly produced with a respectable performance by Doja Cat, it’s not the second coming, but pleasant and inoffensive.

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