Doja Cat Steps on the Dark Side in Music Video for “Paint the Town Red”

Doja Cat at Real Street Festival in 2019
Doja Cat at Real Street Festival in 2019. Photo by Earl Gibson III/Shutterstock (10359932g)

Doja Cat has been pretty busy teasing her fourth studio album in recent months, and she gave us a taste of things to come with another single. The music video for “Paint the Town Red” is here, and it sees the Grammy-winning rapper stepping on the dark side.

Doja Cat’s latest music video was directed by Nina McNeely and it plays out like a horror movie. The creepy visual opens with a black-and-white scene of the singer taking her eye out, and we later get to see her riding a gigantic green monster and hanging out with the Grim Reaper in an all-red dress.

“Paint the Town Red” will serve as the second single from Doja Cat’s upcoming fourth studio album, following the release of its lead single “Attention” back in June. The rapper switched between many titles since announcing this album, from Hellmouth to First Of All, but she’s yet to officially pick one.

“I’ve been messing around with name ideas for the album and have like 8 of them that I’m deciding between… I’ve been reconnecting with the music that I was raised listening to; Erykah Badu, John Coltrane, Nineties hip hop…the music that influenced me as a kid,” she told The Rolling Stone.