The Irony of Doja Cat’s Cutting Comments on Ella Langley
It’s only a matter of time until Ella Langley’s “Choosin’ Texas” is officially crowned the biggest single in American music history. It’s already the longest-running #1 single on the all-genre Billboard Hot 100 for a song that’s not a Christmas track at 20 weeks this week. There was some wonder if a Dolly Parton song might sneak up and surpass “Choosin’ Texas” in the wake of the country legend’s passing, but that didn’t happen. Nor have singles from massive superstars like Taylor Swift, Drake, and Olivia Rodrigo been able to surpass it.
The only hurdle left to jump is surpassing Mariah Carey’s “All I Want For Christmas Is You,” which of course receives an annual boost by being showcased around the Holidays as a standard, and has topped the chart for 22 non-consecutive weeks.
Due to the overwhelming success of “Choosin’ Texas,” there’s of course some polarization, and frankly, jealousy surrounding the song. When asked on an August, 23rd episode of the podcast Sundae Conversation if she was a fan of Ella Langley, pop/hip-hop star Doja Cat responded, “I don’t know what that is.”
Doja Cat later said on an Instagram live stream, “I really don’t just give a [expletive] about country music, and I don’t understand what’s so hard to believe about that. I never cared. I like that one Keith Urban song from 2004 … I don’t care for that type of s— at all. It doesn’t inspire me. It doesn’t make me feel good.”
Doja Cat went on to say that Ella Langley is “probably a fine lady,” but after listening to “Choosin’ Texas” said, “This is not my vibe, but she has a very pretty voice. If this is No. 1 on the charts, I’m sure it’s on the radio. I could see them playing this [expletive] on the radio. I don’t like it, but that’s fine. It’s very earwormy it sounds like, it’s like [a] catchy melody. I get it, and she’s pretty.”
The dismissive attitude from Doja Cat is not surprising, even if her candidness is pretty uncommon in popular music. This is how many people feel about country music, while if a country artists said this about a hip-hop star, it probably would have made more headlines, and seen as problematic.
Whenever you post something about a polarizing artist online, one common refrain on social media is “never heard of her,” even if it’s not even a woman being referred to, and even if the people issuing the line don’t know its origins. But the origination of the line is actually the one woman Ella Langley has left to best on the Billboard Hot 100 all-time chart: Mariah Carey.
The meme comes from a 2003 red carpet interview with Mariah Carey when she was asked to comment on Jennifer Lopez. Carey responded, “I don’t know her.” Over time, the quote got transmogrified to “Never heard of her.” Carey has subsequently on numerous occasions defended herself saying that she wasn’t trying to land a cut on Lopez, but sincerely didn’t know her on a personal basis at that time, and was simply answering honestly.
After issuing the “I don’t know what that is” line about Ella Langley, it’s definitely fair to say that Doja Cat doubled down on her dismissive criticism, probably showing her hand that she knew exactly what she was speaking about. Ella Langely’s response was pretty mild, and measured, simply posting a carousel of photos from tour on Instagram with the caption, “Ella Langley, What is that?”
But when Ella Langley likely overtakes Mariah Carey’s Christmas song, it will be Ella Langley with the last laugh.
September 2, 2026 @ 11:16 am
Funny, because I had to look up who Doja Cat was when this story first came across my timeline. I don’t like rap or pop and don’t listen to it and had no idea who she was. If she doesn’t listen to country music, I can see why she may not have known who Ella was, but she should have been more diplomatic about it.
Trigger, any thoughts on Sony and Langley forcing Cletus T. Judd to take down his “Be Her” parody? Been seeing a bit of backlash from fans over that.
September 2, 2026 @ 11:44 am
Did this really happen? I mean, it is a really, really bad parody. As in so bad it parodies the idea of parodies. I’m not sure if that’s the point or not, but if it isn’t, then Cletus has lost his edge over the years. That, or his schtick always had an expiration date.
September 2, 2026 @ 11:52 am
I never saw it. Just suddenly he was all over my feeds crying in videos about it.
September 2, 2026 @ 1:06 pm
Parody songs are protected by the 1st Amendment to the Constitution of the United States. Cletus T Judd has every right to post his song, and Elly Langley’s label has no right to demand it be taken down. That doesn’t mean they didn’t. I’m still waiting for the other shoe to fall with this, specifically to see if Ella Langley’s camp responds. Because the story makes no sense, and Cletus has a history of …well … he has a history.
September 2, 2026 @ 2:11 pm
“Bitch I’m a cow” is pretty funny. Doja cat had a viral moment with that a while back.
September 2, 2026 @ 4:52 pm
I watched a video from Cletus on Facebook about it earlier this week. He stated he legally did not have to take it down, but opted too after being asked by Ella’s label ( or management, not sure which) because he didn’t want to make waves or seem disrespectful. He also said this is the first song his wife has written.
I also read Garth once asked him to pull a parody Cletus did on one of his songs. Garth was afraid they’d be on the running for the same Grammy award lol.
September 2, 2026 @ 11:30 am
IDGAF
September 2, 2026 @ 11:43 am
I don’t know what the hell a doja cat is.
September 2, 2026 @ 11:46 am
I am sorta surprised this site loves Langley so much. While there’s some steel guitar and she says the word Texas like 100 times it still a pop song. Both the production and lyrics are super pop oriented, especially the over processed vocals, and whatever is going on with the drums. I don’t think it’s bad, just surprised you all like it so much. If you like pop country I would really recommend Elizabeth Nichols. The production is somehow both less pop and less country, but it is really good. The lyrics are awesome.
TLDR-check out Elizabeth Nichols.
September 2, 2026 @ 12:56 pm
“Choosin’ Texas” is a traditional-leaning country song, full stop. It’s not just a straight country song. It’s not a pop country song. It’s not even a country pop song. And it absolutely is not a pop song, whatsoever, full stop.
I hate to come across as arrogant or pedantic with that proclamation, but it’s just truth. Simply including any steel guitar means the song is recused from being considered straight pop. The people proclaiming it as a pop song are coming from an aged perspective. Pop in 2026 is Doja Cat. Pull up Spotify or wherever you stream music, pick any Doja Cat song, and listen. That’s pop, and it is in no way apt to compare to “Choosin’ Texas.”
I’ve seen some say that “Choosin’ Texas” would have been considered pop country in 1980. They might be right about that. But 1980 was 46 years ago. I see this same misunderstanding of perspective when people criticize 20 somethings making ’90s-sounding country. They’re not trying to sound “retro” or rehash anything. They weren’t even born in 1989. THey’re playing the country music they grew up with that their parents were playing.
“Super pop” songs don’t mention two step dancing, or Texas, and “super pop” production doesn’t have live drums and steel guitar.
“Choosin’ Texas” is a traditional-leaning country song. And this site doesn’t “love” it as much as it’s a historic moment for ANY song to become the longest-running #1 in history. For that song to be a country song makes it required coverage by a country outlet. It would be wild for it to not be covered here.
September 2, 2026 @ 1:48 pm
As someone who hates to come across as pedantic it seems to come fairly easy (the arrogance is fine). “Traditional-leaning, full stop” what does that mean? is it traditional or traditional leaning? When I said “super pop oriented” I meant relative to traditional country, not relative to Beyonce (sorry for saying Beyonce), which I think was fairy clear in my comment.
I am not saying it is straight pop. I am saying it’s pop country, which was clear in my comment (“if you like pop country”). The vocals are as heavily produced as any other pop country song.
“Super pop” songs don’t mention two step dancing, or Texas”
What about pick up trucks and cut off shorts? do pop country songs mention those or does it depend on the make of the truck. Again, (sorry) Beyonce mentions both Texas and two steppin in her “omg not country” album.
“Simply including any steel guitar means the song is recused from being considered straight pop”
Beyonce included steel guitar on several songs from her “omg not country” album.
“I see this same misunderstanding of perspective when people criticize 20 somethings making ’90s-sounding country. They’re not trying to sound “retro” or rehash anything.”
wait, when Zach Top started writing songs about Alan Jackson and mullets, and got Carson Chamberline to produce him he wasn’t trying to sound retro 90s? What about six months later when everyone else and their mother, including this album, did that too? were they just playing the music their parents listened to?
To act as if there isn’t room on the spectrum between traditional country, pop country, and pop is silly. She is much closer to the pop end of it than I imagined this site likes. I was clearly wrong. You folks seem to love it. great, I said nothing bad about her and her music other than it’s “super pop oriented”
Speaking of semantics, it’s strange to say the song that just broke the record time being on the pop charts isn’t pop.
September 2, 2026 @ 2:03 pm
I like the album! If my wife and her friends were picking the music I’d hope they’d pick it!
September 2, 2026 @ 3:09 pm
Like I’ve said before, It’s a once in a generation song that sounds brand new every time you hear it. That’s genius and Ella, Miranda, the producers, and musicians should receive all the credit due to them, Keep them comin’!
September 2, 2026 @ 9:49 pm
I seem to remember back in the day that anytime you reviewed any Taylor Swift song (which numerous of them had steel guitar and banjo and sounded much more country that “choosing texas”, you made a point of starting more than once that none of it was “country” and it’s all pop or pop-country at the most. So this statement of yours seems awful disingenuous to me.
September 2, 2026 @ 10:02 pm
Ella Langley’s “Choosin’ Texas” is more country than every single song Taylor Swift has ever released, and by a factor of 10, aside from maybe “Mean.”
The problem here is not that people know or don’t know what country is. The problem is people commenting on this have absolutely no idea what pop music is in 2026. It’s not Kenny Rogers. It’s not even Taylor Swift circa 2011. It’s Doja Cat. It is 100% programmed electronic amalgam of pop/hip-hop/EDM. “Choosin’ Texas” is in such and incredibly distant universe from modern pop, it’s laughable to even try to describe it in those terms. And that’s also why it’s been so incredibly successful. Because it’s something different. Finally.
September 3, 2026 @ 6:27 am
“The problem is people commenting on this have absolutely no idea what pop music is in 2026.”
Yes. There are no longer any elements of rock, blues, or country in modern “pop” music. Its just a digital pile of shit cobbled together from rap, hip hop, dance, etc. It really has no elements of “music” at all. Its just digital noise. Pop music used to be Steve Winwood, Eric Carmen, Kenny Loggins, etc. coming from the rock/blues world, or Dolly, Kenny Rogers, etc. coming from the country world. The thing most of it had in common was there was actual songwriting, singing, and musicianship.
September 10, 2026 @ 12:01 pm
There’s no way Choosin’ Texas is the biggest single in history. I don’t know what the biggest single is, but I’ll start with Hotel California.
September 3, 2026 @ 3:21 am
Well, I’m “aged”, and I know it’s a traditional country song.
September 3, 2026 @ 6:52 am
The problem is you have spent the last several years questioning the legitimacy of the charts. Now, suddenly, because it serves your purpose, you tell us a system that you, Bobby Bones and others have called into question is now to be celebrated.
September 3, 2026 @ 10:43 am
Amen to that.
September 4, 2026 @ 7:59 am
James Randall,
I have never questioned the legitimacy of the Billboard Hot 100. Similar to RIAA numbers, I actually think they’re one of the few institutions that you can mostly trust to be an accurate benchmark for public appeal.
Since you’re bringing up Bobby Bones, I can tell what you’re conflating this with is country radio #1s. This is absolutely a fixed system, as both Bobby Bones and I have been saying for years. This is a completely separate issue from the Hot 100 that factors in consumption across all mediums.
September 3, 2026 @ 9:30 am
I think it’s an Urban Cowboy song. It would fit in the movie soundtrack just fine. Not that there is anything wrong with that.
September 3, 2026 @ 10:32 am
I agree with this completely. The first time i heard it, I thought it was a cutout from the “Urban Cowboy” soundtrack. And I agree with you…I’m totally fine with that.
September 4, 2026 @ 3:42 pm
Bud: I’m hard-headed – and I’m prideful – and I wanna apologize clear back to when I hit you the first time. I love you, Sissy.
Sissy: I love you too, Bud.
September 2, 2026 @ 1:29 pm
I see Ella Langley as a big step toward the mainstream becoming more country. For purists, Florida Georgia Line were pretty much irredeemable lyrically and predictable sonically. They gave way to Morgan Wallen. The first disk of Dangerous (one of the most played albums of the decade across genres) showed a lyrical depth that was not even close to being present in any FGL single, despite having the same sound/producer. It’s a little early to put Langley ahead of Wallen, but she came into this moment where sharper writing was hot again and added a different, more country production. This is not to say she isn’t incorporating pop sounds and checklist songs. “Be Her” is quite literally both.
Overall, though, I hear an artist with more of an inclination towards the genre’s roots. Wallen often lists Eric Church as his biggest (if not only) country influence. Langley decided to put a Kitty Wells cover on an album produced by Miranda Lambert. It’s not a full return to neo-traditionalism, but it is certainly closer.
September 2, 2026 @ 3:22 pm
Does “Choosin’ Texas” have some “pop sensibility”? Sure it does. That’s one of the reasons it’s done so well. But it’s not a pop song. Pop songs these days are programmed. This is a live band track with steel guitar about two-step dancing and getting your heart broke. That’s a country song.
September 2, 2026 @ 4:40 pm
This is traditional country music in 2026. Like it or not, this is a fact.
September 2, 2026 @ 4:43 pm
To me, Choosing Texas falls into a similar vein as Kenny Rogers. It’s nice catchy music, and easy listening, but it’s a far cry from Waylon and the boys.
September 2, 2026 @ 10:52 pm
And when Waylon was popular their were lots of people who considered him too rock
September 2, 2026 @ 11:40 pm
Waylon covered songs by the Beatles, the Stones and Dire Straits.
September 4, 2026 @ 12:20 pm
I love Waylon’s version of “You’ve Got to Hide Your Love Away”.
September 3, 2026 @ 12:42 am
Waylon was a rock’n’roller first and foremost, you can even call him a blues man or a progressive folk singer (his early solo years), but he’s not even close to traditional country.
Compare Waylon in the 60’s and early 70’s with Mel Tillis in the 60’s and early 70’s. It’s not even close.
Great artists, both of them, but where Tillis stood firmly in the Texas shuffle/western swing-tilted honky tonk beat, Waylon embraced the hard rock bass and blues structure in his trademark beat.
September 3, 2026 @ 11:01 am
I saw an interview where someone was talking about what a good ole boy Waylon was and Waylon said something to the effect that he wasn’t half as cornbread as Buddy Holly and that Holly was a legit good ole boy or redneck. Losing Holly is a shame for a lot of reasons, but I imagine he would have made some great country music at some point. Ditto Ronnie Van Zant.
September 4, 2026 @ 4:28 pm
In John Goldrosen’s biography of Buddy Holly, he says Waylon was asked if Buddy would have returned to country music. Waylon replied, “No… actually, I think country music would have caught up with him.”
September 3, 2026 @ 6:39 am
Saying “Choosin’ Texas” fits in the same vein as Kenny Rogers proves it’s traditional country. Kenny Rogers was popular 50 years ago. She’s evoking sounds and traditional from two generations previous.
It was Waylon’s drummer who famously said, “There’s another way to do this, and it’s called rock and roll.” Then they set out to do it. Outlaw Country is an amalgam of country and rock.
September 3, 2026 @ 6:45 am
My wife and kids listen to country radio garbage that I do my best to ignore when we’re in the car. The first time Choosin’ Texas came on the radio, I made them all shut up and I cranked it up. I was amazed because there was an actual country song coming out of the speakers. Its country AF. I really hear a traditional country song. I don’t know how anyone could argue otherwise.
September 3, 2026 @ 10:35 am
Trigger, wen you say Kenny was popular 50 years ago, are you saying when he first did country? 50 years ago was 1976, the year “Lucille” was released. He was popular far more recently than 50 years.
Again, I am not criticizing, I am just asking an honest question to understand.
September 3, 2026 @ 10:55 am
Kenny’s last #1 was “Make No Mistake, She’s Mine” in 1987, so almost 40 years ago. This is classic country music. That’s what it is. “Urban Cowboy” is listed on the SCM DDS under the classic country designation.
Look, if people don’t like “Choosin’ Texas,” I totally understand. That’s a matter of taste, and can’t be argued.
But the idea we’re even discussing of it’s a “pop” song in 2026 frankly shows the aggressive ignorance and uninformed nature of some listeners. They just have no clue what pop music is these days. Their perspective is frozen in time. I don’t mean to come across aggressive about this, but this point really is unarguable.
September 3, 2026 @ 12:30 pm
For some reason, I can’t reply to your reply to my original comment, Trigger.
I wasn’t arguing with you, by the way. I think “Choosin’ Texas” is a country song.
I was only asking about what you said about Kenny Rogers.
Kenny’s last number 1 was in 2000 with “Buy Me A Rose.”
His last top 20 was in 2006 with “I Can’t Unlove You.”
He was popular past the hits. I was just saying he was popular more recently than 50 years ago.
Sorry, I wasn’t trying to make you mad, Trigger. Just was curious about the Kenny part.
September 3, 2026 @ 12:32 pm
No worries Tommy, I didn’t take it as an argument.
FYI, the comments nest up to 5 times, and then stop. This is to avoid horizontal scrolling of the website.
September 3, 2026 @ 12:36 pm
Ah, that makes sense Trigger. Thanks for the info!
By the way, I enjoyed the article you wrote when we lost Kenny. I didn’t comment because I just couldn’t at that time. Thanks for all you do.
This is the only website I still visit regularly (even though most people disagree with my tastes here, LOL!). I really love your writing and your thoughts.
September 10, 2026 @ 11:53 am
Kenny’s last #1 was Buy Me a Rose
September 3, 2026 @ 10:30 am
I really dislike when people start with the stuff on Kenny Rogers. Kenny did all kinds of music. He never said he was traditional country. And to draw the Waylon comparison bothers me too. He wasn’t “outlaw” country, and never claimed to be. But if you listen to Kenny’s albums, his music was all over the map throughout his entire career, including when he was with The First Edition.
Kenny could do three different genres on the same album, sing completely differently on the songs, and make it all work.
So let’s not criticize because he wasn’t an “outlaw” like Waylon.
Kenny was his own form of outlaw, because he refused to follow any rules. He could do straight country (and other) with Larry Butler, then work with David Foster and make perfect AC, and so on.
Leave my boy alone. I have loved Kenny since I was little, and it pains me. I’m not attacking you, Raoul. I just wish Kenny got more respect for the artist he was (again, not directing this at you).
September 3, 2026 @ 10:37 am
Kenny was one hell of a singer. Genres didn’t matter to him.
Sadly, he recorded way too much crap, especially during the 80’s at the height of his fame, so that’s what the general public knows.
He was one of the finest popular singers USA fostered, but almost nobody knows it.
September 3, 2026 @ 12:25 pm
Wow. I can’t even answer this civilly.
September 3, 2026 @ 10:50 am
Kenny Rogers was great, and I agree, he was proficient in a lot of genres. I started listening to country at three years old because my neighbors had 45s of Kenny Rogers, Alabama, and The Oakridge Boys. They didn’t listen to “hard” country, or really traditional country, but that mainstream country was pretty good at the time. Certainly in comparison to today.
September 3, 2026 @ 12:32 pm
Kenny Rogers will always be my favorite, but Alabama is right up there for me. Love the Oaks, too, of course. I don’t fit in on this site because I love Kenny, Alabama, Ronnie Milsap, Sylvia, Crystal Gayle…70s and 80s pop country. Which almost everybody here hates.
Thanks for your thoughts, RD.
September 4, 2026 @ 8:49 pm
I have no hate for that era of country. It certainly wasn’t “country” in the vein of Ray Price, or Ernest Tubb, Hank Sr., Lefty, or Roy Acuff. But, it was a gateway for me. My parents listened to British invasion and classic rock. At a young age I found the aforementioned artists. I have to say that I have just come to appreciate Alan Jackson, Toby Keith, etc. because I viewed them as “pop country” when I was younger. In high school, I viewed country as Coe, Hank, Jr. Waylon, Merle, etc. The newer stuff, at the time, sounded pop to me and i hated it.
September 3, 2026 @ 4:55 pm
Does anyone remember Kenny Rogers and the First Edition, and his commercials on TV with his Guitar Course, ‘Quick Pickin’ and Fun Strummin’? Good old times from the seventies!
September 8, 2026 @ 9:24 am
I absolutely remember! You can find the guitar course on YouTube thanks to Garth Shaw, his former road manager!
That was right before Kenny made it with “Lucille.”
September 3, 2026 @ 12:54 pm
On Ella Langley, not that we can’t have criticisms, but at what point are we getting what we want but protesting the package more than the product? The songs are several steps up from most of her peers both lyrically and sonically. They are especially more country than most of her peers’ music. Do we want country sounding country on country radio or not? With artists like Ella Langley, we need to recognize that in their causes, our issues are more about the arena than the artist.
September 4, 2026 @ 8:32 pm
It’s a country song. Just kind of an average one. It’s weird that this song has risen above all others. It’s not even close to Ella’s best song. That’s my two cents.
September 2, 2026 @ 11:51 am
Per her Wikipedia page:
“As a teenager in 2012, Doja Cat gained her stage name from one of her cats as well as her favorite strain of marijuana”
Sounds about right.
September 2, 2026 @ 12:04 pm
I’m not going to blame Doja Cat for not liking a song. It’s her opinion and I’m fine with that.
September 2, 2026 @ 12:07 pm
Whatever. At least Ella Langley didn’t begin her career as a product of a predator. Doja Cat would not have a career if not for Dr. Luke.
September 2, 2026 @ 12:18 pm
Weird to assume you know everything about Langley’s producers and management. Also weird to blame Dojo Cat for something Dr. Luke did. I think Me Too may have ran it’s course if we are at the point we’re degrading female co-workers of the men who transgressed.
September 2, 2026 @ 12:14 pm
Im sorry Trigger, that quote from Doja Cat is not worth making a blog post on. “I dont like that song because Country Music is not my vibe, its a catchy song and shes pretty tho” should not warrant outrage or click bait. If we are gonna have a harsh reaction (or any reaction) to that, then we dont have a snowballs chance in Hell in getting beyond ai slop intended to get different people calling each other n*zis over completely irrelevant but rage baited crap.
September 2, 2026 @ 12:22 pm
Most of the comments so far are people denigrating Dojo Cat. It’s so strange to get riled up about what she said. I said it in an earlier comment, but this readership absolutely loves Langley. I think we’ve been served shit over the radio for so long the first time a hot chick rhymes” texas” with “exes” they get hard.
September 2, 2026 @ 1:09 pm
Guess when George Strait (pun somewhere in there) did it it wasn’t enough eh?
Also I really like Ella Langleys stuff too, and most of my friends who don’t care about country have heard Choosin Texas and generally like it. In not sure why it matters if not everyone cares… the “I don’t know her” reference is a stretch imo.
September 2, 2026 @ 2:35 pm
I enjoy the irony of people lashing out at saying she’s never heard of Langley by saying they’ve never heard of Dojo Cat.
I am listening to Dojo Cat now. Not for me.
September 2, 2026 @ 1:03 pm
Yeah, this is not an “outrage” article or a rant. What I said was,
“The dismissive attitude from Doja Cat is not surprising, even if her candidness is pretty uncommon in popular music. This is how many people feel about country music.”
The point of this article was to dovetail Doja Cat’s comments with Mariah Carey’s, and then point out that it’s Mariah’s record that Ella Langley is currently chasing. In no way am I trying to stir outrage. I was pointing out the irony. That’s what was said in the title.
September 2, 2026 @ 5:39 pm
You called them ‘cutting comments’ in the headline. You set the tone for an outrage article or rant right there, no matter how innocent the rest of the article was. And really, it’s not even a dismissive comment to say that she hasn’t heard of someone in a genre she doesn’t listen to. I bet most country fans aren’t that familiar with black metal bands or avant garde string quartets, but that’s totally ok and it doesn’t mean anything other than that’s not what they listen to.
September 2, 2026 @ 6:55 pm
Doja Cat’s comments were pretty “cutting.” Are you disputing that?
I “set the tone” for an outrage article or a rant? I don’t even know what that means. I can only answer for the article I wrote, not the one that some people assumed I was going to write about this topic, but ultimately didn’t, yet somehow must answer for because someone assumed this is what this article hypothetically could have been.
September 2, 2026 @ 12:19 pm
Doja Cat? A new name to me. Has she had a number 1. Not classy comments but she does not sound like someone with much class. Its her opinion and she is entitled to it. For Langley’s song to be number 1 for so long is staggering. Even more staggering is that it is a rather good country song. I am not really sure anyone will care about Doja’s opinion.
September 2, 2026 @ 12:24 pm
She was specifically asked her opinion. It seems like someone cared.
September 2, 2026 @ 2:03 pm
“She was specifically asked her opinion.”
Yep, and she acted like a complete twat. But, she’s hip-hop trash, so…😹
September 2, 2026 @ 12:30 pm
Yes Doja cat has had 2 number one singles, in 2020 with Nikki Minaj and in 2023 as a solo artist. The more you know
September 2, 2026 @ 12:39 pm
A mud-wrestling contest should settle this.
September 2, 2026 @ 12:52 pm
“Whenever you post something about a polarizing artist online, one common refrain on social media is ‘never heard of her'”
In the age of Echo and Narcissus, that could well be true.
September 2, 2026 @ 1:47 pm
I know it’s a little pragmatic to ask, but we know what demographic it is that finds “Choosin’ Texas” so appealing? Don’t get me wrong, I’m not trashing the song; it’s just hard to believe that George Stright never had an all-genre #1 hit in the same universe that this is the top song in music for 20 + weeks.
Back to the question though, I do wonder to what extent the fragmentation and personalization of music consumption has buoyed to its current record holding status. Maybe it’s just me, but I don’t think culture currently has the capacity to curate a song like “Happy” (not the Rolling Stones song) as a “cultural phenomenon”. In other words, the same factors that are making Alex Warren (who I only mention because his discography only consists of inoffensive, arguably “meh” vibe-oriented music in the same spiritual vein as Choosin’ Texas) a commercial and chart success likely play in role in the success that Langley’s singles has seen.
September 2, 2026 @ 2:01 pm
careful
September 2, 2026 @ 5:17 pm
The parameters that Billboard has put in place to make this “all genre #1 “ possible for Ella and Nashville music did not exist when George Strait was making records.
Do your homework about the methodology Billboard changed up with its charts in the 2010s then come back and talk.
Eh, nevermind. You intended to spell “Strait” as “Straight.” That tells me research is non-existent with you.
September 2, 2026 @ 6:50 pm
The changes that the Billboard charts made have mostly affected the genre specific charts by allowing pop radio spins to be counted on country charts, for example. The Hot 100 has changed its tabulations, but it’s mostly to take into account streaming. George Strait was never a crossover star, nor did he try to be.
September 2, 2026 @ 8:06 pm
Fair enough. I needed to proofread that comment about three times more than I did, so my bad on that end.
Believe it or not, I do know some things though. Specifically, I mentioned Alex Warren because his song “Ordinary” was the biggest hit song in 2025, despite only really appealing to the “soccer moms” of the world (as other people have put it). It was also much more of an algorithmic success than a “good” pop song (or song in general). Not to pass judgment on Pop music per say, but there are songs such as Michael Jackson’s “Bad” where it’s hard to deny their quality, and that was not the case with “Ordinary” at all.
Now, I’m not naïve enough to think that the Billboard charts are a form of meritocracy, but the round point I’m trying to make is if cruddy song like that can break Billboard record these days, it’s either a result of the methodology changes you mentioned, or anybody capable of critical thought being too immersed in their individual musical tastes. Obviously, I’m being a little hyperbolic, but there almost has to be something to this trend.
If nothing else, I think it’s fair to point out how unprecedented the success that “Choosin’ Texas” is, especially since many songs that sound a lot like haven’t even scraped the top 40. Sure, “Choosin’ Texas” is a good song, but to see it have this much success is so unbelievable that it is worth discussing the mechanisms by which this has happened.
September 2, 2026 @ 9:58 pm
I definitely think it’s worth discussing the mechanisms of how “Choosin’ Texas” became arguably the most popular song in modern American history. I don’t think chart mechanics have much to do with it, except how they interface with music consumption habits, which they’re set up to measure.
In my opinion, the top-line factor is that people are tired of bullshit, and digitally-created music. In the most fake moment in history, it’s something that’s real, made by real humans, speaking to a very real sentiment most everyone can relate to, which is a feeling of inferiority when you’ve been passed over.
September 4, 2026 @ 8:36 pm
The weird thing is that if I asked 50 of my friends and acquantainces if they know it, I’ll be I get 45 no’s. Whereas most would know the more popular Dolly songs and even more would know Kacey Musgraves songs.
September 4, 2026 @ 8:50 pm
As I’ve address in some other comments, there is an age gap happening here that people aren’t recognizing. Listeners from 14 to 32 who define what is “popular” at any given time absolutely know this song and see it as ubiquitous. There’s a lot of good reserch emerging about all of this that I plan to address in a future article.
September 2, 2026 @ 8:47 pm
Langley is a pop star with a pop hit, Strait was a country star with country hits back then.
It’s the same universe, but not the same genre.
September 2, 2026 @ 8:49 pm
“Choosin’ Texas” is a traditional country song.
September 3, 2026 @ 1:43 am
Oh, my mistake, so let me correct it; it’s not the same universe neither.
September 3, 2026 @ 5:01 pm
Can we all agree that it’s just a great song and people of all types like it because it’s catchy and is enjoyable. Who cares what genre it is, listen to her other songs and many of them would be the envy of most artists. And she seems like a good kid. I’m rooting for her!
September 2, 2026 @ 9:33 pm
As someone who just discovered Ella last year, I think she is one of several young female artists who appeal to today’s female listeners the way Loretta, Tammy and Dolly did a few decades ago. I’m older than dirt and always ready for a good drinking and cheating song but suspect that today’s young women are getting bored with hearing about pickup trucks and dirt roads.
September 4, 2026 @ 12:28 pm
There’s really no denying how beautiful and sexy Ella is. That definitely has helped the popularity of the song and her. But it doesn’t mean that it’s still not a great song and that she’s not a great singer. I’m sure a lot of women want to “Be Her” and even more men want to “Be with Her”. I’m sure that has helped the song break records.
September 2, 2026 @ 2:04 pm
Doja Cat. Never heard of the guy. 😉 And what a dumb stage name.
September 2, 2026 @ 2:32 pm
She really hurt you huh? Hopefully Ella fucks you soon.
September 2, 2026 @ 2:06 pm
Gals,gals…..Or should it be,”Meow,meow?”
September 2, 2026 @ 2:40 pm
reasons to disregard Dojo Cat on anything
A. She was a hooah
https://youtu.be/3rJmoNlBjEE?si=syL0IeSmpHkqfNFW
September 3, 2026 @ 10:13 am
Hey,Coach Cooter,Cardi B. actually WAS a hooah before she was a rapper.Look it up,pardner !
September 2, 2026 @ 4:58 pm
I dont know, not sure there was enough reason to make an article on it. I guess ella nerded a little more press to carry on the song for a few more weeks.
September 2, 2026 @ 9:06 pm
Google “Doja Cat Sydney Sweeney ad” for more current events nonsense. Short version: she mocked the American Eagle “genes-jeans” ad with a ridiculous southern, backwoods-sounding accent. I guess the implication was that if you thought the American Eagle ad was clever or that Ms. Sweeney had, uh, good genes, then you were some kind of racist hick.
It was a bizarre thing for DC to do, but it’s evidence of her antipathy towards anything that could be coded country/Southern/conservative/traditional, whatever.
I remember checking this out and thinking, my God, she’s condescending, the very epitome of what conservatives think progressives think of them.
September 2, 2026 @ 9:24 pm
I discovered Ella about a year ago with “The Girl You’re Taking Home” but she had me at first listen with “Choosing Texas.” I grew up on country music and hate pop country as much as most of us do. I think Doja’s comment was tacky, tasteless and sounds jealous. It will get her media attention but probably not the kind she wants.
September 2, 2026 @ 11:07 pm
When someone is dishonest I tend to dismiss everything they say. She’s a pop star. She’s well aware of the song that has been number one of the pop charts almost all year.
Next!
September 3, 2026 @ 7:10 am
Imagine calling yourself Doja Cat, hearing a totally normal name and saying ‘I don’t know what that is.’
September 3, 2026 @ 10:45 am
It’s not an earworm. It’s a good country song. Start to finish. I don’t listen to many contemporary mainstream country hit songs for pleasure (Chris Stapleton being a major exception), but I do listen to this every once in a while and I dig it. And when she says “come on baby” at the end, it makes me smile. I think it’s a very positive thing for country music that this song is setting records. Sure beats the hell out of the bros.
My first thought when I heard this song for the first time was the voice reminded me of Lucinda Williams in the early ’90s. The Sweet Old World album. Thinking in particular about songs like Six Blocks Away and Prove My Love. And I wonder what Jamie Lin Wilson thinks of this song. I bet she might like it. I can see her doing a nice job on it, too.
September 3, 2026 @ 11:18 am
Good to hear from you Jack! Totally agree. We have a few on SCM that can’t stand the song. To each their own. I dont find it excessively pop either. Just a good tune with a great guitar riff and relatable lyrics to many. Doja who?
September 3, 2026 @ 10:54 am
Kind of disappointed with this Trigger. They weren’t cutting comments at all. Most Americans do not like – or respect – country music, the industry or its audience. There is absolutely no expectation for a 30 year old from Los Angeles with a Jewish mother and South African father who has been completely immersed in hip-hop and rap culture all of her life to like or respect country music. Zero. Nada. Zip. Zilch. None. Also, as you have commented on yourself, there is no longer a monoculture where everyone watches the same studio Hollywood movies, listens to the same FM pop radio stations, reads the same magazines and newspapers and watches the same network TV shows. Everything is a subculture now and things that can be HUGE in one subculture are completely absent in another. Taylor Swift is the biggest entertainer in the country of the last 10 years. How many guys listen to her? Beyonce was the biggest of the last 10 years: virtually no male fans. And that is pop music. How many people had never heard of Bad Bunny or Kendrick Lamar before the Super Bowl? Exactly. People knew who Guns N Roses, Michael and Janet Jackson, Whitney Houston, George Michael, Phil Collins, U2, Prince, Madonna etc. were because – even if you didn’t listen to them by choice – you saw them and heard their songs in other mainstream media. These days, very few people listen to the radio or watch network television. Everyone streams, and streaming only sends you songs that are “like” the other songs that you listen to. And this isn’t a new thing. LOTS of people have expressed befuddlement over the past few – not even few – years at #1 songs and Grammy winning songs that are outside their listening preferences whose existence they have never heard of.
Also, Doja Cat did not dismiss or insult her at all. Instead, Doja Cat tried her level best to be respectful to an artist that she did not know and a song that she did not like. She said that Ella Langley was pretty, had a nice voice and the song had a good melody. She also said that the song was very catchy. The only fault that she found with the song: it was not in a genre that she liked. And that is OK! For her to pretend to like the song would have been patronizing and neither Ella Langley or country music need patronization from Doja Cat or anyone else.
It is very easy for me to imagine Doja Cat ripping the song to shreds, claiming that it is only a hit because of “white privilege” and then saying something like “I can imagine THOSE PEOPLE listening to this song in their pickup trucks while drinking whiskey on dates with their cousins while cruising around looking for black people to shoot with their shotguns.” Why can I imagine it? Because it is something that is commonly said by people who do not like country music. Which is a huge percentage of the population. It is PRETTY MUCH what every mainstream “music journalist” says without saying it. t is why the mainstream media and music industry have been trying to “change” country music, the industry and its fanbase to make it more “respectable” to them for years.
The comments weren’t cutting at all. Doja Cat was as respectful to an artist that she did not know and a song that she did not like as it was possible for her to be while still being honest … without lying through her teeth. And we should expect no more and no less.
September 3, 2026 @ 12:13 pm
Hey Rano,
Man, if you don’t see Doja Cat’s expletive-fueled comments as sarcastic and cutting, especially the lines about Langley being “pretty” and “on the radio” (undercutting her artistry), I guess we’re just going to have to agree to disagree. I think the vast, vast majority of people see them as cutting. And even if they don’t, can understand perhaps how someone else could. To take that one word make that be what this entire article is about (it’s not) is pretty wild. It’s about as wild as trying to convince me that “Choosin’ Texas” is a “pop song” and not country at all.
September 3, 2026 @ 12:16 pm
Also, not sure why people are surprised that someone who advocates for country music would find Doja Cat’s comments “cutting” to the genre. If most any country artists had been as dismissive of hip-hop as Doja Cat was of country, cackles would have been raised for sure.
But again, this wasn’t a rant or some takedown of Doja Cat. It was contextualizing her comments with Mariah Carey’s ahead of Ella Langley nearing breaking Mariah’s record.
September 3, 2026 @ 2:48 pm
Hi @Trigger:
“Also, not sure why people are surprised that someone who advocates for country music would find Doja Cat’s comments “cutting” to the genre.”
European, Latin American and Asian elite pro soccer players know absolutely nothing about college football. As regrettable as this is, the good folks at Alabama, Tennessee and Notre Dame should not pay it any mind.
“If most any country artists had been as dismissive of hip-hop as Doja Cat was of country, cackles would have been raised for sure.”
Yes, by people who jump on any opportunity to depict country music as a hive of bigotry. I am more thrilled that Doja Cat declined the opportunity to give these people – the type who awarded 3 country music Grammys to Jelly Roll and claim to this day that the country music industry was responsible for Billboard’s reclassifying Old Town Road, as Slate.com did just a few days ago in an article on this song – exactly what they wanted by being respectful of Langley, the song and its fans instead of saying something that would have ignited a back and forth.
Said “cackle raisers” would have been gleeful had Doja Cat denounced everything having to do with song and thrown in a Morgan Wallen jab for good measure. They would have rushed to Doja Cat’s defense had anyone tangentially involved in country music said peep in response. (And someone, including the “professional fake country music conservatives” that you rightfully deride, would have). Instead, this hip-hopper who hates country music did better by it than actual country music artist Maren Morris – who is in the news yet again today with still more crocodile tears over how awful the hateful country music bigots are – has been in years.
Tons of people actually do believe that country music – the performers, the labels, the promoters, country radio and its fans – are racists. The sort who would do violent harm to black people if they could get away with it. Definitely the sort of people who inflict police brutality, employment discrimination etc. on black people. The sort of people who – according to them – are so intent on harming black people that they hurt themselves by supporting conservative politics. Doja Cat’s showing Langley and her song real magnanimity indicates that she is not among those people.
Add it all up and this was a “W” for country, not an “L.” In college football – contra pro soccer – wins do usually entail surrendering points. Louisiana Tech will put a few points on the board in a game that mighty LSU still wins. Doja Cat never having heard Choosing Texas because the modern media landscape hasn’t given her an opportunity to is giving up a few points, but not many. Doja Cat and Langley not escalating this into a controversy that a lot of people want to see – yes, A TON of media types resent this song’s success and I have seen articles by them – but that absolutely no one needs except the cackle raisers is winning the game in blowout fashion. Apart from them, everybody’s happy. Including even Louisiana Tech, who gets a huge check for being LSU’s homecoming opponent that pays their bills.
September 4, 2026 @ 8:14 am
“European, Latin American and Asian elite pro soccer players know absolutely nothing about college football.”
This is a completely wrong analogy.
A proper analogy would be, “Of course the top players in AMerican footbal know who the top players in American basketball are.” Or mean more apt since we’re talking about the longest-running #1 in the Billboard Hot 100 saying, “Of course, baseball players and football players know who Michael Jordan is, just like Basketball players and baseball players know who Tom Brady is.”
Doja Cat was purposely being dismissive, which is fine. That’s her right. I didn’t even argue about it. I simply draw a parallel between that and Mariah Carey, and tied it to the record Ella Langley is about to break.
I honestly have no clue what many of the comments in this comments section even mean. They’re arguing against some thing that was never presented.
September 4, 2026 @ 2:15 am
Who cares about records being broken? McDonald’s probably has the record for most burgers sold. So what? I still would never want one. Plus no one buys music anymore so you cannot compare sales or chart numbers to years ago when you had to actually go out and buy something. This whole piece seems petty and small. Similar to that stupid Charlie Crockett nonsense. Stick to what you are really good at, music.
September 4, 2026 @ 8:08 am
” This whole piece seems petty and small. Similar to that stupid Charlie Crockett nonsense.”
I have no idea what the fuck this means. This is the reaction to an article people assume Saving Country Music wrote about this topic instead of the one that was actually published. I very well could have written and article attacking Doja Cat for her comments. Instead, I took a completely different angle. Would love to hear your thoughts on that.
“Who cares about records being broken? McDonald’s probably has the record for most burgers sold.”
But this is the whole thing: “Choosin’ Texas” is not a McDonald’s hamburger. It might not be a steak from a Michelin-star steakhouse. Maybe it’s just a Five Guys burger. But it’s far superior and wholly unique to the kind of fast food experience that most popular #1 songs in American music are. It still might not appeal to you and that’s cool. But the dismissive, hand waving away that some are doing at this moment really speaks to both a smug attitude, and a gross misunderstanding of the gravity of what’s happening here, and the downstream effects it could have on the music we all enjoy.
Honestly, I feel bad for those serious music fans who think “Choosin’ Texas” is just a “op song,” and this moment is a big nothing burger. It’s a once in a century moment for traditional country music.
September 4, 2026 @ 10:36 am
“But it’s far superior and wholly unique to the kind of fast food experience that most popular #1 songs in American music are.” That’s your opinion. I see little difference. My point was why get involved in petty stuff like a hip hop star dismissing a country hit? It’s as silly as Charlie’s back and forth with Jack White over basically nothing.
September 3, 2026 @ 11:31 am
No serious country allows a star named Doja Cat to exist.
September 3, 2026 @ 2:18 pm
i agree that this country is not serious anymore, but it’s not because of someone’s stage name. remember when the white house didn’t post chicken nugget memes?
September 3, 2026 @ 6:18 pm
I assume that in your world, a “serious country” would take action to keep a star named Doja Cat from existing. What would that be? Legal action such as fines, imprisonment or execution? Or do you mean that other citizens would commit extra-judicial acts such as threats of and/or acts of violence which would so frighten anyone named Doja Cat, thay they would change their name to something culturally acceptable? Or are you saying that if a country was “serious”, so few residents would find a “star” named Doja Cat appealing, regardless of how talented they might believe that Doja Cat is? Or that in a “serious country”, someone named Doja Cat wouldn’t be seen as talented, regardless of their talent? Please answer. Thank you.
September 5, 2026 @ 2:22 pm
I know I’m beating the proverbial dead horse, but in addition to what I asked above, how is Doja Cat any different or less serious than Bo Diddley and a multitude of other stage names/performer monikers throughout history?
September 3, 2026 @ 3:25 pm
Listen im a huge fan of all genres of music and listen to alot of traditional and outlaw country and I dont care for the song even though its catchy its not what I consider country music hell id rather hear billy strings sings death metal lol! I know they wanna make country more mainstream but im in the camp of bringing back honky tonk country including more people like Zach top and jake worthington!
September 4, 2026 @ 2:10 am
If I had to choose I’d rather listen to Doja Cat although I’m not a fan of either woman. I watched some live video of Ella and she did nothing for me although she is obviously good looking. She seems very packaged to me, not my type of country at all. I doubt I’ve even heard that “Choosing Texas” song as I never listen to radio or hang out in bars that play popular music. The part I laugh at is how people care so much these days when someone says something stupid. I mean, who cares what Doja Cat says? She sounds a bit trashy if you ask me. I can relate though as I can’t stand that type of country music either.
September 4, 2026 @ 6:33 am
Stray thoughts:
1. Doja Cat has a really interesting and unusual backstory. She was raised for a time on an ashram in California that was founded by Alice Turiyasangitananda (aka Alice Coltrane), one of (if not the) most influential spiritual jazz artists of all time and a full fledged guru and mystic in the Hindu tradition.
2. I have no issue with “Choosin Texas”, it seems perfectly pleasant though hardly groundbreaking. But it must have some kind of special sauce. I first heard it on a BBC stream while I was waiting to hear the premiere of Paul McCartney’s new single and it immediately caught my attention. Since then, I’ve heard it only a few other times over the speakers in stores.
The weird thing is that for a song that’s about to break the record as the most successful chart single of all time, that I’ve only encountered it those 2-3 times by accident seems a little strange. In the 80s, you couldn’t throw a rock without hitting someone who was listening to Michael Jackson or Madonna (either as a fan or because they just happened to have the radio on). When “Smells Like Teen Spirit” came out it was EVERYWHERE, stations were breaking genre formats just to play it because the demand was overwhelming. That single song changed the trajectory of rock and made an entire generation of bands obsolete within a month (and it only hit #6 on the charts). My wife has no idea what “Choosin Texas” even is.
I guess what I’m getting at is: what does it even mean in 2026 to have the biggest single of all time? Is this just because radio playlists have gotten so sclerotic that they won’t nudge it out of rotation? Who even listens to the radio? Streaming is part of the charts as well these days, is this the final stage of what happens when algorithms flatten popular music to pure background noise?I don’t have the answer to all these questions, but there’s something here that speaks to the strange cultural moment we find ourselves in during the collapse of an empire.
3. The Fleetwood Mac “Dreams” of it all. “Choosin Texas” borrows heavily from the rhythm of “Dreams” – which a lot of songs have in the last few years have also referenced (Miley’s “Secrets” being but one prominent example). Rumours is maybe more influential on Gen Z than it was back in the 70s. The album/song is coming up on its 50th anniversary. 50 years before Rumours was 1927 – the year Jimmie Rodgers went to Bristol and recorded for Ralph Peer. Country music sounded nothing like Rodgers by 1977, to say nothing of rock, disco, funk, etc. What sounds of 1927 were even being listened to by young people in the 70s, let alone being copied wholesale on pop hits? Again, what does it say about pop culture that the past still holds such a sway over our collective listening habits?
September 4, 2026 @ 10:05 am
What I think a lot of people that are chiming in on this issue are failing to recognize is age and perspective. Popular music is always defined by people within their late teens to their early 30s at the max. To that cohort, they absolutely know about “Choosin’ Texas.” It’s ubiquitous, and has been that way for the better part of a year.
When you say, “Back in the ’80s, you’re showing your age. ” And I say that as someone in my 40s myself. The people in that popular music cohort weren’t even born in the ’80s. You think 40 and 50s-methings in the ’80s were down with Michael Jackson? Of course not. It was the era of Reagan in the United States. Michael Jackson was gay because he had earrings. The whole reason Paul McCartney appeared on Jackson’s “Thriller” was to try and lend some credibility to him to older audiences.
Yes, popular culture is bifurcated like never before. But it’s not like we’re talking about a song being #1 in all of music for four weeks. We’re talking about it breaking all-time historic records, and withing that bifurcated culture, which actually makes it even more remarkable. People are not taking this moment seriously enough.
September 4, 2026 @ 10:30 am
Breaking all-time historic records since people stopped buying music and instead stream it. There is a huge difference. They keep score totally different than in the past. We are talking what, last 15, 20 years max?
September 4, 2026 @ 12:28 pm
The fact that we’re even talking about the different mediums people have consumed music on speaks to the historic nature of “Choosin’ Texas.” The Billboard charts did not start by measuring people buying music. It started with jukebox play counts, and was that way for 10-15 years. Then radio spins came into play. Neither of those account for sales. Then you had 45s, and later LPs in the late 60’s into the 70s, then 8-tracks and cassettes, CDs and downloads. Sure, it’s a interesting discussion about the different mediums, but I don’t think it means we can inherently discount this achievement just because streaming played a role. “Choosin’ Texas” has also enjoyed a lot of download and sales activity.
September 4, 2026 @ 11:00 am
I’m not here to start an argument, but the question at hand, “what does it even mean to have the biggest single of all time in 2026?”, is one that seemingly nobody is capable of answering. We’re probably all overlooking the key dynamic here, which is that all the younger folks are mostly interacting online. This, along with music streaming, directly subjects people to whatever the algorithms are pushing, which tends to lean towards MOR music. The other issue this creates is the “never heard of it” thing that keeps getting referenced. Online communities tend to be rather insular, so there just not as much person-to-person “cross-pollination” anymore, which in turn could be responsible for feeling that “Choosin’ Texas” isn’t actually that ubiquitous of a song when it actually is.
All that objective commentary aside, I am a little suspicious of the roll online algorithms have had in the success many songs post-covid. However alright they may have been, it’s crazy to think that “A Bar Song (Tipsy)” and “Last Night” have the second and fourth longest runs at #1 in history. Like I’ve said before, I’m not trying to take away from what “Choosin’ Texas” has done, but I wouldn’t be surprised if the algorithms and our reliance on them have helped to prolong the songs run at #1 beyond what it would have been not too long ago.
September 5, 2026 @ 6:44 am
I didn’t mean to imply that older people in the 80s were Michael Jackson FANS, but they certainly knew who he was and could probably name at least two of his songs. Also, not saying what she’s accomplished isn’t an achievement, or that it isn’t a good song. But it is interesting to me how chart success means something different today than it did when I was younger. Elvis, The Beatles, Saturday Night Fever, Madonna, Nirvana…these were huge cultural moments that had ripples across the culture. The most I can say here is that its proof that the music biz has been underestimating people’s desire to hear a song that sounds like a cross between early 80s country and Stevie Nicks.
September 4, 2026 @ 10:30 pm
Right for Trig to post about this, but the idea that steel guitar makes a song country and not pop?? First off country music being pop has existed since the very beginning (meaning when it first started being referred to as country music).
September 5, 2026 @ 2:10 pm
I think it’s a bit of a storm in a teacup if Doja Cat didn’t know who Ella Langley is. I honestly don’t really know who Doja Cat is and couldn’t name even one of her songs. Maybe her music is good, and maybe it isn’t, but I just don’t know it.
And if Doja Cat was ineloquent in how she articulated that she was unaware of Ella Langley, I don’t think anyone who’s listened to modern pop should be surprised if one of its practitioners is ineloquent.
September 8, 2026 @ 8:59 am
It’s hard to comprehend how crazy these records used to be in the 90s and 2000s. Mariah holding the longest #1 in 95 for one sweet day was physical sales, and we belong together in 05 was single sales. not taking anything away – but it’s definitely different consumption.
September 10, 2026 @ 11:43 am
Did families really bow their heads to pray? Did daddies really never go away?