Bonkers doesn’t do it justice. The opening night of Doja Cat’s debut UK tour was as much a booty-shaking sex show as it was a pop concert. It was also an oddball ode to hair.
Always controversial, the 28-year-old from LA, who broke through in 2018 with a novelty rap about cows (Mooo! ) and had her first hits in lockdown, announced last year that she wanted to be taken more seriously. Cue a fierce rap album, Scarlet, and a visual reinvention that included shaving her head and eyebrows.
At an undersold Hydro, however, it was Doja Cat’s stripper-style moves more than her music that initially got the crowd going. She arrived on stage wearing gigantic furry angel wings, a waist-length platinum blonde
