Song Review: "Streets" by Doja Cat
- Chamberlain Bauder
- Feb 9, 2021
- 2 min read
Doja Cat released her album, Hot Pink, back in November of 2019 and since then, Doja Cat has been everywhere. She has bounced from interview to interview and as soon as one song is done being talked about, another one charts. Her song, “Say So”, sparked dance after dance on Tik Tok, but recently, her song “Streets”, originally from Hot Pink, has been used in another Tik Tok trend causing it soar to the top.
“Streets” is a lo-fi, R&B song with very muted and slow vocals. She has a heavy, low and slow beat with a bit of high hat and snare to add to the beat of the melody. Influences of electric guitar make the song sound as though it is flowing like running water. This electric and seductive song has a faded chorus that introduces the vocals. Doja Cat sings, “Like you, like you / Like you, ooh / I found it hard to find someone like you / Like you, like you / Send your location, come through”. She then continues by saying that she can’t sleep and believes that her and her person of interest belong together. The melody stays consistent as her other verses discuss the way that she let her lover slip through her fingers. She discusses their rarity and the way that she wasn’t ready for certain changes in the relationship at the time but misses them greatly.
This song is dark and sultry. Her smooth sound and flowing vocals create a haunting melody to accompany the heavy instruments. This song is perfect for those late night drives and people in R&B. Her added rap verses keep with her style but help to add diversity to the pop rap she is known for. This song is very, very good.
The reviewer's closing line — "This song is very, very good" — is exactly the kind of honest verdict that makes student music writing valuable. No inflated claims, no academic posturing, just a direct reaction from someone who listened carefully. The description of the electric guitar making the track "flow like running water" over a heavy low beat is precise enough to identify the production choices without needing a spectrogram. For readers interested in music: momentalno, pikua, yaktam, prosto24, tut-tak, huchnoua, zhyvyiua, tema-dnya, rozkladua, mediachyk, shoonovogo, novynokrai, poglyad24, chasnovyi, ukrainskastrichka, mistoikray, ukrainskyikurier, slovokrayu, informatorua, zhyvakrayina, dobaonline, vartistdnya, suspilnyipoglyad, hromadskyiakcent, kraiinfo, ukrainskyikanal, suttiaua, novynnyiportal, svizhapresa, krapkanovyn, golosinform, denukrainy, aktualnaua, novynnyifront, pravdapodii, chasopis24, ukrainskakhronika, informprostir, faktykrayiny, chasfaktiv, naochi, spravzhnie, pochesnomu, vseredyni, vidlunnya…
The TikTok-driven rediscovery of album tracks months after release is one of the most significant shifts in how music charts now. "Streets" was always on Hot Pink (November 2019) but it took a TikTok trend to push it to the top — long after the album cycle ended. The reviewer captures this trajectory clearly: "Say So" sparked dance trends, then "Streets" found its own moment through a completely different kind of usage. That pattern is now standard, not exceptional. The production analysis is the strongest part of this review. The "heavy, low and slow beat with high hat and snare" and "influences of electric guitar that make the song sound as though it is flowing like running water" — tha…
The reviewer's description of "Streets" as having influences of electric guitar that make the song "flow like running water" is one of the better ways I have seen someone describe Doja Cat's production style. The track is built on a heavy, low beat with high hat and snare accents, and the faded chorus introducing the vocals gives it that dark, sultry atmosphere the reviewer identifies. The comparison to late-night drives is apt — it is exactly the kind of song that fills a car at 1 a.m. when you are not ready to go home yet. What is interesting about "Streets" culturally is the trajectory the reviewer describes. The album Hot Pink came out in November 2019, but "Streets" onl…