Doja Cat: Planet Her review – pop-rap queen is in a world of her own

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With her unerring ability to kickstart TikTok crazes, Doja Cat's sci-fi concept album - with guest turns from Ariana Grande and SZA - shines as a paragon of 2021 pop

It's something of a surprise that Planet Her comes heralded as a concept album, based on a fictional planet self-originated by Doja Cat on which all species and races of space exist in harmony". Concept albums are traditionally signifiers of great portent and seriousness, the point at which even a band as avowedly populist as Coldplay start metaphorically furrowing their brows, thoughtfully sucking on their pens and writing about dystopian future worlds in which music has been banned, called - yes - Silencia.