When Doja Cat decides to go Eighties, she doesn’t mess around. On Vie , Doja devotes an entire album to the pop and R&B sounds of the Hair Decade, an album full of pastels and neon and mega-cheese sax solos. She’s always had a thing for Eighties synth-pop, as in hits like “Kiss Me More” and “Say So.” But this time she goes all the way. The album opens in “Cards” with a sample from the Knight Rider theme, and closes in “Come Back” with a sample from the soundtrack of the Brian DePalma/Melanie Griffith erotic thriller Body Double . You can’t accuse Doja of not doing her Eighties homework.

On her last album, 2023’s Scarlet , she went for hip-hop aggression, out to prove herself as a confrontational street-smart rapper. But on Vie , she’s all about Eighties synth-pop — a lot of P

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