Is this the same kind of astray as he has been accused of before?

This pot smoking feline singer has been hinting that things went astray with the producer of her biggest hit.

Is this the same kind of astray as he has been accused of before?

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Doja Cat

Dr. Luke

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Doja Cat’s entertaining rise, however, has enabled something uncomfortable: the rehabilitation of Dr. Luke’s career. In other words, it has enabled the music industry—which was notoriously slow to react to #MeToo—to quietly move past one of the most famous sexual-abuse accusations in its recent history.

The producer born Lukasz Gottwald signed Doja Cat to his record label and production company eight years ago, and he has co-created many of her most popular singles. Previously, he’d been famous for smashes such as Kelly Clarkson’s “Since U Been Gone” (2004), Miley Cyrus’s “Party in the U.S.A.” (2009), and Katy Perry’s “Teenage Dream” (2010), but that hot streak ended in 2014, when his onetime protégé, the singer Kesha, accused him of rape and abuse in a civil suit that sought to void her contract. Much of the music industry seemed to rally around Kesha while Luke professed his innocence and successfully defended against her suit on technical grounds. Today, the underlying issues raised by the allegations remain unresolved, yet he appears to have returned to power-player status by working with charismatic young performers such as Saweetie, The Kid Laroi, and, most significantly, Doja Cat.

Doja Cat’s beliefs about her producer, by contrast, are almost entirely unclear. She’d been a 17-year-old SoundCloud musician when Dr. Luke signed her in 2013, months before Kesha filed her suit. Whether Doja is still bound to the agreement she signed back then isn’t publicly known, but judging by precedent, she may well be: The deal Kesha signed with Luke in 2005 was enforceable as of 2017, and it stipulated that he produce six songs on every one of her albums. Fans speculate that Doja is obligated to record with Luke, but she has not commented to the media—including in response to my emailed inquiry sent to a publicist—about him, whether by choice or for contractual reasons.

In the end, Doja Cat has been at least as integral to Luke’s recent trajectory as he has been to hers. Her 2018 debut studio album, Amala, came out through Kemosabe Records but became a commercial success only after Doja herself engineered a viral moment with the joke track “Mooo!,” which features the memorable chorus “Bitch, I’m a cow.” The song is hilarious and catchy, and Doja said she created it on a lark in her bedroom. As tens of millions of views poured in for the music video, “Mooo!” drew her the sort of attention that would-be superstars dream of. Amala’s subsequent reissue featured the first-ever Luke-produced Doja song, “Juicy.” In 2020, her sophomore album’s breezy single “Say So” became the first Hot 100 No. 1 hit of her short career, and Dr. Luke’s first No. 1 since Kesha took him to court. – Source