Kiss Me More

This is pop music at its most deliberately, luxuriously sensuous — a production that takes its time, never rushing toward its pleasures, content to let the groove breathe. The beat has a slow, vintage soul quality to it, built around a funk guitar line and programmed percussion that nods knowingly at 80s R&B while remaining completely contemporary. Doja Cat's vocal performance is the centerpiece: playful, knowing, slipping between sung and spoken with the ease of someone entirely comfortable with their own magnetism. SZA's contribution is the contrast that makes both voices shine — her tone is warmer and more emotionally direct, her delivery carrying a slight roughness that grounds the song's more airbrushed qualities. The lyric operates in the register of desire expressed with confidence rather than vulnerability — this is a song about wanting something and saying so clearly, which is a different emotional mode than most pop. There's humor in it too, which is part of Doja Cat's particular gift: she never takes desire entirely seriously, keeping a lightness that prevents the whole thing from becoming heavy. Culturally it became one of the defining pop moments of 2021, helping consolidate Doja Cat's position as one of the era's most distinctive vocal presences. You play it getting ready to go out, or on a warm evening when the windows are open and you want to feel exactly like yourself.