Been Like This

Album: Planet Her (2021)
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Songfacts®:

  • Here, Doja Cat outlines her shifting feelings for a partner. His behavior towards her has changed, and he's become manipulative and toxic. It seems their relationship has little future.
  • Yeti Beats, Aaron Bow and tizhimself created the bass-heavy trap beat. Bow told Billboard tizhimself had the original idea for Doja in January 2021. He sent it to Bow, who started adding elements, including the drums. After he returned the track to tizhimself, he and Yeti Beats completed the production.

    Bow added: "I just know that I wanted it to feel very cinematic, and that's something that I always try to do with the things that I produce; from Kid Cudi's 'Dive' to working on the Black Panther album."
  • That's Bryson Tiller's pitched-down vocals at the beginning of the song.
  • Doja Cat performed "Been Like This" while suspended in the air at the 2021 MTV Video Music Awards.

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