Hey, it's Russ. I'm just dropping a preview of this week's Pop Panty on All Access episode.

Dochi's mixtape Alligator Bites Never Heal turns one at the end of this month. So I decided to

sit down with one of the first music journalists to write a major long-form profile of Dochi,

Lakin Amani Starling. The two of us talked about the mixtape, its origins, its impact, and what

it signals about what's next for Dochi after her breakout year. If you like this and you want

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I was thinking a lot about genre and this album and the constraints of genre.

And I think what she has been able to do is take bits of stuff that she has done before.

And inside the packaging of the single, she is like

gone for the fucking throat, right? You look at a song like alter ego and that is like a dance

song. You look at crazy and that's a rap rock song. What it is like feels like 2000s crossover pop

R&B. She does all of these within the package of a song incredibly well as genre experiments

or maybe experiments is a wrong word, but as genre plays.

And then on this, she is able to sort of, I guess, dial it back a little bit.

You know, I look at a song like Beverly Hills and that is a pop rock song.

Nice. I'm talking. Get your shit. I look at a song like Beverly Hills, and that is a pop rock song. And that shows her listener, hey, in the future, expect me to do a rock song.

Expect me to do this or that, but it is dialed way back from a song like crazy,

which is in your face guitars.

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