--- title: Doja Cat Is on the 2023 TIME 100 List description: Find out why Doja Cat is one of the 100 most influential people of 2023. canonical: https://time.com/collections/100-most-influential-people-2023/6269994/doja-cat-2023/ article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2023-04-13T10:32:59.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-07-21T07:21:55.086Z og:title: Doja Cat: The 100 Most Influential People of 2023 og:description: Find out why Doja Cat is on this year’s list og:url: https://time.com/collections/100-most-influential-people-2023/6269994/doja-cat-2023/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt6b666bb6def7fe17/698a3bd3b21a9c0d0c507244/doja-cat-time100-2023.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Doja Cat: The 100 Most Influential People of 2023 og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Doja Cat: The 100 Most Influential People of 2023 twitter:description: Find out why Doja Cat is on this year’s list twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt6b666bb6def7fe17/698a3bd3b21a9c0d0c507244/doja-cat-time100-2023.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 --- Apr 13, 2023 # Doja Cat by Baz Luhrmann  Paola Kudacki for TIME I’ve worked with all kinds of artists, but with a certain few you connect on a deeper level. For me, [Doja Cat](https://time.com/6269491/doja-cat-interview-time100/) is one of those artists. She’s at the top because she works to bring everything she does to the highest possible level. When she started to work on “Vegas” for _Elvis,_ Elvis was relegated to a Halloween costume—he wasn’t influential to the younger generation. But Doja and her producer Yeti Beats understood the importance of translating “Hound Dog” for a new audience. For them, it was an act of translating the roots of Black music. **Read More:** [How Doja Cat Ripped Off Her Shell—And Why She’s Happier For It](https://time.com/6269491/doja-cat-interview-time100/) Doja is a true child of the internet, creatively plugged into the kind of social connection that I’m generationally incapable of understanding. She is personally connected with her fans, and that allows her to understand and feed back to them. She can’t be boxed in. She’s a rapper, a singer, a performance artist—she’s the canvas on which she expresses a character or an idea. There’s no “brand” to Doja Cat. You never know what she’s going to do next, and that’s exciting. _Luhrmann is an Oscar-nominated filmmaker_  Photograph by Paola Kudacki for TIME [Buy a print of the TIME100 Doja Cat cover here.](https://timecoverstore.com/featured/time100-doja-cat-photograph-by-paola-kudacki-for-time.html) Set Design by Kelly Infield; Styling by Brett Alan Nelson; Hair by JStayReady; Make-up by Ernesto Casillas and Doja Cat; Manicure by Saccia Trinice; Production by Dana Brockman and Frank DeCaro at Viewfinders ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Article","@id":"https://time.com/collections/100-most-influential-people-2023/6269994/doja-cat-2023/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/collections/100-most-influential-people-2023/6269994/doja-cat-2023/"},"headline":"Doja Cat","datePublished":"2023-04-13T10:32:59.000Z","dateModified":"2026-07-21T07:21:55.086Z","description":"","url":"https://time.com/collections/100-most-influential-people-2023/6269994/doja-cat-2023/","keywords":["TIME 100","franchise","sponsorshipblock","TIME100 2023","T100Pioneers2023"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt6b666bb6def7fe17/698a3bd3b21a9c0d0c507244/doja-cat-time100-2023.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME Staff","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/time-staff/"}],"creator":"TIME Staff","articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt6b666bb6def7fe17/698a3bd3b21a9c0d0c507244/doja-cat-time100-2023.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/collections/100-most-influential-people-2023/6269994/doja-cat-2023/","name":"Doja Cat"}}]}] ```