Doja Cat never fails to make chaos feel like performance art. Last night, while gaming on her Fortnite Twitch stream, the Grammy-winning star broke into an impromptu rendition of Tyla’s viral anthem “PUSH 2 START.” But this wasn’t just a casual sing-along. In full elf-like makeup and pointy ears, Doja exaggerated Tyla’s South African accent, turning the song’s chorus into a comedic theater piece:
“Push to staht (pusha, pusha)
Act like you heard me
Only serve it up if you deserve me, yeah
Pull up and earn me (pusha, pusha)
Push to staht”
Uttered with pseudo-dramatic emphasis and an accent thick enough to make viewers tear-laughing, the sentence went immediately viral on the internet.
Fans Are Obsessed With Her Strangeness
Twitter (sorry, X) and TikTok erupted with responses nearly as quickly as Doja’s chat spammed laughing emoticons. One fan captured the moment best: “It’s so dope how she’s always making time to be weird af in her little corner. We’re so used to it that no one even cares that she’s wearing elf ears.”
Others also compared this to her bad online-bad behavior from the past, such as the time she was caught surprisingly singing Cardi B’s “Press” on an IG Live. “This make me remember when she was singing Press by Cardi ????????????,” someone said, while one wrote, “This just made me have flashbacks to when she’d come on this site and post the unfunniest shit known to man????.”
The consensus? Doja’s silliness is part of her magic. “She’s so strange and I love it.” “i love whatever is wrong with her.”“She’s so silly, I love her.”
A Joint Effort on the Agenda?
Of course, music stans already took the gag seriously. One fan tweeted: “I need Doja in chanel song with Tyla.” Given Tyla’s meteoric rise and Doja’s genre-bending nature, the internet may have just willed a dream collaboration into existence.
For the moment, though, the fan will have to make do with the stream clip, itself already out there as an official meme. And y’know? It’s quintessentially Doja Cat: quirky, funny, and proof that even under elf ears, she’ll still insist on the spotlight.
