Doja Cat’s Backstage Pass Comes With Glasses

Doja Cat’s new documentary short, “Ma Vie World Tour,” puts the camera on the people making the concert happen—via Ray-Ban Meta glasses. Directed by Quinn Whitney Wilson, it’s available on YouTube, according to TheWrap: backstage access with the hardware very much included.

Doja screened the short at Meta Lab LA in West Hollywood on October 23, with a Q&A. Its quoted logline promises 12 minutes of European touring through the artist and her team’s eyes, onstage, backstage and at soundcheck. That makes it a look back within an ongoing trek: her North American leg began October 1 in Detroit, as Billboard reported via Yahoo.

The appeal is less a better view of the show than a different view of the work. Doja described taking on “a moment of I have to be a videographer, in a way,” and said that perspective could help aspiring performers understand what she does. Wilson said working without a large crew let her film intimate backstage situations without feeling she was invading Doja’s privacy.

A smaller camera, of course, isn’t a truth serum. The Meta screening venue and six custom pairs of performance glasses make the brand showcase explicit; intimacy is the promise, not proof of an unfiltered account. But there’s a useful idea beneath the eyewear: for someone imagining a life onstage, the hours around the performance may be more revealing than the view from the front row.