An intergalactic queen has been warned of an imminent threat to her throne. She uses her most power weapon — Doja Cat, who with her well choreographed dance sequences wins the day in the video to the song, Woman from her latest album, Planet Her.
Already more than 10m views on YouTube, there’s something unique Girls Who Code, a nonprofit organisation with an objective to get women and girls interested in computer science, has done with the three-odd minutes video — turn it into an interactive experience.
On visiting Dojacode.com, a futuristic image of the singer greets you, taking you to the next page that features three stars, each representing a different programming language — yellow for CSS, blue for Javascript, and pink for Python. Promoted as the first ever “codable music video”, you get to have some control over a few aspects of the video.
While the original music video plays, you will be allowed to make a few decisions through codes. Each time the video stops, you fill in the blacks next to the code, like name of the city you would like to see, Doja Cat’s shade of nail polish, the amount of petals that shower on the singer towards the end of the video and so on. For example, choosing “Kolkata” around 1am turned the sky in the video dark and a constellation that reflects what I should be able to see (if the sky was clear!).
Finally, you get to see snapshots of what you “coded” and then share the same on social media.
While the DojaCode video doesn’t involve any intense amounts of programming, I still found it fun to experiment and seeing my changes instantly take effect.