PCD more of a brand than an band
Pussycat Dolls began as an all-female burlesque group created in 1993; their stage act has always followed the classic tradition of burlesque, a sexual performance that focuses on tense, humor and innuendo instead of sexuality.
No wonder why the Pussycat Dolls apparently need a lot more help making records, than most local bands in the Evansville area.
With the prefabricated outfits, and typical movie girl lyrics you find the Pussycat Dolls more of a “Brand” than a Band. And now we wonder how the PCD was the launch pad for the decade’s number-one girl group franchise, racking up the sales of over 5 million singles downloads, over 4 million ring tone downloads, over 400,000 video downloads, and over 150,000 copies of the PCD DVD Live from London.
Now three years later, their second album is taking launch, with their first single, “When I Grow Up” now in reached Top 10 in 16 countries.
“When I Grow Up” is a great pop track with nice and wicked beats and great “singing”, that has been proceeded and touched up, by producer, Rodney Jerkins. Every song, has no ordinal sound, and is mostly influenced with electronic and robotic sounds, to boost the sales of the PCD.
Pussycat Dolls: Doll Domination album sounds like the CD was a mercy of wanting to get in the spotlight after three years, one minute they will sound sleek and empowered in “Whatcha Think About That,” and then the next they will sound hopeless and screechy as they do in “Inside Man,”
I think the Doll Domination album should of consisted of at least a theme, and personality to really flare their “passion” for music or even dance, since the PCD is considered a “band”.
The dance-pop-heavy second album boasts come from stars like Snoop Dogg and Missy Elliott, as well as beats and melodies by Rodney Jerkins and Plow Da Don.
However in Doll Domination we find Doll Nicole Scherzinger in the spotlight and the CD consists of more songs than we know we can do with it.
Doll Domination at one tick is more than 60 minutes much too long, with several superficial lyrics.
Listening to Scherzinger sing for 16 songs straight, (coming out soon a bonus CD of 20 songs) I have come to the realization that I am talking to a HOT chick, who is in love with her own voice.
The L.A ladies’ sophomore album offers nothing that gives their own group a personality boost, considering the normal diva lyrics, which are mostly about their exes, or upcoming fame.
If mistaken, please correct, but most women do not strive on exes or wanting to have “groupies.” The PCD album was more or less, what the girls of Pussycat Dolls thought would hit the charts and stick, rather than the fibers of their inner ‘musical’ souls.
It’s hard not to shake the image of the Pussycat Dolls, or more or less lap dancers with microphones, to repeat kids’ stuff, which the Spice Girls strutted almost seven years ago.
The PCD Doll Domination album is definitely not brilliant or even deep but it does process a sleazy bubblegum sound that is fun to dance to.
Kimberly, Melody, Nicole, Ashley and Jessica are very stunning woman in their appearance however the willingness to dress in such provocative clothing, is one of the only reason why their album has sold a far amount, I rate this album as low as the Spice Girls, which is pretty low.
I am one not to bash on all-female bands out there, but there are bands that know actual real music and can play it well, like ‘Fidget’.
The Pussycats Dolls seem like prefabricated rubbish and very offensive to most women.
The Pussycat Dolls should have stuck to dancing.
