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| Artist: The Pussycat Dolls
Label: A&M
Category: Music
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Rating:  251 reviews
Sales Rank: 5945
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 4.9 x 0.4
MPN: 000537402
UPC: 602498848357
EAN: 0602498848357
ASIN: B000ANVQ64
Release Date: September 13, 2005
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| Tracks:
| • | Don't Cha - Busta Rhymes, The Pussycat Dolls | | • | Beep - The Pussycat Dolls, will.i.am, | | • | Wait a Minute - The Pussycat Dolls, Timbaland | | • | Stickwitu | | • | Buttons | | • | I Don't Need a Man | | • | Hot Stuff (I Want You Back) | | • | How Many Times, How Many Lies | | • | Bite the Dust | | • | Right Now | | • | Tainted Love/Where Did Our Love Go | | • | Feelin' Good |
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Amazon.com
Roll your eyes or--worse--invoke the Spice Girls all you want: Don't cha wish your girlfriend was hot like any one of the members of this revolving collective? Dissing the Pussycat Dolls is like denying you want a peek at the Victoria's Secret runway show--a foolhardy stance nobody's going to believe anyway. Never mind, for a moment, the semi-lewd pleasures of the disc's visuals (midriffs galore!): the pop on parade by this gang of writhers and eyelash-batters isn't bad. Nicole Scherzinger, a former member of the failed prefab teen pop act Eden's Crush, brings it with determination and carefully distributed shots of sweetness. More important, she gets high-wattage help. Busta Rhymes, Black Eyed Peas' will.i.am, and Timbaland all step in to dress up the Dolls' sound, and the songwriters' and producers behind PCD clearly know how to sexify a disc without sinking it into the gutter. What's best about the Dolls' debut, though, is its shamelessness. This is manufactured friskiness that doesn't take itself seriously; these girls don't want a Grammy, they only want to pounce. --Tammy La Gorce
Album Description
"Inside every woman is a Pussycat Doll," says Robin Antin, the creator of the singing-and-dancing ensemble that has risen from underground cool to major-label hot. "It's about female empowerment, about being confident with who you are. It's about singing and dancing in front of a mirror by yourself and having fun."With their debut album released by A&M Records in summer 2005 (led by "Don't Cha," a duet with Busta Rhymes, written and produced by Cee-Lo), the Pussycat Dolls go beyond being extraordinarily beautiful. With tremendous voices, and after working with today's top songwriters and producers, the Pussycat Dolls are ready to stamp their mark on music and on attitudes. "To me, a Pussycat Doll is fearless but also vulnerable," says lead singer Nicole Scherzinger. "We're strong but we like to play too. The line in 'Don't Cha'--'don't cha wish your girlfriend was hot like me'--is meant to be empowering. The Pussycat Dolls are not about just being hot but also about saying something with real feeling."From Scherzinger, who earlier scored a Top 10 album and single while in girl group Eden's Crush, to Jessica Sutta, the one-time captain of the Miami Heat dance troupe; from Carmit Bachar, the La Vida Loca girl on Ricky Martin's world tour, to Ashley Roberts and Kimberly Wyatt, two of the most talented young dancers in Hollywood, and Melody Thornton, a stunning singer chosen from an open audition, these Pussycat Dolls are the new incarnation--more contemporary, more street--of the group whose Sunset Strip performances became the hippest ticket in Hollywood.
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 From stage to CD September 30, 2005
Amanda Richards (Georgetown, Guyana)
96 out of 118 found this review helpful
There's an old song that goes something like "Take ten terrific girls but only nine costumes, and you'll have a burlesque show". This song came to mind when I found out that "The Pussycat Dolls" is a very popular burlesque act, which has been hitting the stages of LA and Vegas, in hot spots like Johnny Depp's Viper Room (gratuitous Johnny Depp plug here), The Roxy and Caesars Palace, since 1993.
Led most of the way by Carmen Electra, the group has attracted many guest performers over the years, including Christina Aguilera (why does this not surprise me?), Pamela Anderson (ditto), Christina Applegate, Fergie, Paris Hilton (she's everywhere), Scarlett Johansson, Eva Longoria, Kelly Osborne, Pink, Britney Spears (!), Gwen Stefani and Charlise Theron, among others.
With that kind of "People Magazine"-caliber celebrity attention, it's only natural that a CD would follow, this one fronted by Nicole Scherzinger, a former member of Eden's Crush, who also contributed to Shaggy's new album.
Hot lead off single "Don't Cha" features Buster Rhymes, and teases the male fans with the catchy chorus "Don't cha wish your girlfriend was hot like me?" The second track "Beep" features Will.I.Am of The Black Eyed Peas (another contributor to the Shaggy album), and this one would fit comfortably in any BEP album. The Top Three of the album is completed by "Wait a Minute" featuring Timbaland.
Other tracks to note are - well they all kind of sound alike from here on, except for the covers of "Hot Stuff" and "Tainted Love", which, frankly sound like something from a burlesque show.
This album plays shamelessly on the Dolls' popularity on stage, but there are also two bonus tracks of their soundtrack songs "Sway" (Shall We Dance?), and "We Went as Far as We Felt Like Going" (Shark Tale)
A good album, all things considered, and a likely candidate for a Trivial Pursuit Pop Trivia answer in a future edition. Rated 3.5 stars
Amanda Richards, September 29, 2005
 even you can make millions! February 11, 2006
9 out of 9 found this review helpful
It's really not the Pussycat Dolls or their songs that bother me. There's been worse pop music. It's me that bothers me. I'm disappointed in myself that so far I haven't I haven't been able to think up a scheme, like this group, to make millions off the vast number of idiots out there. Could you imagine the producers of this group and the girls sitting around in an expensive hotel room laughing their butts off rolling around in the dough saying: "can you believe this!?! ahahahaa! I knew there were tons of gullbile idiots out there but I didn't think they'd fall for this again!! cheers!" (clink sound of champagne glasses)
I mean I'd call them marketing geniuses but really it's so obvious you wouldn't think it would work these days. Make a group consisting of "hot" girls and throw in some manufactured tunes and "sexy" lyrics. Boom. Millions.
Oh well...off to work on my plan. Hmmmm we haven't had a boy band around in awhile...
Spice Girls With No Spice. October 22, 2005
The Groove (Boston, MA)
21 out of 27 found this review helpful
"PCD" may stand for Pussycat Dolls, but for all I know, it could also stand for Pretty Crappy Drivel. Jeez, how much lower can the music industry stoop? Now, don't get me wrong. I like guilty pleasure pop as much as the next Spice Girls or Justin Timberlake fan, but "PCD" is guilty pleasure pop that's high on guilt and low on pleasure. "Don't Cha" is passable radio-fluff; imagine a filtered-down Destiny's Child with just a fraction of Beyonce's sass. "Stickwitchu" and "Waitaminute" go in one ear and right out the other, and they have the unmitigated gall to ruin "Tainted Love," a old tune Soft Cell made famous back in 1982. Would anyone old enough to remember Soft Cell's version appreciate the Pussycat Dolls' version? Highly unlikely. "PCD" gets the dubious honor for making a great argument in favor of copy-protected CDs. That's because no kind person should rip and burn music this bad for his/her friends.
Don't cha wish that they would stop? May 13, 2006
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
I am a 12-year old and yes, everyone listens to this record in my age. But I think the Pussycat Dolls have no talent. All they can do is showing of their bodys and doing Sex-Songs. I mean, just listen to the text: "I don't give a 'beep'/ Keep looking at my 'beep'/Cause it won't mean a thing if you're looking at my 'Beep'" or this one: "Don't cha wish your girlfriend was hot like me" This is just really gross! I don't understand how you can give THIS 5 stars.
Look - more complete and utter rubbish! April 6, 2006
Forest Law (Lakewood, NJ)
18 out of 23 found this review helpful
America, pat yourselves on the back - you've made the dreams of a bunch of talentless strippers-cum-"singers" (note the quotation marks) known as the Pussycat Dolls come true. On the other hand, I say "shame on you" for doing that very same thing. Those of us who enjoy good lyrics and musical creativity are being subjected to such banal junk as "Don't Cha" - featuring Busta Rhymes (whose star has fallen substantially since the E.L.E. album and is now reduced to doing this - hey, I guess he's gotta eat) and cheesy come-ons like "Don't cha wish your girlfriend was hot like me" that apparently succeeded in getting the desperate men out there all hot and bothered (Note to those men that bought the album: These girls are not interested in you. Seriously.).
It doesn't get any better, as the music is a mix of cheesy hip-pop, slick pseudo-R&B pop highly reminiscent of long-forgotten '80s acts like Expose and Seduction, and embarrassing balladry like the atrociously spelled "Stickwitu" (their English teachers must be so proud). It's all highly synthetic, completely devoid of depth, imagination or talent - which, in this bizarro universe that we live in, means that it's terrific. Yeah, that's right, drop that Radiohead or Morrissey album that you have in your hands and go for some pure unadulterated cheese - let's kill off the rest of those functioning brain cells!
Essentially, PCD is one person that can sing (well, sort of) along with a bunch of people that were probably working at a gentleman's club on Sunset Blvd. before they joined the group, and have no musical experience whatsoever. This group (based on a burlesque act, natch) is living proof that sex sells, and will make the public forget that you can't carry a tune in a bucket. Hey, it worked for Britney Spears, didn't it?
In summary: PCD is yet another shallow album that has been done to death, and if you're reading this the chance is pretty good that you have something like this in your collection, so I would say not to bother picking it up. And don't take too seriously what I said before - it's all in good fun to have a few laughs at popular culture, because in times like this we need laughter to help us forget our problems, if only for a little while. Instead of picking this up, why not give the new Morrissey album Ringleader Of The Tormentors a try instead? It has the biting wit, interesting arrangements and strong singing that a release like this lacks. Or don't, and go ahead and hit that "Not Helpful" button while you grab your hairbrush and start lip-syncing "Don't Cha" and dancing in front of the mirror. There you go - rock on with your bad self.
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