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 enlarge | Artist: The Pussycat Dolls
Label: A&M
Category: Music
List Price: $13.98
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Avg. Customer Rating:  249 reviews
Sales Rank: 2863
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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 Guaranteed to make you Purr September 14, 2005
17 out of 23 found this review helpful
The Pussycat dolls have a long history. Starting out as a semi Burlesque dancing troop and making appearances in LA's famed viper room, often with celebrity guest dancers they moved on to video work for such acts like Pink!. Their debut single "don't cha", arguably THE summer anthem of 2005, is a great slice of catchy RnB/Dance with just the right amount of campy/sleaze to make it fun and marketable.
Now their debut "PCD" arrives just in time with enough catchy tracks and upbeat songs to keep them from the one hit wonder tag. Unlike the girl groups before them, they have wisely chosen to enlist the help of top RnB producers to craft a semi credible set of songs.
Tracks "beep" and "wait a minute" are standard RnB/hip-hop tracks with cheeky lyrics. The tracks deal with girls knowing what they want and the guys wanting what they have.
"Stickwitu" is soul lite, a sugary ballad about staying commited to the person you're with.
"buttons" is a slinky, beat heavy track with slow spoken/sung verses about getting naked. Sample lyric "baby cant you see, get those clothes off for me- gonna loose up my buttons".
The spirit of the 80s shows up on the feel good "I don't need a man." This track is a funky dance track that wouldnt sound outta place on the soundtrack to "Breakin'" (for those old enough to remember that film).
One of the best tracks is "hot stuff (I want you back)a euro-dance cut which uses the chorus to Donna Summer's "hot stuff" and mixes it with original(?) verses. A thumping track, lots of fun.
The Dolls seem to borrow from Natasha Bedingfield on "How many times, how many lies". A lazy beat and minimal keyboards move this mid-beat song which finds the pussycats questioning how much more can they put up from their man.
One of the most interesting tracks on the album id "Right Now" which sounds more like a 1940's showtune. With a Big Band orchestra and all girl answer back chorus this is a definetly a standout track. Very different from the rest of the album but very cool.
Soft Cell's 1980's combination of "tained love/where did our love go" is covered here. With a heavy bass beat the song is unoriginal and probably one of the weakest songs. Fans of the song may enjoy it though as it does offer a RnB take on a Synthpop and soul classic.
The album closes with with the smooth soulful ballad "feelin good". A sexy song but seems an odd choice to close out such a fun album
The Pussycat dolls arent going to change the world or make any grand statement about life. But the album is a fun, upbeat album with a good mix of RnB, Dance and some ballads which make you forget about your problems if only for a little while. Escapist pop- VERY GOOD!
 Look - more complete and utter rubbish! April 6, 2006
17 out of 18 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.
Talentless Tramps February 17, 2006
15 out of 17 found this review helpful
I'm sorry I ususally do not go just to badmouth a c.d. but this group I just cannot believe people like. Do these girls have a creative bone in their body? Do they try to be taken in any way seriously? All they have is the same old bubblegum pop that would even be all right if it was sung good- and these girls together sound awful so that just makes it worse.
Sex sells though, and that is the only message these women are giving. If they think anyone really takes them seriously then they are kidding themselves. There is only one okay singer in the group and then the rest just dance around in skimpy clothes, showing that all they have is a few moves. Their lyrics are shallow (how long did it take to write some of these songs- a minute?) and they better figure out what to do in the future because they're not always going to be sex symbols.
But who could have respect for these girls is beyond me. They degrade their own selves and I can't believe women still do that just for some money. Talentless tramps is all these women are, and soon enough, I don't care what anyone says- they'll be forgotten for the next set of sex symbols will take the stage and they'll be nothing but a faint memory. Either that or that one okay singer will ditch the rest (for they are basically useless in all the songs- she could afford backup singers that probably are even better than those other 'dolls') and make her own solo album. I know one of those happening and soon and I won't shed a tear when it happens.
Please young women of today (because I know most of the crowd is most likely young girls) do not listen to this if you want music to inspire you. There are so many women out there that no may not be on Mtv but will live eternity through their music because it is so amazing, strong, and beautiful. Don't listen to this mindless fluff where these women don't even mean the words they say. They don't want nothing but easy money. There are people out there that take music seriously, that believe and love their music- look up to those people in the music business to inspire you- not these girls.
Get in the kitchen and fix me a turkey pot pie b*tch July 15, 2006
14 out of 24 found this review helpful
Unless these dunces do some porn, there's nothing fearless (the lead singer claims they are) about them. Don't I wish my girlfriend was hot like them? The world is filled with countless brainless hot girls who can't be bothered in every stinking town... You can't swing a dead cat without hitting one. There's nothing special about these idiots. Empowerment (also claimed by their singer)? Whatever. They are offensive to men and women alike, as well as the gods and goddesses of music and good taste. What they need to do, is close their collective pie holes and open up their legs for porn. Then we'll see how much of a freak they are...until then, shut up and go fix me a sandwich.
PCD off August 30, 2006
14 out of 21 found this review helpful
Well, somehow it doesn't shock me that a stripper troupe wasn't able to make good music.
In fact, the Pussycat Dolls' debut "PCD" is basically the sort of music you'd expect to be playing behind the stripper troupe, so A) they have something to bump and grind to, and B) the patrons won't notice because they didn't come for the music. Empty beats, empty vocals, and lyrics so vacuous that the CD is about to implode.
It opens with a bunch of suggestive coos and canned beats, as a man calls, "Okay okay! Are we about to get just a little hot and sweaty?" Then it launches into a dramatic little pop song, not quite catchy, where the singer writhes around in smirking narcissism -- "Doncha wish your girlfriend was RAW like me?/Doncha wish your girlfriend was FUN like me?" Well, she can't be that much fun, since all she does is talk about herself.
Things don't improve with "Beep," an electric-violin tune and a long string of bleeped out words, a quirk that gets old soon.To follow it up, the Dolls continue with processed pop numbers that Britney Spears would be proud of, with a faux R&B edge and lots of whispery backing vocals.
They even dabble in a sort of faux retro-disco in "Hot Stuff (I Want You Back)," in between the half-empty dance songs that don't quite manage to be dancey. To round it off, they add some goopy ballads in an effort to counter the slutty image of the previous songs, like "Stickwitu."
Somehow it's not surprising that "PCD" is basically a glossy, content-free, MTV-aimed album -- it was made for music videos, not for listening. It's also one of those albums that is hard to recall once it's over -- when each song finished, I was hard-pressed to remember any of the melody, the words, or much of anything except the cooing self-satisfaction.
One of the striking things about the Pussycat Dolls is that they obviously think this is amazing, clubby, danceable music, though half the songs don't have a solid melody structure. They just sound like beats thrown into a half-melody, and the vocals tie them together. "I don't Need A Man," for example, is just a lot of intermittent beats, horns and yowls from the singer.
The writing is bland where it's not outright hilarious. Unintentionally so, of course, like when they try to go all "woman-powery" in a futile effort to counter the "sexual attraction is everything" message of "Don Cha." One of the best lines is where a guy is rapping that, "You got real big brains." Yep, I bet they have enormous "brains."
Nicole Scherzinger previously did work in the reality-show group Eden's Crush, so she seems very at home in an artificial not-band. She doesn't have much actual range, even as pop stars go, and tends to sing everything in a hyperdramatic style to compensate. Either she's swooning with romantic love, or she's over-the-top sexy/sleazy as she informs us how very sexy and attractive she is.
The Pussycat Dolls put out "PCD," an album that is exactly what you'd expect for a troupe that was never meant to sing. A goopy, idiotic disaster from start to finish.
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