And no, this isn’t an April Fool: The Pussycat Dolls‘ underperforming Doll Domination (it’s shifted 314,000 units as of this writing) is being re-released later this month in (sigh) “2.0″ form, which basically means that the girl group’s cash-in tracks from The City and Slumdog Millionaire will be tacked on to the album, and the whole package will be re-presented to Americans in the hopes that they might actually care. (Cough.) Of course, lead Doll Nicole Scherzinger took the opportunity presented by the album’s reissue and ran with it in an even more self-promotional way: MORE »
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Universal Music Group Still Pouring Money Into Nicole Scherzinger’s “Solo” Career
The Paradiso Girls Have Been Suspended In Amber For The Past Four Years
“Patron Tequila” is the debut single from the Paradiso Girls, a girl group masterminded by Pussycat Dolls creator Robin Antin whose most famous member was a runner-up in the short-lived CW singing/ass-shaking competitive reality show Fetch Me A Skank The Search For The Next Doll. According to various bits of Internet lore, the track was supposed to be on Keri Hilson’s long-delayed In A Perfect World…, but it was pulled from the track listing at the last minute. Which is probably not a bad thing, given that there are four big reasons it sounds like the perfectly wrong song for the current national mood. MORE »
Nicole Scherzinger Is Very Excited That Peter Gabriel Didn’t Win The “Best Original Song” Oscar
La Scherz speaks on the Pussycat Dolls’ attempt… MORE »
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The Pussycat Dolls Try To Hitch Their Wagon To The Oscar Train
“I picture the Pussycat Dolls as sort of… MORE »
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Heavy Lies the Crown: Clarkson Still Tops, But Slim Shady Is Poised to Pounce
Maura and I have already taken a victory lap about our fulfilled prediction that Kelly Clarkson would vault to the top of Billboard’s Hot 100. Clarkson’s “My Life Would Suck Without You” dominates the list again this week, thanks to commanding sales and fast-rising radio airplay.
How long will she stay there? Nothing in the Top 10 looks like a threat. The few songs that are on the rise, including Kanye West’s “Heartless” and All-American Rejects’ “Gives You Hell,” appear to be losing momentum. The Fray’s “You Found Me” will likely get a boost from the release of their album this week, but probably not enough to take over the penthouse.
If anything’s going to dethrone Clarkson, it will come from outside the winners’ circle. “Prom Queen,” the ill-advised rock single from Lil Wayne, makes an impressive debut at No. 17, the highest start so far this year. You’d think that would give him the edge.
But the more likely scenario involves someone doing to Kelly what Kelly did to Lady GaGa two weeks ago: an outside ambush that vaults from the bottom to the top in one fell swoop. And the probable ambusher is making an even bigger chart comeback this year than Clarkson. MORE »
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Katy Perry And The Pussycat Dolls Continue To Warp The Minds Of America’s Youth
There are some days when I feel like Sinéad O’Connor, because I wish people would fight the real enemy, and not things like making live music on TV sound halfway decent. Take the nominees for the Nickelodeon-sponsored Kids’ Choice Awards, which are being handed out next month. Katy Perry’s Girls Gone Wild Gone Radio-Ready “I Kissed A Girl” for Favorite Song? The bumping and grinding and whining Pussycat Dolls for Favorite Music Group? I weep for the youth, especially since in the latter category two of the three alternatives presented to them are Daughtry and Linkin Park. (The third is the Jonas Brothers, who yeah are probably shoe-ins anyway, but still! Principles!) A rundown of all four music-related categories after the jump. MORE »
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Jazmine Sullivan Is Clicking Her Heels
Philly R & B singer Jazmine Sullivan is something of a bad-ass, and her new single, “Lions, Tigers, and Bears” is a string-laden belter about being afraid of love that also happens to be Ne-Yo’s favorite jam of right now. The video (after the jump) kinda-predictably takes the “follow the CGI’d yellow brick road” tack, but the song is definitely worth your time. If only there was some Good Witch Of The Radio Programming North who could get this track on the airwaves instead of that putrid Pussycat Dolls ballad… MORE »
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“Suck” Blows (Up): Clarkson’s Comeback Could Make It To The Top Of The Pops
The most interesting news on Billboard’s Hot 100 isn’t at the summit, where the entire Top Five has been static for the last couple of weeks. It’s in the basement, where a flotilla of new songs—many by established acts—debuts.
We could talk about the return of Eminem to the Hot 100, for the first time in nearly three years, with his 50 and Dre-supported “Crack the Bottle,” at No. 76.
Or the third single and first ballad from the omnipresent Katy Perry, one notch below. (More on her in a minute.)
Or a couple of all-star duets—mellow twosome Jason Mraz and Colbie Caillat (“Lucky,” No. 84) or smoove pair Jamie Foxx and T-Pain (“Blame It,” No. 98).
But all of these budding hits are overshadowed by the single that debuts quietly at No. 97—a song that could well be the chart’s next No. 1 and finally put some distance between Kelly Clarkson and the other American Idol finalists who’ve been chipping away at her crown all these years. MORE »
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Girls Aloud Take A Visit To The Pet Shop
The latest single from Girls Aloud’s Out Of Control is the Pet Shop Boys-penned “The Loving Kind,” a sumptuous piece of pop that’s all gigantic featherbeds of synths and wistful “I still want you back” lyrics. Its video has the Girls, appropriately enough, existing in a matrix of flashbulbs and mirrors, smashing wine bottles and throwing bouquets of flowers as they gaze pensively away from the camera. Clip after the jump, and while you click, please think about how cruel it is that the UK gets to plaster gorgeous tracks like this all over its pop-radio playlists while we in the States are stuck with numerous attempts to make the populace care about the Pussycat Dolls again. MORE »
