A note to the Sugababes: It’s probably not a good sign that someone just came over here searching on “pussycat dolls new song too sexy for this club” while presumably looking for your bombastic new single “Get Sexy.” And said Internet sleuthing was from someone inside the UK—your home turf—at that! MORE »
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The Sugababes’ New Direction Is Causing People To Get Lost In This Club
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The Pussycat Dolls Throw A Hail Mary Pass
Last night’s Critical Karaoke event was pretty rousing success, and thanks to everyone who came out. Apparently there will be video of the whole night online soon (which is a good thing, because everyone’s performances were stellar), but for now my piece—which looks at the Pussycat Dolls’ current attempt to recapture the zeitgeiest, “Hush Hush; Hush Hush”—is after the jump, with a video so you can listen to the song while reading along, as the performative nature of the evening dictated. Just imagine it being read by someone whose arms are flailing a lot. MORE »
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Nicole Scherzinger’s Solo Career Will Happen By Hook Or By Crook
The Pussycat Dolls’ new single is the throwbacky, “I Will Survive”-biting track “Hush Hush,” and one thing sort of flies out at you from the single’s cover: The “featuring Nicole Scherzinger” that denotes that only one of the Dolls is providing the lead vocals on the track. Which isn’t much of a secret; indeed, commenters here have noted that the Dolls’ debut album PCD had some fine print pointing out that La Scherz provided “all lead and backing vocals,” and the tales of her solo debut’s woes were this site’s bread and butter for quite a while. But one of the other Dolls has had more than enough of playing second fiddle in a group that she’s allegedly a member of! MORE »
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Universal Music Group Still Pouring Money Into Nicole Scherzinger’s “Solo” Career
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 »
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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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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Lady GaGa Dances To No. 1 As iTunes’ Beat Gets A Little Bit Slower
Over the holidays, Billboard’s song charts were, at least on the surface, pretty sleepy. On the Hot 100, most of the songs that were hot late last fall—Beyoncé’s “Single Ladies” and “If I Were a Boy,” T.I. and Rihanna’s “Live Your Life,” Kanye’s “Love Lockdown” and “Heartless,” Taylor Swift’s “Love Story,” the unkillable Katy Perry’s “Hot N Cold”—continued bumping around the Top 10 like lazy molecules.
But below the surface, a ton of music was being consumed. In particular, one song benefited massively from the annual iPod-filling digital megasale that hits iTunes every Christmas—and that song, Lady GaGa’s “Just Dance,” reaches No. 1 the very week Apple’s music store removes digital-rights management restrictions on all of its songs, making them freely copyable.
Does this mean we’re in for even more Lady GaGa than we’re enduring now, as kids trade their iTunes purchases like baseball cards? Unlikely: those who “share” music probably figured out their DRM workarounds years ago.
But the official start of the post-DRM era—and, more important, the changes to song pricing—could have some interesting effects on digital song sales, and the charts that track them. MORE »
