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| Nytimes |
 With their million-selling 2005 album, “PCD,” and its image-defining single “Don’t Cha” — which taunted, “Don’t cha wish your girlfriend was hot like me?” — the Pussycat Dolls set themselves up as sexy, assertive, stylish, independent, competitive, camera-ready and club-savvy. But were they, strictly speaking, human?
That’s what their new album, “Doll Domination,” sets out to establish. Between dance tracks concocted by big-time producers like Rodney Jerkins, Timbaland, Sean Garrett and Polow Da Don, the Pussycat Dolls flaunt a newly prominent accessory: a breakable heart. In the 16 songs on this fully packed album, each striving to be a single, the Dolls still flirt and strut most of the time. But now, every so often, they ache. ...full text |
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| Billboard |
| Pussycat Doll lead singer Nicole Scherzinger couldn't muster the success she'd hoped for when she attempted to launch her solo career last year, but PCD's sophomore set has all the elements (self-assuring themes, sultry lyrics and lots of skin-tight latex) to mimic the victory of its 2005 debut, "PCD." But this time, the Dolls' bark is as big as their bite. Scherzinger lays down the law to a deadbeat boyfriend on the Missy Elliott-assisted "Whatcha Think About That," while threatening to "hurt" and "kick" another on "In Person." And on "Happily Never After," she narrates the tale of a woman who bolts a damaging relationship. For more visceral thrills, try the come-hither-in-the-club "Bottle Pop" featuring Snoop Dogg and the similarly themed "Out of This Club."...full text |
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| Slantmagazine |
The Pussycat Dolls captured the celebrity-obsessed zeitgeist with "When I Grow Up," the lead single from their second album, Doll Domination. It's another instantly catchy, full-throttle club track from producer Rodney Jerkins and a perfectly concocted blend of camp and vamp for the famous burlesque troupe. Like the Dolls's debut, PCD, the new album could use a little more of that cabaret style and a little less of the anonymous, by-the-numbers R&B and dance formulas that have become the modern girl-group convention. Courtesy of R. Kelly, "Out of This Club" features some bottom-notch songwriting comprised mostly of rudimentary piano melodies and slang like "conversate," while second single "Whatcha Think About That" is pure filler despite the presence of Missy Elliott on the mic (she gets three different verses!) and Polow da Don on the boards.
International single "I Hate This Part" would have made a better follow-up, dousing the campfire of "When I Grow Up" with its more adult sound the way "Stickwitu" did following "Don't Cha" in 2005. The song adds Danish production duo Jonas Jeberg and Cutfather to an alarmingly growing list of current hitmakers who keep recycling the same drum loops and formulas ad nauseam; the difference this time is that the songwriting is strong enough to forgive whatever similarities the song has to Kylie Minogue's "All I See" and Jordin Sparks's "One Step at a Time." Other pardonable repeat offenders on Doll Domination include Ne-Yo and Shea Taylor, whose lyrically and musically simple "Happily Never After" is perfectly tailored to lead Pussycat Nicole Scherzinger's limited vocal ability (it was originally slated for the singer's indefinitely shelved solo debut), and Timbaland, whose "Halo" is yet another in a long line of "Cry Me a River" rewrites but whose "Magic" possesses all of the throb and buzz you expect from both parties....full text |
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