THE PUSSYCAT DOLLS - PCD Review

There's a kind of beautifully perverse brilliance to the Pussycat Dolls. Not only are they a sextet who got their start as neo-burlesque dancers in Los Angeles, but they make no bones about being a gleefully manufactured dance-pop act. Open the booklet for their 2005 debut, PCD, and their artificiality is made clear: the first page reads "All lead and background vocals by Nicole Scherzinger," a former member of Eden's Crush, the failed prefab teen pop group assembled on the WB's pre-American Idol reality music show Popstars....full text Does this ring a bell? A group of attractive young women, dressed in miniskirts and midriff exposing tops, paying as much attention to the visual side of the act as the musical side, and shouting whenever they can about female empowerment? Are we really ready for a Spice Girls revival?...full text Emerging as a burlesque dance troupe, the Pussycat Dolls performed in Johnny Depp's infamous Viper Club before clawing their way to major label glory with debut album PCD....full text