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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. There is no pretense that Kimberly, Carmit, Ashley, Melody, and Jessica are there for anything besides filling out the illusion that this is a real performing musical group and providing some serious eye candy for a group that is all about the visuals. The great thing about PCD is that the producers and songwriters behind the album -- and, since this is a big-budget urban dance-pop album in the mid-2000s, there are many credited writers and producers -- are eager to play with the Pussycat Dolls' hyper-sexual image, creating a sleek, sexy sound ideal for both nightclubs and strip joints across this great land. And, at least at first, the songs are about how irresistibly sexy the Pussycat Dolls are, starting with the genius hit single "Don't Cha," where Nicole and the rest of the Pussycats strut around, taunting a hapless man with such come-ons as "Don't cha wish your girlfriend was hot like me/Don't cha wish your girlfriend was a freak like me." There has never been a sex song quite as knowingly ironic yet undeniably sexy as this, and for a while the album keeps the momentum up, first with will.i.am's "Beep," a rewrite of Black Eyed Peas' "My Humps," except this is funny, not embarrassing, and since Nicole is sexier than the Peas' Fergie, it's also sultrier. Timbaland's "Wait a Minute" is in the same vein and, for a brief moment, it seems like PCD will be that rare thing: a mainstream club/dance album devoted to nothing but dance songs. Then, reality comes crashing in with the fourth song, "Stickwitu," the inevitable romantic slow jam whose sappiness undercuts the joyous carnal celebration of the first three songs. Although the rest of the album has more dance tunes than ballads -- and some catchy ones, too, like Beyoncé-styled "I Don't Need a Man" -- the album never quite recovers, since the fantasy of a girl group that's only it for the sex, not love, has been ruined. Since that fantasy is the very reason the Pussycat Dolls exist as either a dance troupe or a pop group, it's a bit of a disappointment, but PCD is still worthwhile because there enough good cuts to make it a fun soundtrack to parties or strip clubs, even if there aren't quite enough to make this the camp classic that the beginning of the album suggests it could have been.
© Stephen Thomas Erlewine /TiVo
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Trevor Smith, ComposerLyricist - Nick Lane, Trombone, AssociatedPerformer - Cee-Lo Green, Producer - Thomas Callaway, ComposerLyricist - Nicole Scherzinger, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Kaya Jones, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Busta Rhymes, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Ethan Mates, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - The Pussycat Dolls, MainArtist - Ashley Roberts, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Chris Tedesco, Unknown, Other - Ray Herrmann, Saxophone, AssociatedPerformer - John Goux, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Bill Churchville, Trumpet, AssociatedPerformer - Anthony Ray, ComposerLyricist - Jessica Sutta, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Kimberly Wyatt, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Melody Thornton, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Carmit Bachar, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Steve Daniel Baughman, Mixer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 2005 Pussycat Dolls, LLC
William Adams, ComposerLyricist - Charlie Bisharat, Electric Violin, AssociatedPerformer - BILL SCHNEE, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Tal Herzberg, Engineer, Programmer, AssociatedPerformer, StudioPersonnel, Bass (Vocal) - Kara Dioguardi, ComposerLyricist - Dave Pensado, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Jeff Lynne, ComposerLyricist - The Pussycat Dolls, MainArtist - will.i.am, Producer, FeaturedArtist - J.D. Andrew, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - RON FAIR, Producer, String Arranger, Additional Producer, Unknown, Recording Arranger, Other, Recording Producer, AssociatedPerformer - Vanessa Brown, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer - Ariel Chobaz, Mix Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Mike Eleopoulos, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - PCD Orchestra, Strings, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2005 Pussycat Dolls, LLC
Marcella Araica, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Keri Lynn Hilson, ComposerLyricist - Jerry Hey, Horn, Recording Arranger, AssociatedPerformer - Timbaland, Producer, FeaturedArtist - Tal Herzberg, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Keri Hilson, Producer - Dave Pensado, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Dan Higgins, Horn, AssociatedPerformer - The Pussycat Dolls, MainArtist - Gary Grant, Horn, AssociatedPerformer - Timothy Mosley, ComposerLyricist - Bill Reichenbach, Horn, AssociatedPerformer - Demacio Castellon, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - RON FAIR, Producer, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Craig A. Longmiles, ComposerLyricist - Ariel Chobaz, Mix Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 2005 Pussycat Dolls, LLC
Franne Golde, ComposerLyricist - Kasia Livingston, ComposerLyricist - R. Palmer, ComposerLyricist - Peter Mokran, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Tal Herzberg, Producer, Engineer, Co-Producer, AssociatedPerformer, StudioPersonnel, Bass (Vocal) - ALLEN SIDES, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - The Pussycat Dolls, MainArtist - Robert Palmer, Drum Programming, AssociatedPerformer - Mike Hogue, Mix Engineer, StudioPersonnel - RON FAIR, Conductor, Producer, Co-Arranger, Organ, Piano, Harmonica, AssociatedPerformer - Vanessa Brown, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer - Mike Eleopoulos, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - PCD Orchestra, Strings, AssociatedPerformer - Cori Jacobs, Unknown, Other
℗ 2005 Pussycat Dolls, LLC
Jason Perry, ComposerLyricist - Jamal Jones, ComposerLyricist - Charlie Bisharat, Electric Violin, AssociatedPerformer - Elvis Williams, Keyboards, AssociatedPerformer - Polow Da Don, Producer, Programmer - Tal Herzberg, Producer, Engineer, Co-Producer, StudioPersonnel - Dave Pensado, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Nicole Scherzinger, ComposerLyricist - Luis Conte, Percussion, AssociatedPerformer - The Pussycat Dolls, MainArtist - Sean Garrett, Producer, Synthesizer, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - J.D. Andrew, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - RON FAIR, Producer, Additional Producer, Unknown, Other - Young Smoke, Producer, Co-Producer - Ariel Chobaz, Assistant Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Mike Eleopoulos, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Bobby Zimmitti, Drums, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2005 Pussycat Dolls, LLC
Rich Harrison, Producer, Programmer, ComposerLyricist - Jerry Hey, Horn, Recording Arranger, AssociatedPerformer - Peter Mokran, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Tal Herzberg, Engineer, AssociatedPerformer, StudioPersonnel, Bass (Vocal) - Kara Dioguardi, ComposerLyricist - Nicole Scherzinger, ComposerLyricist - Dan Higgins, Horn, AssociatedPerformer - The Pussycat Dolls, MainArtist - Gary Grant, Horn, AssociatedPerformer - Bill Reichenbach, Horn, AssociatedPerformer - Mike Hogue, Assistant Mixer, StudioPersonnel - J.D. Andrew, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - RON FAIR, Producer, Glockenspiel, Piano, Additional Producer, Vocal Arranger, AssociatedPerformer - Vanessa Brown, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Mike Eleopoulos, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Scotty Beats, Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 2005 Pussycat Dolls, LLC
Pete Bellotte, ComposerLyricist - BILL SCHNEE, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Tal Herzberg, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Andy Chatterley, Recording Arranger, AssociatedPerformer - Nicole Scherzinger, Vocal Arranger, AssociatedPerformer - Harold Faltermeyer, ComposerLyricist - Keith Forsey, ComposerLyricist - The Pussycat Dolls, MainArtist - Siobhan Fahey, Producer, ComposerLyricist - J.D. Andrew, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - RON FAIR, Mixer, String Arranger, Vocal Arranger, Unknown, Other, AssociatedPerformer, StudioPersonnel - Steven Gallifent, Producer - Clare Kenny, ComposerLyricist - The Droyds, Producer - Mike Eleopoulos, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Stephen Gallifent, ComposerLyricist - PCD Orchestra, Strings, AssociatedPerformer - William Newel Blanchard, ComposerLyricist
℗ 2005 Pussycat Dolls, LLC
Peter Mokran, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Diane Warren, ComposerLyricist - BILL SCHNEE, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Tal Herzberg, Producer, Engineer, Co-Producer, StudioPersonnel - The Pussycat Dolls, MainArtist - J.D. Andrew, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Jun Ishizeki, Assistant Mixer, StudioPersonnel - RON FAIR, Conductor, Producer, Recording Arranger, AssociatedPerformer - Mike Eleopoulos, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - PCD Orchestra, Strings, AssociatedPerformer - Tyler Coombes, Programmer
℗ 2005 Pussycat Dolls, LLC
Keri Lynn Hilson, ComposerLyricist - Jerry Hey, Horn, Recording Arranger, AssociatedPerformer - Kwamé Holland, ComposerLyricist - BILL SCHNEE, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Tal Herzberg, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Dave Pensado, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Dan Higgins, Horn, AssociatedPerformer - The Pussycat Dolls, MainArtist - Gary Grant, Horn, AssociatedPerformer - Bill Reichenbach, Horn, AssociatedPerformer - Anthony Kilhoffer, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - RON FAIR, Producer, String Arranger, Additional Producer, Unknown, Other, AssociatedPerformer - Kwame "K1 Mil", Producer - Vanessa Brown, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer - Ariel Chobaz, Assistant Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Mike Eleopoulos, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - PCD Orchestra, Strings, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2005 Pussycat Dolls, LLC
Jerry Hey, Conductor, Trumpet, Recording Arranger, AssociatedPerformer - BILL SCHNEE, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Tal Herzberg, Producer, Engineer, Co-Producer, StudioPersonnel - Joel Peskin, Woodwinds, AssociatedPerformer - LARRY WILLIAMS, Woodwinds, AssociatedPerformer - Frank Wolf, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Luis Conte, Percussion, AssociatedPerformer - Herbie Mann, ComposerLyricist - Vinnie Colaiuta, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Carl Sigman, ComposerLyricist - Larry Hall, Trombone, Trumpet, AssociatedPerformer - Dan Higgins, Woodwinds, AssociatedPerformer - Brian Vibberts, Assistant Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Andy Martin, Trombone, AssociatedPerformer - The Pussycat Dolls, MainArtist - Wayne Bergeron, Trumpet, AssociatedPerformer - Bruce Otto, Trombone, AssociatedPerformer - Gary Grant, Trumpet, AssociatedPerformer - Bill Liston, Woodwinds, AssociatedPerformer - Brandon Fields, Woodwinds, AssociatedPerformer - J.D. Andrew, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - RON FAIR, Producer, String Arranger, AssociatedPerformer - Michael C. Ross, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Mike Valerio, AssociatedPerformer, Bass (Vocal) - Mike Eleopoulos, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - PCD Orchestra, Strings, AssociatedPerformer - Bobby Zimmitti, Timpani, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2005 Pussycat Dolls, LLC
Jerry Hey, Horn, AssociatedPerformer - ED COBB, ComposerLyricist - Tal Herzberg, Producer, Engineer, Co-Producer, Bass, AssociatedPerformer, StudioPersonnel - TONY MASERATI, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Lamont Dozier, ComposerLyricist - Dan Higgins, Horn, AssociatedPerformer - Eddie Holland, ComposerLyricist - Brian Holland, ComposerLyricist - The Pussycat Dolls, MainArtist - Gary Grant, Horn, AssociatedPerformer - Bill Reichenbach, Horn, AssociatedPerformer - John Goux, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - J.D. Andrew, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Jun Ishizeki, Assistant Mixer, StudioPersonnel - RON FAIR, Producer, Keyboards, Recording Arranger, AssociatedPerformer - Big Tank, Producer - Mike Eleopoulos, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - PCD Orchestra, Strings, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2005 A&M Records
BILL SCHNEE, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Tal Herzberg, Producer, Engineer, Co-Producer, StudioPersonnel - Anthony Newley, ComposerLyricist - Leslie Bricusse, ComposerLyricist - Jack Joseph Puig, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Dean Nelson, Mix Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Alex Al, AssociatedPerformer, Bass (Vocal) - Abe Laboriel Jr., Drum, AssociatedPerformer - The Pussycat Dolls, MainArtist - RON FAIR, Producer, Organ, Piano, Harmonica, Recording Arranger, AssociatedPerformer - Mike Eleopoulos, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - PCD Orchestra, Strings, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2005 Pussycat Dolls, LLC
Album 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. There is no pretense that Kimberly, Carmit, Ashley, Melody, and Jessica are there for anything besides filling out the illusion that this is a real performing musical group and providing some serious eye candy for a group that is all about the visuals. The great thing about PCD is that the producers and songwriters behind the album -- and, since this is a big-budget urban dance-pop album in the mid-2000s, there are many credited writers and producers -- are eager to play with the Pussycat Dolls' hyper-sexual image, creating a sleek, sexy sound ideal for both nightclubs and strip joints across this great land. And, at least at first, the songs are about how irresistibly sexy the Pussycat Dolls are, starting with the genius hit single "Don't Cha," where Nicole and the rest of the Pussycats strut around, taunting a hapless man with such come-ons as "Don't cha wish your girlfriend was hot like me/Don't cha wish your girlfriend was a freak like me." There has never been a sex song quite as knowingly ironic yet undeniably sexy as this, and for a while the album keeps the momentum up, first with will.i.am's "Beep," a rewrite of Black Eyed Peas' "My Humps," except this is funny, not embarrassing, and since Nicole is sexier than the Peas' Fergie, it's also sultrier. Timbaland's "Wait a Minute" is in the same vein and, for a brief moment, it seems like PCD will be that rare thing: a mainstream club/dance album devoted to nothing but dance songs. Then, reality comes crashing in with the fourth song, "Stickwitu," the inevitable romantic slow jam whose sappiness undercuts the joyous carnal celebration of the first three songs. Although the rest of the album has more dance tunes than ballads -- and some catchy ones, too, like Beyoncé-styled "I Don't Need a Man" -- the album never quite recovers, since the fantasy of a girl group that's only it for the sex, not love, has been ruined. Since that fantasy is the very reason the Pussycat Dolls exist as either a dance troupe or a pop group, it's a bit of a disappointment, but PCD is still worthwhile because there enough good cuts to make it a fun soundtrack to parties or strip clubs, even if there aren't quite enough to make this the camp classic that the beginning of the album suggests it could have been.
© Stephen Thomas Erlewine /TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 12 track(s)
- Total length: 00:44:14
- Main artists: The Pussycat Dolls
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: Pussycat Dolls
- Genre: Pop/Rock Pop
© 2005 Pussycat Dolls, LLC ℗ 2005 Pussycat Dolls, LLC
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