Pussycat Dolls Appreciation #1: Doll Domination is here.
Welcome to the Pussycat Dolls Appreciation Thread!
Information:
Pussycat Dolls is an American pop girl group, and dance ensemble founded by choreographer Robin Antin in 1995.
The group began as a burlesque troupe based in Los Angeles, before being "re-cast" as a music group in 2003, then diversified into Reality TV programmes, a Las Vegas act and venue, and other ventures overseen by Antin and her partners.
The music group released their first single in 2004, and have gone on to international commercial success. They recently released their second studio album Doll Domination on September 23, 2008.
Discography:
PCD
Track Listing:
01) "Don't Cha" (featuring Busta Rhymes) - 4:34
02) "Beep" (featuring will.i.am) - 3:48
03) "Wait a Minute" (featuring Timbaland) - 3:41
04) "Stickwitu" - 3:26
05) "Buttons" - 3:45
06) "I Don't Need a Man" - 3:39
07) "Hot Stuff (I Want You Back)" - 3:46
08) "How Many Times, How Many Lies" - 3:55
09) "Bite The Dust" - 3:32
10) "Right Now" - 2:27
11) "Tainted Love"/"Where Did Our Love Go" - 3:25
12) "Feelin' Good" - 4:19
International Bonus Tracks:
01) "Sway" - 3:12
02) "Flirt" - 2:56
03) "We Went as Far as We Felt like Going" - 3:50
04) "Don't Cha" (Live Version) (Japanese Edition) - 3:32
Doll Domination
Track Listing:
01) "When I Grow Up" - 4:05
02) "Bottle Pop" - 3:30
03) "Whatcha Think About That" - 3:48
04) "I Hate This Part" - 3:39
05) "Takin' Over the World" - 3:35
06) "Out of This Club" - 4:08
07) "Who's Gonna Love You" - 4:00
08) "Happily Never After" - 4:49
09) "Magic" - 3:41
10) "Halo" - 5:24
11) "In Person" - 3:36
12) "Elevator" - 3:41
13) "Hush Hush" - 3:48
14) "Love the Way You Love Me" - 3:21
15) "Whatchamacallit" - 4:20
16) "I'm Done" - 3:18
01) "If I Was a Man" (Introducing Jessica Sutta) - 3:31
02) "Space" (Introducind Melody Thornton) - 3:08
03) "Don't Wanna Fall in Love" (Introducing Kimberly Wyatt ) - 3:21
04) "Played" (Introducing Ashley Roberts) - 3:20
05) "Until U Love U" (Introducing Nicole Scherzinger) - 3:39
Members:
Ashley Roberts
(2001 - present)
Quote:
Roberts was born in Phoenix, Arizona and attended Shadow Mountain High School. She began dancing at the age of three and singing at the age of eight. Her father was a drummer who played for the Mamas and the Papas. He later became a car dealer. Her mother was a Pilates instructor and they both inspired her to be a part of the entertainment industry.
During high school summer breaks she had traveled to the West Coast to study modern dance. After high school she moved permanently to Los Angeles. She appeared in television commercials and a Counting Crows music video for "Accidentally in Love".
She has also appeared in the gameshow "Rock and a Hard Place", hosted by Meatloaf, with fellow PCD members, Melody Thornton and Carmit Bachar.
She has been noted to look like actress, Reese Witherspoon.
Within six months of her move she had joined the Pussycat Dolls. After three years of performing with the burlesque group she moved on to join the recording Pussycat Dolls along with members Nicole Scherzinger, Melody Thornton, Jessica Sutta and Kimberly Wyatt.
As with the other group members she is a salaried employee of Interscope Records. Roberts was given the title of 'Angel Doll' as the fun-loving member of the group and has also been called the bombshell of the group.
She also recorded a solo song titled "Played", like all the Pussycat Dolls for the Deluxe Edition of their second studio album Doll Domination.
Nicole Scherzinger
(2003 - present)
Quote:
Scherzinger appeared on the second album by Days of the New, released in 1999. She also recorded two songs with Barry Drake's F.O.B, which were released in 2001.
In 2001, Scherzinger competed in the premiere season of The WB's television show Popstars, on which she earned a spot in the all-girl pop group Eden's Crush. She became one of the main vocalists for the group. The group's 2001 single "Get Over Yourself (Goodbye)" peaked at number one in sales and hit the top ten on Billboard Hot 100.
"Love This Way" was the second single chosen from the Popstars album; however, their record company, London-Sire Records, folded and the group eventually disbanded.
Songwriter Kara DioGuardi contributed one track to the album, and later went on to co-write with Scherzinger for PCD, Doll Domination and Her Name Is Nicole.
In May 2003, Scherzinger joined the Pussycat Dolls burlesque troupe, who were being re-cast as recording artists. She had first seen them performing on The Late Show with David Letterman in November 2002, where Carmen Electra sang "Big Spender" from the Bob Fosse musical Sweet Charity.
In 2006, Scherzinger said "It caught my eye because I’d played Velma Kelly in [Fosse's] Chicago in college."
The Pussycat Dolls now have world-wide status as a popular singing group, with "Don't Cha", "Buttons" and "Stickwitu" as top five hits in the U.S.. The album PCD went double-platinum in 2006. Scherzinger sang nearly all lead vocals on the album, with Carmit Bachar and Melody Thornton also contributing.
Scherzinger is the only group member with songwriting credits on PCD; she co-wrote "I Don't Need a Man" with Kara DioGuardi and producer Rich Harrison, and co-wrote "Buttons" with producer Sean Garrett. Another collaboration with DioGuardi, "Flirt", became a B-side to "Stickwitu" and a bonus track on PCD.
In 2006, Scherzinger toured with the Pussycat Dolls for their album promotion. It was revealed in 2006 that the Dolls are salaried employees of Interscope Records, giving the label a high level of control over the group's finances and business decisions.
She was ranked at number twenty-two on Maxim's Hot 100 in 2006 and twenty-one in 2007.
Scherzinger appeared on the March 2008 cover of Men's Fitness magazine.[13] She was called the lead or queen doll. Her latest single with the Pussycat Dolls is called "Whatcha Think About That" and it features rapper Missy Elliot.
Jessica Sutta
(2002 - present)
Quote:
Sutta was born in Miami, Florida.
She has Irish and Polish heritage.She grew up with two older brothers, Bill and Kevin.
She started dance classes at the age of three. She went to the New World School of the Arts at age fourteen to study dance.
She tore the ACL on both knees and switched to theater studies, before finally returning to dance.
She joined the Miami Heat dance team in 1999 and became captain in 2001. Her mother is Catholic and her father is Jewish.
She came to the attention of choreographer Robin Antin, who cast her with the Pussycat Dolls in 2002.
As with all the other Dolls, Sutta is a salaried employee of Interscope Records. She is nicknamed "Pin-up Doll" for her pin-up styles.
Sutta sang co-lead along with Carmit Bachar and Ashley Roberts in the "Stickwitu" single b-side, "Santa Baby".
After the departure of Carmit Bachar from the group, Jessica took the parts that Carmit used to sing.
Now Jessica sings all of the choruses, including Buttons, I Don't Need a Man, and Beep.
Before Carmit left the group, Carmit and Melody used to co-lead with Nicole. After Carmit's departure, Jessica and Melody co-leads with Nicole.
She also recorded a solo song "If I Was A Man" like all the Pussycat Dolls for the Deluxe Edition of their second studio album Doll Domination. The song is produced by Ron Fair.
Melody Thornton
(2003 - present)
Quote:
Thornton graduated from Camelback High School in Phoenix, Arizona. She was born to a Mexican mother and an African-American father.
Her talent was first discovered at an elementary school talent show when she sang Mariah Carey's remake of Badfinger's "Without You".
She saw the Pussycat Dolls on MTV and heard they were auditioning for a new group member. Thornton went to the audition and was recruited in December 2003.
For her audition, Thornton only sang and was still accepted into the group. As with the other Dolls, she is a salaried employee of Interscope Records.
Her nick name for the group is "The Baby Doll" because she is the youngest of the group.
Thornton started her solo career collaborating with rapper Jibbs in the song "Go Too Far" in his debut album Jibbs featuring Jibbs.
She has stated on her Official MySpace Blog and in several interviews for fans to keep an ear out for her music. Melody stated that she would like to have her solo album released soon with collaborations with many artists that she admires but are not very famous.
In an interview at the Cabanna Club in Hollywood, she confirmed that she has been recording and writing songs for her solo efforts.
Thornton recently stated on an interview with Chilsagirl that she would like to have a few Spanish songs to show her heritage and to get her learning her Spanish background.
She also recorded a solo song "Space"(written by Jayren Lee) like all the Pussycat Dolls for the Deluxe Edition of their second studio album Doll Domination.
Kimberly Wyatt
(2002 - present)
Quote:
Wyatt was born in Warrensburg, Missouri, a university town near Kansas City.
Her father is a trucker and her mother travels with him.
Before dancing, she attempted Tee-Ball, basketball and Brownies, which ended unsuccessfully. Wyatt began dancing at the age of seven.
When she was fourteen, she earned a scholarship to study in New York's Joffrey Ballet and the Broadway Dance Center.
At the age of seventeen, she graduated from high school and flew to Las Vegas to audition for cruise ship and casino shows. She worked in a revue on Royal Caribbean's Explorer of the Seas, which was the world's largest cruise ship at the time.
She visited most of Southern Europe.
She moved to Los Angeles in 2001 to pursue her dance career, despite an offer from the Hubbard St. Dance Co. in Chicago. In 2002, Wyatt became one of the dancers on the comedy sketch show, Cedric the Entertainer Presents.
In 2003, Wyatt participated in the Black Eyed Peas' video "Shut Up", and was the choreographer and dancer for a music video for Nick Lachey's solo album. During the video shoot, choreographer Robin Antin, founder of the Pussycat Dolls, asked Wyatt to join the group.
Like her fellow members, she is a salaried employee of Interscope Records. She was nicknamed the "Flexy Doll" because of her impressive standing oversplit.
In 2008, Wyatt competed against other celebrities on the VH1 reality show Celebracadabra.
She also recorded a solo song "Don't Wanna Fall in Love" for the Deluxe Edition of their second studio album Doll Domination.
Former Members:
Carmit Bachar
(1995 - 2008)
Quote:
Bachar was born in Los Angeles, her father is Israeli and her mother is of Dutch, Indonesian and Chinese descent.
She was raised in Encino, California. Both parents were dancers; her mother worked as a dance teacher and her father worked with Elvis Presley and Marcel Marceau.
Bachar competed internationally as a rhythmic gymnast for 10 years, and placed 5th in the U.S. Olympic trials in 1992.
During her career competing on the U.S. National Team, she attended Hamilton Academy of Music in Los Angeles, studying music, dance, piano and viola.
Bachar joined the Pussycat Dolls in 1995 while they were a burlesque show. She was a member of the Dolls longer than any other performer.
Most of the current members, including lead singer Nicole Scherzinger and Melody Thornton, were casted by founder Robin Antin in 2002 or 2003, when the group was being transformed into pop recording artists. As with the other Dolls, she was a salaried employee of Interscope Records.
In 2006 and 2007, she toured with the Dolls in support of their multi-million selling album PCD. She was one of the three main lead vocalists in the group.
In February 2008, reports surfaced that she was leaving the Pussycat Dolls to pursue solo projects. On March 8, 2008, Carmit officially announced her departure from the Pussycat Dolls on the group's official website.
Melody Thornton gave Bachar special thanks in the the 'Thank You' section of The Pussycat Doll's newest album 'Doll Domination'
Asia Nitollano
(2007)
Quote:
Nitollano is the daughter of R&B musician Joe Bataan and has a four-year-old daughter. She has African-American, Filipino, and Puerto Rican ancestry.
Before her entry into the group, Nitollano was a dancer for the New York Knicks.
In 2007 she became one of the nine finalists on the CW reality television series, Pussycat Dolls Present: The Search for the Next Doll. During the season finale of the show, she was chosen to become the newest member of the group by judges Robin Antin, Ron Fair and Lil Kim.
According to judge and Pussycat Doll founder Robin Antin, while Nitollano wasn't the strongest vocalist of the final three, she had greater stage presence and is an all-round better performer due to her experience in dancing.
In July 2007, the Chicago Sun-Times reported that Nitollano, who was never contractually obligated to join the Pussycat Dolls, had decided to embark on a solo career.
According to Dawn Ostroff, head of the CW Network, Nitollano was not fired from the group, but opted to go solo after the final episode of the show was aired or in short, after the season was completely filmed in the summer of 2006.
Nitollano's position in the group had been questioned for months, since she had never performed with the group (except on the finale of the show) and has been absent from the group's high-profile performances, most notably Live Earth, held in July.
She has been working as a model for P. Diddy's clothing line Sean John Women's collection.
As of July 2008 her MySpace page states she is working on a solo album. She is currently signed to A&M.
Music Videos:
I Hate This Part --------------------------------------------------------------------- When I Grow Up
Buttons ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ I Don't Need a Man
Last edited by Melissa Ann; 10-14-2008 at 09:41 PM
They're such a guilty pleasure of mine 
It's so beautiful.
I liked it. Who's that singing with them?
