The Pussycat Dolls are such a good idea that you can’t believe that no one thought of it before. Or why it took more than 10 years for them to become a worldwide sensation with the song, “Don’t Cha” and their modern take on t&a.
The Dolls were the brainchildren of Christina Applegate and choreographer Robin Antin way back in 1993, when the two realized that Los Angeles could support a classy burlesque troupe that danced to contemporary songs. By 1995, Antin had formed the group, with girls in lingerie and pin-up costumes dancing to standards from the 1950s and 1960s sung by a series of guest vocalists.
Their first residency was at the Viper Room, which was small and exclusive enough to attract a celebrity clientele and desperately in need of an image upgrade due to River Phoenix’s death outside the club. They reigned there for six years, until they moved up the street to the larger and equally storied Strip venue, The Roxy. By then, word of mouth, pictorials in magazines like Playboy and semi-regular performers such as Carmen Electra, who was in the show for two years, had made them something of a Los Angeles institution.
Then, in 2003, music industry giants Jimmy Iovine and Ron Fair caught their show and the future got even brighter. Determined to make them a recording group, Iovine and his label, Interscope, got involved. The first decision? To recast the girls so that the Pussycat Dolls could become a full-fledged franchise. In the reinvention process, the only Doll to make the cut was Carmin Bachar.
When the casting was completed, Nicole Scherzinger, who was part of another manufactured group, Eden’s Crush, was the designated vocalist. Along with her and Bachar, the Dolls’ included Kimberly Wyatt, Ashley Roberts, Jessica Sutta, and Melody Thornton. In addition to the live shows, they began to branch out into TV, getting gigs in shows like Vegas and movies like Charlie’s Angels. They also found their way onto the soundtracks for A Shark’s Tale and Shall We Dance? (which also featured their first single, “Sway”) and began selling branded merchandise covered in PDC logos.
Then they recorded “Don’t Cha” and all hell broke loose. A cleaned-up cover of a minor hit by Tori Alamaze, its beat and blazing guest performance by Busta Rhymes (not to mention a very sexy video) made the song a mainstay of clubs and radio airplay throughout the world during the summer of 2005. Ultimately it won Billboard Magazine’s Hot Dance Music/Club Play Single of the Year.
The single also primed the pump for the group's debut album, PCD. It got as high as number five on the Billboard chart, and spawned six singles. The most successful was the second single, “Stickwitu,” which was nominated for a Grammy and sold over three million copies (including digital sales).
The winning formula has kept The Pussycat Dolls busy ever since. They’ve toured both as headliners and as a support act for artists such as The Black-Eyed Peas. To capitalize on the name, they launched a second troupe of dancers who perform at the Pussycat Dolls Lounge next to Pure Nightclub in Caesars Palace on the Las Vegas Strip. They even chose their next Doll on a TV reality show, Pussycat Dolls Present: The Search for the Next Doll.
The ratings were good, and the winner, Asia Nitollano, good enough to carry a lot of the vocals. But the ploy backfired weeks after the show was over when Nitollano decided to go solo and quit the group, delaying the release of the second album, Double The Trouble, until late 2007. Next time, you can bet the Pussycat Dolls will make prospective members not just sing, “Stickwitu” but mean it.
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