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THE PUSSYCAT DOLLS
PCD
A&M/Interscope
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The Pussycat Dolls are a Los Angeles–based troupe of burlesque dancers; populated by veterans of the music-video circuit, the group have attracted attention in the last few years because of the high-profile performers — including Gwen Stefani, Christina Aguilera, and Paris Hilton — who’ve joined them on stage. PCD is the result of the Dolls’ inevitable hankering for some crossover shine. As they’ve proved in their live show, these women are savvy buzzmakers; their collaborators here include top-flight producers like Cee-Lo Green, will.i.am of the Black Eyed Peas, Timbaland, and Rich Harrison of "Crazy in Love" fame. They do well by each: "Wait a Minute," the Timbo joint, throbs with fuzzy funk guitars and sleazy brass blasts, and Harrison’s "I Don’t Need a Man" has so much chattering percussive action, it could dance itself to death. But though pop is a hustle in which faking it should always be rewarded, it’s also a form in which personality is beyond crucial, as these performers should know. And with the exception of "Don’t Cha" — the sly radio hit about how your girlfriend could be so much freakier — these thoroughly lightweight justifications for steamy music videos run dangerously low on it. Kiss 108’s Jingle Ball 2005 with Pussycat Dolls + Kanye West + Fall Out Boy + Click Five + more | Tsongas Arena, 300 Martin Luther King Jr. Way, Lowell | Dec 13 | 978.848.6900
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