Few musical acts have resumes as varied as that of the Pussycat Dolls. In addition to a "Stardoll" website, where kids can create their own Pussycat Doll ("Aimed at girls aged seven to 17")...and the Pussycat Dolls Lounge in Las Vegas ("Sin City's sexiest spot!")...and a reality TV show on the CW network ("Canceled due to low ratings")...well, in addition to all of that and more, the PCD are also a real, live recording group. You know, sort of.
Naysayers claim the PCD are, in reality, little more than lead singer Nicole Scherzinger and some great marketing. At Framed, of course, our focus is on music videos, so we really don't want to say too much about the music itself. Other than, whenever you get a bunch of really hot girls to dress and pose suggestively: well, heck, that's a song in itself.
'Nuff said!
Our video this week is "I Hate This Part," from PCD's recent Doll Domination album. It shows Nicole pretending to play the piano while the rest of the PCD troupe looks good in situations that have nothing to do with anything. A wolf appears. Nicole goes for a walk in the desert. It rains. The glaciers recede. The reader looks for a blog that will hold his or her interest, if only momentarily.
That's pretty much the whole video. Is it art of the highest order? Well, that's up to you, and we eagerly await your verdict.
1 -- "Now...what's the best way to wave down a car? Ideas?"
2 -- How many more women will be forced to live in abandoned cars because they're just not good-looking enough to attract a man? Damn you, society, how many more??!
3 -- "Boy, it would sure suck if this was a metaphor or something."
4 -- "I'd best recomb my hair. Because I hate this part."
5 -- Five simultaneous field goals brought the Cardinals back from the 13-0 deficit!
6 -- Seriously. How do you not tilt this machine?
7 -- Whoa! Nicole also possesses the power of Grayskull!
8 -- "But if you keep up this rain, Mr. Director, our tops will become impossibly clingy. Did you ever think of that?!"
9 -- "And if you do my bidding, sand, I promise to...um...let you lay on the beach, inert and unthinking? How's that sound?"
10 -- "Will the blogger human go with the obvious 'wagging their tails' joke here and thus insult my people?"
11 -- "Something about bones, blogger human. Bones. What, do I have to take you by the paw?"
12 -- C'mon. Let's rethink that gay marriage thing right now!
13 -- "We must leave you now, Earth. And though our journey to the ice worlds of Aldeberan promises to be harrowing, we shall return with even skimpier wardrobes! We promise!"