What's New, Pussycat (Dolls)?

[SirFozzie]

*shakes head* Yeah......

First there's turning a burlesque act into an R&B act.. I can dig that. I even have a few of their songs from ITunes (someone posted a breakdown, it was about 50/50 that their songs were either.. "I'm a ho", or "I'm not a ho". But now.. to dolls for girls ages 6-9? Yeahhhhhhh..



When Robin Antin, a Los Angeles choreographer, decided 11 years ago to assemble a burlesque-inspired nightclub revue, she called it the Pussycat Dolls as a tip of the hat to her vision of "making everyone look like a real, living doll."

Interscope Records is taking her words literally.

The label, which, along with Antin, redesigned the act as an R&B-influenced pop group and released its debut CD last year, has struck a deal with Hasbro, the toy maker, to create a line of fashion dolls modeled on its six members. The toy line - designed to mimic the act's playfully risqué style - is expected to be on sale by this year's holiday season. Hasbro executives estimate that the dolls, intended for children from 6 to 9, will carry a retail price of about $14.99, with the label receiving a royalty on sales.

[Karlifornia]

I despise the pussycat dolls.

[stevew]

This type of stuff where they market adult type entertainers to kids happens all the time if you look for it. I mean, you had Jack Black hosting a kids choice awards show on Nick a few weeks ago. He's a funny guy, but a lot of what he does(tenacious D) is pretty R rated, and most of his movies are pg-13.

And then you got Kids Bop which has a more questionable(in theme) song selection each time out of the gate.

[Karlifornia]

And then you got Kids Bop which has a more questionable(in theme) song selection each time out of the gate.

LOL. When I worked at Best Buy, I'd anxiously await the release of each new Kidz Bop just to see what inappropriate lyrics they'd skirt around.

For instance, Hey Ya! by Outkast was given the Kidz Bop treatment, and instead of

"I don't want to meet your momma-I just want to make you cum-a"

It was "Don't want to meet your momma.....don't want to meet your momma!"

[SirFozzie]

This type of stuff where they market adult type entertainers to kids happens all the time if you look for it. I mean, you had Jack Black hosting a kids choice awards show on Nick a few weeks ago. He's a funny guy, but a lot of what he does(tenacious D) is pretty R rated, and most of his movies are pg-13.

And then you got Kids Bop which has a more questionable(in theme) song selection each time out of the gate.

Jack Black had the School of Rock thing, so I can understand him hosting a kids show, kinda, but yeah.. and then parents complain that the kids are seeing too much adult stuff..l MAKE UP YOUR MIND, FOLKS.

Dolls based off of a group where you have to explain to your 1st to 4th graders lyrics like "Don't cha wish your girlfriend was a freak like me?" and "Cause it don't mean a thang if you're looking at my... (beep) I'm a do my thing while your playing wit cha ...(beep)... god I must be getting old.

[rkmsuf]

I'd hit a pussycat doll doll.

[CraigSca]

As a father with a 4 year old girl (I realize they're marketing these to 6-9 year olds), there's no way these dolls get within 100 feet of our house. Same thing with those Bratz dolls.

[Flasch186]

scourges of the earth

[JonInMiddleGA]

Funny they came up here, I just read a little blurb about them this morning in the AJC

Monday, April 17, 2006

The first two in line to see the Pussycat Dolls at a Perimeter Verizon Wireless store Saturday waited patiently for more than four hours.

"They're awesome!" said Snellville fifth-grader Maggie Britt, who screamed loudly as the six women entered the store.

"They're gorgeous!" added sister Shannon Lay, 26. "They're better than the Spice Girls. They sing better. They dance better."

But Buzz asked Maggie if she could name any actual members of the group, who opened for the Black Eyed Peas Saturday night at Chastain Park Amphitheatre. "Sure!" Maggie said. Pause. "Umm ... no."

Started as a burlesque act in Las Vegas a decade ago, the sextet is more concept than music group. Think the Harlem Globetrotters, just shorter and prettier. Indeed, Verizon could have brought in six impostors and few of the 100-plus heavily tween fans there would have known the difference.

Yet they do have three big Top 40 hits, including the mildly raunchy "Don't Cha" and current hit "Beep," which jokingly bleeps out anything that could be construed as sexual.

The lead singer is a beauty named Nicole Scherzinger, formerly of the blink-if-you-missed-it group Eden's Crush. She stood with the other five for media questions and managed to spout off multiple cliches in one breath when asked about advice for others.

"Stay true to yourself," she said helpfully. "Have faith. Don't give up."

[stevew]

As a father with a 4 year old girl (I realize they're marketing these to 6-9 year olds), there's no way these dolls get within 100 feet of our house. Same thing with those Bratz dolls.


Yeah, I have a 7 and a 2 year old, and we aren't doing the Bratz thing either.

[Ksyrup]

Same here.