Alright, folks, it's a new year and a new outlook. Who cares if the world is falling apart now more than ever? Lady GaGa has a smash hit on her hands!
This week "Just Dance" creeps up from #3 to #2 on the Billboard Hot 100. Lady GaGa, doesn't your man-in-a-wig ass know that #2 is dangerous territory for a newcomer pop/dance diva? Just ask Donna Lewis, Jane Child or Nicki French. They all landed there, had a brief celebratory time in the sun, then were taken to the pop firing range and put down.
Time will tell with this broad, though. One interesting point of note is that "Just Dance" was released a full nine months ago in the States. Are we thinking the same thing? Yep, Lady could have gotten knocked up and shot a kid out by now.
Now, what I'd like to know is how the Pussycat Dolls managed to have another hit! "I Hate This Part" is up from #32 to #21. I heard this song several times while back in Pittsburgh over the holidays, and while it might pass for entertainment in that neck of the woods...
Hmmm. Well, admittedly, it is the one song I kept on my iPod from the horrendous Doll Domination album. But after "Whatcha Think About That"—the one where Missy Elliot says she wants to chew Katy Perry's tuna casserole or something—failed to chart in the Hot 100, I thought these strippers were taken out to the Vegas desert and pushed off a cliff.
"I Hate This Part" is PCD's seventh U.S. Top 40 hit.
Other trash of mention: The Veronicas are up to #29 with "Untouched," Pink is at #35 with "Sober" and Metro Station is #42 with "Seventeen Forever."
God, if I was 17 forever, I'd still be a virgin listening to Cathy Dennis cassette singles. Which wouldn't be so bad if I still had a tape player.
Finally, 15-year-old Miranda Cosgrove's cover of Sugababes' "About You Now" debuts at #51. She performed her by-the-numbers version at the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, and apparently the tween nation went hog wild and began downloading it. Miranda's "About You Now" appears on the soundtrack of her hit Nickelodeon TV show, iCarly.
Lead vocalist for the Pussycat Dolls Nicole Scherzinger has finally shed her inhibition about dressing up in raunchy clothes after she posed topless for Maxim Magazine.
Scherzinger, 30, who had been shy while growing up and had also led a sheltered upbringing, was uncomfortable with the bands raunchy costumes and dance routines, according to Now Magazine.
"The image side of the Dolls was never seedy or sleazy but it was sexual," the Daily Telegraph quoted her as saying.
"At first I wasn't comfortable with that. I'd always be worried about what other people were thinking about me. I was afraid of upsetting my family," she added.
But she seems to have come out of her shyness, as she could be seen posing in tight, figure hugging black dresses and pants in Maxim magazine's December issue. has finally shed her inhibition about dressing up in raunchy clothes after she posed topless for Maxim Magazine.
Scherzinger, 30, who had been shy while growing up and had also led a sheltered upbringing, was uncomfortable with the bands raunchy costumes and dance routines, according to Now Magazine.
"The image side of the Dolls was never seedy or sleazy but it was sexual," the Daily Telegraph quoted her as saying.
"At first I wasn't comfortable with that. I'd always be worried about what other people were thinking about me. I was afraid of upsetting my family," she added.
But she seems to have come out of her shyness, as she could be seen posing in tight, figure hugging black dresses and pants in Maxim magazine's December issue.
Fresh off the heels of their "Whatchu Think About That" video premiere, the Pussycat Dolls released another video for their latest single, "I Hate This Part." Nicole Scherzinger recently admitted to "People" magazine that a few tracks taken off her shelved solo debut project made it onto PCD's current sophomore disc "Doll Domination." So this may or may not explain all the solo Nicole time for
The Pussycat Dolls premiered their second video for latest single 'Whatcha Think About That' last night. It is the latest new track to be released from their underperforming sophomore album 'Doll Domination'. The video and song features Missy Elliott and was directed by Diane Martel.
There isn't one single in the Top 10 of Billboard's Hot 100 this week that drops out. Below that, Ne-Yo's "Miss Independent" rises to #11, Gavin Rossdale's "Love Remains The Same" is up to #27 and Jennifer Hudson's "Spotlight" finally cracks the Top 40 at #36. Complete snooze.
So let's then turn our attention to the album chart, where Pussycat Dolls appear to have used up about eight of their nine lives at this point.
Pussycat D'luv previously pointed out that this album might be troubled, and some commenter tried to give the sass. Alas, all stripper poles start to rust after awhile...a thought that even makes me want to hurl.
Doll Domination enters the album chart at #4 this week, with dismal sales of only 79,000. By comparison, Metallica's Death Magnetic has already been out three weeks, but still sold over 53,000 more copies than the Pussycat Dolls did.
It's kind of a good point to make (again): radio can shove an abysmal single like "When I Grow Up" down listeners throats and it might go Top 10—and just barely in this case—but when it comes time for consumers to pony up cash for a whole album, those 30-second clips on iTunes had better sound damn good.
The U.S. Top 10:
1. "Whatever You Like" - T.I.*5 weeks* *airplay gainer* 2. "So What" - Pink 3."Love Lockdown'" - Kanye West 4. "Disturbia" - Rihanna 5. "Paper Planes'" - M.I.A 6. "Hot N Cold" - Katy Perry 7. "Can't Believe It'" - T-Pain feat. Lil Wayne 8. "Closer'" - Ne-Yo 9. "Love Story'" - Taylor Swift 10. "American Boy" - Estelle feat. Kanye West
The Pussycat Dolls' second single "Whatcha Think About That" off their forthcoming Doll Domination album has hit the airwaves. (I should know, I heard it last week while driving to pick up Chinese takeout.)
After it was added to iTunes on Tuesday, I couldn't help noticing the resemblance to the single cover for Girls Aloud's "Sexy! No No No..."
Of course, the main difference being that PCD look like two-dollar hookers, while Girls Aloud probably charge 20 and make you wear a condom.
Meanwhile, "Whatcha Think About That" isn't half bad, and actually kind of makes up for the banal atrocity that is "When I Grow Up." It also contains a rap from Missy Elliott, with the line: "Up in that club it's just me and my girls/Play like Katy Perry, kissing on girls."
Stay classy, Missy!
SIDE NOTE: To read grown men poetically masturbating over Girls Aloud's new single "The Promise"—which in D'luv's book doesn't hold a candle to last year's "Call The Shots—go here (Adem With An E) and here (XO's Middle Eight).
Alright, folks, it's a new year and a new outlook. Who cares if the world is falling apart now more than ever? Lady GaGa has a smash hit on her hands!
Now, what I'd like to know is how the Pussycat Dolls managed to have another hit! "I Hate This Part" is up from #32 to #21. I heard this song several times while back in Pittsburgh over the holidays, and while it might pass for entertainment in that neck of the woods...
"I Hate This Part" is PCD's seventh U.S. Top 40 hit.
