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"It's just like our song says, we're 'Hot, Raw, Freaky and Fun.'"
-Pussycat Dolls
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| Having gotten their start as a celebrity-laden rock burlesque troupe, the Pussycat Dolls are now getting attention as a pop-showgirl hybrid. On the strength of their hit single "Don't Cha," they are positioning themselves to reinvent the girl group as we know it. |
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| They sing great, they dance great and they look great -- especially when they do it in skimpy lingerie and garters. The only way we could like the Pussycat Dolls any more than we already do is if they did all that while grilling us a nice big steak, too. |
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The "life story" of the Pussycat Dolls is really the story of a number of talented women. The group was founded by Robin Antin, a respected Hollywood choreographer who turned a lifelong passion for dance into a lucrative career. In 1993, the 32-year-old dancer got some girlfriends together, and within two years the collective began putting on burlesque shows in Los Angeles venues.
Christina Applegate, an early "guest" Doll and former star of TV's Married... with Children, encouraged Antin to have the troupe perform at Johnny Depp's Viper Room in 1995. Depp was so impressed when he saw them rehearse that he asked the Dolls to perform there on a weekly basis. During the early years, Carmen Electra was the group's lead performer, and her presence gave the troupe a double dose of sex appeal and celebrity notoriety. But the host of other singers and dancers that formed part of the Pussycat Dolls over the years -- more than 25 of them -- were no less impressive.
Throughout the mid- to late '90s, the Pussycat Dolls sold out a series of shows at the Roxy, served as the opening act at a Jane's Addiction concert and played the annual Elton John/InStyle Oscar party. It wasn't long before a whole bevy of celebrities wanted to suit up with the Pussycat Dolls and strut their stuff. "I get the most famous people coming up to me begging to know how they can appear with us," Carmen Electra revealed at the time.
Among the troupe's guest performers during this period were Christina Aguilera, Charlize Theron, Gwen Stefani, Britney Spears, and Brittany Murphy. Big names like Dave Navarro, Marilyn Manson, Leonardo DiCaprio, Heather Graham, David Spade, Gene Simmons, and Hugh Hefner were all seen attending Pussycat Dolls shows.
In 2003, Robin Antin decided to totally reinvent the Pussycat Dolls. She held open auditions to form a new troupe that would take the group into a different musical direction.
The new Dolls were Nicole Scherzinger, a native of Honolulu who had become the lead singer of the band Eden's Crush after winning TV's Popstars: USA competition; Carmit Bachar, who had performed on tour with Beyonce, with Ricky Martin as his "La Vida Loca" girl and with Janet Jackson during her infamous Super Bowl halftime show; Melody Thornton; Kimberly Wyatt, Jessica Sutta; and finally, Ashley Roberts, who got her start dancing for Aaron Carter. |
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