Pussycat Dolls: PCD
By Keith Boykin
September 13, 2005 01:53 AM
in music

I get new music and books all the time in the mail. Most of them I never get to until months later, and much of it, quite frankly, is not very good. So imagine my surprise last week when I got an amazingly good CD from, of all people, the Pussycat Dolls.

You remember the Pussycat Dolls, recently famous for the single "Don't Cha," which is also featured on their new CD called "PCD." Well it turns out that every song on the CD is hot. They're mostly modern uptempo pop and R&B tunes, but they all work. Even their remakes of Soft Cell's "Tainted Love" and Donna Summer's "Hot Stuff" sound like whole new songs. Originally I expected this sexy girl group would fade away faster than you can say Spice Girls, but unlike their 90s British predecessors, the Pussycat Dolls can actually sing. They may not look like the next Destiny's Child, but they sing just as well, and they bring lively, entertaining music to a generation of young music lovers.

My favorite song is a song called "Right Now," which sounds like a show tune straight from the latest Broadway musical. But I also love the soulful "Feeling Good," which is amazingly good. I'm rarely impressed by pop music, but this is one of those times. PCD is, without doubt, one of the best new CDs I've heard in a long time. Buy it now!

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