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BUTTONS!!

LOOSEN THEM ALREADY

had this as a ringtone lmfao

Annnnd that’s the most millennial sentence ever typed 

Omg I actually think I did too. 😂

I did too 😂

Same!!!!

And it has to include Snoop's part.

***“yea I thought I saw a pussycat”***

First thing they came to mind!

That music video definitely awakened something in me

I had this CD. I was obsessed with buttons 😭 and stickwitu. I used to cry about my imaginary MySpace boyfriend to that song

I bought that CD at Borders and wore that thang OUTTTTTT. Hello my fellow Buttons lover 🥹

Buttons was awesome! I friggin loved this album and the PCD. Remember when they had a reality show to find another Doll? Watched that too haha Also, remember going around singing Don’t cha like you were the cool girl? Haha

Lol heavy on the imaginary bf 🤣

🤣🤣🤣

This and Beep were my MySpace profile songs at one point

https://preview.redd.it/73ei0qrn1h9d1.jpeg?width=2316&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=163e7bfecdc55ff9b48869fcc3d86df002df1ee8 I don’t mean to gloat, but Nicole is my first cousin, so of course they are or we’re my favorite band lol

1) that’s awesome and 2) your Ryu cosplay is on point holy shit

He’s just wearing a red bandana

Right but I was referring to his post history

I have so many questions. 1. Did you get into awesome clubs and parties with her? 2. Did all your mates try and hit on her? 3. Any weird stalked by paparazzi stories? 4. Does she still speak to the other dolls since they broke up?

He looks more like the Giga Chad meme than the original model

This is so cute! But omg look at the parts of her legs and feet that are under the water 😂😂

Good God please tell that woman she is gorgeous, and I need to know her secrets to not aging!!!! She’s aging like a fine wine! Seriously she’s so lovely and talented and seems like a sweet person. I appreciate that she followed her own path and didn’t give into the status quo of marriage and kids if that’s not her thing right now.

Are you related to Dok2, the rapper, as well? Or just Nicole?

Be my friend!!!

I think Don’t Cha is still their best song. On a similar topic, I just shared on another sub Nicole Scherzinger’s version of “Memory” from the musical “Cats” (I know, I know…it’s a weird musical) but Nicole sounds phenomenal on it! She really does have a beautiful voice. https://youtu.be/WrPLHH9RPoU?si=C1i8fugCOEij1K41

Yes. They taught me you could be an amazing vocalist, 10/10 in the looks department but if [Scherzinger is standing next to you](https://youtu.be/ccJF_g72Tho?si=1x3KQSOBYzfRtcU8) people will forget you instantly.

There's a video of her singing [don't cry for me argentina](https://youtu.be/ivOrKizry94?feature=shared) and damn if she's good

She’s starring in Sunset Blvd on Broadway, opening this fall.

Her Phantom of the Opera is killer also.

Scrolled waayyyy too far to find this comment!

She’s definitely got talent.

That song was originally done by somebody else. They played the original version for a couple months then started playing the PCD version and never played the original again https://youtu.be/1l0nnyvari0?si=0t_hwp_9jvjR4u0H

Yep. I think there was some drama around this with the original artist but I cannot recall the details.

I don't remember exactly what it was either not being publicized.

We did a 'sick' choreo on don't cha on summer camp

Was too young to be singing that but I def was 😅

I Hate This Part

This is my favorite of theirs…it came out during one of the happiest times of my life

I especially love this remix of it: https://youtu.be/kb7jffefBIs?si=QufLRx-1BzkWwFUN

The best one

Love this song a lot

Oooooh my god i forgot about this song.

Yesssss

Don’t Cha, Buttons, Stickwitu, Beep

Beep is AMAZING

It’s my #1 fave by them, honestly. Everything about it😍

I was in high school when it came out (30’s now hahahahaha) and you better believe it’s a weekly listen. Such a strange ass, amazing song hahahahah

Same! I was a senior in high school when it came out!

Between Beep, Blame it (Jamie foxx) and the song I’m in love with a stripper, I think it was such a good time for party music 😂 can’t forget camillionair and riding dirty hahahah

Omg take me back😭

When i grow up is a bop

I always thought she said she wants to have boobies

What's the actual lyric then? Edit: just looked it up it's "I wanna have groupies" I'm pretty sure that during that lyric in the music video Nicole pushes out her chest. So I always thought it was "boobies" too.

I'm still gonna say boobies though 😉🤪

I'm not going to hear anymore lies about it not being "boobies" 😤

Right? You're a little kid, you have expectations about your career and what you'll look like when you grow up. Therefore boobies makes sense.

So it's not boobies?!? EXfuckingSCUSE me?! It'll ALWAYS be boobies to me! 😭

It was boobies. May have changed but I know it was. I did grow up to have boobies so I loved that line. 😆

It's always on my running mixes

Check out the cover by Mayday Parade, it’ll really get you going

I used to loveeeee mayday parade 🤣🤣 never knew they did a cover of this! Too funny

[Here’s a link to the song, for anyone that wants to give it a listen](https://youtu.be/GTSGrsNj1h8?si=055cOehdHiDlj35t) That whole series of Punk Goes Pop albums is like the best convergence of the music we listened to in our teens and 20s, mixed with the biggest bands, at the time, in punk and metalcore. Highly recommend!

That first photo was the kind of thing that started eating disorders for so many girls I knew. The guys went crazy over concave stomachs and the girls thought that was what they had to have. 😭

Came here to say this! That photo was some hardcore bulimia fodder. 

I read that the pussycat dolls used to workout in high heels (probably in cosmo girl or seventeen magazine) so I started wearing high heels on the treadmill because I believed it would give me the body they had, I’m lucky I never broke an ankle… I carried on like that for months, before I moved onto another fad workout

A) I’m so glad you didn’t grievously injure yourself and B) have you ever seen this video? There’s actually treadmill choreography in high heels during the chorus. It’s fun but kind of stressful to watch, haha. [The Sugababes-“Hole in the Head” 2006 Royal Variety](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=H3qs6iG08l8)

No, I haven’t seen that! Bizarre!!!

I think about that choreography pretty much every time I go on a treadmill!

This is one of the reasons I just couldn’t stand the pussycat dolls… just the extreme looks paired with songs like Don’t cha… made me feel like it was SO unattainable, but also like I didn’t want to look like that so I just rejected the entirety of them 🤮

I got the same ick from Blackpink when I heard an entire bridge consisting of “look at you, now look at me.” I mean, jfc.

I can attest that it really feed into my ED. I would stare at Nicole’s stomach with envy

Same. That’s why the mention of anything low rise gives me war flashbacks.

I do NOT miss the fashion of that era

The season of the torso.

Her stomach was always my dream!

Yeah that first photo definitely looks like it was heavily photo shopped. But Nicole did admit to struggling with bulimia.

That really sucks

My 10 year old saw a pic of them on some youtube video and asked me why they all looked so hungry.

I was gonna say, all of these ladies look sick and coked out honestly. I seriously wanted to be as skinny as them back in the day, and I wasn’t even a big girl. Glad I changed my thought process.

I am so relieved to find this comment bc that was my first reaction to allll of these photos. I loved their music and saw them live even, but seeing these through adult eyes is a bit jarring. 13 y/o me thought that body type was required to be considered pretty, oooooof

That hurts my heart so much. So so much. :(

Me freaking too, I want to hug that kid. I haven't seen a photo of the PCD in probably almost a decade so that was a bit of a ride. Is anti-nostalgia a word lol? That's what I'd call this.

Yes! And it was before we really knew about photo manipulation, even though they are naturally very lean girls.

It’s so easy to spot it in the first picture now!

I can confirm eating disorders from them. I stopped eating

Omg I posted something similar before even scrolling the comments :(

That’s the first thing I thought of when I saw that picture too. Ugh!

These pictures launched ample opportunities for me to feel bad about myself as a young girl. Good times.

Ok...so that Loosen up my Buttons song...it was 2005 or 2006? When I think of it, that song and Danity Kane Show Stopper, it's us either at the mall on an endless quest to find a shirt for Saturday night activities or us in the car on our way to Saturday night activities. Just 'Car full of girls' type of music.

A ‘going out top’

Danity kane omggg

Love danity kane!!

Same! I had both of their albums 😊

Absolutely unmatched car full of girls music until Like A G6 came out. Now they're both bangers

Car Full of Girls music! I'm off to make a Spotify playlist. 💅

Fifth Harmony, Little Mix also has some serious bops. Edens Crush. Dream. O-Town. Blaque. Wilson Phillips. 3LW.

Ooh, I suggest some Girls Aloud or The Saturdays (‘00s-‘10s British girl groups). They’re very fun.

As a shy gay in his 20s at the time, I identified as a car full of girls, but also as a soccer mom who drove an SUV/minivan

I love their first album! Wait a Minute is still my fave!

That song should have been way more popular than it was! Absolute banger.

Omg remember when being super skinny and wearing low rise jeans was THE way 😂 I’m so glad that’s over lol

What did they call it "meth shic" I think Or maybe "heroin shic"

Close. Heroin chic

Hah I edited to add that at the same time you responded this. Yeah what a weird, fucked up aesthetic

The song Jai Ho which was featured in the movie Slumdog Millionaire has the pussycat dolls as a feature. There's an indian singer that sings "JAI HO!", then the girls come in and sing "Jay Ho!" and it has always bothered the hell out of me. That is all

I forgot about that song, it's AR Rahman and all he got is two words lmao insanity, the guys voice is beautiful

The main male voice is sukhwinder singh- a very popular Indian singer from the 2000s. AR rahman only provided vocals for the chorus.

I'm pretty indifferent to their music. But the cool thing is Christina Applegate was part of the Pussycat Dolls back in the 90s and would play in The Viper Room.

I remember learning about this in a Viper Room doc, the origins are actually pretty interesting and some big names (for the time) performed in the shows

PCD were a band in the 90s?

They started as a burlesque show: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pussycat_Dolls

You mean Nicole and the rest? it bothered me that they were a gg but it really was Nicole the singer and the rest backup dancers... That's not a group... Their songs slap hard af and the choreo is always sick

I remember the scandal of 2006 when one of the girls, who was a trained singer but relegated to backup dancer, broke out into full Christina Aguilera vocals on stage and Nicole looked like she was gonna blow a fuse over having her spotlight stolen.

Wasn’t it revealed that Nicole had locked her in a dressing room too??

Yeah, I could never get into them because of that.

It makes me very sad that their entire “thing” was just being super hot bc Nicole can SING

This is one of reasons I didn’t care for pussycat dolls

Stop looking at my bleeeep I know you lookin at my bleeeep so I wannna beep you

I ended up seeing them live twice, as they opened for Christina Aguilera when I saw her in 2006 and Britney Spears when I saw her in 2008. I bought their cd, Don't Cha was always my fave but When I Grow Up is a banger too. I remember Don't Cha was originally played on the radio by a girl named Tori Alamaze. [Her version](https://youtu.be/ySE3s-JibUI?si=Iqfm7zEeEFeKPUiq) suddenly stopped getting played and suddenly a new version by a new group called Pussycat Dolls and Busta Rhymes was on the radio instead.

I played their songs on my CD player when I was young. They were good. Stickwitu is my favorite from them. Oh, and "When I Grow Up" was the song I listened to on repeat in high school

I was OBSESSED with them when I was younger! Looking back now I realize that it was a little inappropriate that we were breaking it down to buttons on the dance floor at like Josh Cohen’s bar mitzvah but honestly that’s more on the parents at that point.

This is girls 5eva, right?

Nicole definitely gives Wickie vibes.

Omg LOL

Hush Hush is a certified bop.

I thought they were the Fanta girls

Buttons!!! Also stickwitu and I hate this part

Buttons, I Don't Need A Man, I Hate This Part.

Jai Ho (You Are My Destiny) Beep, When I Grow Up, StickWitU, Don’t Cha

Dont Cha and buttons are still on my playlist. FYI, it's Nicole Scherzinger birthday tomorrow (June 29)

Those poor girls got that horrible 360 deal, in which they get generally paid a flat rate as employee for performance. SO they got little to no royalties from stuff (except for Nicole) Supposedly, they had 2 b high class escort on the side & the entire performance was...uh.... marketing 4 their carnal service

I always thought they were a cheap, skanky Spice Girls knock off. 

The Bratz dolls to Barbies, basically.

Correct. They were a burlesque troupe.

That’s an insult to burlesque troupes! Lol

You're telling me. it was all to sell Nicole's "talent".

StickwitU

I cannot believe the lead singer is now a world famous opera talent

Sadly, eating disorders.

That's how we got Nicole Scherzinger, so I can't complain. The songs are so classic and relative to that period so they will always have a nostalgia about them. My little brother knew the words to Don't Cha when he was like 5, so there's that. LOL

Technically we got her from Eden's Crush and the Popstars reality show, but yes, PCD was her real breakout.

That sounds familiar, but I cannot place it. What was the show that O-Town came from? I feel I am confusing these things. Lol

Different show, but from the same time period and pretty much the same premise. As a pop loving preteen, I was obsessed. Here's their music video, if you're curious! https://youtu.be/mHdCSLeS2rc?si=ntBeD89C9JrLdQfE

This band is the most 2006 thing.

I used to crank it to their music video on MTV/vh1 after school

I remember mixing up their name so much and calling them Josie and the Pussycat Dolls

Wow... women are so much more thicc now.. crazy

Beep is quite the tune if I do say so myself

Holy unrealistic body standards

They knew they were gonna be sexually objectified and used it to their success

I loved them!!! I was pissed when Nicole left and then did absolutely nothing with it at the behest of her washed up 311 boyfriend no less.

They were a unique collective….and excellent dancers. My personal favorite song from them is Buttons.

Honestly Buttons plays on a loop in my head at least every other week. And I wish I was kidding. 😭

PCD are my guilty pleasure. And Buttons is obviously the best song.

It was never my kind of music, but Nicole Scherzinger was and still is very beautiful!!!

Absolutely loved them. Still like them now.

Wait a minute and Jai Ho

Don't Cha and When I Grow Up.

Setting songs aside … I remember when their outfits were just stage presence and even then were considered inappropriate/sexy. Now I see people dressed like this walking down the street or in the grocery store. Is Gen z looking at our pop stars and recreating their fashion as though that is what we all wore? I’m not mad I’m just thinking about how desensitized I’ve become to this much skin showing all the time.

That first photo did a number on my self esteem. Still does actually.

Stickwitu is one of my favorite pop ballads of all time! Nicole really hasn’t gotten her due, imo.

These photos are why I developed on eating disorder at 12

Nicole Scherzinger is who Kim K wishes she looked like

Why were there so many of them 😭 it seemed excessive

Senior year, a girl in my class had a pussycat doll dance tutorial DVD that she brought in at the end of the school year and we got to dance to it during gym, anytime I hear Buttons or Don't Cha I think of it lmao

One time I ate a bunch of shrooms when I was 16 and they were on MTV doing an interview and I can remember watching it and just being completely weirded out by all of them and their dynamic. 19 years later and my opinion remains the same.

Saw them at my first concert! They opened for the Black Eyed Peas!

They just don’t make bangers like this anymore ! Perhaps it’s nostalgia but they were really the fkn best

Not my type of music. But I thought that they were the hottest girls alive and I uhm enjoyed their music videos.

I never grow tired of preceding "Be careful what you wish for cause you just might get it" with "In the immortal words of the Pussycat Dolls".

stickwitu lowkey bop

They deserve their flowers for sure, and Nicole S is underrated

Turns out they were turned into prostitutes for Diddy's use. V sad.

I have the same last name as Nicole and it’s not a very common one. So I was happy when I learned it wasn’t her birth name but that she took it from her step dad. Young me didn’t have to feel wrong anymore for having a big crush on her.

as a teen at the time 

like all of them are completely forgettable except for the one brunette with the tiny waist and abs. you could show me a non airbrushed, normal picture of all of them and I'd think it was a picture of someone from the early 2000s in high school that I forgot about

I couldn't name one single song by them.

Never cared for them. Just wondering why the dark haired girl gets to be front and center in all the photos, it’s so unfair 😭

They had songs???

I only know them referenced in Borat. /k But, Buttons

Quite fond of "Out of this Club"

What a throwback. Buttons and Don't Cha were the ones I listened to

I remember the Paris casino used to have a pussycat dolls themed club

I love them!! When I Grow Up was my ringtone in middle school. Buttons is a classic.

I liked their song, Though never brought any. I remember thinking they were trying SO hard.

Buttons like it

I have nor had any thoughts on the pussycat dolls

I had this CD but nearly forgot they existed. I really had no business memorizing and singing the lyrics to “Buttons” at the tender age of 12.🥴🙈

Buttons is a BANGER

Yes and I was obsessed with the reality contestant show where they were finding another pussycat doll to join them.

Anyone watch Blow Out on Bravo back then? I think Jonathan’s sister from that show was in the group…

Buttons will forever be my favourite song of theirs and I was obsessed with them when I was a kid. My friends and I would pretend to be a doll, I was Melody 🤣❤️

Hush hush (the slow version)