PCD
来了!来了!
最会骚首弄舞 最爱抓遍全球排行
小野猫
英美 5国冠军 欧洲15国Top 10
全美夜店女神总集合, 全球乐坛创意指数最高标
唱片保育人士的最新骄傲 非 莫属
小野猫 大来头
洛杉矶日落大道上,电影明星强尼戴普经营的人气夜店Viper Room,旗下六只小野猫,每逢周二爆满演出 一票难求 有钱也买不到
自Spice Girls/辣妹合唱团,带起个性女子乐团风潮,一波波女力大对抗的戏码,就在流行乐坛一幕幕上演,然而能与之较劲,唱出让男人脸红心跳的姊姊妹妹站起来之续曲,拥有够呛词句、够骚舞姿、够辣身材的Pussycat Dolls,立刻卡位递补空缺。曾在多组乐团MTV以及广告拍摄中,献出精湛舞技与教学指导的Robin Antin,招募多位优秀女舞者,展开一连串专业的演出,自1995年开始,在强尼戴普所经营的好莱坞着名夜店Viper Room中表演,让慕名而来的座上嘉宾星光熠熠耀眼无比。辛勤耕耘近十年岁月,终被A&M厂牌两大巨头Jimmy Iovine与Ron Fair赏识,成功获签环球音乐集团旗下,于2004年发声收录于「鲨鱼黑帮」、「来跳舞吧!」原声带中,作为出击前的暖身。
在乐迷殷切企盼下,PCD终于推出首张专辑,Jimmy Iovine、Ron Fair与Robin Antin全员出动,亲自为PCD操刀製作。首支直冲流行单曲榜Hot 100亚军的"Don’t Cha",热辣辣的舞姿加上女性主义强烈的词汇,找来嘻哈狂人Busta Rhymes助阵,让她们成为新一代的辣妹劲团,更声势惊人的一举空降英国金榜与节奏蓝调榜双料冠军;延续快意嘻哈/饶舌乐风的"Beep",搭配多部合声的节奏蓝调韵律,以及红透半边天的黑眼豆豆团长will.i.am帮腔,势必再掀销售/点播热潮;美国嘻哈界呼风唤雨的全才製作人Timbaland,与PCD合力用"Wait A Minute"一曲,将派对气氛炒到最高点;取样’黄’后Donna Summer经典曲"Hot Stuff"的"Hot Stuff (I Want You Back)",谱化出一道五彩缤纷迪斯可复古气氛;结合两首风格迥异老歌而成的"Tainted Love/Where Did Our Love Go",绝对让乐迷有着拍桉叫绝的聆听感受;加值收录李察吉尔与珍妮佛洛佩兹主演电影「来跳舞吧!」中,最受欢迎的老歌新唱佳作"Sway",以及全新改版首度收录曲"Flirt"。一张很跳的专辑,热闹缤纷洒下曲曲耐听旋律,PCD为舞池/乐坛提供猫般灵巧节奏的欢愉舞动音子!
(博客来)
There's a kind of beautifully perverse brilliance to the Pussycat Dolls. Not only are they a sextet who got their start as neo-burlesque dancers in Los Angeles, but they make no bones about being a gleefully manufactured dance-pop act. Open the booklet for their 2005 debut, PCD, and their artificiality is made clear: the first page reads "All lead and background vocals by Nicole Scherzinger," a former member of Eden's Crush, the failed prefab teen pop group assembled on the WB's pre-American Idol reality music show Popstars. There is no pretense that Kimberly, Carmit, Ashley, Melody, and Jessica are there for anything besides filling out the illusion that this is a real performing musical group and providing some serious eye candy for a group that is all about the visuals. The great thing about PCD is that the producers and songwriters behind the album — and, since this is a big-budget urban dance-pop album in the mid-2000s, there are many credited writers and producers — are eager to play with the Pussycat Dolls' hyper-sexual image, creating a sleek, sexy sound ideal for both nightclubs and strip joints across this great land. And, at least at first, the songs are about how irresistibly sexy the Pussycat Dolls are, starting with the genius hit single "Don't Cha," where Nicole and the rest of the Pussycats strut around, taunting a hapless man with such come-ons as "Don't cha wish your girlfriend was hot like me/Don't cha wish your girlfriend was a freak like me." There has never been a sex song quite as knowingly ironic yet undeniably sexy as this, and for a while the album keeps the momentum up, first with will.i.am's "Beep," a rewrite of Black Eyed Peas' "My Humps," except this is funny, not embarrassing, and since Nicole is sexier than the Peas' Fergie, it's also sultrier. Timbaland's "Wait a Minute" is in the same vein and, for a brief moment, it seems like PCD will be that rare thing: a mainstream club/dance album devoted to nothing but dance songs. Then, reality comes crashing in with the fourth song, "Stickwitu," the inevitable romantic slow jam whose sappiness undercuts the joyous carnal celebration of the first three songs. Although the rest of the album has more dance tunes than ballads — and some catchy ones, too, like Beyoncé-styled "I Don't Need a Man" — the album never quite recovers, since the fantasy of a girl group that's only it for the sex, not love, has been ruined. Since that fantasy is the very reason the Pussycat Dolls exist as either a dance troupe or a pop group, it's a bit of a disappointment, but PCD is still worthwhile because there enough good cuts to make it a fun soundtrack to parties or strip clubs, even if there aren't quite enough to make this the camp classic that the beginning of the album suggests it could have been.