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Americans Apparently Not Fooled By The Stealth Sorta-Release Of "Her Name Is Nicole"


danielgibson77: pussycat dolls might not make the top 5 albums this week
mauraatidolator: no way
mauraatidolator: haahahahaha
mauraatidolator: oh schadenfreude.
danielgibson77: metallica, ne-yo, demi lovato, kings of leon, then jazmine sullivan and PCD fighting for 5th.
mauraatidolator: nice
mauraatidolator: NICE
mauraatidolator: hahaha
mauraatidolator: oh that restores my faith in the world
mauraatidolator: not the kings of leon bit so much

In case you're wondering, the rest of the top 10 will apparently consist of Joe, Kid Rock, Lil Wayne, and Young Jeezy. [HITS Daily Double]

1:30 PM on Fri Sep 26 2008
By Dan Gibson
242 views, 5 comments

sorta-upcoming releases

"Her Name Is Nicole" Exists, Sort Of

Only Nicole Scherzinger's floptastic solo debut has been rebranded as a Pussycat Dolls album, and retitled Doll Domination, and given a release date of tomorrow! From two writeups of Domination that hit newsstands today: "Not that the Pussycat Dolls are turning realistic. They are, after all, a burlesque dance troupe that was recast as a vocal group featuring Nicole Scherzinger. On the album she is credited with 'all lead and background vocals,' with the other four Dolls providing 'additional' vocals." ... "Scherzinger's solo album was delayed after single 'Baby Love' and other club and download tracks failed to produce sufficient buzz. Four songs originally intended for that project are on Domination." Not that I was wholly fooled by the other four Dolls finally getting identities of sorts, but surely Scherzinger must be wondering why she can only catch a break from the public if she's operating under the umbrella of Robin Antin? [NYT / USA Today]

4:00 PM on Mon Sep 22 2008
By Maura Johnston
435 views, 8 comments

Latest by enriquez the water bottle: @mrbenning: I still have nightmares about that song. more »

art?

The Other Four Pussycat Dolls Are Finally Given Identifying Marks

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not-upcoming releases

Nicole Scherzinger's Solo Album Officially Dead (For Now)

From MTV's piece on the upcoming MTV Movie Awards, which will also feature uncool major-label chumps Coldplay: "The Pussycat Dolls... will also hit the stage during the irreverent awards show, broadcast live this year on Sunday, June 1. The girls will grab the mic from host Mike Myers to perform 'When I Grow Up' from their upcoming second album." I'd probably hold off from using words as, um, concrete as "upcoming" when it comes to talking about album releases featuring La Scherz—at least until someone actually pays money for a copy of Her Name Is Nicole. She seems to be a little, shall we say, jinxed in that department. (Maybe Tori Alamaze put a hex on her?) [MTV]

2:45 PM on Wed May 14 2008
By Maura Johnston
625 views, 4 comments

Latest by GeorgeLang: Perhaps Iovine will realize that the original balance of power in the music video era was correct: talentless but photogenic women posed with power tools or drove shiny red antique cars in clips -- they weren't given recording contracts and more »

videodrone

Nicole Scherzinger Sings National Anthem, Avoids Adding Line About Her Genitalia


Nicole Scherzinger's 45-slowed-down-to-33 performance of "The Star-Spangled Banner" not only features her wearing an outfit that covers her midriff (perhaps that's the cause for the boos at the outset?), it's pretty straight-and-narrow—not to mention relatively in key for an a capella performance. But surely I can't be the only one who thinks that this is step one in her efforts to Kristy Lee Cook it up in a final, last-ditch effort to save her solo album from eternal label purgatory? I can't wait until she wears a red, white, and blue jumpsuit for the Macy's July 4 fireworks display and mashes her way through "God Bless The USA," complete with a posse of Statue of Liberty-dressed Pussycat Dolls behind her. After all, nothing can be worse than her Duran Duran cover, right? More »

1:45 PM on Tue May 6 2008
By Maura Johnston
301 views, 2 comments

Latest by tigerpop: She can sing, but she's no Maya Rudolph. more »

rebrandings

Nicole Scherzinger Gets Another Makeover In The Name Of Saving Her Career

Undaunted by the eternal shelving of her very expensive solo album, lead Pussycat Doll Nicole Scherzinger is still trying every trick in the book to be taken seriously as An Artist. The latest: A promotion for a Brazil-inspired Caress Body Wash (with passion flower cream and acai oil!) that features La Scherz singing lead on the "Caress Brazilian Mix" of Duran Duran's "Rio," a song that really didn't need to be remade and that certainly didn't need to be remade with her thin vocals and a super-cheesy-sounding "Latin" guitar line. Somehow she hasn't realized yet that the American public can't miss her if she hasn't gone away, although judging by her brand-new stage name, maybe the people running her career are figuring that few people realized she was actually out there making music sans backup Dolls in the first place. More »

9:45 AM on Fri Apr 11 2008
By Maura Johnston
930 views, 8 comments

Latest by owenmeany: Why did I automatically see the headline to this post as Nicole Scherzinger Shaves Her Rear? more »

Last night while flipping past Girlicious, I noticed that Robin Antin was standing in front of two pieces of oaktag heralding Nicole Scherzinger's Her Name Is Nicole, which, unbeknownst to every industry observer who's had the "pleasure" of watching every single from it tank, is apparently "in stores now." (Click the picture for a fullish-sized screenshot of the poster.) Perhaps this segment of the show was shot on location in CutoutBinLand? [Earlier]

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delays

Nicole Scherzinger Gives Up?

Tonight marks the premiere of the CW series Pussycat Dolls Present: Girlicious, the sequel to The Search For The Next Pussycat Doll that will set out to launch another girl group under the Pussycat Dolls' brand name-slash-marketing deal with Interscope Records. In the New York Daily News' preview of the show, not only do we learn about the Girlicious-branded merchandise that'll soon be lining your local 99-cent stores' aisles (makeup, clothing, a new album incorporating the sounds of TLC and Destiny's Child), we learn that the original Pussycat Doll—Nicole "Her Name Is Nicole" Scherzinger—will be returning to the fishnet-covered arms of the group that spawned her. More »

4:15 PM on Mon Feb 18 2008
By Maura Johnston
1,250 views, 1 comment

Latest by gorillavsmarykate: Her name is NNNNNNIIIIIIII-CCCCCCCCCOOOOOOOOOLLLLLLEEEEE. Bawitdaba da bang a bang a boogie... more »

delays

Is Pushing An Album Back Ever Good For Its Health?

Today Kelefa Sanneh wrote about All $tar, a Nashville rapper who's been the city's "next big thing" for three years now—excxept for the fact that his debut album, Street Ball, has been in limbo since 2005, thanks to his label, Cash Money/Universal, going over the preparation for the album with what seems to be the finest-tooth comb ever. (Sanneh: "...it's not uncommon for rappers to wait months or years while labels try to figure out the right single, the right track selection, the right marketing plan.") What struck me is that I've heard about so many delayed albums lately—from Amerie to All $tar to Nicole Scherzinger—that I can't help but wonder if the music industry is further shooting its sales hopes in the foot by stoking negative buzz around albums by somewhat established stars or high-profile up-and-comers. Especially in the current environment of music, where people seem to have many excuses for ignoring records at the ready. After the jump, a few arguments against pushing release dates, marketing-department-emanating objections be damned. More »

4:40 PM on Mon Feb 4 2008
By Maura Johnston
788 views, 11 comments

Latest by jasonelias: @GovernmentNames: For me most of that article was full of BS, but it was a way to get All $tar's name in the press. But as quickly changeable as rap is, an album from 2005 is going to sound old. more »

I'm starting to wonder if I should create a keyboard macro for the phrase "Nicole Scherzinger's album has been pushed back again," because, well, it's been pushed back again. To June 23. (Recall that its original release date was Oct. 16, 2007.) I wonder how many more people will be laid off at Universal Music Group between now and the time the long-delayed lead balloon actually hits store shelves? [Toya's World]

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videodrone

Timbaland Masterminds The World's "Sexiest" Bank Robbery (Or Something)


The latest single to emerge from Timbaland's Shock Value is "Scream," a Nicole Scherzinger/Keri Hilson track filled with bad sex metaphors (cake! pie! designated driving!) that Interscope, no doubt, has released in large part because the label's suits still holding on to hope that someone will eventually give a damn about the lead Pussycat Doll's singing/orgasmic moaning abilities. More »

2:45 PM on Wed Jan 16 2008
By mjohnston
304 views, 2 comments

year-end analysis that kinda rhymes

A Pussycat Doll Says Goodbye To 2007 In Verse

Despite the fact that her first solo album remains in release-date limbo thanks to every song that Interscope desperately released as a "first" single bouncing right off the charts, possibly ex-Pussycat Doll Nicole Scherzinger still enjoyed 2007, so much so that she has constructed a free associative poem/ransom note out of stuff she once read on inspirational posters that details her awesome year. More »

4:30 PM on Mon Jan 7 2008
By jharv
404 views, 4 comments

In the latest attempt to save her increasingly doomed solo album, Nicole Scherzinger is going the "singing about her vagina over a vaguely 'ethnic-sounding' track produced by Akon" route. It's a terrible song, but at least it makes her "I am a very conservative Catholic" claim in the new Entertainment Weekly even more hilarious—except to all the people at Interscope/Geffen who got laid off as a result of "belt-tightening," of course. [Kevipod Music]

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Will a breathy, "ethnic"-sounding single with a title that will no doubt inspire a thousand "punani" jokes save Nicole Scherzinger's Her Name Is Nicole? Probably not, but that doesn't mean Jimmy Iovine won't pour wayyyy too much money out of Interscope's coffers in an effort to find out! [Kevipod Music]

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straw polls

Obama Vs. Clinton: Whose Musical Taste Sucks More?

So Barry Obama's big benefit shindig coming up next week in California features musical endorsements from Ne-Yo (yay!), the Goo Goo Dolls (uh), Nicole Scherzinger (ack), and will.i.am (dear lord no). Meanwhile, Hilary Clinton has recently ditched Celine Dion's "You And I" (holy shit) as her campaign song in favor of Big Head Todd And The Monsters' "Blue Sky" (could be worse, right?). Forgetting their opinions about, like, stuff salient to running a country, this does not particularly fill us with hope for the future. (Even the Republicans are showing better taste this time out; for instance, did you know Mitt Romney's campaign tune is "I Get Around"*?) So we put it to you, a year or so early, to decide who you would vote for based solely on these less than stellar musical track records. More »

12:30 PM on Wed Dec 5 2007
By jharv
4,190 views, 44 comments

Latest by Jfrankparnell: I must abstain. America will not mature as a country until a serious candidate picks the Minutemen's "This Ain't No Picnic" as their theme or a recreational listening choice. Although I would also vote for a candidate based solely on their more »

Nicole Scherzinger's solo debut Her Name Is Nicole—pushed back from an Oct. 6 release date to a Nov. 6 release date to a Nov. 20 release date—will now come out sometime in 2008, thanks to three singles from the album being released to widespread indifference on the part of pretty much everyone. May we also suggest a reshoot of the album cover? [EW]

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Pussycat Dolls leader Nicole Scherzinger's more-doomed-by-the-day Her Name Is Nicole has been pushed back once again, this time from Nov. 6 to Nov. 20. And: One of the new tracks on it features Sting. The odds on this thing completely tanking just shot up faster than you can say Studio 60. [Rap-Up]

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flopwatch

Nicole Scherzinger's New Single Tries To Feel Like The First Time


Last month, I wondered if Her Name Is Nicole, the forthcoming solo album from former Pussycat Doll leader Nicole Scherzinger, was en route to becoming a flop—the first single, the T.I.-featuring "Whatever U Like," had lousy sales and bad iTunes feedback (it wound up not even cracking the Hot 100) and a second song, "Super Villain," leaked shortly after "Like" tanked. Now, a third song from the album ("Baby Love," featuring will.i.am) has made its way out to the Internet, and for some reason the PR people working the record are gamely calling the song her "first single." Are attention spans in this decade really that short? More »

12:15 PM on Thu Sep 27 2007
By mjohnston
1,670 views, 6 comments

Latest by katie_a_princess: i wonder if this was "penned" in crayon more »