Pussycat Dolls Present: Girlicious

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Friends, I'm sorry to say but I cannot continue this blog through the end of the season.

There's no conspiracy, it's not that I don't like the CW or anything like that. Unfortunately, now that the CW has moved the show to Wednesday night, I have a prior commitment that I cannot break so I cannot recap the show.

I hope you all enjoy the rest of the season.

There's no blog tonight. Since it's pretty much only a recap this week, we'll continue with the PCD blog with the next elimination episode.

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Until next week, friends.

Admit it, over the last few weeks you missed Natalie’s diva drama. It never really went away of course, but they must have edited quite a bit out in the last week or two because we really didn’t see that much. But this week, we got it all.

The episode starts off nicely with Natalie claiming she has an advantage over the other girls because she’s beautiful and she claims that “beauty is a talent.” I actually think I agree with that. I mean, I’m fat. And that my friends, is really tough to keep up. I have to eat a lot of greasy foods and usually two portions instead of one and I have to avoid things with low fat. With this world filled with 100 calorie packs, that takes something extra to keep up with. So I can see why is must be hard to be beautiful too.

Then of course, Natalie walks out on Ken Hicks. If it was me I would have been scared to death of the lips and fake eyebrows and ran out screaming a long time ago, but she waited until Ken started talking back to her. As much as Ken is a diva himself, he’s very right in saying how disrespectful Natalie was. And I liked it backstage when Natalie tried hugging him and he gave the whole “step off, girlfriend” look to her. Big props to Ken.

These other girls have some big flaws as well and we saw a lot of them tonight. Jenna just seems to have a billion excuses why she has to stop practicing, Charlye sounded very stiff in the studio and Chrystina forgot the lyrics to a pretty simple song.

I’ve said from the beginning that Natalie had to be the favorite, but this week really hurt her. I have to think Tiffanie, Nichole and Carrie are almost flawless right now.

I actually enjoyed the episode this week, but I hate the way the performances are done on this show – and that’s a statement about the entire series, not just this week. The two performances chosen were a ballad from Destiny’s Child and a classic dance tune in “Flashdance…What a Feeling.” Jenna hung up her boa because she’s not more energetic and fun, but they put her in a group singing a slow song so how could she be? But it’s the overall choices that bother me. Those songs were complete opposites. I just don’t think it’s fair to choose a modern ballad and an early 80’s cheesy dance track to compare the girls. And the show does this every week.

Overall this week, no big deal that Jenna went home because she wasn’t going to make the group anyway. But we’re getting close to the point where one of these girls could really slip up and a favorite could be saying goodbye soon.

Until next week, friends.

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This week was the sexy week, which just like last season meant we got an episode with a ton of dry humping. Whoo Hooo! Nothing like 60 minutes of sweaty bodies grinding up against each other (and Jenna lying on the floor).

The sexy episode always brings out the completely ridiculous. We got Tiffanie yelling at other girls that they don’t need to be whores to be sexy. We got Ilisa looking completely unsexy trying to be something she isn’t. And of course we got the winners of the sexy competition getting Hello Kitty necklaces.

The whole fight back in the house was completely uninteresting. Was it just me or did you get lost somewhere in the middle too? I wasn’t really sure who was on whose side and at one point it didn’t seem like anyone was speaking with actual words, just gestures.

As far as the main performances went, I disagreed with the judges this week. I thought Natalie was really good this week and I liked Jamie’s vocals as well. Carrie has definitely become my favorite though. Every week she brings excitement to the stage.

It wasn’t surprising at all that Ilisa went home, especially this week as they were stressing sexy. Without make-up on the girl wasn’t good looking at all. I know that sounds completely like I’m just being a pig, but jeez – half this show is about looking good. Jenna is another one that just isn’t very attractive until she paints herself, though she’s got a bootie that will get her by in a pinch. It doesn’t really make any sense why Jamie went home though when Jenna almost quit earlier in the day. But I guess that’s why I’m not a judge.

Until next week, friends.

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This week was about style. The girls got to show their style at a red-carpet event while In Touch magazine looked on and judged them. Robin told them they were getting a makeover to which they screamed uncontrollably for what seemed like the full hour. I’m not really sure why a makeover made these girls do the worm though. It doesn’t seem that exciting. All the girls ended up looking better in the end. Carrie looked completely different and Nicole, who won the challenge, looked more like a cross between Jenna Jameson and Mary Carey to me but I thought Jamie looked the best of all of them. She completely disagreed though and just let her new hair completely affect her performance.

As for the performances themselves, it was supposed to be disco night though the only song of the three that I consider disco was “Dim All the Lights.” Overall I thought the show dealt two of the groups a bum hand. Charyle, Nichole and Natalie were put on roller skates which is just completely unfair. Sorry, but Girlicious isn’t going to perform on skates. Cassandra, Ilisa and Jamie were given Blondie’s “Heart of Glass” which is in a ridiculously high register. Of course the girls singing “Dim All the Lights” were going to win the competition. They were the only ones who were given a normal song and only had to focus on that.

Ron wants to send Jamie home (though somehow he said he “didn’t know” who he wanted to get rid of when Robin questioned it) but in the end Cassandra is the one that goes home. I’ll tell you what else should go home – Ron’s hats.

Anyway, it’s time for me to make the predictions for the final three. My crystal ball says; Natalie, Carrie and Tiffanie. Agree or disagree?

Until next week, friends.

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Right now I’m in two different worlds. I’m sitting here typing up a blog on women jiggling their assets while listening to the brilliant Ghosts I-IV by Nine Inch Nails. That’s two very different modes that somehow are blending together nicely right now. I’m sure both Trent Reznor and Lil’ Kim would both be dismayed to hear that.

Well, last week I asked for the show to disguise who was leaving a little better and they did a good job this week. For the first half of the show I assumed Ilisa was going to have to hang up the boa based on her crazy amount of screen time and then I thought Jenna was getting booted by the end. But never did I think Alexis. So thanks, PCD.

As I said, Ilisa got the screen time tonight. Everyone is completely correct, she has not one bit of the girl group look. At first it seems like it’s hurting her but then the kids love how much she stands out. But then just when you start to think she’s okay, all three judges talk about how she doesn’t look the part (at least until she gets on stage). So I just wonder why she made the cut if all the judges already don’t think she can make it just on her looks alone? And I’m not disagreeing at all, it’s just a bit weird to me.

I’m glad she did well with the kids though. I thought the performance for the children was the best segement of the season so far. It was edited together a bit strangely I thought as it seemed like Robin was calling them up for a spur of the moment performance but they all looked pretty well choreographed to me but other than that it was kind of fun seeing these young kids tear into the contestants. As much as I dislike Natalie at this point, the kids are completely correct how great she is. I think she’s an absolute lock to be part of this group at the end. I’m not sure about the other two right now.

For the first time this season I thought all the end performances were pretty solid. I think Carrie is the most talented person there and she was great. And, she toned down the hair a bit and didn’t look so scary. Her and Jamie really made “Girls Just Wanna Have Fun”. That was the best group performance of the season so far.

And goodbye to Alexis. You’re going to make one sexy dentist.

Until next time, friends.

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I so missed random screaming. I mean, how could you not miss sexy girls running and screaming over anything and everything for no apparent reason. After all, if you had a problem with it, you probably wouldn’t be watching this show anyway as it would drive you to poke holes in your eardrums. Though you probably would have liked when the one girl ran into the banister and definitely stopped screaming.

So the star of this season is definitely Natalie. The camera focuses on her a lot because she just won’t stop talking about people. But c’mon, if you can dish it then you need to be able to take it too. She talks trash behind everyone’s back and then starts crying when they give it right back to her to her face. The greatest part of this of course, is later in the show she actually has the balls to rip on Madonna. So who’s the first girl to slap the taste out of her mouth? It has to be coming soon.

Tonight was a little too predictable for my tastes. They must have mentioned a half dozen times that Megan was too pageant and not enough sexy. There was no doubt by the end that she was the one going home. They need to disguise the ending a little better than that.

For the most part this week I kind of thought the singing was bad across the board. I wasn’t that impressed with any of the national anthems (and um, you weren’t singing to thousands, maybe hundreds if you were lucky) and two of the three performances were pretty weak.

“Holiday” was the middle ground for me. Nichole I could deal with but I thought Tiffanie just went way overboard and Ilisa’s vocals were terrible. And of course, Ilisa looked kind of like a dude too. That’s not really that girlicious for me.

“Hit Me Baby One More Time” was easily the worst performance of the night. All four of them were off-key and why didn’t any of them actually follow the melody?

“Tearin’ Up My Heart” was the one performance I really enjoyed this week. All four ladies put on a nice cohesive show, both singing and dancing. I’m surprised that so many people seem to like Carrie though. She’s is a good singer, but just like Ilisa, she doesn’t really have the look for this. I mean, the skunk hair made her look like she was a mom still trying to cling onto her Def Leppard groupie years. And the braids…what a train wreck. But she can really belt a tune, so she’s sure to be around longer than a lot of these other girls.

At the end of the day though it’s not about the hair, the bitchiness or the crying. Natalie says it’s about “winning”. Her mom says it’s “being proud of yourself”. Mom is just so, so wrong. Just win baby!

Until next week, friends.

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Hello again friends. It’s been a while since I’ve blogged a show but what better to bring me back to the blogging universe than 15 hot ladies. No one can seem to believe why I actually came back for a second season of PCD but I can’t fathom why they aren’t joining me. Haven’t they looked at Jamie or Megan or Alexis or well, the other 12? That’s more reasons to watch this show than anything else on TV except for, Rock of Love or anything with Kat Von D. Or…well, you get my point. Last season I said right up front I wasn’t going to let sexy ladies cloud my vision. This season, I’m not offering up any such promises.

Anyway, call it a guilty pleasure or even just simply a decent show. Either way, we have Season 2 of The Pussycat Dolls upon us, this time with a new format. Instead of finding another girl to “join” the Pussycat Dolls, Robin Antin decided to create a new group called Girlicious and pick some ladies to be a part of it. Gotta work out better than Asia did after season one, right?

So let’s talk about some of these ladies:

Obviously the first two on the radar are Natalie and Charlotte. Right up front Natalie picks her role as b-tch of the house and Charlotte plays right into it. Unfortunately for Charlotte, she’s the less talented of the two so Natalie had the upper hand in this battle. I know Charlotte said that Natalie was tone deaf during karaoke, but I didn’t hear that at all. I loved her voice there and during the performance, which Charlotte just wasn’t very good. Frankly, I’m shocked Charlotte went home though since drama makes such good TV.

The next girl that stood out to me was Ilisa. She’s got a weird look for this show. A tall red-head with some thickness isn’t the typical girl group fodder. Plus, when not all sexed up for the performance she looked more like a metal chick to me. And what was up with the outfit for karaoke? She’s the only one in two seasons that dressed down to go out.

Carrie stands out completely for her look alone. The dark new-wave eyes make her look totally different than her promo picture. The promo shot on the CW website didn’t really flatter her and neither did this look. So can we expect a third look to be the charm?

Two of the three ladies I mentioned up front are my favorite right off the bat. I think Megan is the sexiest girl of the group so she automatically becomes a favorite of mine. We didn’t get to see a whole lot of her tonight though. Hopefully they are just saving some of her up for the future. However, Jamie takes the first lead for me as not only is she beautiful, but we saw a little more about her so we can see she can sing and dance too.

Overall, highly entertaining, though I’m a bit distraught. I was encouraged when Mark McGrath signed back on to be the host because I just love making him the butt of jokes. But someone must have bought some WD-40 for the McGrathbot this season. His time on camera wasn’t nearly as stiff and robotic as in the past. I’m hoping for the sake of this blog that “McGrathbot” won’t cease to exist or I may just have to turn the jokes to that vocal coach. Man, is he ugly. (Just trying it out, you know…in case.)

So which girls jump off the screen at you?

Until next time, friends.

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