The Pussycat Dolls are NOT splitting up. No. Definitely not.
If there’s one rule in pop music that is set in stone, it’s that news that bands are breaking up are immediately preceded by a denial that they are breaking up. So when a representative for Pussycat Dolls announced that, contrary to rumours,?the band are NOT breaking up, they?just substantially added to those very same rumours.
Pussycat Dolls famously made?a career out of?a single (Don’t Cha) whose subtext was ‘we’ll do that thing in the bedroom that made your girlfriend scream “eww, no” when you suggested it that night after you came back from the pub’. The Dolls’ founder Robin Antin explained that if they were going to split up, the news would come from him.
Not from singer Ashley Roberts who is alleged to have weepingly claimed they’d broken up in a recent visit to the UK. What would she know? Doesn’t she realise they have a third album, greatest hits and farewell tour to do before they’re allowed to split. IT’S POP LAW!
Pussycat Dolls are currently working out their differences (read: notice periods) recording their third album. Except they’re not splitting up. Not that any of this is particularly interesting anyway since Pussycat Dolls are a business product and Antin?s denial is no different from the CEO of a major corporation putting spin on 1st quarter losses in order to protect share prices.
This article really belongs in the Financial Times right next to an article about how iPods are definitely NOT blowing up and causing burn injuries.
[story by Simon Sharp]
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Fi says
Lol. Except that Robin Antin is a her not a him!
Kaylee. says
Ha! I was thinking the same thing. I’m not so sure though, I swear there’s an Adam’s apple lurking there.
Anon says
Robin Antin is a woman!!!