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Pussycat Dolls Left on the Shelf · Mark and Pete

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  Pussycat Dolls left on the shelf.
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  Welcome to Mark and Pete. This is a rather awkward story.
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  Few things are sadder than discovering nostalgia as a
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  strict spending. Limit.
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  Yes, this is Mark and Pete 2 blokes with half an opinion.
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  Now here's our first thought. Help of the flops A musical tour
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  offers so much more with dancing and lights that glisten, but
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  it's a flop for sure if it lacks a lure and nobody turns up to
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  listen. Well, indeed.
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  For many Pussycat Doll fans, you would have noticed that they
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  have had to cancel the some of their worldwide tours.
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  Yes, and this is due to poor ticket sales.
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  Now, Nicole Scherzinger, Ashley Roberts and Kimberly Wyatt
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  announced their return with a new single.
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  This is to basically broad out their appeal.
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  Unfortunately, what seems to have happened is nobody wants to
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  listen. Now, Mr. Pete, I know you're a
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  great fan and I know that we'll talk about some of their hits,
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  which I know that you will sing to your heart's content.
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  But the fact of the matter is, this is slightly embarrassing,
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  isn't it? Yes, well, I am of course a big
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  fan of The Pussycat Dolls and as we are, as I am of every single
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  artist that we mention on this show.
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  I mean they were big earlier this century, weren't they big
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  in the 2000s? They seemed to be everywhere.
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  You couldn't escape them and, and so you would have thought
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  that they would have at least the nostalgia level being, being
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  the power that got people to buy tickets.
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  But apparently nostalgia in itself is not good enough.
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  As you say, we're talking about their major hits later that you
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  would have thought that people would turn up to sing.
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  But it seems like no, you need something more.
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  You can't just rely on people remembering the their enjoyment
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  of the past particularly. I mean, that is quite a long
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  time, isn't it? I mean, there were big 20 years
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  ago. So you know, 15 to 20 years ago.
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  So maybe it's too long. Maybe that's the reason.
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  But with people seeing their or hearing their music on TikTok
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  clips, as I think you'd have thought.
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  So I am surprised actually that they didn't manage the tour.
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  I mean the Bible says all flesh is grass and all the goodliness
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  thereof is as of a flower of the field.
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  That is to say it quickly dies and gets swept away.
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  So sadly that is the case. Your Your youth and popularity
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  doesn't last forever, Mark. Indeed it doesn't.
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  Fortunately it is that I am not on a pop worldwide tour, which
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  many people are. Great relief.
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  Now the group Pussycat Dolls of course are known for a lot of
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  their hits. Now here are some which is
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  buttons. I don't need a man.
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  I'm not talking about me and don't you.
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  Now of course many people will know the Don't You song, which
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  is Don't you think your girlfriend looks hot like me?
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  Not me personally, but. Although that would work, yeah.
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  That would well, I think that probably would have been a
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  bigger hit and, and I possibly even suggest that if we were to
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  offer it on my part, the worldwide tour would probably
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  come back. But the fact is, it's that it is
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  a bit of a concern, isn't it? Because entertainment is going
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  through a lot of challenges aren't there?
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  You know, I mean with people concerned about the the economy
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  and etcetera, is, is this really an economic problem or is it
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  just to your point that maybe they've, they sort of their
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  flavour of music is no longer in vogue?
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  Yes, it can be all those things, but I mean, you have to.
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  The economics needs to be taken into account because it could be
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  just something as simple as this.
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  They may well have sold a lot of tickets, just not enough to pay
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  the absolutely exorbitant costs of all the transport, the
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  staging. I mean, if you're going to go on
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  one of those tours, you need at least 2-4 stages because you've
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  got to have the one ready at your next venue, haven't you?
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  So you've got to, it's a lot of money to put up front and if
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  people may have bought tickets later, I guess an economic
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  decision, we haven't got the money to pay the man.
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  So it it was, it was Paul. So I think that's why
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  particularly as I believe there is one show going on.
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  I don't know if you mentioned that's right.
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  It's the way ho pride in Los Angeles 6th of June folks, so
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  don't don't forget. So, you know, the travelling
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  huge cost, having to have at least two separate sets which go
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  then go on tour expensive so that they've just brought it
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  down to that level. It's not that there's no
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  interest. There just wasn't enough for a
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  world tour. Which you see, I would say if I
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  were a Pussycat Doll, which, you know, I'm not quite, I would
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  think, yes, there's a thought that the, the, the listeners
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  could dwell on now that if I were a Pussycat Doll, I would
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  think, well, it's not that bad. I mean, we're not good enough
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  for a world tour, but maybe we'll have one sell out, sell
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  out performance and that's pretty good in itself.
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  Well, yes, and, and the thing here is, which is quite
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  interesting because obviously each of the different artists
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  that make up the group have had different careers.
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  So obviously Nicole Scherzinger has, has been a, you know, a
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  judge on many sort of pop panels.
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  Umm, she's done things like appearances in films and some of
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  her colleagues have done many sort of placements in acting
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  roles, et cetera. So it's interesting that how
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  some people can turn their hand to other things, not just rely
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  on being a pop artist. But I think that the point here
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  is, is that it does show you that this is a very difficult
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  thing to do, isn't it? Trying to sort of build a
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  worldwide tour, as you say, in a difficult environment, a
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  challenging environment. But what's also interesting is,
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  is can you keep your audience, which is that you have to keep
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  producing material. Now, one of The thing is that
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  I've, I've highlighted a few of their hits, but I don't remember
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  many hits. And that's, that's the other
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  thing, because if you're going to have a following, you've got
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  to have a good catalog. Yeah, I think one of the ways to
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  to picture the problem here is you may well have had some of
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  The Pussycat Dolls hits played at a school disco years ago.
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  Now imagine just having that school disco as a reunion,
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  playing the same music and inviting everyone back who now
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  has back pain and sciatica. You know, it's 20 years for
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  goodness sake. People have moved on and I I
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  think that is part of it. So focusing down on one show
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  might be good enough. And I suppose there is the the
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  fact that the music is available online and that must have some
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  sort of negative effect because people can consume it in that
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  way unless they're real Ultra fans and need to spend the money
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  to get to get to the show. So I think it's this, it's sort
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  of a mixed response to this that I have.
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  Yeah. I think that it is a shame for
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  The Pussycat Dolls. It's not as good as they would
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  like. But with it with all those
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  caveats that we've that we've put in place, it's actually not.
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  They've not done too bad for, you know, a rather bland,
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  plasticky group who sang little ditties.
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  I'm sorry, I'm obviously I'm a big fan.
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  I'm just putting a negative point of view.
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  I think they've done pretty well considering.
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  Let's put it like that. Well, the group has said that it
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  is with sadness in a difficult and heartbreaking decision to
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  cancel the tours. But as far as the Pussycats are
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  concerned, maybe they lost one of their lives.
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  But let's hope that they could be purring again in the future.