Don’t cha want the Pussycat Dolls to release new music? Well, wishes can come true.
Roughly three months since lead vocalist Nicole Scherzinger, 41, took to Instagram to tease a #PCDReunion — and two months since the group took the stage for the first time in a decade for the “X Factor: Celebrity” final — the Pussycat Dolls have released “React,” their first track since 2009.
What’s more, a music video accompanied the club-ready song’s release, racking up more than 340,000 views on YouTube in its first 90 minutes online. The roughly 3½-minute clip shows Scherzinger — along with Ashley Roberts, 38, Carmit Bachar, 45, Jessica Sutta, 37 and Kimberly Wyatt, 38 — performing their usual showstopping choreography while drenched in water or backlit by glowing flames.
Notably absent was former member Melody Thornton, 35, who reportedly chose to sit out the reunion.
The group split in 2010 after Wyatt and Roberts departed within a day of each other. Roberts later admitted the group disbanded over Scherzinger hogging the limelight.
In a news release, the group said they’ll be releasing their music independently.
“We are women who are on the other side of a lot [of] life experiences — it has given us so much perspective and growth,” says Scherzinger. “And then being able to release our music independently at this moment in time feels incredibly empowering. We’ve all grown so much, and the energy surrounding this project feels so positive and powerful. It was important for us as a group to take creative control and put out music that represents who we are — Grown-Ass Women who know what they want and doing it our way.”
In an interview with Entertainment Weekly, Scherzinger said the group’s United Kingdom reunion for the “X Factor” appearance marked their first time in a room together in more than a decade.
“As soon as somebody started playing ‘Buttons’ wherever we were standing, right then, we immediately all broke out into the dance-break choreography in unison — it was kind of freakish,” she said. “That’s when we realized, this is why we’re the Pussycat Dolls and there’ll never be any other group like us. We all work so well together.”
Beyond the stage reunion and new single, the group announced a tour beginning April 5, with concerts scheduled for Ireland, the United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand. No shows are confirmed for the US.
