THE PUSSYCAT DOLLS (with Troy McEady)
Pop Pantheon
DJ Louie XIV
4.7 • 630 Ratings
🗓️ 13 November 2025
⏱️ 121 minutes
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Summary
Troy McEady of Beyond The Blinds returns to Pop Pantheon to unpack the defining prefab American girl group of the 2000s, The Pussycat Dolls. Louie and Troy dig into PCD’s beginnings as a burlesque troupe, early dalliances with pop stars like Christina Aguilera and Gwen Stefani, and brand extension into a ready-made musical girl gang. They discuss the group’s breakthrough, “Don’t Cha,” 2005’s PCD, the near-immediate member tensions and subsequent sophomore slump, 2008’s Doll Domination. From there, they tackle the the Pussycats' breakup(s) and abandoned 2020 reunion, then rank the Pussycat Dolls into The Official Pop Pantheon.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Pop Pantheon the podcast, where we completely overanalyze all of your favorite pop stars and then rank them in the official Pop Pantheon. |
| 0:17.6 | This is your host, DJ Louis, the 14th. |
| 0:20.1 | And I have a big announcement thanks to all of |
| 0:22.9 | you who bought tickets to our live show on December 9th at Parkside Lounge with Doreen San Felix, |
| 0:29.0 | Karen Gans, and Ira Madison the 3rd. We have either officially sold that out by this morning |
| 0:35.0 | or there's maybe a couple tickets left. |
| 0:39.1 | I'm not totally sure where we'll be. |
| 0:51.3 | But either way, enough of you bought tickets to that that we are so pleased to announce that we are going to do a second show, a late show on December 9th at 9 p.m. at Parkside Lounge with an entire new panel. |
| 0:56.7 | This panel will include our dear friend of the pod, Who Weekly's Lindsay Weber. It will include Billboard's Jason Lipschitz. And it will include Peyton Dix of the Let Me Say This podcast. We are so |
| 1:04.4 | excited about this second show. Thank you all so much for buying tickets and allowing this to happen. |
| 1:09.1 | If you couldn't get tickets to the first show, come to the second show. If you got tickets to the first show, come to the second show. They're going to be totally different from each other. The first show is going to be talking about the best albums of 2025, the best pop albums of 2025. And the second, we'll be talking about the best pop songs of 2025. That's this new late show. So again, tickets are available at |
| 1:28.8 | Poppantheonpod.com. They will also be in the show notes of this episode. I am so excited to see |
| 1:34.7 | everybody for both of these shows on December 9th. As always, don't forget to rate review and |
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| 2:04.4 | All right. |
| 2:04.6 | Today we are kicking off a double header. |
| 2:07.3 | This week's episode will cover the rise and fall of the canonical 2000s girl group, |
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