Pussycat Doll creator Robin Antin announced the newest members of PCD through her twitter page on May 22nd, and debuted a photo of lead singer (and Dancing with the Stars finalist) Nicole Scherzinger along with the new gals.
Included in this version of PCD is former So You Think You Dance contestant and Fame star Kherington Payne (far left), plus America’s Best Dance Crew runner-up Rino Nakasone-Razalan, former Lakers Girl Vanessa Curry, and former Girlicious contestant Jamie Lee Ruiz.
Of course this is not the first change to the PCD line-up, with Scherzinger as the lone consistent member. And many groups have changed their roster over the years to varying degrees of success (Van Halen; Journey) but PCD has sort of become like a modern-day Menudo with its various incarnations.
Will the new girls help PCD return to the top of the charts? Maybe. Confession: I’m a total PCD convert. I have a PCD hoodie that I occasionally [ed note: occasionally-often] wear in my office. And just for old time’s sake, here’s my favorite video by the sexy songstresses:
What do you think of the new Pussycat Dolls line-up, Music Mix-ers? Will they be successful?
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The lineup is irrelevant since they’re basically Nicole’s backup “singers” – and I use that term loosely, since I don’t really think they sing at all.
I’m pretty sure the booklets say “All vocals by Nicole Scherzinger.” I don’t know why people seem to care, it’s not like they ever really pretended the rest would sing.
Yea no kidding, now i’m sure they can dance but the last girls on pcd could sing, well i know melanie could
Kherington Payne is an extremely talented dancer, but I didn’t know she could sing.
Nicole sucks. How is it possible to replace 4/5 girls. Shows what a great person nicole is considering her whole group walked out on her.
Wow bret…get ur facts straight. R u the only man …..wait..r u even a man.
Your response makes no sense melis.
why does bret have to get facts straight when he isnt trying to give any?
Nicole sucks what? Cuz it isnt at dancing or singing.
I believe Kherington was in the remake of ‘Fame’ so I would assume she can at least carry a tune.
She was in Fame as a dancer, she did not sing. She could barely act for that matter.
nicole sucks
im not too familiar with the blonde and bruntette on the left but do know of Jaime and Rino on the right.
Rino was a former haraguku girls and is probably the best dance in PCD today.
while jaime is cute and everything but can’t sing to save her life. Jaime wqs never a girlicious memeber but was on the reality show to create the group but was kicked off because of her poor voice.
Can anyone actually remember any of the other girls’ names without looking them up? It’s always been the Nicole show
There might have been a girl named Kermit or something like that.
carmit she left the group her contact was up
Names: Nicole Scherzinger, Melody Thorton, Karmit Bachar, Jessica Suta, Kimberly Wyatt and Ashley Roberts. I really loved the original PCD, we will have to wait to see if we can love the new girsl as we love the original gropu.
this is the most trite group of strippers ever.
It looks like they just chose four new back-up dancers. At least the other girls in the old version of PCD could sing. What exactly is the point of this?
I find it funny that Nicole is supposedly the ONLY talented one in PCD, yet her solo record keeps getting delayed (at least by 3 yearss!) because the three singles released from it all tanked.
It’s cuz the songs suck.
They need to get the same vibe as PCD instead of trying to break away, or just not go solo. 
jamie was never a member of girlicious. she was just competing to be on the show.
It does say former Girlicious contestant not former Girlicious member…although arguably neither one of those titles garners much accolades. I can’t name a single member of Girlicious or even a song they’ve released. They’re like PCD lite.
this sucks big time…..i liked the older version of pcd…
bcoz the spotlight had always been on nicole…the rest of the crew never got a chance to shine!!!!
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…….nicole, i liked u b4 but i cant say the same for this situation….WHY???
u know wat??
u suck….u suck….u suck!!!!!
WE HATE YOU!!!!!
they sang better than u!!!!!
I am so sad that Kherington Payne has sunk to this level. BOO.
Melody had the best voice there!
Nicole complained about the rest of the group when she was in Eden’s Crush, now the PCDs walk out on her. Maybe the problem is Nicole
i agree, ther mustve been another reason for them to walk out.