Dollhouse Doubts Get Destroyed

Dollhouse Doubts (and a Couple of Dreams) Get Destroyed by Roxanne McDonald

Pussycat Dolls producer and guest judges narrow down the list to eight hopefuls—some of whom admit to not being much of a singer or dancer. What will the rationalizations bring this week?

Now that I have recovered from the repeat of episode one for what seemed like weeks, I am proud to announce a discussion of some of the episode two details and results.
I’m no stand-out beauty. In fact, I am more like a Chris Farley to the Pussycat Dolls contestants’ Patrick Swayze. Further, while I was a singer when I was in my teens (singing with a small town Country Western band), and while I am riveted to the seat when a dance program showing rehearsals comes on TV, I would not have the guts to apply, audition, and run the gamut these girls have to run. Or dance.

But some of the hopefuls are really horrible at singing; others are atrocious at dancing; and this is a singing cum dancing troupe they are trying to become a part of! So it pisses me off when of all the girls who first auditioned (I don’t know the numbers, but if they are anything like

Idol’s…), they take one of the coveted spots, then when they are eliminated, tell us how they aren’t this or they aren’t that. One eliminated Pussycat Doll hopeful (who couldn’t sing the notes coach Eric played for her and couldn’t do the alternative he suggested—to sing the melody—as she didn’t know what that meant) says, for instance, how she’s “never been that much of a singer” and can’t sing well now due to her losing both her parents.

The lot of them have little confidence, too, it seems. This week’s emphasis and challenges are all about having the Pussycat Doll “confidence to overcome anything” says one of the Dolls via satellite or videotape or whathaveyou.

Chelsea, a gorgeous young woman, explains to confession cams how her having been overweight still impacts her now (and when Robin Antin takes the girls to a clubby restaurant where they are prompted to do what the big girls do behind the galss cages—dance like a gogo girl in undies, sort of—Chelsea again brings up how overweight thinking is the first to come up).

Jaime is pretty weak at singing, and when coach Eric takes her aside to discuss her vocal issues, she tells him she is the opposite of confident, that she is fixated [my word] on what others will think or say. But she also falls back on another excuse…er, I mean, reason: she claims to be lacking confidence about singing, what with having just been [shiny] sick and all.

And Brittney has confidence, but in all the wrong places: she is so aggressive in movement during practice, that Mikey Minden, illustrious dance coach, suggests she has too much confidence (and instead of dancing “sassy and classy” like a Pussycat Doll, she dances like “Striparella”.

But then, there’s the other end of the Pussycat spectrum, where Secily is so confident, confident, confident that she rarely makes excuses. She just bitches. A lot.

I still have a couple of favorites, though. I love Anastasia. She is so cool, together, well-adjusted that we don’t have to listen to what we did not come to hear but instead hear and see only really good singing and dancing. And I find Melissa S. to be a good potential package. She has that Jennifer Aniston beauty that appears pretty marketable. If only she can keep growing, keep away from the crotchety chicks who are way too young to be so bitter (one girl rags about how sickly sweet Melissa is), and if only she can keep her head up—strong, empowered, confident.
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