Perhaps the biggest problem with the whole release is that 5/6 of the band is clearly just eye candy.
Not there’s anything wrong with that. But they need to put their thinking bras on and come up with more catchy covers, like “Don’t Cha” (originally released by former Outkast back-up singer Tori Alamaze) or they’ll quickly end up in the ever-expanding pantheon of one hit wonders.
“Don’t Cha” may be tearing up the Billboard charts, but nothing is colder than their cover of Donna Summer’s “Hot Stuff.”
And unless you’re part of the hopefully embarrassed Scherzinger family or are sent the album through a junk-of-the-month club like Columbia House, you should never have to hear it. If you want to see those liner notes, though, just let me know.
—Staff writer Scoop A. Wasserstein can be reached at wasserst@fas.harvard.edu.