April 17, 2007: Don't Know Why
Didn't Chelsea look hot tonight?
Sorry, had to get that out of my system. This is Angel Cohn, and I was doing my best to channel normal
PCD blogger Dave Steed. My personal favorite got kicked off last week: I loved Anastacia and all that sexy hair and her sort of atypical look. That said, I actually do like Chelsea, and I felt bad for her when Melissa S. was picking on her and laughing every time that Mikey critiqued her. That's just not nice. I think Miss Melissa learned that reality-TV karma comes back to bite and hard.
Melissa S. does have the dance moves. She was banging it out in front of the mirror on her own. But she got more screen time for her mean comments and her vicious little interview session with Mark McGrath than her actual dancing. I was far more impressed by Robin Antin's abs during the choreography session. Damn! I'm not entirely sure how old Robin is, but I'd love to have abs like that at some point in my life. Unfortunately, I'm way less coordinated than poor Chelsea. I tried to do a hip-hop workout once, and it wasn't pretty trust me.
I almost fast-forwarded through a good portion of this episode because it was hard to tell the difference between the fake commercials the girls were doing, their interviews with Mark McGrath and all of the "CWH" segments that the former Sugar Ray singer was doing. What happened to Mark McGrath? Really. I am not totally ashamed to admit that I have his CDs and maybe even enjoyed seeing them in concert twice. But now I just don't get what's going on with him.
Speaking of things that confuse me, when did this show turn into
The Apprentice meets
America's Next Top Model? I understand them having to do interviews and photo sessions, because that's something the real Pussycat Dolls would have to do. But the commercials? I guess they'd possibly have to do some promotional spots, but it would likely be as one of seven girls. Eh, it was nice to see a different side from Asia, and I thought she proved that despite her "drag queen" dance moves she's got a fun side.
As far as the performances go they all seem like good dancers to me. Really, they are scantily clad and shaking their groove thang. Unless one of them fell flat on her butt or was drastically out of sync, I say they're good to go. Singing-wise well, that's another matter entirely.
I didn't really love Melissa S.' rendition of that Norah Jones song. I know it wasn't her fault that she had to do that tune, but I thought she was a little too peppy. Asia covered up her flaws in the JoJo song with a good performance. Heck, that strategy's been working really well for Sanjaya. Melissa R. looked smokin' and really nailed that tough song. I didn't even really know that Mary J. Blige tune, but I think she stands the best chance of being the next Pussycat Doll. And as far as Chelsea, it wasn't her best vocal performance, but I'm giving her a little extra credit for singing Christina Aguilera while all scrunched up in that chair and for attempting to work in some dance moves.
Melissa S. was the latest gal to hang up her boa and won't make it into the final three for the final episode. It had to be hard to hear Ron Fair say that she has "that sexy Vegas-y, white trashy thing that works for me." Not sure that's what any girl really wants to hear. At least Chelsea gave her a big hug, and seemingly forgave the ousted wannabe for bashing her in front of Mark McGrath.
Off to next week and the finale. Predictions on who will win? My money's on Melissa R. -
Angel Cohn
