#2- Pussycat Dolls featuring Snoop Dogg "Buttons"
Damn those Pussycat Dolls and their catchy tunes! I shouldn’t like them so much, but their CD is inexplicably being played repetitively on my computer. “PCD” is just one amazingly catchy pop song after another with more than a couple of standouts: Not only am I using “Stickwitu” as one of my wedding songs (ABBA’s “I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do” is the other…nice choices, huh?), but there is the ultimate freedom song “I Don’t Need a Man”, that so-strange-it-works “Hot Stuff (I Want You Back)” which uses the chorus to Donna Summer’s “Hot Stuff” to a brand new song and the extremely likeable 20’s-imitation “Right Now.” If I had to pick one song, however, that was the best of the bunch, I would definitely have to go with the ultimate guilty pleasure dance song “Buttons.”
What is that makes “Buttons” such a catchy tune? I’m not exactly sure myself. Maybe it’s the background Dolls going “Uh huh” and “Oh” in the background of the chorus, it’s insanely perfect faux-Bollywood background music or, like “London Bridge,” it’s “subtle” sexual message. Who knows and, ultimately, who cares? “Buttons” is not a song that needs to be analyzed and picked apart from head to toe. It is a feel good song that transcends any criticism one could have against it. And if you don't like it, you can suck it because your opinion probably doesn't matter anyways.
Bonus Points: The Pussycat Dolls’ video for “Buttons” is nothing more than them strutting their stuff on a soundstage with some fire shooting around them, but they make it work. I don’t know how they do it, but the video is beyond watchable
What is that makes “Buttons” such a catchy tune? I’m not exactly sure myself. Maybe it’s the background Dolls going “Uh huh” and “Oh” in the background of the chorus, it’s insanely perfect faux-Bollywood background music or, like “London Bridge,” it’s “subtle” sexual message. Who knows and, ultimately, who cares? “Buttons” is not a song that needs to be analyzed and picked apart from head to toe. It is a feel good song that transcends any criticism one could have against it. And if you don't like it, you can suck it because your opinion probably doesn't matter anyways.
Bonus Points: The Pussycat Dolls’ video for “Buttons” is nothing more than them strutting their stuff on a soundstage with some fire shooting around them, but they make it work. I don’t know how they do it, but the video is beyond watchable
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