The Pussycat Dolls, best known for hits “Buttons,” “When I Grow Up,” and “Don’t Cha,” have confirmed their reunion with the release of a new single and global tour dates in the U.S. and Europe.
Nicole Scherzinger — who, in the time since the Dolls last performed, has won an Olivier and Tony Award for her performance in the stage revival of Sunset Boulevard — dropped “Club Song” on Thursday alongside bandmates Kimberly Wyatt and Ashley Roberts. Though there were six in the original Pussycat Dolls, Jessica Sutta, Carmit Bachar, and Melody Thornton are not joining the reunion.
“Club Song” is the group’s first single since “React,” released in 2020. It is set to be followed by a host of live shows on the 53-date PCD Forever tour, kicking off in California at the beginning of June with special guest Lil’ Kim and Mya joining for the North America dates.
The Pussycat Dolls — also reissuing their albums PCD and Doll Domination on May. 8 — will then hit Europe, starting in Copenhagen, before a string of eight shows in the U.K.
The group had announced a reunion in 2019 with plans to tour in 2020, but as the COVID pandemic hit and delays occurred, Scherzinger finally confirmed it was cancelled entirely in January 2022 — but not before becoming embroiled in a lawsuit over the tour’s launch.
Wyatt told BBC News that reuniting was “an incredible thing to be able to do after 20 years.” Scherzinger said: “The timing of everything was just perfect… After 20 years, you’re like, ‘Where is everybody?’ But for us, it aligned,” she continued. “People are in different places in their lives, some of the other people have different commitments and priorities, but this worked out for us.”
Roberts even revealed that it was Scherzinger who first reached out about re-grouping.
