Pussycat Dolls featuring Big Snoop Dogg - Buttons (2006)
**1/2 (of four)
The dust has long settled on the Spice Girls phenomenon, which opened the door for the rest of the TRL revolution, and the Pussycat Dolls - a burlesque dance troupe from L.A. - have all but replaced Posh, Sporty, Sexy, Dopey and Grumpy. However, where the Spices were determined to construct individual personalities, the Pussycat Dolls are indistinguishable from one another. It's just a sea of glistening, tight, sexy bodies writhing, moaning and grinding. I think I prefer this approach.
"Buttons" is nowhere near as obnoxious as the Emancipation of Mimi outtake "Stickwitu," or the Fergie outtake "Don't Cha (Wish Ya Girlfriend Was Hot Like Me)," which I've seen more fat girls sing without irony than any other Watch Me Attempt To Reassure Myself I Look Good song in recent memory. This track has more of a midtempo harem vibe to it, and the video puts it to quality, spankworthy use.
Veteran director Francis Lawrence decks out the entire video in shades of black and orange-brown, on a vast soundstage. The six PCDs spend four minutes making love to the camera and teaching seventh graders how to dance like strippers, while Lawrence cuts to interludes with a curiously windless wind tunnel, open flame, a ballet bar (the Dolls are limber, it should surprise you not to learn), rows of dangling gold bead-curtains and - yes, thank you, Lord! - black chairs.
All this is enough to make you forget Snoop Dogg is in the video, too. "Buttons" marks the first time I've seen Snoop officially credited as "Big Snoop Dogg" on an MTV title card. It's almost as if he desperately has to assert his masculinity in this roomful of chair-grinding knockouts. ("I'm big, I swear! All six of you can get an inch of my manhood!") Still, Snoop quickly gives up trying to earn any attention amid this Maxim lesbo-orgy and hides behind thick sunglasses and a black Unabomber hoodie and enjoys the show. Wise deshizzle, Snoop. Wise deshizzle.
The dust has long settled on the Spice Girls phenomenon, which opened the door for the rest of the TRL revolution, and the Pussycat Dolls - a burlesque dance troupe from L.A. - have all but replaced Posh, Sporty, Sexy, Dopey and Grumpy. However, where the Spices were determined to construct individual personalities, the Pussycat Dolls are indistinguishable from one another. It's just a sea of glistening, tight, sexy bodies writhing, moaning and grinding. I think I prefer this approach.
"Buttons" is nowhere near as obnoxious as the Emancipation of Mimi outtake "Stickwitu," or the Fergie outtake "Don't Cha (Wish Ya Girlfriend Was Hot Like Me)," which I've seen more fat girls sing without irony than any other Watch Me Attempt To Reassure Myself I Look Good song in recent memory. This track has more of a midtempo harem vibe to it, and the video puts it to quality, spankworthy use.
Veteran director Francis Lawrence decks out the entire video in shades of black and orange-brown, on a vast soundstage. The six PCDs spend four minutes making love to the camera and teaching seventh graders how to dance like strippers, while Lawrence cuts to interludes with a curiously windless wind tunnel, open flame, a ballet bar (the Dolls are limber, it should surprise you not to learn), rows of dangling gold bead-curtains and - yes, thank you, Lord! - black chairs.
All this is enough to make you forget Snoop Dogg is in the video, too. "Buttons" marks the first time I've seen Snoop officially credited as "Big Snoop Dogg" on an MTV title card. It's almost as if he desperately has to assert his masculinity in this roomful of chair-grinding knockouts. ("I'm big, I swear! All six of you can get an inch of my manhood!") Still, Snoop quickly gives up trying to earn any attention amid this Maxim lesbo-orgy and hides behind thick sunglasses and a black Unabomber hoodie and enjoys the show. Wise deshizzle, Snoop. Wise deshizzle.
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